It was May 13 last year when I first hit publish. The post was called “Greetings from the Deep South, USA.” Nothing fancy. Just a hello from where I sit. I still remember the ordinary light in the room that morning… and the quiet resolve it took to send the words out anyway. A yearContinueContinue reading “One Year In”
Author Archives: Darrell C
Marginalia: JOHNNYSWIM, “Bridges”
Sometimes a song changes once you know who’s singing it. Back in 2019, I stumbled across JOHNNYSWIM’s “Bridges,” and the performance itself immediately grabbed me. Today’s listen showed it still has that power. Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez move through the song with this mix of joy, conviction, flirtation, and earned weariness that makes the wholeContinueContinue reading “Marginalia: JOHNNYSWIM, “Bridges””
Stagger Lee Was a What?
A childhood song, a Christmas Eve shooting, and a Stetson hat that started it all I must have been seven or eight the first time I heard it. Maybe younger. My mother had the radio going… she usually did. And this thing came on with a groove that just grabbed you. Something about a clearContinueContinue reading “Stagger Lee Was a What?”
Mine too, Martha…
I thought I knew this passage. Turns out I’d just gotten used to it. I was studying John 11 today and something in it hit me like a gut-punch. Four days in the tomb. Nobody expecting anything but grief. Martha meets Him on the road: “Lord, if You had been here…” She believes in theContinueContinue reading “Mine too, Martha…”
Something That Won’t Let You Settle
Something has been bothering me. Like a car alarm down the street on a still afternoon. Not an emergency. Just something that won’t let you settle. The kind that reaches you before you’ve identified the source. Since 1982, when I first registered to vote, I’ve been watching something cycle through American public life like weather.ContinueContinue reading “Something That Won’t Let You Settle”