Walking, Arroyo.
Pieces Of April – Three Dog Night
April Come She Will – Simon & Garfunkel
I’ll Remember April – Miles Davis
Snow in April – John McCutcheon
Sometimes It Snows In April – Prince
April – The Lumineers
April – Beach Bunny
April Blossoms – Rim Banna
april – eliza blue
April – Akira Kosemura
April – Rose Gray
April -Local Natives
Chain Of Fools – Aretha Franklin
Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
Everybody Plays the Fool – The Main Ingredient
Fool for the City – Foghat
Fool In the Rain – Led Zeppelin
1 April 2026
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31 March 2026 – International Transgender Day of Visibility
International Transgender Day of Visibility
Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
I’d Love to Change the World – Shea Diamond
iT – Christine and the Queens
Warrior Heart – Shawnee
Thorn In Your Side – namoli brennet
Body Was Made – Ezra Furman
Girls and Boys – Blur
King for a Day – Green Day
Androgynous – The Replacements
For Marsha P. Johnson – Bryce Dessner
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
We Exist – Arcade Fire
Eudaemonia – Them Are Us Too
What Is This Thing Called Love – Billy Tipton
Sometimes I Cry – Jason Kwan
Heartbreaker – Ah-Mer-Ah-Su
Girl In Blue – Animal Sun
Stand Up – Tom Morello, Shea Diamond & Dan Reynolds, feat. The Bloody Beetroots0
This Is Home – Cavetown
Forever in Sunset – Ezra Furman
To be honest – Christine and the Queens
Gospel For a New Century – Yves Tumor
Feel the Power – Glovibes, Luciana & Sasha Colby
Overthinking out Loud – Moore Kismet
want – Dua Saleh
Born 2 Live – Dreamer Isioma
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, playlist
27 March 2026
Remembering Buddy Monahan.
Boomer Sooner -The University of Oklahoma Marching Band
Revolution 5:38 Kirk Franklin & The Family
Rock And Roll All Nite – Kiss
Native Child – Thunder Bird Sisters
Running – Joy Harjo I
Some How – Nizhóní Girls
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
I Am Your Friend – Joanne Shenandoah
Earth And Sun – Sharon Burch
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
Native America – J25
Fight for the Rights – Kelly Fraser
Gentle Warrior- Kalolin Johnson
Heart Of A Hero – Shelley Morningsong
Golden Feather – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Filed under Albuquerque, Friends, Music, playlist
5 March 2026
Women’s History Month. Walking. North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center. Stretching. Strength work.
The Last Cord – Rim Banna feat. Bugge Wesseltoft & Checkpoint 303
Mr. Bojangles – Nina Simone
Something to Talk About – Bonnie Raitt
我很愉快 – Yanzi Sun
Tamatamatamali – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Back of My Mind H.E.R. feat. Ty Dolla $ign
The Angels – Melissa Etheridge
The Bonny Swans – Loreena McKennitt
Eclipse – Mary Fahl
In a Sentimental Mood – Pura Fé
Nothing – Qrion
Black as Crow – Rhiannon Giddens
A Quiet Place to Live – Carole King with Francesco Turrisi
Ebudae – Enya
He’s an Indian Cowboy in The Rodeo – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Northshore – Tegan & Sara
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Music, playlist
4 March 2026
Women’s History Month. Miriam Makeba’s birthday.
Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood. Stretching.
All songs by Miriam Makeba.
Mbube
Olilili
Suliram
The Retreat Song
The Click Song
Saduva
Iya Guduza
Lakutshn Ilanga
Umhome
Amampondo
Dubula
Dwedini
Pole Mze
Le Fleuve
Qhude
Mayibuye
Maduna
Kilimanjaro
Kwazulu (In The Land Of The Zulus
Nongqongqo (To Those We Love)
Khawuleza (Hurry Mama Hurry!)
Ndodemnyama Verwoerd (Beware Verwoerd!)
Masakhane 4:44
Amaliya
Pata Pata 2000
‘Cause We Live For Love
Liwawechi
Lindelani
Homeland
In Time
Africa Is Where My Heart Lies
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Exercise, Music, playlist
Purple flowers, Albuquerque – starting over – 01
Multiple trips, and one relocation, to Albuquerque have resulted in a mess of counting for purple flower photos. An attempt to start over seems more effective than an effort to reconcile existing efforts.
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
Albuquerque, New Mexico
4 March 2026
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A verse of a song
Where has all the money gone? Through hands passing.
Where has all the money gone? We want to know.
Where has all the money gone? Gone to grifters every bit.
When will we ever learn? When we will ever learn?
Filed under Current Events, Music, Poem
3 March 2026
Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood. Stretching. Stength.
Daybreak in Alabama – Audra McDonald
Never Be the Same – Camila Cabello
Let My Name Be Sorrow – Mary Hopkin
Rosie – Joan Armatrading
Soldier Blue – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Gentle Breeze – Eileen Ivers
Lite a Flame – Laura Nyro
The Morning Will Come – Jennifer Chung
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
DEAF (who are you) – Jessie Reyez
Shame On You – Indigo Girls
Love At The Five And Dime – Nanci Griffith
Space Monkey – Patti Smith Group
Eternal Flame – Susana Hoffs
It All Feels the Same – Tennis
Deep River – Odetta
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Music, playlist
A reflection and a rewritten hymn verse on a day when bombs fall and missiles fly
This happened today:
Family members, friends from St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Ghost Ranch, Rio Grande Food Project, the Presbytery of Santa Fe, and life its own self, gathered at St. Andrew to celebrate the life and faith and witness of the Rev. Carl Soderbergh today.
The streets around the church were parked full when I arrived, a few minutes late. I found a spot in the parking lot.
I stepped out of the car and, for no reason I could understand at the time, a hymn came to my mind. “Eternal Father, Strong to Save“. Those first words need some work, but the overall theme of God’s protection is profound. One of many themes appropriate for a memorial service.
The words played in my mind as long as I could remember them. When memory failed, I hummed the tune.
Alex greeted me and observed that the sanctuary was full and the service had started. He showed me to a seat in the narthex.
The first thing I heard was the pastor, son Eric, telling the congregation that a team from the Coast Guard would present honors in recognition of Carl’s service. Neither I nor the people sitting with me, knew that Carl had served. The hymn I “heard and hummed” on my way into church seemed appropriate for this particular memorial service.
The closing hymn? “Eternal Father, Strong to Save. Straining to see the screen where the words were projected, I mumbled and hummed along.
On my way home, the hymn remained an earworm. I quickly went to the computer and pulled up the lyrics
And I rewrote the hymn’s fourth verse into a prayer for Iran, Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Iraq, the United States, and any other countries affected by the madness of this armed conflict – which may be most of the countries of the world.
O Trinity of love and pow’r,
All people shield in danger’s hour;
From bomb and missile, death and woe,
Protect all where-soe’er they go;
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on land, in air, on sea.
Amen.
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Along the Graybeard Trail 