Distance, whether measured in miles or years or heartbeats, creates its own form of clarity. Distant Transmissions arrives as the ultimate destination—not an ending, but a vantage point from which the entire journey finally makes sense. This is Michael Owen Rich transmitting from that place beyond the immediate chaos, offering perspective earned through navigation of life's deeper waters, having traveled through every frequency of human experience to reach this moment of profound understanding.

These are communications from the other side of struggle, proof that wisdom can indeed be transformed into sound waves that carry across any void. Each track serves as evidence that sometimes we have to travel impossibly far from home to understand what home actually means—and that the journey itself becomes the destination. Here, at the series' conclusion, distance reveals itself not as separation but as the space necessary for true comprehension.

This final transmission completes the circle that began with Essential, having passed through emotion, solitude, silence, transition, and explosive expansion to arrive at this place of hard-won peace. Michael Owen Rich broadcasts from coordinates that can only be reached by someone who has refused to take shortcuts through the geography of the heart. These sounds carry the weight of lived experience without the burden of bitterness, offering not answers but something far more valuable: the wisdom to ask better questions.

Distant Transmissions stands as proof that the most important messages often travel the furthest to reach us, and that perspective—true perspective—can only be achieved from the summit of our own experience.

Trying Too Hard

Michael Owen Rich