back on the job

Today I tackle the work piled up from nine days away. This past Sunday was just vacation, driving through the mountains, including the Blue Ridge Parkway out of the Great Smokey Mountains. The previous Sunday was an off campus working Sunday at the Hymn Society of America convention in Birmingham, Alabama. Everyday included singing in the Samford University chapel. Here's the chapel and the singing inside. Many attendees were top feeders of the hymn world--hymnal editors, writers, composers, scholars and other trend-setters. I met my classmate from my graudate studies in the early 1970s Ruth Duck who has has her name in nearly every hymnal published since the 1980s. Our blue hymnal has three of hers, including #419, Lead on, O Cloud of Presence.