Life - just like ups and downs of a Roller Coaster...
1. The title (of Roller Coasters: The Life Kind) suggests that life's emotional highs and lows resemble an amusement park. What inspired you to use roller coasters, Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, and other rides as recurring metaphors for grief, faith, and personal growth? Well, that is pretty simple. I have often thought and previously written songs about such metaphors, including the log flume. Some get wet a little, others get soaked, but generally none are spared. As Longfellow says in his rainy-day poem, in all lives some rain must fall, both literally and figuratively. It's what we do with those days. Carpe Diem (and even the subtitle of TBOK:PCD book, # 2 in the series) is an ongoing running thread in my Life and Living series of books ( https://tinyurl.com/LifeAndLivingSeries ) - seize the day. What do we do with the days? Also, the old adage about when handed lemons, do we make lemonade or have a drive-by fruiting - as in the old Robin...