by Jackie Houchin

WordPress.com, BLOGanuary asks today, January 14th, What is your favorite mode of travel?

My fave mode of travel (as well as my favorite super-power if I could have one) is FLYING!

   I LOVE to fly.

As a young girl, I thought I COULD fly if I just closed my eyes, stood on my tiptoes, took a deep breath, flapped my arms, and imagined going up, up…. UP! (I swear I almost did it once!)

As a teen, I dreamed of being an airline hostess, traveling to distant lands all over the world. (Until I discovered that you had to be a certain weight, height, and body fype, although that is not required today. I was a little bit chunky then, and had some pimples.) Oh, darn! What a life that would have been.

(Read my book review post on “FLY GIRL” a memoir by Ann Hood who was one of the first airline stewardesses.)

And now, in the last ten years, I HAVE flown by jet around the world. To Australia, to Africa (5x), to Italy, France, Istanful, Portugal, England, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, and other continental US states.)  I love it. Thankfully I’ve accrued so many frequent flyer miles that i’ve been able to fly places now for just the tax, ($11.00)

FLYING is fast, exciting, sometimes frightening, eye-opening, ear-plugging, amazing, and wonderful.

Photo by Jake Nackos on Unsplash

I’LL FLY AWAY
Some glad morning when this life is o’er,
I’ll fly away;
To a home on God’s celestial shore,
I’ll fly away .
[Chorus]
I’ll fly away, Oh Glory
I’ll fly away;
When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
I’ll fly away.

When the shadows of this life have gone,
I’ll fly away;
Like a bird from prison bars has flown,
I’ll fly away
[Chorus]
I’ll fly away, Oh Glory
I’ll fly away;
When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
I’ll fly away.

Just a few more weary days and then,
I’ll fly away;
To a land where joy shall never end,
I’ll fly away
[Chorus]
I’ll fly away, Oh Glory
I’ll fly away;
When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
I’ll fly away

“I’ll Fly Away”, is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company 

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