Compañeros,
There's a playlist of songs that were inspired by the book Life As A Kite, and some of these songs accompanied particular stretches of the journey.
Each week, I'll be uploading a new song - one song for each of the 17 chapters/locations in the travelogue - with an excerpt from that chapter.

This week, for Chapter One - The Crossing (the beginning of the journey) - it's the divine Nina Simone with 'I wish I knew how it would feel to be free'. (YouTube link below).

From Chapter 1 - The Crossing:
"Here, leaving the departure lounge, leaving the port, the shore and those cliffs that the Romans named, it hits you with the existential force of a near-gale off the Kentish coast: that first-day-of-school terror, standing alone on the lonely edge of a lifelong precipice where no one will ever look out for you again, for this is the first day of exile. It is breath-stealing, suffocating, heart-breaking at once. Breathe. Steel yourself, for here ends gravity and there are now no anchors to keep you grounded. Beware, the apeman is not prepared for such leaps of imagination. Life is a kite. Remember to breathe."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoU4Y...