Sunday, November 24th

two takes

“The Storm Is Passing Over” (C. Tindley, D. Vails)

Detroit Mass Choir (Jimmy Dowell, Director), live, Detroit, 2001

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DeLois Barrett Campbell and The Barrett Sisters, live, 1982 (Say Amen, Somebody)

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lagniappe

reading table

“Hope” is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all—

And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—
And sore must be the storm—
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm—

I’ve heard it in the chillest land—
And on the strangest Sea—
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me.

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)