On this Day
March 24, 2025
On this day, a journalist tapped his cane with a gold alligator on the handle as he told stories of sitting on the roof of a cinder-block hotel in Somalia, watching tracer fire below. And of a dead body, tear gas, and chaos as Mississippi fought to keep integration out of Ole Miss.
A man sang "Amazing Grace" to his wife at breakfast, a crop duster sprayed a Delta field, and an odometer hit 100,000 miles, all on this day.
A pig looked through the slats of its wood-pallet pen, and a town celebrated making the Sweet Sixteen. Potato logs were two for one at the end of the night, and a man described last night's rain as "every drop was like a five-gallon bucket. I was worried about my shed, but my brain said, 'Go to bed'."
The gas station cashier said, "You look good and you're doing good. How about $1 off this pizza?" He's from Jerusalem and worked with tourists in hotels in Israel and Jordan. He moved to Mississippi years ago and likes living in the country.
The redbug bloomed besides Faulkner's house as fraternity boys walked through the woods. The writer's trail marker read, "The human heart in conflict with itself is the theme of all good writing." All on this day.
March 23, 2025
On this day, a preacher said, "Everything you go through isn't about you." Another prayed for a church member who had cancer. The church organ played "Jesus loves me" in slow, single notes.
A dog barked at the heels of a walker. Then backed up and charged again. A train whistle blew as it passed through Yazoo, on this day.
No birds flew into the birdhouse topped with a cross. But a camellia bloomed next to a cross that read, "He Is Risen."
A tornado passed over the Delta. The names in the path came from the TV: Rolling Fork. Midnight. Louise. All on this day.
March 22, 2025
On this day, two bald eagles flew over Mobile Bay, and a trucker poured her second cup of coffee. She has driven three million "safe miles," but spring breakers heading to the beach slowed her down today.
Wedding bouquets were tied on church steps, green tarp covered a mound of cemetery dirt, and "In The Garden"–Elvis' version–was chosen for a funeral, on this day.
On this date, donation buckets were held out at one intersection; a horse looked out of a trailer behind a broken-down truck at another.
T-shirts read "Go Luck Yourself" and "Kiss Me I'm Irish-ish" as crawfish boiled and fish fried at a St. Patrick's Day parade.
Dogwoods bloomed on Grand Avenue, and daffodils bloomed on a hill. All on this day.
