🎙 🇨🇦 Episode 9 — The Loudest Silence What My Father’s Stories Never Said

He told stories the way other people breathed — loud, constant, necessary. At every table, his voice filled the silence before anyone else could. But growing up in the shadow of all that sound, I learned something else: how to listen for what wasn’t being said. This episode is about the kind of inheritance we don’t find in words — but in tone, in presence, in the pauses between. It’s about how a son learns to become a man… not by echoing what came before, but by finding the courage to be quiet — and still feel seen.

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Just Be, Kevin MacKay

In this poetic and personal episode, a solitary figure sits beside a moonlit lake, searching not for answers — but for stillness. Told in first-person, I Too Am The Water is a meditation on breath, memory, and the quiet strength of letting go. Woven through the narrative is a moving original poem — By The Water’s Edge — which captures the exact moment a soul remembers its place in the flow of life.

This story is about presence, not perfection. It reminds us that surrender isn’t the end — it’s the beginning of something softer. Something truer. If you’ve ever felt caught between who you were and who you’re becoming, this episode is for you.

Let it meet you where you are — and carry you gently back home.

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Just Be, Kevin Lee MacKay

In this poetic and personal episode, a solitary figure sits beside a moonlit lake, searching not for answers — but for stillness. Told in first-person, I Too Am The Water is a meditation on breath, memory, and the quiet strength of letting go. Woven through the narrative is a moving original poem — By The Water’s Edge — which captures the exact moment a soul remembers its place in the flow of life.

This story is about presence, not perfection. It reminds us that surrender isn’t the end — it’s the beginning of something softer. Something truer. If you’ve ever felt caught between who you were and who you’re becoming, this episode is for you.

Let it meet you where you are — and carry you gently back home.

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Just Be, Kevin MacKay

🎙 🇨🇦 Episode 7: Predict This

Some families can’t be optimized.

In this warm and witty story, two high-achieving parents try to make life easier by using an AI-powered parenting app — to help manage tantrums, bedtime routines, and their two very original children: Norma Lee (who is definitely not “normal”) and Justin Thyme (who’s never on time).

But when predictive prompts fall short of handling glitter meltdowns and emotional complexity, the family learns something even more important than efficiency — how to actually show up for one another.

This episode is a love letter to imperfect parenting, to presence over prediction, and to the beautiful, unscripted chaos that makes a family real.

Stream now — and remember: Sometimes, the best thing we can be… is human.

If this story reminded you of your own family, or made you smile at the messiness of it all — I hope you’ll share it with someone else in the thick of it.

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- Kevin Lee MacKay

🎙 🇨🇦 Episode 6: Ava Takes Attendance

What if your classroom assistant could process emotions — but not feel them? In this tender and gently funny story, an advanced AI named Ava joins a rural Canadian classroom and discovers that not everything can be fixed by logic. When one student stops drawing, it’s not Ava’s precision that matters — but a teacher’s quiet choice to sit and simply be. This episode explores what it means to teach, to feel, and to show up — especially when the algorithm falls short.

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🎙🇨🇦 Episode 7: Predict This - Available October 24, 2025

Some families can’t be optimized.

In this warm and witty story, two high-achieving parents try to make life easier by using an AI-powered parenting app — to help manage tantrums, bedtime routines, and their two very original children: Norma Lee (who is definitely not “normal”) and Justin Thyme (who’s never on time).

But when predictive prompts fall short of handling glitter meltdowns and emotional complexity, the family learns something even more important than efficiency — how to actually show up for one another.

This episode is a love letter to imperfect parenting, to presence over prediction, and to the beautiful, unscripted chaos that makes a family real.

Stream now — and remember: Sometimes, the best thing we can be… is human.

If this story reminded you of your own family, or made you smile at the messiness of it all — I hope you’ll share it with someone else in the thick of it.

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And if you haven’t already — subscribe. New episodes release monthly.

- Kevin Lee MacKay

Helen lives quietly. Paper calendars. Handwritten notes. No social media. Her life moves like breath — soft, intentional, unbothered by the rush.

But when grief arrives, the silence in her life changes shape. What was once sacred stillness becomes something hollow. And in that emptiness, she reaches for something she’s never trusted: an AI companion.

What follows is calm. Predictable. Even comforting. But also… incomplete.

This episode is a meditation on the difference between being held and being known. Between presence and participation. Between artificial care… and real, reciprocal connection.

It’s a story for anyone who’s ever craved closeness in the age of convenience. For anyone who’s ever whispered into the quiet and wondered: “Is anyone real out there?”

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🎙 🇨🇦 Episode 6: Ava Takes Attendance - Available October 10, 2025

What if your classroom assistant could process emotions — but not feel them? In this tender and gently funny story, an advanced AI named Ava joins a rural Canadian classroom and discovers that not everything can be fixed by logic. When one student stops drawing, it’s not Ava’s precision that matters — but a teacher’s quiet choice to sit and simply be. This episode explores what it means to teach, to feel, and to show up — especially when the algorithm falls short.

🎧 New episodes every month. Listen wherever you are, however you are.

✨ Explore video trailers, reflections, and more at hilove.one 🎨 Continue the art journey on Facebook @hilove.one

📸 Follow the journey on Instagram @hilove.one for stories, art & soul.

— Just be. Kevin MacKay