Things have changed a lot in recent years, yet the archetypes of Mother and Father remain. And the function of these archetypes is still important. Mother is the comfortable womb of home. Father disturbs that comfort. Father calls us out into the world.

This episode is also available as a blog post on JanPepplerHOME.com and at Finding Home on substack.com.

The photo with this podcast is one I took of a friend’s father in Resuttano, Sicily in May 2020. In his riding away, he embodies one image of the Father archetype: always leaving home on a road that shows us the way to something beyond what we know.