Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing RoadWithin a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again. Peart’s journey of self-exile and exploration chronicle his personal odyssey and include stories of reuniting with friends and family, grieving, and reminiscing. He recorded with dazzling artistry, the enormous range of his travel adventures, from the mountains to the seas, from the deserts to the Arctic ice, and the memorable people who contributed to his healing. Ghost Rider is a brilliantly written, and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush. |
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... 6 The Loneliest Road in America Chapter 7 Desert Solitaire Chapter 8 Letters to Brutus Book 2 Homeward Angel, On the Fly Chapter 9 Winterlude Chapter 10 Seasonal Affective Disorder Chapter 11 Back in the Saddle Chapter.
... letters to distant friends, but during our stay in London the grief counsellor, Dr. Deborah, had encouraged me to start a daily journal of “letters to Selena,” and that had proved to be good therapy. On this tentative beginning to a new ...
... held my cupped hands around a guttering candle. In letters I had begun calling that remnant spark “my little baby soul,” and the task before me now, I decided, was to nurture that spirit as well as I could. My little baby soul.
... letter writing (and much else that was “former”). Over dinner I decided to start on a letter to her, the way I used to.
Travels on the Healing Road Neil Peart. on a letter to her, the way I used to do sometimes during solitary meals, and ... letters: I'll start from now and work backwards, at least as far back as I dare in.