I went to the coffeehouse yesterday to write and I ended up talking to a really nice jewelry maker. Apparently she was there when I walked in about 2 hours prior to meeting her, but I never saw her.

I ended up talking to her for about 25 minutes about how she started making jewelry, she asked what I did, we talked about Italy, about how it is important to keep to your guns. Yeah, it was a random inspiring person that crossed my path. Doing what she loves, she enjoys, has a passion for, and presses on. She is also a massage therapist that pays her big bills, but she knows that making jewelry is something she loves to do, so she keeps it up. I left our meet-cute with not just a gorgeous necklace but with a sense of clarity.

Damn, I honestly am on the right track. I can feel it. The Universe is definitely on my side.

These past couple days when I meet people, see old friends, they ask what I am doing now. I answer with a proud and fulfulling feeling of:

I am a Freelance Travel Writer.

It feels therapeutic to me. As though I was always supposed to be introducing myself as that. I always had this as a vocation but yet I kept it inside.

Tonight I was watching Driven starring Dave Matthews with my brother. I have never talked about Dave on my blog, not that I remember. But for some reason he struck yet another chord with me.

Dave

I have been a fan since my early college years thanks to Megan Miller. But yet I never felt quite the way I felt tonight watching what he went through to become what he wanted to become. I was mesmerized by his rise to stardom and yet still sticking to his guns and being himself throughout all his fame and fortune. I felt an over exuberant emotion from this experience with Dave. He is full of energy, poetry, drive, assurance, and passion. I love all these qualities. In anyone, such as myself, I feel that these are characteristics that I have acquired throughout my years on this earth.

The clearness of my path and what my dream has shown its’ faint colors in these days. Their are many other strings being pulled inside me by interactions such as the aforementioned, as well as from across a vast ocean. It is amazing how strong the feelings I still have from that country where the Iori and Gazzotti families came to be. It is so strong and apparent where the ending of this path will lead.

Barry is fading yet again.

Dave…my vision….my shadowfeet….have the lead in this leg of my existence.

Nothing is more self assuring than this feeling that I have at this moment 11:44pm, 23 Dicembre 2007.

Buon Natale

La Collana