Echols: Like a cool cup of water on a very hot day
Memphians on the cusp of a blazing summer may find that smiling at strangers is just the cup of cool water we need. (Baudolino/Pixabay)
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.”
“That small smile created a bridge and invited me to walk across — if only by smiling back. As a society, we are fractured in a million jagged ways ... that smile was a step toward reconnection.”
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