It's been a while since I have written anything in these pages. I've been doing a lot of "behind the scenes" development of the site (for many new features coming soon). I've also been searching for a publishing company to make the "Rhubarb Diaries" a reality. Now all I have to do is keep writing!!
As I've mentioned before, when inspiration finds it's way to you, you go with it. There are times when I have these incredible brainstorms while driving in the car ... or in that moment before falling asleep at night. It could be a chance occurrence ... an alignment of the planets ... or something more surreal ... that takes a flicker of an idea and turns it into a beacon of creativity.
Music has always been something that has proved inspirational - and once again, it happened.
I've always had to chuckle about the concept of personality types - you know, you're either "Type A" (driven, motivated, goal-oriented) or "Type B" (laid-back, relaxed). I laugh because I can remember a time when I would have been considered by many to be a textbook case of Type A (perhaps a small textbook, but a textbook nonetheless!). I would process and re-process, problem solve, perhaps even lose some sleep while doing so. I can remember many times when my mind was buzzing at bedtime and I was simply unable to turn it off and call it a day. I could lose sleep and energy simply focusing too much on any given thing.
I remember my first days at Queen's University. I went to university (no, it is NOT the same as college in Canada) with a high school average in the low 90s. I got into the best school in Canada, the "Harvard of the North" (note to McGill alumni - we'll let you be number 2 in the country) and into the only physiotherapy program in Canada that would accept students directly from high school.
It's become a popular rehab activities for runners. It's name: aqua jogging. Some use it as a means of "cross-training". Articles rave about it.
Aqua jogging - otherwise known as "deep water running" - or how to become a better runner on the moon.
You think I am joking? Let's look at the "evidence" and draw some conclusions.
I finally watched "The Motorcycle Diaries". At the prompting of my friend John, I took the time to watch this movie. When "Rhubarb Diaries" was born, he'd mentioned that "it could be like the Motorcycle Diaries". Now, I am certainly no Che Guevara (and I've not been south of the equator either), but in watching the movie, there are some aspects that ring true to me.
Don't worry, this is not about becoming a Marxist revolutionary!
You have to peel away a few layers of the onion to understand it all. There is a sense of growth in Che's adventures throughout South America. There is a "knowing" that something stirs within him ... that would take him some time to fully understand. He was learning more about himself - and was learning how he would indeed impact the world. As he explored with Alberto, he discovered things within himself ... discovered a passion, discovered his own voice.
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