"After his first marriage fell apart in the 1960s, the songwriter [[Johnny Cash]] moved from [[Southern California]] to [[Tennessee]]. On the first night in his new home, lonely and depressed, he began to pace the length of the ground floor. It was an enormous house, all but empty of furniture, wedged between a steep hill on one side and Old Hickory Lake on the other. As he walked from one end of the floor to the other, from the hill to the lake, he began to feel, almost frantically, that something was absent. What’s missing? he thought. Where is it? he repeated, over and over again. Had he forgotten to pack something? Was there something he needed to do? What wasn’t right? Suddenly, it came to him. **It wasn’t something, it was someone. His young daughter, Rosanne. She wasn’t there. She was in California with her mother. A house without family is no home**." ([Location 1556](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07QY3CZ9L&location=1556)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[Mad Men]], [[work-life-balance]], [[bad-habits]], [[personal-values]], [[loneliness]], **Source** -- [[202409180133 - B - Stillness is the Key]]