Sunday, August 11th

Repeat them often enough and words lose their literal shapes, dissolving into pure feeling.

Heavenly Gospel Singers, “I Stepped in the Water One Day,” live, St. James Missionary Baptist Church, Canton, Mississippi, 1978


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lagniappe

reading table

. . . Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly needing mending.

—Herman Melville (1819-1891), Moby-Dick