4% Pantomime – The Band
The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, The Eskimo) – Bob Dylan
Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler
Pancho & Lefty – Emmylou Harris
Piano Roll – Eddie Bo
Without You – Christine Anu & Greg Gould
Deep Blue Dream – Yola
Land Of 1000 Dances – Wilson Pickett
Chug All Night – The Eagles
Amazing Grace – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Hymn (To Her Love) – Clannad
Night of the Living Baseheads – Public Enemy
Damaged – TLC
Soldier’s Things – Tom Waits
Meet Me Half Way – Howard Shore
12 April 2026
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, playlist
11 April 2026
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
Wosoubour – Vieux Farka Touré
Black Smoke – Emily Wurramara
Keep Me Here – Yola
I Didn’t Want To Do It – The Spiders
Basin Street Blues – Dr. John
Beneath Still Waters – Emmylou Harris H
Pili Mi Ka’i Manu – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
The Chieftains Reunion -3 The Chieftains
Don’t Give Up – Willie Nelson & Sinéad O’Connor
Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
The Old Dog’s Song – Eric Bogle
I Am Harvey Milk: Lavender Pen -Andrew Lippa, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, Bay Area Rainbow Symphony & Tim Seelig
Cubano Bayou – BeauSoleil
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, playlist
10 April 2026
Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood.
Flying – The Beatles
Loloye – Angélique Kidjo
Manic Depression – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Bakit Labis Kitang Mahal – Lea Salonga
Forget About the Boy – Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Thoroughly Modern Millie Ensemble
We Are the Halluci Nation = A Tribe Called Red, feat. John Trudell & Northern Voice
Nomalanga – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir, feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo
ANIMAL CROSSING – Shawn Wasabi & Sophia Black
For All You Do – Raffi & Lindsay Munroe For All You Do, feat. Yo-Yo Ma
Little Lamb – Gypsy
The Old Palmer’s Song – Seona McDowell
Treat Me Like Your Money – Macy Gray
Dark As The Dungeon – Johnny Cash
Way Over Yonder In the Minor Key – Billy Bragg & Wilco
Is This What Feeling Gets – Diana Ross The Wiz: Original Soundtrack
It Ain’t Me Babe – Bob Dylan
You Know I Love You – B.B. King
Glamdring – Howard Shore
Filed under Music, Exercise, playlist, Albuquerque
9 April 2026
Walking, North Domingo Baca Park.
Anniversary of Marian Anderson concert at Lincoln Memorial in 1939.
Paul Robeson birthday.
The first two songs are by Marian Anderson. I need to get more.
The remaining songs are by Paul Robeson.
My Lord, What a Morning
Stille Tränen, Op. 32, No. 10 4:48
Shenandoah
Deep River
Go Down, Moses
On My Journey
Water Boy
The Minstrel Boy
Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Loch Lomond
Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
Get on Board Little Children
Scandalize My Name
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Eriskay Love Lilt
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Mexican Lullaby
All Through the Night
Jerusalem
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
The Four Rivers
John Browns Body
Balm in Gilead
Chassidic Chant
From Border to Border
Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don
The Lord God of Abraham, from Elijah, Op. 70
The Purest Kind of Guy
Joe Hill
The Peat-Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten – song from a German concentration camp)
The Four Insurgent Generals
Native Land
Song of the Plains
Cradle Song
Within Four Walls
By an’ By
John Henry
Water Boy
My Curly Headed Baby
Mah Lindy Lou
Wagon Wheels
I Still Suits Me from Showboat
Sylvia
Ol’ Man River from Showboat
It Ain’t Necessarily So
Filed under Music, Antiracism, Exercise, playlist, Albuquerque
8 April 2026
Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood.
Brain Damage – Mary Fahl
Too Many Hands – Eagles
At Last – Eva Cassidy
Netukulimk – Morgan Toney
Happy to Be On the Planet – Deidre McCall
Ye Banks and Braes – The Cast Putumayo Kids
Death by Triple Fiddle – Edgar Meyer, Joshua Bell, Sam Bush & Mike Marshall
Susan Falls Apart – Black 47
Black Lives Matter – Nobuko Miyamoto, feat. Gerald Albright
Tine Lasta – Kíla
Gather by the River – Davell Crawford
American Made – Nobuko Miyamoto
Whisper – Marcus King
Underneath the Harlem Moon – Rhiannon Giddens
Filed under Music, Exercise, playlist, Albuquerque
Pray for peace
I apologize for the lateness of this.
