マディさんのインスタグラム写真 - (マディInstagram)「I ain’t been too sure how to write about this, maybe it’s ‘cause I feel like I’m letting all Southerns and even Wendell Berry down, or more likely it’s cause I’m still numb to it and only starting to feel typing these keys. But I sold the house we built in Nashville and we’re pointing West shortly. ⁣ ⁣ If happiness is the onset of the unexpected good then I gotta give thanks for this home. 4 years ago we built it on a forgotten acre in the city no one loved, on a street no one walked. But now years later I can stand on my porch and see new families walking their dogs every morning and sad houses get new roofs and become homes.⁣ ⁣ I ain’t trying to take credit for making this place better, I don’t have enough sense to make these decisions. Somehow, you just get led to where you’re supposed to be, if you’re willing to submit. ⁣ ⁣ The South is what made me and it is me. But even as a boy I never spoke of wanting to stay and take over my grandfathers farm. My mind was always off in the far West with John Wayne and the cactus.⁣ ⁣ I say all that so it will seem less odd or unrelatable for someone like me who has traveled relentlessly to talk about fear of leaving, I just didn’t want the South to feel like I abandoned it.」4月26日 0時06分