James Taylor's ability to draw the sun out from behind the clouds impressed me on Wednesday. As I played Taylor's "Sunny Skies," the overcast skies suddenly turned sunny.
Unfortunately, I couldn't replicate this result on Thursday, as the rain continued to fall. Perhaps, as with Linus getting the rain to stop only part of the time in "Peanuts" by saying, "Rain, rain, go away...," a mere mortal can only elicit that result every so often.
Then again, maybe I should have made more of an effort Thursday by choosing a different song; in retrospect, perhaps I should have played Chicago's "Wake Up Sunshine."
Or, maybe someone else negated the effect of my playing "Sunny Skies" a second time by playing the Jonathan Edwards tune, "Sunshine." The sun might have been irked to hear, "Sunshine, go away today..."
Maybe playing "Sun King" by The Beatles, Petra Haden's "Sunshine Life For Me," or The Brady Bunch's "It's A Sunshine Day" will make the storms go away Friday. We'll see.
