TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

11:34 PM
Posted by jodi rose

We arrived in Strasbourg to a media frenzy - well, one tv station and two journalism students, still it was nice to have the new energy on board, when they met us at the port and final lock to sail into town. I'm barely coherent, it's been an intense 4 weeks, and the festival this weekend will make sure we finish on a high note.

I'm completely addicted to living on the water, being back on land will be so strange. Had the most wonderful journey from Mainz, we all got to drive, and I totally fell in love with steering the ship. It takes a lot of concentration, staying aware of the shifts in current, and keeping a steady course - all those seafaring metaphors come to mind - but is incredibly meditative. Having to navigate according to the river signs, left being right, in order to go straight you zigzag, just focusing on the next buoy and staying attentive to all the conditions around you, really helped me experience that whole being in the flow thing... feel like I understand a little more now about life and love. And that's all you can hope for in the end, to be present and appreciate every moment. Which indeed I do, but right now I am going to deeply appreciate a lot more sleep! Working on the archive in between concerts over the next few days, hope to get some semblance of the story up to share with you. It's impossible to keep up with everything, even moving at 6km an hour, the days go by so fast and are so full, there is no way to tell it all. Writing between the lines, I will try to be concise. Acting with intention, consequence, and being implicated are the keys to this week.

I love that expression - it's from Jerome, his quebec english has some lovely peculiarities, we were talking about travel and how different the experience is when you have a project or way to connect with people, and he said 'yes, it is good to be implicated'. Indeed. And I am.