For some people Going home is like going around the block. They never left their hometown, Grandma watches the kids, there might even be a weekly dinner that happens.
For others, trips home are commonplace. They spend every holiday with mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, cousins aunts uncles the whole works. It's just the way they've done things and the way they always will. Everyone is good with it, because going home something they look forward to.
Then there're people whose home is something different. Yes, it is a place where our parents might still live. It might be the place holds most of our childhood memories. It might be a place of great love and joy. But it also might hold deep dark secrets, the kinds that make us want to never go back there again.
And yet we must return home. Home might be where people are no longer surrounded by familiar dwellings like Grandma's old house. But the stories are still there, and remember it's not what they said, it's how they made you feel. Those places move with you. Those things move with you. They're not left in the walls of the home someone else now lives in.
I was listening to the podcast Tales from a Cult Insider, By Jared Garrett. I interviewed Jared on my podcast Page Readers about his book Beyond The Cabin almost 10 years ago. It's been a fantastic journey between then and now, for both of us. Jared has gone on to bigger and better things including his podcast but seriously that's just the tip of the iceberg. I'll let him tell you his story though, here's a link to his podcasts.
Beyond The Cabin, by Jared Nathan Garrett
Things have changed in my own life too. I no longer host the Page Readers podcast, and I no longer review books. I still edit every once a while and work on an occasional ghostwriting project. But truly my passion now is to inspire everyone to write their story and speak their truth because I believe when we learn to speak our truth, we hold people accountable for their behavior. And when people are held accountable for their behavior, their behavior changes.
Speak your truth and change the world for the better.
This episode of Write Speak Play is my take on Jarrods experience and comparing it to my own. Then I share with you essays from my nonfiction book Dysfunction of Family.
Links to:
My first interview with Jared Garrett on Page Readers from 11 years ago.
Here's where I read a few chapters of The Cabin by Jared Garrett 7 years ago.
Beyond The Cabin, by Jared Nathan Garrett
My nonfiction books Dysfunction of Family, Anger into Action, and The Journey.