Season one is a twelve-episode run — a complete arc, start to finish. Subscribe wherever you listen, or listen right here.
People ask for the moment — the meeting where I stood up, the sunrise that rearranged my priorities. There wasn't one. There was a fine job that slowly stopped fitting, a layoff and a breakup that arrived in the same season, and a used Sprinter I bought partly out of clarity and partly because I didn't know what else to do with myself.
I watched a guy turn an afternoon walk into a battle — dramatic music, boot close-ups from below, the big swelling moment at the top. I've been on that trail. It's a walk.
I've been fly fishing for six years and I'm still not good at it. That's not modesty — I lose fish I should land, and there are whole days the river just says no. Somewhere along the way I stopped being frustrated by that and started thinking it might be the point.
There's a four-hour stretch of forest service road in the Cascades with no views, no water crossings, nothing to look at but trees. I used to treat it as a tax I paid to get to the fishing. Now it's the part of the trip I look forward to.