Coincidence, Confidence, Intuition or something else...
One of my earliest childhood memories is driving to the Jersey shore with my mom and brother when I was 5 years old.
Mom had a Country Squire station wagon that was already a decade old, wood paneling and roof rack included...that car was a tank! So much so, that one summer evening when I was home "sick" (Lakers/Celtics Game 4, 1987 finals) while the rest of the family was at my sister's dance recital, I climbed into the wagon, turned the ignition, put it in reverse and hit the gas...I uprooted a seven foot flowering cherry tree in our front yard. That tree (sorry mom) was never the same, with nothing but an ever slight dent on the wagon's back chrome bumper.
Matter of fact, if it weren't for the tree's roots, and trunk being four feet in the air, I would have escaped scot-free. But back to the shore...it was on that drive that I blurted out to my mom and brother that I was going to "grow up one day and write a book." I had never said anything like it before, nor can I recall ever having a similar thought before that day. I was looking out the backseat window and it just came to me...and came to me with an overwhelming sense of certainty.
I vividly recall that moment and always will. Whatever it was I had that day, a random thought in my head or a vision in my mind's eye, I can say it finally came true 3 months ago with the release of Fantastik. This book is/was/always will be so much a part of me that I now realize why it took me so long to let go of it...that and a few edits.
Life has so many roads and it's hard to say exactly what leads us down the path we are all on. For sure, the decisions we make; daily, weekly, monthly have a direct correlation to our very being, our happiness, our despairs, the situations (good or bad) we find ourselves in. But I also tend to believe there's something else in play.
I don't claim to be clairvoyant or psychic or anything else in between, however much like Charlie Boone in Fantastik I saw something happening to me many years before it was realized. Whether that was destiny, dogged determination or a vision of the future I'll never know, but in my heart I think it was a little of all three.
Whatever it is or was I am thankful to have seen the day and forever grateful to anyone that reads it. To any reader I hope it brings you a little..."warmness in your heart and calm on your mind." -Jake Mott,Fantastik
Fantastik
Mom had a Country Squire station wagon that was already a decade old, wood paneling and roof rack included...that car was a tank! So much so, that one summer evening when I was home "sick" (Lakers/Celtics Game 4, 1987 finals) while the rest of the family was at my sister's dance recital, I climbed into the wagon, turned the ignition, put it in reverse and hit the gas...I uprooted a seven foot flowering cherry tree in our front yard. That tree (sorry mom) was never the same, with nothing but an ever slight dent on the wagon's back chrome bumper.
Matter of fact, if it weren't for the tree's roots, and trunk being four feet in the air, I would have escaped scot-free. But back to the shore...it was on that drive that I blurted out to my mom and brother that I was going to "grow up one day and write a book." I had never said anything like it before, nor can I recall ever having a similar thought before that day. I was looking out the backseat window and it just came to me...and came to me with an overwhelming sense of certainty.
I vividly recall that moment and always will. Whatever it was I had that day, a random thought in my head or a vision in my mind's eye, I can say it finally came true 3 months ago with the release of Fantastik. This book is/was/always will be so much a part of me that I now realize why it took me so long to let go of it...that and a few edits.
Life has so many roads and it's hard to say exactly what leads us down the path we are all on. For sure, the decisions we make; daily, weekly, monthly have a direct correlation to our very being, our happiness, our despairs, the situations (good or bad) we find ourselves in. But I also tend to believe there's something else in play.
I don't claim to be clairvoyant or psychic or anything else in between, however much like Charlie Boone in Fantastik I saw something happening to me many years before it was realized. Whether that was destiny, dogged determination or a vision of the future I'll never know, but in my heart I think it was a little of all three.
Whatever it is or was I am thankful to have seen the day and forever grateful to anyone that reads it. To any reader I hope it brings you a little..."warmness in your heart and calm on your mind." -Jake Mott,Fantastik
Fantastik
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