RUSH Drummer Neil Peart To Become A Father Again
June 27, 2009, 15 years ago
According to Rushisaband.com, RUSH drum legend Neil Peart has updated the News, Weather And Sports page on his official website describing some recent hiking/sightseeing trips in Southern California and focusing on one particular boat trip to Santa Cruz Island with Craiggie - an old hometown friend from St. Catherine's, Ontario (where Neil grew up) who Neil happened to cross paths with in Southern California. But the real news of this particular update is buried within Neil's writings about two-thirds into the update:
"At the same time, under that same marine layer, my wife Carrie was seven months pregnant. [Pause for sharp intake of breath and shiver of apprehension.] Our baby was growing and kicking, protected and insulated in its own oceanic fluid, its own marine layer. The anxious (not to say terrified) father kind of wished the baby could stay there, safe from harm, and not have to embark upon a life of menace and potential tragedy. He had lost before, and probably couldn't stand to lose again. People kept saying it was going to be all right, and he tried to keep telling himself that. Even in the June Gloom."Neil and his wife Carrie are pregnant and look to be expecting baby sometime later this summer. Neil went through the dual tragedies of losing his only daughter Selena and wife Jackie over a decade ago, so it's really uplifting to see that Neil has come to a place in his healing process where he is ready to be a father again.
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