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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... soul,” and the task before me now, I decided, was to nurture that spirit as well as I could. My little baby soul.
... soul was not a happy infant, of course, with much to complain about, but as every parent learns, a restless baby often calms down if you take it for a ride. I had learned my squalling spirit could be soothed the same way, by motion, and ...
... soul for a ride. The policeman finished writing out my ticket, and I went riding on. The road unwinds toward me What was there is gone The road unwinds before me And I go riding on It's my turn to drive DRIVEN, 1996 Chapter 2 Westering ...
... with myself, while if I played well enough to meet that benchmark, it was only what I expected of myself — nothing to get excited about. So for me, touring could be a long, relentless grind, exhausting and soul-destroying. And that.
... soul-destroying. And that only refers to the onstage time, a small fraction of the chaos of traveling, waiting, and shifting from hotel to bus to arena to hotel for months on end. For several tours through the '80s and early '90s I had ...