🎙️ Season 2 Episode 2 | What I Learned When I Stopped Fixing

Set against open Canadian landscapes and quiet threshold moments, this episode explores what happens when we pause in the moment just before action, before explanation, before control, before trying to make everything hold together.

Episode 2 reflects on how we’ve learned to live faster over the last hundred years, how technology, AI, has accelerated our thinking, and why this turning point in human history calls us back to mindfulness, authenticity, and compassion. AI is approached not as an authority or replacement for human connection, but as a reflective mirror made of language. It is a tool that can help us access our own thinking more clearly, if we stay present and discerning.

As the world moves faster, this episode gently insists on what cannot be automated: real food, real music, real character, real presence and our responsibility to remain connected to one another.

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

Hosted by Canadian poet, storyteller, and educator Kevin MacKay, Our Way Home explores presence, poetry, ordinary life, memory, healing, creativity, and the shared work of remembering who we are beneath expectation, noise, and performance.

Each episode unfolds slowly — in kitchens, quiet rooms, classrooms, open landscapes, long days, and the spaces in between. These are not conversations about fixing yourself or finding perfect answers. They are invitations to listen more closely, to stay with what’s real, and to walk through life with greater honesty and care.

Season 2 gently expands the conversation to include living alongside modern technology and AI — not as something to fear, and not as something to follow blindly — but as a companion we learn to walk beside without losing our grounding, our humanity, or our compassion for one another.

This podcast is for anyone who feels the weight of becoming. For those learning to slow down without falling behind. For anyone who needs a place to breathe.

You don’t have to arrive anywhere. You’re welcome exactly as you are.

We’re still walking each other home.

— Kevin Lee MacKay

Intro & Story Music: “Homeward” — Artlist Outro Music: “Epicness” — Artlist Season 2 Additional Soundtrack: “Cloud 9” by Louis Island — Artlist

🌐 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