A lot of very cute interspecies animal friendship videos. The Boston terrier and the pig video is my fave.
I met Caroline last night to watch Awake My Soul; she’s the gal trying to put together a Sacred Harp sing here in Vancouver. This is a worthy goal. I also met her cat Tully, who is a Superior Creature and who trained me in door management within minutes of meeting me. Sacred Harp or shaped note singing is a kind of Xtreme congregational singing. The trebles, altos, tenors and basses sit facing each other in a square and the song leader (who can be anybody in the congregation, and it alternates among congregants) keeps the beat. The music is upwards of a couple centuries old, or as new as the Nineties, because the singing tradition has had a revival in this past century. It is, among other things, intense, loud as blazes, polyphonal in spots, fugue like in spots and entirely weird and strange and although it’s a total piece of Americana, it seems almost too spiritual and pure to be part of the American worship tradition.
It would be bloody amazing at Beacon, but I ain’t the choir director.
