Charlotte Donlon
Charlotte Donlon

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, spiritual director, and podcast host. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University where she studied creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other is her first book. Learn more about Charlotte, her writing, and her work at charlottedonlon.com. (Twitter: @charlottedonlon, Instagram: @charlottedonlon)

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Music is a Dwelling Place

Lyrics and melodies are embedded in my mind, in my body.

Whenever I hear Peter Cetera belt out “Waiting for the break of day” in the song “25 or 6 to 4,” I’m carried back to the brick house on Hunting Creek Road in Montgomery, Alabama, where I lived as a child. I’m four years old. I’m on the rust-colored shag carpet and can smell the […]

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