Mammoth Caves
ISSUE #15
I’m on vacation! I’m at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, which is the world’s largest cave system, so I made a playlist of songs that sound like the caves episode of Planet Earth (its best episode). There are also some songs that just sound like Kentucky.
On Wednesday, we also went to see Radiohead, hence the Radiohead, and that was in Cincinnati, which is where Fats Waller came from, hence the Fats.
There’s no service here and the power keeps cutting out in our AirBnB so I don’t have much time for editing, but we’re on a beautiful lake that I’m going to go jump in. I hope everyone else has fun this weekend too.
Places where the land ends are pure—you can hear water like that a mile away. Oceans are perfect, even radical, in their isolation. You could swim out into the sea as far as you like, if what you wanted was to drown, yet this desire to be free is forever compelling.