Right reporter. Right blog. Priceless.

Is anyone else as big a fan of the various NBC News blogs as I have become? They're all accessible at MSNBC.com, and sometimes they're just priceless.

When you can get skilled journalists -- and their talents as writers and storytellers -- away from formula journalism, away from policy wonkery, away from self-promoting blowhards and political hacks, well, sometimes humanity happens.

Here's part of a dispatch by Bill Dedman from the MSNBC On the Scene blog:

As the thousands drifted away from the candlelight vigil on the Virginia Tech drillfield Tuesday evening, a song rose from a circle of two dozen lights.

"O mothers, let’s go down. Come on down, don't you wanna go down? O mothers, let’s go down. Down in the river to pray..."

A woman in the circle, a generation older than the young men and women, said she had come up from western North Carolina to be with her son, a resident adviser in a dorm, an R.A. just like the first young man killed on Monday. She reached over to give him a hug as they sang on.

"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound..."

The group grew to 30, singing from the heart, tears on many cheeks. They all knew the same songs, the same harmonies.

"This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine..."

Was this an organized group, a church choir? No, she said, "just Christians."

CAN I MOVE to Blacksburg, Va., now?