I got it. I’m gonna chalk this one up to a lesson learned for a noob. You see, I was refreshing MagicMirror by simply x’ing out the window. I decided to do a pm2 restart and bingo… that did the trick. The graphic comes up with any config file I run.
I had a feeling it was something dumb I was doing. Appreciate your support - I’m going to be working on installing/personalizing Hello Lucy next.