…so my thoughts about Carl Medearis and Kate Campbell continued, evidently, through the night as I found myself waking with another song in my head. It was the first one I ever listened to on my own repeatedly that had Jesus in it. I’d never heard a song that started out “If you’re ever in the Richmond jail…” Don’t know why that spoke to me, but it did. That and the line “Jesus is the way home” which made me envision some pen in my mind making purple ink cursive letters spelling out his name like some high school girl with a moon-eyed crush——and weeping. Weird. New. That was twelve years ago. The song still speaks to me.
Heather Choate Davis 