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This is my first book since Life of a Roadie, the Gypsy in Me. It's more of a philosophical reflection on all my experiences, including the experience of writing my first book. I have always thought myself a philosopher, and many of my friends have called me a thinker. Not a stinker, but a thinker. In interviews, whether on the radio or on television, when the host would ask me, ""Ronnie, why did you write your first book?"" My answer always is that if I could just save the life of one person reading my book, then I have done my job. It's more of an expression, but my mantra has been, ""Never give up, never give up, never give up!"" I have also said my first book has a bit of the original Rocky movie vibe, and woven throughout the book is the flavor of the Jimmy Stewart movie It's a Wonderful Life. It bothers me when I hear that someone has committed suicide, and my first thought is, if only they could have read my first book! Now, here is my second book. Enjoy the read. As I said, reading the first book is recommended before going on this adventure where, like a lighthouse guiding ships on the mighty ocean, philosophy is lighting the way. Enjoy the sequel. Ronnie Rush

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Ronnie, I just finished your book. I liked it very much. It is like having a conversation with you. It reveals what is in your mind and heart....Congratulations. I hope it does well in sales. God bless. Sr. Pat, Catholic nun- San Bernardino, CA USA

Ronnie, I just finished your book. I liked it very much. It is like having a conversation with you. It reveals what is in your mind and heart....Congratulations. I hope it does well in sales. God bless. Sr. Pat, Catholic nun- San Bernardino, CA USA

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When I wrote my first book, which I thought would be my one and only one I had plan on writing, came about through my experience from watching the artists over the years as they were inspired to write, gave me a ""window"" into the knowledge of how and when to move on these impulses, for lack of a better word. I knew that these rare moments of impulses must be captured immediately, or they would be lost forever. One morning about 3 am I got these impulses to get up and start writing.Just what the inspiration was driving me to even get up from a deep sleep, which at the very moment I knew the difference between the sleepy me, from the inspiration to write down what I was feeling. I guess to describe this ""inspiration"" is like when you climb a mountain and reach the top and look out over the view of where you just came from.That inspiration [feeling] is the same that I felt to get up out of bed and write down on paper. The raw written word became about 20 pages, a base from which I would work from that eventually (two years later) would become 245 pages and my book, and six months with my editor, bringing the page count to 272 pages.I think had I not been in the company of such talented musicians over my tenure as a Roadie, I would not have been able to follow through on writing and bring the writing to a level of a book, my one and only book. Other writers that continue on that path of writing, whether fiction or nonfiction, may have their own indicator of how and when to write.I am glad I was able to fulfill my desire to tell my story about the road, the musicians I worked for, and how it was possible to reach the heights I did by working for a world-wide known recording act, which they themselves inspired the people that listened to their music on the radio, in concert, and at home on their own playing devices.Being a Roadie, and having been in and around the world of music, and musicians, enabled me to move forward and eventually through hard work, rise above the pits of the abyss and become not only a professional Roadie but work for those that had hits on the radio.My first book is a mix of the original Rocky movie and the movie, It's a Wonderful Life with actor Jimmy Stewart, which is woven throughout the book.As I look back on those years and even now, I had no idea that what I was living through would become for me a legacy, my book, Life of a Roadie, the Gypsy in me, and my sequel Walk A Mile in My Shoes.

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