Monday, February 13, 2012

Voyages

Voyages (Fr.)/ Traveling (Eng.): to go, move or journey from one place to another; as if on a trip.

I have been conspicuously absent from my blog for the past couple of months. So allow me to explain where I been...



Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream...

"It was an amazing piece of music to write to, and an incredible challenge for me ... Because of the time signature, the whole deal of the song is… not grandiose, but powerful: it required some kind of epithet, or abstract lyrical setting about the whole idea of life being an adventure and being a series of illuminated moments. But everything is not what you see. It was quite a task, ’cause I couldn’t sing it. It was like the song was bigger than me. It’s true: I was petrified, it’s true. It was painful; I was virtually in tears."
-Robert Plant, interviewed by Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone, March 13, 1975, when describing the process of writing the music/ lyrics to Kashmir

That quote seems to be the only way to sum up the past two months for me. It was spent traveling, taking care of personal business, working, spending time with people that I adore, visiting new faraway lands, staying on task, yet letting things unfold in the direction of my dreams.

It was equal parts terrifying and joyful; attaching and detaching; painstakingly hard work, yet effortlessly fabulous all at the same time.

As if that is even possible.

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