Melody's Blog

In an earlier blog post, I distinguished between my "official" editing and the editing I do out of love for my family and I've been incredibly busy (for me) with official editing. The third Paul Bechtold Library open access monograph was just published and you can read it—for free as an open access book or purchase a print on demand copy on Amazon for $14.99. The title is  Reconciling Cultures and Generations: Reflections on Today's Church by Korean American Catholics , edited by Simon Kim and Francis Daeshin Kim, copyedited (maybe really a bit more than copyedited!) by me. I'm incredibly proud of how terrific this book has turned out to be, especially with such a lovely cover created by Francis Daeshin Kim with photos from Kevin Considine who I know a bit! I've started on the next bit of editing, a collection of 14 or so essays on Contextual Theology by faculty from the theology school at Santa Clara University. They are basically riffing off a book...

I’m torn about what to write about in my second installment about “heaven songs.” On the one hand, it would be a good time to rant about song lyrics as powerpoint projected high above one at the front of the church vs. the time-honored way of learning to sing by opening a hymn book to the same page as everyone else and choosing a part (soprano, alto, tenor, bass?) and going at it! (This is because I attended church last Sunday with such projections which I find distracting and annoying.) I haven’t decided whether to rant yet or go with my huge excitement at finding a treasure trove this past week. I think I’ll go with that—I was listening to some English folk music (my choice for listening almost always these days) and had on some Eliza Carthy and got to wondering about more of her music. Maeve, now steeped in the English stuff since she has lived there almost 10 (amazing) years, had recommended her to me some time ago, but I listened to her instrumental music back then and reall...