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I'm writing this a few weeks in advance, but this post will be published while I'm at the airport, waiting to board the plane to Boston for the first leg of my journey towards bath.
And what a journey it will be.
From New Orleans, I fly to Boston to spend a week with my sister, her husband, and their new baby lion. Then, we fly to London, take the Piccadilly line from Heathrow Terminal 5 to Hammersmith Station, change to the Hammersmith & City or Circle line to Paddington Station, take a train from Paddington to Chippenham, and then take a cab to Corsham.
Easy peasy.
To make the trip less of a hellish commute and more of an inspiring this is it, this is when it begins moment, I'll be listening to a playlist of songs about taking off and finding yourself. If you'd like to listen along you can play it above or take a gander at it below:
1. Walcott (Insane Mix) Vampire Weekend
“Heed my words and take flight.” *
2. Everyone You Know Now, Now Every Children
“Follow everyone you’ll know and find your way to make it home”
3. Small Town Moon Regina Spektor
“Today we’re younger than we ever gonna be” **
4. One Mikah Young
“We only know a rolling stone gathers no moss and we can’t let it grow.”
5. Quiet Town Josh Rouse
A song about finding exactly the right place in the world.
6. Chicago Sufjan Stevens (or the super cool Chicago/Clocks remix)
“It was for freedom from myself and from the land”
7. Send Me On My Way Rusted Root
"And we will run, we will, we will crawl, we will"
8. Heartlines Florence + the Machine
"Keep it up, I know you can! Just keep following the heartlines on your hand!"
9. Home PhillipPhillips
"If you get lost, you can always be found"
I'll write again soon and be sure to keep you updated at every stage of the way.
Love,
Julia
*bonus: I'll actually be leaving from Massachusetts which is heavily name checked in this song
** Corsham is the first small town I'll ever have lived in, unless you count New Orleans post-katrina which, at a point, did have a population that didn't reach much more than 10,000