A Doctor’s Prescription

Another Airport “Remedy”

I’m back at the airport… I know, I know. I should simply rent a place here, it would be so conveniently practical. I feel like Tom Hanks in the movie Terminal, a movie that has been coincidentally filmed in Montreal. Was it prophetical? Everyone working at the Montreal Airport, from the Air Canada concierges to the oversized luggage team members, the lounge staff, up to the flight attendants, now calls me by my name. No joke! I had a “Hey, Alex! So how was your latest cardiac angioscan? Glad to see you are following your doctor's advice!” What?! Wait… WHAT?! Looks like I’ve been friendly with a whole lot more individuals than I initially thought when I decided to start my personal community “A View From Within” on Substack! I’ll remember to keep any colonoscopy exams to myself if I have one… I can vividly imagine walking into the middle of the lounge area only to hear my friend Joe ask me loudly: “So, Alex, how’s your colon? You ok?” I mean… Wait. How come I have that image in my mind, and more importantly, why am I sharing it with you?! I’m not that good at cultivating the introspective mystery of my glamorous public image, I suppose! Alright, just forget about that, and let’s focus on the reasons why I’m at the airport AGAIN in the first place. Thank you… It’s getting weird!

So the musing and mysterious Alex Henry Foster is taking his deeply reflective self on vacations, by doctors' very insistent recommendations, after over a year of constant “Alex, I think you need to get some rest” and “Alex, you have to take vacations” up to the recent “Alex, by the name of Hippocrates, take vacations!!!!!” I heard you the first time; no need to bring Hippocrates into the conversation, good Lord! I’ve been busy, you know, had a lot of things to do after dying during my double cardiac graft surgery… For those who might be new community members and didn’t get the whole story, the only thing there is to know is the fact that I survived. It’s a bit of a spoiler, but it’s all good. I'm just very messed up ever since, but totally lucid and all systems go… Maybe just a little more psychotically unstable and mentally special. It’s nothing too serious, just something called microembolism. It’s sadly temporary, so that’s why I’m constantly in the studio: to make sure my music will benefit from that intriguing kind of confusing condition!

Enough of this… During my 2-week vacation, I’ll think about new projects and more crazy ideas to give life to (yes, that’s my conception of vacation — that’s what my doctors probably didn’t get! Everyone around me would have said, “Don’t let Alex have a moment to think, not even a short instant; it will create a sort of multiverse vortex between time imprints, leading us all to have to really work on his time-traveling ideas and afterlife concepts.” Ok, it’s not THAT left field, but you get the point.) All that to say, for me, a moment away is a gift, a rare present I’m offering myself, and a period that usually gives life to all sorts of artistic visions and communal desires. Therefore, going away for a minute or two is the perfect timing as I’m transitioning towards the inception of the new songs that are presently burgeoning within my heart and soul. I simply cannot ignore their vigorous sonic entity any longer, they’re way past any of their initial reflective phases now.

While I’m away, I will publish right here a series of videos featuring my daily home rituals, all filmed before I left Virginia about a month ago. I will also share images of the state my home is currently in following its semi-destruction by water pipes and some light or insightful elements from Mexico. It's vacation: I’ll surely have all sorts of “things” to share with you!

Thank you all so much for being such beautifully bright and colorful presences in my existence… Communing that unique journey with you is a true inspirational blessing!

Life creates life!!!!

Your friend and brother,
Alex

PS: Hello, doctors, I know you are reading this… I will take that vacation time out very seriously and won’t overwork myself! I “promised” (in a way) ;)