Echols: ‘The tapestry of cultures’ in Memphis
“Memphis is a fascinating tapestry of subcultures that I suspect is far more complex and nuanced than most of us would ever dream. This is both our bane and our beauty.”
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August 2024
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Echols: ‘A wrinkle in time’
“This parenting journey from crib-to-college goes bizarrely fast. As a mother, I can almost feel as if I’ve been cheated out of something. Mocked. Duped. Ripped off.”
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Echols: ‘Outposts are merely pit stops’
“I have forgotten that outposts are just that – outposts. Outposts offer a roof and a bed and company to the wayfaring stranger, but they are never the final destination.”
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July 2024
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Echols: ‘What if just behind the mundane is a marvelous mystery?’
“Lately, I’ve been treading in the waters of the mundane. Groceries, laundry, text messages that require responses. Neither a cup of coffee nor the moon have been history lessons that reach backward nor spiritual meditations that reach upward.”
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Echols: ‘Burning Bushes Everywhere’
“For several years, I’ve been struggling to pray. For one thing, it’s hard not to get distracted. Thoughts fire this way and that, like ricocheting pinballs.”
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June 2024
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Echols: ‘It’s worth stepping out and responding’
“I know I have inherited much of who I am from my dad, who inherited it from his mom. ... The three of us look at life from the same vantage point.”
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Echols: ‘I Need to Go Somewhere’
“There’s something about a good long road trip that creates space for your mind to unwind.”
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May 2024
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Echols: ‘Trees are remarkable storytellers’
“The trunk that reaches to the heavens is telling my family’s story in real time, and real time is passing much more quickly than anyone ever told me it would.”
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Echols: ‘Her children arise and call her blessed’
“When I consider my mother’s version of motherhood, ... I think she can count her wins by what she chose not to do.”
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April 2024
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Echols: ‘Either way, I was a big, fat jerk’
This is an open letter to the woman I had an embarrassingly vigorous yelling match about a parking spot in front of the UPS store on Colonial Road last Tuesday.
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Echols: ‘Sometimes, being female can be exasperating’
“Then you find yourself legitimately considering letting someone slice open your rear to insert a TicTac made of yams that will get you closer to ‘normal,’ whatever that even means.”
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Echols: Memories of Marc Gasol and the Core Four bring tears, grief and joy
“We were proud to be Memphians for a great many reasons, but underneath them all was a sense of citywide unity. For once, we were all on the same team.”
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Echols: ‘the secret of the creatives’
“What started with truth, goodness and beauty has fallen into dissonance. That’s what I hear in the news, gunfire, sirens and gossip. ... I’ve heard the dissonance in the sound of my own complaining voice.”
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Echols: Stories of hope, joy, learning: Everett beats the odds
“Every year on June 21, my brother Landon Williams sends me some version of the same text message ... ‘Hey Sister! Today is the 6-year anniversary of the day when Everett was supposed to die.’”
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Echols: Stories of hope, joy, learning: It’s always a party at one special Memphis school
“We all know anytime there are gifts being opened, anytime there’s ice cream and field trips and dress up and games, anytime someone is empowered to do something they could not do before, there’s a party going on.”
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Echols: Stories of hope, joy, learning: ‘Curiosity does the heavy lifting’
“Macsovits has taken what she’s been taught in the course of a lifetime, married it with the deeper and broader perspective she has earned in motherhood, and is now passing it on to others.”
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March 2024
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Echols: ‘Where we learn about the fun side of God’
“When you get to be an adult, laughter can feel like an add-on like whipped cream, a free mint or pressing snooze on the alarm clock.”
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Echols: 5 weekend escapes near Memphis
You don’t have to go far to get away from it all. Candace Echols has some ideas for where you can go to catch your breath amid your hectic schedule.
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Echols: Colors point us to ‘something far bigger’
“Why does it feed my soul to gaze across the landscape of Shelby Farms and inhale a whole wide world of greens and blues?”
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February 2024
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Echols: ‘Common sense is a gift from God’
“When a gaggle of kids come in my kitchen door covered in dirt — all red-cheeked and sweaty — cackling and out-of-breath because of some prank they played or game they made up, nothing makes me happier.”
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Echols: ‘Spring is just around the corner’
“Sometimes — especially here in late February — we must do what we can to invite the natural world in, allowing it to carry us until spring arrives.”
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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.”
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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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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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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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