I think I need to move to the UK
Just over a week into out UK tour so far. What can I say. It's amazing! We've met so many incredible people, played some amazing shows drank so so many pints. If we were back home I would likely be considering checking in to rehab but the high of being abroad seems to make it all ok.
We're off to Scotland tomorrow which is apparently just beautiful. Although I have roots there, I've never been so I can't wait to see it.
One last show tonight in London. As I sit at the window in our flat, listening to some carpenters working away, looking at a massive maple tree that must be older than Canada itself I want to settle in and start fresh in the land of my ancestors.
I'm getting a little heavy for a hung over weekday morning but that is how I feel right now.
I was able to see my uncle for the first time in 22 years the other day. We went to see my fathers, his brothers grave together which was fitting considering we haven't seen each other since his funeral. I'm sure that has a lot to do with my melancholy mood. He gave me a stack of old pictures and writtings of my dads. So many things I've learned about him that I truly had no idea about. There are pages and pages of an unfinished novel he was writting that I have slowly been digging through. Getting to know a man through his writting is a strange and beautiful thing. I think it explains why I have always been more at ease expressing myself in writting than speech.
He played guitar as well which is a new revalation. I had no idea. Until now I thought I was the only one in the family to get involved in music. Now I can't blame the lack of a musical background in the family for my musical weakpoints.
All the excuses for not reading the books I want to read or the justifications for not practicing guitar seem all the more
transparent now.
I don't mean to say that I am turning over a new leaf or that I am a changed man. Those sentiments generally last as long as new years resolutions. Only that I have facets to explore and a little more responsibility to live up to certain potentials.
Time for a shower and a stroll.

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