Writing and Roadtripping Through Mother Nature with Jedidiah Jenkins

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Jedidiah Jenkins is a bestselling author who embraces outdoor adventurer as inspiration for his beautiful and deeply personal work. In 2021, Jedidiah's wild idea involved a cross-country road trip with his mother, where they examined their mother-son dynamic, their religious and political differences, and their lasting affection for each other despite some of their opposing views.

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0:00.0	Whenever you underline something in a book, it's because you already knew that to be true,
0:10.8	but you didn't have the words yet.
0:12.8	You didn't know that those thoughts were in your mind, but the words lock the feeling
0:16.9	into reality.
0:17.9	And that is one of my favorite feelings in the world.
0:19.8	And so I was like, I want to do that someday.
0:25.9	Jen and I Jenkins always wanted to be a writer.
0:29.5	Reading authors like John Steinbeck, Tony Morrison, and James Baldwin helped him understand
0:34.7	the world while growing up as a queer kid in Tennessee.
0:37.7	Eventually, Jen and I moved to LA, and for most of his 20s, he was on the hamster wheel
0:43.0	of adult life.
0:44.5	He spent his days working in a non-profit, went out in the evenings with his friends and
0:48.9	sat in traffic.
0:50.6	Although he loved his job and his friends, in the back of his mind, that dream to become
0:55.6	a writer still nagged at him.
0:58.4	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living, an REI co-op studios production.
1:06.7	When he turned 30, Jen and I decided to turn his long-time literary dream into a reality.
1:12.9	He quit his job and set out on his bike for the ride of a lifetime.
1:17.2	The route took him from the Oregon coast all the way down the Patagonia.
1:21.7	He was on the road for 16 months.
1:24.4	When he returned, he wrote a beautiful memoir about his journey.
1:27.9	It's called To Shake the Sleeping Self.
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