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Echols: Fall is hard to beat

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:59:30 -0500

Autumn officially started Sept. 22, but one day soon, we will all wake up to air that is so crisp and so clear that it blows all the way through our souls.

Echols: 'We need the wisdom of trees'

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 7 Sep 2025 04:00:05 -0500

“We need the wisdom that shows us how to turn our faces toward the light and bend without breaking.”

Echols: Staying quiet — despite the good things we've found

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Mon, 1 Sep 2025 10:34:39 -0500

“Let me say, ain’t nobody going to like this comparison – not the shot people, not the Christian people, and not the other people, either — but it’s real. There are things about Tirzepatide that remind me of the Holy Spirit.”

Echols: Words that aren't the uninhabited talk of AI

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:04 -0500

“While AI can talk about God, it cannot speak about experiencing him. It can offer no first-person perspective on what God is like in the euphoria of love or in the depths of grief.”

Echols: 'Now I've been taught to see'

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 25 May 2025 04:00:13 -0500

“Living this way has flung the doors wide for me to write about things like the Grammys and National Parks and PGA golf and missionaries. ... And it’s all largely because I’ve now been taught to see.”

Mama Bears: Jay Huff's mom Kathy is 'Huff Stuff,' too

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 11 May 2025 11:34:25 -0500

The years Kathy Huff and her husband spent cultivating an atmosphere of reading, relationships and recreation have come to fruition now that their children, including Memphis Grizzlies player Jay Huff, are grown.

Mama Bears: On Jaylen Wells' journey to NBA, his mother has cheered him on

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sat, 10 May 2025 11:16:58 -0500

“He doesn’t care about the glitz and glam of all of this stuff,” Laketia Wells said about her son. “He just lives.”

Mama Bears: Cam Spencer's mom hopes her son's NBA road is a long one

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sat, 10 May 2025 11:11:41 -0500

Cam Spencer’s grandfather was known for saying, “Enjoy the journey,” encouraging the people he loved not to focus so hard on the destination they miss the fun of the road that gets them there.

Echols: This life we’re all living — it's weird

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 4 May 2025 12:46:04 -0500

“Life comes at us utterly unannounced. No spoiler alerts. No accurate forecasts. No fortune tellers. It’s just us and time. And for me, God.”

Echols: On Easter, 'isn’t life and flourishing what we’re after?'

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 09:43:01 -0500

“Every spring, when daffodils push up through the dirt and new leaves sprout on the trees, the earth re-tells this old story. It’s the same story, over and over and over again.”

Echols: Wrestling with the 'swirling nervousness'

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:21:43 -0500

“Thankfully, the angst gave way. The swirl quieted to a calm and left no indication that it had ever existed. If I weren’t so thankful, I’d be mad — mad that I can’t look back and identify a single silver bullet or a proven magic pill.”

Echols: 'Home Lore' from 1928 to 2025

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Tue, 1 Apr 2025 19:09:59 -0500

“Imagining a Memphis supplied with a well-informed coffeeman, uninterrupted conversation and Sunday afternoon car rides isn’t so bad.”

Echols: 'I always feel so sorry for LeBron'

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 04:00:11 -0500

“Someday what we are after in the face of LeBron will be found in the face of God.”

Echols: Top 5 childhood experiences my kids know nothing about

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:46:45 -0500

“I’m fully aware that we didn’t have it all right back then. But today, I lament the passing of the past by submitting this list of Top 5 Everyday Experiences from My Childhood That My Kids Know Nothing About.”

Echols: However scandalous our sin, the love of Christ goes even deeper

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 9 Mar 2025 09:54:14 -0500

“I honestly don’t spend much time thinking about the lives of prostitutes, but during my kids’ bedtime story last week, the topic came up.”

Echols: Our morning coffee is a funny little mercy

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 2 Mar 2025 11:28:21 -0600

“This Coffee Dance we’re all doing with the way we make our morning joe is the way we wake up, it’s the way we ease into the day. Each of us is quietly declaring our own preferences over and over again, every single time the Earth goes round.”

Echols: Nine fresh ideas already happening in Memphis

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:53:23 -0600

“These people have no idea I’m writing about them. But they are using what they have in time, money, energy and ideas to bless the rest of us.”

Echols: The most important thing about us

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:23:10 -0600

“Holding God’s transcendence and his immanence in view at the same time will not make me perfect, but it will change how I handle my own wrongdoing, as well as how I love God and others...”

Echols: We were born to sweat

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 9 Feb 2025 09:31:43 -0600

“My underlying hope is that when I do A and B, the promised C will result. But you only have to live a little while to learn that’s not the way life works.”

Echols: The reasons we travel

candaceecholswrites@gmail.com (Candace Echols) — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 04:00:07 -0600

“Whether its nature or people that speak to us most clearly when we travel, taking in a new place with fresh gusto and does our hearts’ good. “