Echols: ‘God knows the number of hairs on my head’
“Hair is something most of us have to deal with on a daily basis just to step out the front door. And lately I’ve been having to think about my hair more.”
Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five. A regular contributor to The Daily Memphian, she is a freelance writer who also recently published her first book, the children’s book “Josephine and the Quarantine.”
There are 89 articles by Candace Echols :
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February 2024
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Opinion Echols: ‘Riding all over Memphis, waiting for the very same thing’
“All these years, we have been living parallel lives. I drive down the middle lane while he bikes on the sidewalk.”
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January 2024
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Opinion Echols: ‘Comparison is the thief of joy’
“Thursday was extreme. In one day, I found myself flying all over the spectrum of comparison.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘Seven portals ... that have called to me from somewhere beyond’
“There are portals to God’s grace all over this city, both in nature and in civilization.”
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December 2023
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Opinion Echols: Christmas Eve and our ‘buried love for childhood’
“I wonder if there is some unspoken desire to shed things like bills and emails and jobs and smart phones and instead become a child alongside our children, all a mess together with bed-heads and pj’s and sock feet, no matter how polished or professional we are in our adult life.”
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Opinion Echols: Memphians share their Christmas memories
“I have asked some fellow lifelong Memphians who know all about the big city/small town nature of our home to share memories from the Christmases of their earliest years.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘God’s surprised me ... because of Bellevue’s Singing Christmas Tree’
“All those years ago, I thought I was ministering to the people in the seats with my smile and my soprano song. But I’m the one who walked away with the secret treasure.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘Sports may be more beneficial ... than ever before’
“For a decent shot at victory, the team needs to be whole. ... Perhaps the entire city of Memphis could use a dose of this lesson right now.”
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November 2023
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Opinion Echols: Linking creamed corn and politics — it’s more natural than you think
“Every person brings more to a disagreement than the rest of us will ever know. While my creamed corn debacle is a far cry from a presidential election in importance, what’s behind it is similar.”
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Opinion Echols: Memphis City Seminary is ‘bridging the gap’
“In Memphis, there is so much that’s hard to hear. But this —this is something really, really good that’s happening in our city.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘How gratitude buoys the spirit and cheers the mind’
“When my friend hoists me out of the dumps by pointing out my many blessings, what she’s really doing is pointing me to the Giver of all good gifts. She’s reminding me that I came into this world empty-handed and I will leave the same way.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘Pondering is a thing of the past’
“But coffee and relationships and creativity — these are the gifts of slow living. These are the places in which we are called to fully inhabit our fleshliness.”
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October 2023
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Opinion Echols: Asking honest questions and listening to each other’s honest answers
“We sometimes talk through the nuances of our mid-life femaleness with a candid honesty that I would call uncommon. ... We share stories about our aunts and mothers, our sisters and grandmothers.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: ‘There aren’t words for anguish like this’
“Grieve with your brokenhearted friends. Grieve the war their people are involved in. Grieve the evil (it’s important that we call it what it is – evil – when human beings are slaughtered) and violence towards the innocent people.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘Our scars tell our stories’
“When you think about it, there are an endless number of ways people write their stories on their skin.”
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September 2023
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Opinion Echols: ‘Every so often, light breaks through’
“If you stop to look around, the walls of our world are plastered with bulb-lit-arrows all over the place. And they are all pointing to something beyond. Something grander. Something far better and far worse than what usually enters our mind as we’re ordering our combos and swiping our cards and deciding between Diet Coke or Coke Zero. “
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Opinion Echols: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’
“How many of our systemic problems could be impacted — not solved, mind you, just lightly impacted — if we connected a little better with those who live close by?”
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Opinion Echols: ‘This past year has been a test for my faith’
“How do I write openly about the God I worship even as I do not understand why he is allowing such painful things to take place in our city?”
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Opinion Echols: Celebrating the ‘verbal waltz’ of Mississippians
“Not all Mississippians have gotten it right throughout history, and that’s easy to see. But what we can learn from the natives who speak rightly is how to convey difficult ideas with gentleness.”
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August 2023
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Opinion Echols: Older people, please come to church
“Young people need people who have a different perspective not only in race or gender or socioeconomic status, but in age.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: Questions to reframe how we think about Memphis
“People in our city are considering a lot right now. We are thinking through family histories that are long, friendships that are time-tested, and roots that run deep. “
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Guest Columnists Echols: ‘Memphis, we must not overlook each other’
“Our people are gold. They’re not the type you just walk out on. ... The everyday folks that make up Memphis are awesome.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: A column for those who’ve had a brush with Christianity
“Perhaps they grew up going to church, but it felt dull. Perhaps they went to Christian school, but didn’t click with their classmates. Perhaps they had a sibling or a friend or a mother who prayed for them, but it never really took.”
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July 2023
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Guest Columnists Echols: Things that are true, right, pure, honorable and lovely. (Literally.)
“There are seasons when darkness snuffs out creativity. But every time we make something new and beautiful — something life-giving and delightful — we push back on all that darkness.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: The first question we will be asked
“You don’t have to live long to realize life on this earth is decidedly short. Eternity, on the other hand, is just that: eternal.”
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