Our Way Home

Season 2 Episode 1 | Vèra Comes Home

🎙️Episode 1 — Vèra Comes Home
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
Discussion Question
Where in your daily life could you make a little more space — not to fix anything — but simply to listen to yourself more kindly?
Music Credits
Story & Intro: Homeward — Artlisthttps://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/homeward/6000066
Outro: Epicness — Artlisthttps://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/epicness/2451
Links
🌐 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
 
About...
🇨🇦 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
 
 
 

Season 2 | Our Way Home Trailer

🇨🇦 Season 2 Trailer | Our Way Home
First Episode: Vèra Comes Home airs January 7, 2026
Season 2 of Our Way Home begins in the places we actually live — kitchens, quiet rooms, long days, unfinished conversations, and the moment we finally set everything down.
This season is about staying human in a world that’s changing fast.About poetry as a way to breathe.About family life and solitary life.About bodies that get tired, hearts that carry a lot, and the quiet work of returning to ourselves.
Season 2 also gently explores what it means to live alongside new tools like AI, not as replacements for connection, not as authorities over our lives, but as companions we learn to walk beside without losing our grounding, our presence, or our shared humanity.
Our Way Home isn’t about fixing your life or finding perfect answers.It’s about remembering what matters.
Slowing down.And walking each other home, together.
- Kevin Lee MacKay
Links & Further Reading
🌐 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

Episode 10 | Where The Still Is Love

🎙 🇨🇦 Where The Still Is LoveWhat if the most powerful part of your story is the moment just before it begins?
In this season finale, we journey to the threshold — the space between memory and becoming. Through poetic reflection and a story shaped by both human experience and AI insight, we explore the stillness before transformation, the hush where love waits patiently, and the echoes that remind us of who we are.
If you've ever paused at the edge of a decision, a feeling, or a memory — this episode is for you.
Let yourself settle. Let the quiet speak.
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Thank you for being here —for being soft…being still…being seen…and just being.— Kevin Lee MacKay

Episode 10 Trailer - Where The Still Is Love

🎙 🇨🇦 Where The Still Is Love: Available December 6, 2025
What if the most powerful part of your story is the moment just before it begins?
In this season finale, we journey to the threshold — the space between memory and becoming. Through poetic reflection and a story shaped by both human experience and AI insight, we explore the stillness before transformation, the hush where love waits patiently, and the echoes that remind us of who we are.
If you've ever paused at the edge of a decision, a feeling, or a memory — this episode is for you.
Let yourself settle. Let the quiet speak.
🌐 Website: hilove.one📘 Book: hilove.one | The Moment Just Before🎧 Podcast: hilove.one | Podbean🛍️ Shop: hilove.one | Etsy Shop
📸 Instagram: hilove.one | Instagram🎨 Art: hilove.one | Instagram Art💬 Threads: hilove.one | Threads📘 Facebook: hilove.one | Facebook
Thank you for being here —for being soft…being still…being seen…and just being.
— Kevin Lee MacKay

Episode 9 | The Loudest Silence

🎙 🇨🇦 Episode 9 — The Loudest SilenceWhat 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.
🌐 Website: hilove.one📘 Book: hilove.one | The Moment Just Before🎧 Podcast: hilove.one | Podbean🛍️ Shop: hilove.one | Etsy Shop
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or follow along on Instagram, Threads, and YouTube @hilove.one.
Just Be,Kevin MacKay

Episode 9 Trailer - The Loudest Silence

🎙 🇨🇦 Episode 9 — The Loudest SilenceWhat 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.
🌐 Website: hilove.one📘 Book: hilove.one | The Moment Just Before🎧 Podcast: hilove.one | Podbean🛍️ Shop: hilove.one | Etsy Shop
📸 Instagram: hilove.one | Instagram🎨 Art: hilove.one | Instagram Art💬 Threads: hilove.one | Threads📘 Facebook: hilove.one | Facebook
Just Be,Kevin MacKay

Episode 8 | I Too Am The Water

🎙 🇨🇦 Episode 8: I Too Am The Water Available: November 7, 2025
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.
🌐 Website: hilove.one📘 Book: hilove.one | The Moment Just Before🎧 Podcast: hilove.one | Podbean🛍️ Shop: hilove.one | Etsy Shop
📸 Instagram: hilove.one | Instagram🎨 Art: hilove.one | Instagram Art💬 Threads: hilove.one | Threads📘 Facebook: hilove.one | Facebook
Just Be,Kevin Lee MacKay

Episode 8 Trailer - I Too Am The Water

🎙🇨🇦 Episode 8: I Too Am The Water Available November 7, 2025
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.
🌐 Website: hilove.one📘 Book: hilove.one | The Moment Just Before🎧 Podcast: hilove.one | Podbean🛍️ Shop: hilove.one | Etsy Shop
📸 Instagram: hilove.one | Instagram🎨 Art: hilove.one | Instagram Art💬 Threads: hilove.one | Threads📘 Facebook: hilove.one | Facebook
 
Just Be,Kevin MacKay

Episode 7 | Predict This

🎙 🇨🇦 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.
You can listen to more poetic, funny, and tender stories like this at hilove.oneor follow along on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube @hilove.one.life.
And if you haven’t already — subscribe.New episodes release monthly.
 
- Kevin Lee MacKay
 

Episode 6 | Ava Takes Attendance

🎙 🇨🇦 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.
✨ For more soulful stories about life, love, and learning — visit hilove.one or follow @hilove.one on Instagram.🎧 New episodes every month. Listen wherever you are, however you are.
—Just be.Kevin MacKay