"It's like a homecoming. There'll be a moment when my heart for no apparent reason... opens up and I 'see' her."

Photos: Robert Altman; Styling, Hair and Makeup: Velantraya-EnSet; Clothing: LothLorien, Mythical Attire & Art

By Julie Henderson

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To a nation more comfortable watching couples crash and burn on the Jerry Springer Show than shattering the protective veneer surrounding their own hearts, the simple truth that Kenny and Julia Loggins reveal feels dangerous. In The Unimaginable Life: Lessons Learned on the Path of Love, they recount with gut-wrenching honesty the personal journey of their lives and love. No easy ten-steps-to-love formula, this complex multimedia project combines journal entries, letters, poems and songs to explore their deepest fears about love and relationships. Cynicism and doubt melt away under the unyielding force of their truth - that Big Love is real.

Nestled in the hills of Santa Barbara, Kenny and Julia have created a refuge of Big Love. Their almost ten years of marriage, which includes raising five children (three from Kenny's previous marriage and two together), is sustained by love and compassion; mined from a bedrock of truth. As a couple and as individuals, they are dedicated to unearthing and living their own truths. Yet their path to one another wasn't straightforward.

When Julia and Kenny first met, they were two people enmeshed in their own denial and discontent. Despite Kenny's successful career as a singer/songwriter - first as a duo with Jim Messina and later as a solo artist with monster hits like "Footloose" and "This Is It" - he still felt like the geeky kid of his youth, with fears and insecurities locked behind a cool "rock star" persona. Married with three children, Kenny was living a hard-driving sex, drugs and rock & roll lifestyle on the road that landed him in Julia Cooper's health therapy clinic seeking treatment for a pre-ulcerous condition. His life was spinning out of control. But that didn't stop him from noticing Julia:

Kenny's Journal Entry, April 1984
Julia Cooper! Why hasn't anyone like that ever happened to me. Shit. Forget about it. She's married and she's local hometown.

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