The Homesong Experiment
The Invitation…
I think most of us carry an ache -
a longing for a place we call home.
Along the way, we pick up what we need to survive…roles, strategies, ways of being that help us make it through, but can also pull us away from our deepest selves, from our truest light.
When I say “home,” I don’t mean a place in the past or even a place we live now. I mean something deeper: a felt sense of wholeness. A steadiness. A tenderness that lives beneath our defenses.
And maybe we don’t find that by thinking or trying harder.
Maybe we find it by listening - by noticing what resonates, what softens, what feels quietly true. By remembering something that always was.
That’s Homesong.
A space to listen for what brings us back to ourselves and and ultimately, back to each other.
- Beck
I’m recording these conversations because I don’t know how long I’ll get to have them.
In 2022, my family and I left North Dakota and the Air Force and moved “home” to Spokane.
We wanted to be bold and make more room for creativity, community, and feeling centered in a place with those we love.
In the years that followed, I became the recipient of unexpected gifts —
mentors and friends whose presence reshaped me in ways I couldn’t have planned.
I explored some of these themes with my friend and mentor Joe Albert through a podcast called Leading Deeply.
What eventually became clear was simple:
The conversations that mattered most were the ones I was already having.
Homesong grew out of that.
What Homesong is…
Think of it as a long-form recorded listening practice - an intentional, asynchronous salon with four trusted friends and mentors.
A weekly, hour-long recorded dialogue with one person at a time.
No outline.
No performance.
These are conversations I would be having anyway.
Recording them is a way of staying with what matters.
Rather than explaining or persuading, the work stays with shared questions long enough for resonance, presence, and lived experience to shape what becomes known.
Each episode is edited lightly, with care for the people in it.
Homesong lives within Flamelight Creative —
a container for creative work held in community.
These conversations are being discovered longer than they’re being shared.
I’m recording without knowing
when — or if — they’ll be ready.
There’s no rush to release them.
No obligation to produce.
Just attention, given while it’s possible.
Homesong is a way of honoring
the people who are shaping me —
and so that someday, my children can hear
what wisdom sounded like in their voices.
If you’d like to listen too, you’re welcome here.
Stay Patient. Stay tuned…