Darion Cormier is a podcast of intimate audio essays about responsibility, relationships, emotional labor, grief, work, memory, belonging, and the quiet parts of being human. Season One, The Carrying, explores the things we hold onto, the roles we take on, and what it means to begin setting some of them down.
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A return to the few minutes after you arrive, when the engine is off, the house is still there, and nothing has to be asked of you yet.
Maybe the quiet doesn’t have to restore you. Maybe it doesn’t have to prepare you for what comes next.
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29 Sept 2026
September
A standalone bonus piece about getting older, recognizing your own patterns, and trying not to turn the things you love into something you have to carry.
Darion looks back at CommonTruce, the writing that started it, and the ways ambition can sometimes grow louder than the thing that mattered in the first place.
Listen at darioncormier.com/work/september (https://www.darioncormier.com/work/september)
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25 Sept 2026
Call Me For Nothing
Call Me For Nothing is the second song to grow out of What They Call You For.
The first asked who carries the person everyone else calls.
This one asks something different: what would it feel like if somebody called and didn’t need anything?
No favor. No emergency. Nothing to fix.
Just because.
I wrote the words. The music and voice were created with AI.
Listen to the song and explore the writing behind it at: (https://www.darioncormier.com/work/call-me-for-nothing)https://www.darioncormier.com/work/call-me-for-nothing (https://www.darioncormier.com/work/call-me-for-nothing)
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22 Sept 2026
05 - The Field in Winter
The final piece in The Carrying. An audio essay about the season nobody photographs.
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21 Sept 2026
Who Carries Me
A song that came out of What They Call You For.
Read the lyrics and hear the essay that inspired it at darioncormier.com/who-carries-me (https://www.darioncormier.com/work/who-carries-me)
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15 Sept 2026
What They Call You For
There are people who call because they miss you.
And there are people who call because they need something.
Sometimes, after a while, it gets hard to tell the difference.
What They Call You For is an audio essay about being needed, being dependable, and what can sit underneath being the person everyone calls.
Episode Four of The Carrying.
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8 Sept 2026
The Door You Don’t Open
There are things we don’t forget.
We just learn how to walk around them.
The Door You Don’t Open is about the rooms we stop entering, the things we learn not to touch, and what it means to notice the door is still there.
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1 Sept 2026
The Coat You Never Take Off
A reflection on the responsibilities we carry long enough that they stop feeling like weight — and what we begin to notice when we finally look at what we’ve been carrying.
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25 Aug 2026
The Car in the Driveway
There are a few minutes at the end of the day that I’ve been thinking about for a long time.You pull into the driveway.You put the car in park.You turn the engine off.And then you don’t get out.Not because you don’t want to go inside.Not because something is wrong.Sometimes it’s just the first quiet moment you’ve had all day.That’s where The Car in the Driveway begins.It’s about that small pause between one part of your life and the next — when nobody is asking you a question, nobody needs an answer, and for a few minutes, you are simply sitting there.
If you’d rather listen on the website, you can do that here:Listen to The Car in the Driveway →
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And when you’re finished, I’d actually like to hear from you.What’s your version of the driveway?It doesn’t have to be a car. Maybe it’s the shower. The long way home. Sitting somewhere for a few minutes before you walk through the door.You can just reply to this email and tell me.I’ll read it.— Darion
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18 Aug 2026
Introduction - The Carrying
The Carrying is a five-part audio season about the quiet weight we carry, the ways it shapes us, and the ordinary moments where we finally begin to notice it.
This short introduction is where it begins.
Listen above.
— Darion
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