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 chronicles his personal odyssey and includes 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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... feel seriously divided , for all of that kind of work came out of the old me , and I feel especially alienated from " the guy that was in the band . " ( Some serious personality breakdown here ; I could be doing a " Sybil " in reverse ...
... feel . I had begun to develop the thinnest of skins around my little baby soul , and could sometimes steer my thoughts away from certain direc- tions , and even actively prevent myself from feeling sad or despondent . Sometimes I could ...
... feel like that then , of course , but so it appears now . It's been a hard trying to function in the middle of a big empty ache — and it ain't over yet . But in more than one sense , we're “ over the hump , " and although this summer ...