Sunday, November 17th

another take

Slow, dark, bluesy—this is a world away from the two church performances we heard last Sunday.

Pastor Terry Anderson (and congregation), “Woke Up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Jesus,” live, Houston (Lilly Grove Missionary Baptist Church), 2010

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lagniappe

reading table

One of Emily Dickinson’s “envelope” poems:

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In this short Life that only lasts an hour
How much—how little—is within our power