{"id":7430,"date":"2014-02-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/words-dont-come\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:00:00","slug":"words-dont-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/words-dont-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Words Don’t Come Easy; Paris Soundnotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

After a long travel day yesterday, I’m back from WRAB, from Paris, home in Ypsilanti, unpacked and laundering, family gifts dealt, and more or less re-charged from the first decent night’s sleep in oh at least a week. In retrospect, I should have been more tired and draggy while in France. Probably some small lift is attributable to laying off vegetarianism for a few days and amping up on proteins. Travel warnings were right: it’s tough to avoid meat in Paris.<\/p>\n

There’s much, much more to say about the trip than I have time for right now. Indeed, I have committed the classic mistake of pinning to-do list item after to-do list item on the week after WRAB (i.e., now) and have quite a backlog to level through this week (TGIWB…[W]inter [B]reak). For now, I only wanted to catch a few soundnotes, earworming auditory takeaways from the trip.<\/p>\n

I’ve tried but could not locate a few things I heard on the Air France flight, though AF makes it a point to publicize their in-flight playlists<\/a>, so on that basis might look further and listen more closely another day.<\/p>\n

F.R. David’s “Words” was playing in the eco-shuttle I rode in from Charles De Gaulle to Ampere. More than any other track, it caught on as the trip’s anthem, harder and harder set on a loop as I fumbled “je ne comprends pas” each of the four<\/em> times I<\/em> was asked by locals (er…Fr. speakers) for directions. Je. ne. compren…here, just listen to this.<\/p>\n