Wouldn't that be the life? To be a parson the way Herbert was?

upasaka once worked for a Lutheran church that maintained their original building as a historic site. No heat, no artificial light, and a hand-pumped small pipe organ. (No loo, either, I think.) I have a photo somewhere of my stepdaughter at the age of about ten, leaning on the bellows during a concert we gave there. She did a fine job as the blower.