Ethical Adulthood: A Detroit Soundtrack | Home at Last by Steely Dan

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, I reflect on Steely Dan’s “Home at Last” through The Odyssey, Odysseus, the Sirens, and the strange human problem of remaining tied to the mast after the danger has passed.What if the crisis is over, but the nervous system is still braced for more?What if home is not one more project, reinvention, improvement, or dramatic chapter away?This episode explores Steely Dan’s brilliant, slippery world; the seduction of drama; the project mind; survival structures that once protected us; and the possibility that ordinary life may not be a waiting room after all.Sometimes maturity is not a climb, a quest, or a journey.Sometimes maturity is staying where we are long enough to realize:This is my life.The danger is past.The mast can loosen.Home at last.