M.Ted, now that I'm trying it on a different computer, your links work for me. Thanks.

And thanks for the story, Genie.

I've mentioned my parents' hymnsings a number of times - at one point my father made a recording of himself singing the songs that they did most often at these hymnsings - I don't remember exactly what the purpose of this tape was at the time. But the use that we eventually found for it was when my father was dying himself - we put the tape on a lot in the hospital where he was in a coma, though of course I did the singing when I was there. Rather fitting, I thought. As a matter of fact my father went out to lead a hymnsing on the last day that he was conscious; I've learned a thing or two from him about the power of music as gift and ministry.

Love, Marion