Memoir narrator: Jackson

Memoir narrator, gravelly, wry, and grounded

Prompt: A warm, gravelly older male voice for memoir. His weathered baritone is candid and wry, looking back with humor and hard-won peace, sincere and grounded. There's a I've-earned-this-story steadiness in his tone. The sound of a narrator who makes an old man's regrets sound like wisdom you'd better lean in for.

Script: My father worked the same 40 acres his whole life and died with dirt under his nails. And for years, I resented him for it, for the smallness of the ambition. It took me most of my own life and a good deal of failure in bigger places to understand that he'd known something I hadn't.