by Darcy Wiley | Mar 25, 2016 | Jam, Pencils & Pens, Sweet Tea
Last week, several musicians, writers, and artists from my church gathered with our congregation on St. Patrick’s Day to share a contemplative selection of music and meditations in the tradition of Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the...
by Darcy Wiley | Apr 2, 2015 | Fireflies, Jam, Relish, Sweet Tea, Uncategorized
My thin sweater did nothing to ward away the chill in the air. The smell of wet earth hung on the wind. I slopped my high heels through grass and mud on the way to the stadium where my littlest brother would be sliding the tassel from one side of his cap to the other,...
by Darcy Wiley | Oct 30, 2013 | A Less Digital Life, Jam, Pencils & Pens
I think we all know the feeling–we go searching Pinterest for inspiration, maybe a new look for the mantle this season, and we end up coming across a pair of slouchy knee-high tan boots that make us want to go shopping, a must-try pumpkin bread recipe and a...
by Darcy Wiley | Oct 16, 2013 | A Less Digital Life, Jam
It was a song he’d never heard. Austin Chapman clicked up the volume. When the sound of angelic descants whirled into his ears from a recording of Mozart’s Lacrimosa, the young man wept. It wasn’t just the first time he’d heard this piece of music, it was the...
by Darcy Wiley | Oct 6, 2013 | A Less Digital Life, Jam
The bassist leans forward and presses a button on his laptop keyboard to start up some YouTube sensation, two oddballs singing the praises of Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles. Across from him, the big kid guitarist whips out his smartphone and tucks it away again, a tick...
by Darcy Wiley | Jun 18, 2013 | Jam, Pocket Change, Sweet Tea
Several years back, well before I became a mother, I sat in a middle school library helping one of my English language learners with her homework. She was a good student but fortunately wasn’t as obsessive as some of the students in her home country who...