Yesterday I was listening to a song by Ruth Hughes (now Ruth Hughes Finlay; see inset above) from her 1976 L.P. Awake North Wind, a song paraphrasing Psalm 104. I remember buying the album from her personally, showing up at the side door of her Scarborough home. She was a part of a charismatic group to which I then belonged; we were a tight-knit family so it wasn’t hard to find out where she lived. I remember in particular telling her that her voice sounded “anointed” (that’s how we talked back then). Being a modest person, she just stared and said nothing.