I got a little carried away this morning and wrote a bulletin article for next Sunday.  I think Mondays are going to be a sort of work day, at least a half day of work.

I checked the background on Sunday’s hymns and discovered that J. R. Watson spends a couple pages of his book, The English Hymn, on our Sequence hymn for Sunday: “Blest are the pure in heart.” After doing some reading, I ended up reducing what I found out to a reasonable Music note.

I’m writing in the afternoon and Eileen is still not home yet. She texted me that she was in a clinic with her Mom and her sister, Nancy. They were hoping to get her Mom’s foot xrayed.

I spent the morning at church working. I am now planned through until Advent of this year. This not only means hymns and anthems but organ music as well.

I found my Scheidt volume 1 I was looking for.  These editions are amazing and have lots of information as well as all that music.

I watched the CBC special: Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song, a tribute concert. It was pretty amazing. So many of the songs they sang are songs I have loved and performed over the years. I felt pretty stupid sitting in my living room alone, weeping, watching the stupid thing, but that’s what I did.

I miss my wife.