Former Japan bureau chief for European Press Agency (EPA), Everett Kennedy Brown was nearing 60 when he had a spiritual crisis that put him on a powerful trajectory in Japan, the country he’s called home for more than 30 years. In Kyoto Dreamtime, his forthcoming memoir, meet his extraordinary guides and teachers, the women he loved, and the Yamabushi mountain ascetics he followed. In this podcast, Everett reveals his North Carolina family's surprising ties to Japan and how they set the stage for his lifelong fascination with Shinto and Yamabushi ancient traditions, as experienced through the complex Collodion wet-plate photography techniques he's cultivated over decades. Hosted by Liane Wakabayashi, this is the fourth episode in the Goshen Books Meet the Memoir Series: Finding Home Far from Home.