Thought For The Day

I have a book of Meditations by Thomas Moore, one of my favorite authors. I sometimes use it for bibliomancy. Bibliomancy is the use of books in divination. This is what I got today:

Sometimes in their chanting monks will land upon a note and sing it in a florid fashion, one syllable of text for fifty notes of chant. Melisma, they call it.
Living a melismatic life in imitation of plainchant, we may stop on an experience, a place, a person, or a memory and rhapsodize in imagination. Some like to meditate or contemplate melismatically, while others prefer to draw, build, paint, or dance whatever their eye has fallen upon.
Living one point after another is one form of experience, and it can be emphatically productive. But stopping for melisma gives the soul its reason for being.