Cahill & Delene

During the trauma of the October 2003 fires in San Diego County (which affected us too), I was amazed to see how people can come together and reach out to help others. But, soon thereafter, everyone crawls back into their own little world. I saw then how few times people really connect with each other, especially total “strangers”. I realized that I wanted to reach out to people with a simple smile or gesture. Everyone wants and responds to Love more than anything in their lives.

Living out in the country, I do a long daily walk up and down our street, (the “Hillmaster”, I call it). I’ve gotten in the habit of stepping outside my comfort zone and waving to each person as they drive by. I look up, make eye contact, give a full-hearted smile and wave. Most often they will do the same. I don’t miss anyone if I can help it -- teenagers, the old folk, the garbage collectors. Now, I just look up and other people will often initiate that smile and wave to me first! One morning I waved to the garbage collector as I always do, and I could tell he felt grateful at my extension of simple humanity. That is when this song came to me. Immediately, I started singing the chorus, as if it were a song I’d been singing all my life. With that as a great start, I met with our good friend Karl Anthony who quickly wrote the 1st verse. We got stuck again, so Barry wrote the lyrics to the 2nd verse. I wrote all the music. My favorite section is the Stevie Wonder-like bridge section. “People let me tell you….” I love to sing this song! We wanted to have Karl sing with us on the album so he’s singing his verse.