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Fleet Foxes—Helplessness Blues
And now after some thinking, I’d say I’d rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me
Trying to mentally prepare myself for the journey that I’m about to embark on. Starting in Vietnam and visiting my mom’s hometown and my dad’s village. (Only my dad would send his kid in search of long lost relatives in a village, in a foreign country whose language I cannot speak, with only the name of the family-run store to work with. I’m sure he thought he was being helpful when he suggested I bring pictures of him and the family to aid in this wild goose chase.) Finishing in Hainan to celebrate Chinese New Year at the ancestral home.
