Nothing like burning the candle at both ends.
Despite nerve damage through my entire right side and herniated disk I refuse to just sit there in pain (well not every day anyway) I am running away with the circus. again.
It will come as no surprise to any who know me and a few have already learned the fact that when I was 13 I ran away with the circus. Well I didn't really run away so much as I just disappeared while they were in town. Two weeks of pounding rebar tent poles into blacktop, shoveling animal excrement, accidentally riding lamas, and ultimately being charged the admittance price from my wage despite working as stagehand made me fall in love with the life (and learn to be wary of carrnies)
While life had other plans for me and I've been unable to join a full touring show when the option has been placed in front of me I've still picked up a thing or 20 over they years. So now when a new start up circus style stage group asked me to join with them and help them develop their group I was honored to be able to say yes and add a little sideshow to their circus. I've done my own sideshows here and there. just as I was starting to get some decent gigs was when the accident happened. Since then I've been unable to really do much. work is not an option unless it's a loose enough place that I can only work when I'm able, even my ability to perform as a fire breather, a skill that takes me no physical effort or exertion, has been reduced to the point where I can not do a full haunted attraction season. So the circus works out because at this point it's very sporadic. I'll be part of a group, not the main or whole act so I can just jump in and out throughout the short performance, and I can just take a few days of rest after.
One of the two main issues I deal with I'm to workout as often as I can to heal, the other I'm to rest. it's hard to be able to do anything in this double bind but I will continue to deal as I can, pushing myself as hard as I can to improve. It's been three years and to be back in a place where I can, even if only for short stints, to be able to rejoin that world, that feeling of joy and awe that comes with being a part of the show, being a part of the greatest spectacle that this planet has ever known. My life is truly blessed to once again be back. May the show go on.