My friend, and former colleague, the Rev. Greg Allen Pickett posted on Facebook that he will be praying for peace tonight at 7pm Central Time at a park in Hastings, NE where he serves as a pastor. Greg noted that, “Anyone is welcome to join me.”
I can’t make it to Hastings but I can pray in Albuquerque at 6:00pm Mountain Time.
I invite you to join Greg and me if you are so inclined at 8:00pm Eastern Time or the equivalent time where you are. If you see this after that time and you are so inclined, you are invited to say a prayer or two or ten whenever you are able and wherever you are. Unity in prayer transcends all space and time.
Thank you, Greg, for this idea and for providingthis prayer to use.
Gracious and merciful God,
You are the source of all peace, the One who brings order out of chaos, light out of darkness, and hope out of despair. We come before you today with heavy hearts, lifting up the people of Iran and all who live in regions marked by tension, uncertainty, and fear.
God of every nation and every people, we pray for those whose daily lives are shaped by instability: families longing for safety, children yearning for a future free from violence, communities seeking dignity and justice. Surround them with your protection. Strengthen their spirits. Let your peace take root even in the most fragile places.
We also pray for leaders around the world whose words and actions carry great weight. In a time when messages can travel instantly and inflame quickly, grant wisdom, restraint, and humility. Soften hearts where there is anger. Temper speech where there is division. Guide all leaders to seek not power or posturing, but the well-being of all people and the preservation of peace.
Holy Spirit, move among us. Move across borders, across ideologies, across every line that divides. Where there is misunderstanding, bring clarity. Where there is fear, bring courage. Where there is hostility, plant seeds of reconciliation.
Make us instruments of your peace in our own lives as well: quick to listen, slow to speak, and always grounded in love. Remind us that every person, in Iran and beyond, is created in your image and held in your care.
We long for the day when swords are beaten into plowshares, when nations learn war no more, and when your peace reigns in every corner of creation.
Until that day, O God, hold us fast in your grace.
In the name of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, we pray.
Amen.
Filed under Current Events, Friends, Prayer
7 April 2026
Billie Holiday Birthday.
Rwandan Genocide Anniversary.
Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
God Bless The Child – Billie Holiday
Tutsi hutu – Michèle Bernard
Papaoutai – Stromae
Rwanda Rwiza (Beautiful Rwanda) – Jean Paul Samputu
Mana Wari Uri He? (God, Where Were You?) – Jean Paul Samputu
Nyirigira – The Chorale de Kigali & The Voices of Kicukiro
Dufite Imana Ikomeye Cyane – The Chorale de Kigali & The Voices of Kicukiro
Wari Mw’isi – The Chorale de Kigali & The Voices of Kicukiro
Mama Ararira – Afro Celt Sound System & Dorothee Munyaneza
Million Voices – Wyclef Jean
Umqombothi -Yvonne Chaka
Whispered Song – Burundi:
Ne Me Laisse Pas Seule Ici – Tilly Key
Mwari Sigaramahoro – Isonga
Olugendo Lw’e Bulaya – Bernard Kabanda Ssalongo
Children Found – Andrea Guerra
Icyibo – Dorothee Munyanez
Hell’s Gate – Dario Marianelli
Empty Roads – Dario Marianelli
Machetes – Dario Marianelli
Is God Here – Dario Marianelli
Last Offering – Dario Marianelli
The Radio Won’t Stop – Dario Marianelli
Speechless – Dario Marianelli
No Way Out – Dario Marianelli Beyond the Gates
How Do You Call This? – Dario Marianelli
Remember Us – Dario Marianelli
We Turned Our Backs – Dario Marianelli
Filed under Music, Antiracism, playlist, Albuquerque
Purple flowers, Albuquerque 38
North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
6 April 2026
Filed under Albuquerque, Photo
3 April 2026
Two Prophetic & Haunting New Zealand Songs Played Live on Ukulele – Amanda Palmer
Audio Delite At Low Fidelity – The Black Eyed Peas
Heart Becomes the Weight – John Cruz
Dreamcatcher -Morgan Toney
The Flume – Si Kahn
Home Free – David Crosby
A Hawk Flies Above the Grand Canyon – Jessita Reyes
A Thousand Winds – Lim Hyung-joo
Already Great – Neil Young & Promise of the Real
Marking Time – Eric Bogle & John Munro
Ghost Dance – AIRO, featuring Brule’
Yearnin’ Learnin’ – Earth, Wind & Fire
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, playlist
1 April 2026
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
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Music, playlist
Along the Graybeard Trail 