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When I pray the Canticle of Mary, this is kind of how my brain parses is.
But, every time I pray it, I go through this parsing. 😅
So, I'm messing around with this structured and pre-parsed version.
I love the implicit structure in it that is revealed if you align things.

I you have variations on this, please share them.

I included an image of it in case the alignment doesn't display properly in text.
The text is also shown below.

Canticle of Mary


My soul     proclaims   the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit   rejoices    in God my Savior
for he      has looked with favor on   his lowly servant.


From this day   all generations   will call me blessed:
                the Almighty      has done   great things   for me,
          and   holy is his Name.


    He   has mercy       on those who fear him
                         in every generation.


    He   has shown       the strength   of   his   arm,
    he   has scattered   the proud      in   their conceit.
    
    He   has cast   down the mighty     from their thrones,
    and  has lifted up   the lowly.


    He   has filled      the hungry   with good things,
and he   has sent away   the rich     empty.


    He   has come        to the help of his servant Israel
for he   has remembered  his promise of mercy,


the promise he made
   to our fathers,
   to Abraham
   and his children
   for ever.

Hey y'all 🙋‍♂️

I've been messing around with a way to render sentence diagrams in the Visual Studio Code editor.

In a markdown file, I'll have something like this:

sentence "Then Jesus went with His disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and He told them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”" {
  clause {
    subject "Jesus"
    predicate "went" {
      modifier "Then"
      prep "with" {
        object "disciples" { modifier "His" }
      }
      prep "to" {
        object "place" {
          modifier "a"
          participle "called" { object "Gethsemane" }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  join "and"

  clause {
    subject "He"
    predicate "told" {
      indirectObject "them"
      quotation {
        clause {
          subject implicit "you"
          predicate "Sit" {
            modifier "here"
            adverbClause "while" {
              subject "I"
              predicates "and" {
                predicate "go" { modifier "over there" }
                predicate "pray"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

And then in a preview window the diagram is rendered.

I'd post a screenshot here but images aren't allowed in this subreddit.

The vscode extension source code is free on github.

My grandmother Mary has had hospice care for about nine months.

For about six months, she’s had a caretaker named Beatriz.

My mother Lenny (Mary’s daughter) hired Beatriz.

Beatriz would cook all of Mary’s meals, and take care of whatever Mary needed.

Mary couldn’t walk or talk. She’d say a word here or there.

Mary grew extremely attached to Beatriz.

When Beatriz would show up, Mary’s face would light up.

Mary was so happy when Beatriz was there with her.

Whenever Beatriz would leave the room, Mary would frown.

She’d make a face expressing something like

“Hey, where are you going? Are you coming back?”

And Beatriz would always reassure her,

“Yes, I’ll be right back. I’m just getting you some food.”

(or going to the restroom or whatever).

At some point, Beatriz was at her own home so grandma slept alone that night.

The next morning, Lenny went to check on Mary when she woke up and found that Mary had passed.

So that day Beatriz came over to be with Lenny. Mary’s body was taken away that day.

For logistical reasons, it made sense for Beatriz to spend the night that night even though Mary was gone.

So, that night Beatriz slept in the house.

Lenny sleeps in her own apartment that’s on the property.

So, Beatriz was alone in the house.

What I’m explaining next is not second hand or hearsay.

This is what Beatriz explained to me when I spoke to her on the phone.

Beatriz said she woke up at around 3 AM.

She was scared because she felt the presence of someone in the room.

She heard someone breathing and she said she could feel like someone was breathing on her.

Panicked, she tried to get up. But, she couldn’t.

She said it felt like someone was holding her down. Like she felt someone’s arms wrapped around her, almost like a hug. And it was heavy and she couldn’t move.

So, she just laid there.

For three hours, she just laid there while this force held her.

Eventually she fell back asleep out of exhaustion and resignation.

Lenny knew something was wrong because Beatriz always wakes up at a certain time.

But she wasn’t responding to texts that morning.

So when she finally responded Lenny went down to the house and Beatriz told her what had happened.

I asked Beatriz, “what do you think that was”?

Beatriz said she feels it was Mary.

Maybe saying “I’m not ready to let you go yet. Thank you for everything. Stay with me a little longer.”

I've been experimenting with another way of praying the LOTH.

I used to read the Psalms at a normal reading pace.

However, I found that I get so much more out of the experience if after each line I:

• pause
• close my eyes
• take a breath
• reflect
• let imagery build in my mind

When reading the psalms at a normal reading pace,
it feels like the words just wash over me.
And that can be nice too!
But I also sometimes feel like I'm not getting as much as I could out of it.

The Psalms are so dense and heavy emotionally.
It feels natural that extracting the meaning would take a little more time.

I admit, at 2 hours, today's session was extreme.
It doesn't always take that long.

I guess this style of praying them is something like "Lectio Divina Lite".

Perhaps if you pray a certain Psalm slowly many times,
you'll get better at "extracting the nectar"
and thus can do so at a faster pace.

I admit also that this style of praying is unlikely to work in most group settings. 😅

Anyway,
I heard someone say on here the other day that
they felt like they weren't getting much out of praying the LOTH.
So, my suggestion is to do the above.
Pause and reflect after each line.
Even if all you do is get through one Psalm for the whole day.

Everyone's "slow" pace is different.
Someone may very well read at a pace I would consider fast
and yet get just as much out of it as I would at a much slower pace.
My "slow" is, Morning Prayer at around 1 hour.

In my defense, it's called
the Liturgy of the Hours.
Not Lilturgy of the Minutes.
😉

King Jesus, save us from the fires of hell.

This is an experimental language prototype.

It doesn't even have strings yet!

But there's enough there to simulate a flock of three boids:

https://github.com/dharmatech/2026-09-02-aloe-racket/blob/main/examples/boids.aloe

Currently weighs in at around 2000 lines of Racket.

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And yes, it's implemented in Chez Scheme

Directions:

https://github.com/dharmatech/get9/blob/main/docs/from-zero-to-legmacs.md

https://github.com/nooga

https://github.com/nooga/let-go

https://github.com/dharmatech/vt-alt

https://github.com/nooga/legmacs

https://github.com/nooga/let-go

https://github.com/dharmatech/drawterm

https://github.com/dharmatech/p9qemu

legmacs : an emacs-like editor implemented in let-go

let-go : a clojure dialect implemented in go. Supported on plan9.

Hey y'all 🙋‍♂️

Here's a fork of 9front drawterm:

https://github.com/dharmatech/drawterm

Why this fork?

Two reasons:

• Builds on Windows using Microsoft Visual C via NMakefile.msvc

• I.e. no longer need MinGW/cygwin

• Supports no-GUI command execution with -G -c <cmd>

Unless you need -G -c <cmd> support, you should likely stick with 9front drawterm.