About
Darion
Cormier
I write audio essays about the quiet parts of ordinary life — the moments we usually move through without giving them a name.
The work lives somewhere between personal essay, reflection, and spoken storytelling. It begins with something small and stays with it long enough to see what else might be there.
I am less interested in telling people how to live than in paying closer attention to the life already happening.
The Work
Writing for the quiet parts of being human.
I am interested in the moments that are easy to move past: the few minutes in the driveway before going inside, the weight of being the person everyone calls, the rooms in ourselves we quietly learn to walk around.
Most pieces begin as writing, but I make them for the ear. The pauses matter. The room tone matters. So does the silence after a line has said enough.
Sometimes an essay keeps going after I finish it. When that happens, it may become a song, or a return to an earlier piece. The form changes, but the question underneath it usually does not.
I am not trying to turn ordinary life into a lesson. I am trying to notice what is already there before we move past it.
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Sometimes the first thing that changes is simply what we notice.
Write Me
If something in the work stayed with you, write me.
A line, a thought, a story of your own. A few words is enough.
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