I was on a plane returning home from Switzerland after living there for a year and I looked out the window and saw the vast desert stretching out beneath me. The sight washed over me and stirred something. I had grown so accustomed to the lush dark greens and moisture of living in Europe. Looking out the window I realized that I was home. This is where I come from. And I saw for the first time how much the land you walk on and look at and breathe in shapes you. I saw that in the people I met in Europe. I saw the rain and the mountains and the green hills in the way they behaved and communicated. And suddenly on that plane ride looking out the window for the first time I saw it in myself. It oriented me. My name is Rachel. I grew up in the American west. I was shaped by the sand and the desert and the salty ocean air. For some reason this discovery really moved me and so I wrote a song about it. m.youtube/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=Vf1zK6XQlqA
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:25:47 +0000
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