Pamela Olson

Wonderful story well told (and read)

Revisado: 05-25-23

The quest to be fully human may be the hardest one we can embark upon, at least at this point in history. We Americans are steeped in a culture that demands we minimize and paper over our trauma as well as our longing to connect to the universe and to each other. Some of us are allergic to that BS, and we often find ourselves alienated from ourselves, isolated from others, or both.

I'm grateful to Brad Wetzler for telling the story of his journey to find wholeness in a broken culture and healing from a toxic family system. It is not an easy path, and there's no map. It's a true adventure, and that means you don't know what's going to happen, and you have no institutional backing, no prize money, no prestige, no gold stars -- nothing but a faint sense inside yourself to tell you if you're on the right path, going in the right direction.

It's easy to feel alone on this journey, and it's heartening to hear reports from fellow travelers. This is a wonderful book with plenty of external and internal adventures. A life well lived, in spite of a difficult start in life and a culture that too often encourages us to be our worst selves.

I'm hard to please when it comes to narrators, but it was pretty easy to get lost in this story and just enjoy it, without being taken out of it by an iffy reader. Well done all around.

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