"The pitch is pitched, received or not the singers begin.
So life as pitch, received or not begins."
-Tom Flynn

(A piece of writing called "Christmas Eve", from a family book his wife made. He is 90, and had an amazing career as music minister, organist, bell-ringer expert. He told me he was only on Mister Rogers once, but his teen bell-ringers came back for 4 more episodes.)