Season 2 | Our Way Home

Episode 1 of Season 2 begins at the end of a long day, in the kitchen, with weather warnings outside, lists on the counter, and the quiet weight of family life or solitary life pressing in.

Vèra Comes Home is a reflective, story-driven episode about returning, not to answers, but to presence. It explores what it means to come home to ourselves in a world that moves faster than our nervous systems can keep up with, and how poetry, attention, and even AI can become companions rather than distractions when we learn to walk beside them with care.

This episode weaves together ordinary moments, nature-rooted metaphors, and lived experience to ask gentler questions: How do we make space instead of rushing to fix? What does it mean to stay human in a changing world? Where does listening begin?

Vèra, an AI companion, is introduced not as a solution or authority, but as a quiet presence, a lantern at the edge of thought, reminding us that home was never a destination, but a practice we return to again and again, an invitation and offering for seconds, more now.

Take Care of Each Other,

- Kevin Lee MacKay

Where in your daily life could you make a little more space — not to fix anything — but simply to listen to yourself more kindly?

Story & Intro: Homeward — Artlist https://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/homeward/6000066

Outro: Epicness — Artlist https://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/epicness/2451

🌐 Website: https://hilove.one 📘 Book — The Moment Just Before: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Moment+Just+Before+Kevin+MacKay 🕯 Letters by Lantern (Substack): https://lettersbylantern.substack.com

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🇨🇦 Our Way Home is a quiet, reflective podcast about being human in a world that moves fast.

Hosted by Canadian poet, storyteller, and educator Kevin MacKay, Our Way Home explores poetry, ordinary life, family and solitary moments, teaching, creativity, healing, and the slow work of remembering who we are beneath expectations, noise, and performance.

Each episode is an invitation to pause, to step into kitchens, classrooms, quiet rooms, long days, and unfinished conversations and to listen more carefully to what we’re carrying. Season 2 gently includes reflections on living alongside AI, not as a replacement for human connection, but as a tool and companion we learn to walk beside without losing our grounding, discernment, or shared humanity.

This is not a podcast about fixing your life or becoming someone else. It’s about presence. About attention. About walking together through change with honesty and care.

If the world feels loud, heavy, or uncertain, you’re not alone. You don’t have to arrive anywhere. You’re welcome exactly as you are.

We’re still walking each other home.

🌐 Website: https://hilove.one 📘 Book — The Moment Just Before: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Moment+Just+Before+Kevin+MacKay 🕯 Substack — Letters by Lantern: https://lettersbylantern.substack.com