Author Archives: eldamcarmona

NPR Music delivered again. Looking for a song to share tonight and scrolled through the "Songs We Love" section of the website. Came across this artist and saw that he was from Houston. Well.. since he was from Texas… and being as I'm from Texas… I figured I should give a listen. Literally got goosebumps with the guitarContinue reading “Drivin’”

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.  They've gone through a few changes and have a new album that drops on the 15th.    

I heard this song on the radio this evening. Hadn't shared anything from Ed Sheeran of late, so I looked for a video of this song. Glad I did, because it seems pretty relevant, considering all my reminiscences of late; looking at and wondering about all my babies, where this life will lead them, theirContinue reading “Photograph”

"This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." – Acts 4:11-12 Selah.    

NPR's World Cafe introduced me to Birds of Chicago this week.    

What a week it has been.  Seeing and holding my newborn granddaughter and watching my one and only girl holding her has been a breathtaking highlight. Hearing that Merle Haggard had passed this week as well has provided quite the counterpoint. Maybe it's because my daddy is gone and he and I both loved Merle Haggard and IContinue reading “If I Could Only Fly”

Leave it to a car commercial to trigger memories and thoughts about life and its cycle now that my baby granddaughter has been born. I was beyond thrilled when each of my boys were born, but a girl… say it with me, paradigm shift. I gotta get used to pink again, and frills and bowsContinue reading “Time Will Tell”

We lost a great one today. I've shared before that country music was the music of my childhood. Merle Haggard was one of the icons of that childhood. His influence on me continued long after I left country music behind. He was an outlaw. I also shared about going to see him with my parents atContinue reading “Pancho and Lefty”

My granddaughter was born yesterday. She's the youngest of four, the other three being her big brothers, and oh what a wild and crazy family she has been born into. These boys amaze me with their singular personalities. I cannot wait to see how this girl develops to fit into this brood. I love all my grandbabies.  They make meContinue reading “7 Years”

She's here! After all these years and all the beautiful little boys that I thought had stolen my heart, she has arrived and I'm left breathless, my heart so full, it's bursting.  I heard this song on the way down to be here for my last grandson's birth.  It was perfect then… and it's perfectContinue reading “I Choose You”