Dulcie Taylor was moved by photos of people boating down the sidewalk. Halfway to Jesus” lyric: “Float your boat down Main Street, your dinghy or canoe, save your neighbor and his dog, stranded on a roof.”
In 2015, catastrophic storms flooded parts of South Carolina. It’s singer-songwriter Dulcie Taylor’s home state. She was shocked to see images of people boating down streets where she once walked.
Taylor: “I kept hearing people call storms like that ‘thousand-year storms,’ just meaning it should be that rare.”
It made her think about just how long a thousand years is.
Taylor: “I thought, good grief, that’s halfway to Jesus.”
That inspired her to write a new song called “Halfway to Jesus.” It describes the extreme weather events growing more common with climate change. The song also encourages people to act.
Taylor: “I think music can reach a lot of people … sometimes, when just cold hard facts don’t.”
“Halfway to Jesus” lyric: “Well it ain’t like we haven’t been warned. Now we’re living through thousand-year storms. Looking back where does that leave us? Halfway to Jesus.”
Note from Dulcie-
Yale University’s Climate Connections aired my interview on 400 radio stations across the US, and posted a link to the video for “Halfway to Jesus” at their website. These folks are doing great work for all of us – interviews, lectures, articles, photographs, anything of interest to help people understand what is happening to our planet –
The link above will take you to my interview where the audio that was broadcast is playable at the top and down a ways they’ve posted a link to the video. I am so honored to be a small art of their work.
