Echols: The world waits
“Lungs and trees. Forever dancing with one another; forever swapping gasses that work to keep life going on our planet. Who was it that overlayed the X-ray of a lung with the photograph of a tree and thought, ‘The branches should have been a clue. How did we miss it?’” (Candace Echols/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Candace Echols
Candace Echols writes whatever she notices as she goes about her daily life. Living that way has landed her bylines in National Geographic, Garden and Gun, The Gospel Coalition, Southern Living, golf.com, Cowboys and Indians, Common Good, Risen Motherhood, and others. Someday, she hopes to have a writing cottage in Oxford, England or Oxford, Mississippi; either will be just fine. Candace and her husband live with their children in Midtown Memphis.
“One morning, not too far off, we will wake up, we will go outside, and we will discover that while we were sleeping, something that looks an awful lot like mercy has visited our natural world.”
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