Dear MaryAnn,

Wouldn't you know that starting right when I got up this morning, Work in the Real World kept me from getting to this. Something told me that if I didn't do this early (like, on Wednesday night or even Wednesday afternoon), I'd get to it too late. I always regret it when I don't listen to my intuition scream at me like that.

I intended to give you all a double-header of poetry set to music via my personal blog:

Psalms 19: God as revealed in nature and Scripture

Psalms 23: 49 years of me, 26 years of music...

These are videos produced and comments given by myself, with links to the YouTube counterparts (with their more extensive comments) embedded in the blogs.

In these texts we not only have verbal parallelism (enabling the comparison, constrast, and synthesis of ideas), but different melodic themes (often variations of a theme and thus parallel themselves) that bring out the various levels of verbal meaning. Both Psalms make overall comparisons between some aspect of nature and some aspect of God's care for man.

As for the pinch-hit...I think we had quite a little row last time over whether this was "prose" or "poetry" or somewhere in between. (It may be my vague memory; don't trust it.) I haven't seen the rest of the responses yet, and I doubt if I'll have time, but I find "Vacation" likeable and interesting on this rerun. (It makes me wish I could take one myself right now.) Thanks for putting it up.

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