Pacing. The Shire.
You and I – Crazy Horse
Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta – Van Morrison & The Chieftains
Teardrops – Spyro Gyra
Brave Heart – Luis Cachiguango
Deep River – Paul Robeson
Farewell My Love and Remember Me – Eileen Ivers
Got to Get Up – Gary Clark, Jr.
Run Shaker Life/Do You Feel Good – Richie Havens
Je T’Adore – Bob Franke
I Am Her – Shea Diamond
Jolly Roger – Roger McGuinn
Oh Freedom – Mary D Williams
Oozora De Dakishimete – Hikaru Utada
Quelqu’un M’a Dit – Darla Bruni
Carolina in My Mind – James Taylor
Send in the Clowns – A Little Night Music (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)
Monthly Archives: May 2020
15 May 2020, part II
15 May 2020, part I
Stretching. NK Body Philosophy. The Shire.
Yalli El Qumar – Mohammed Assaf
Wanabni – Kamulya Jubran
The Sun of Love – Rim Banna
Song for Palestine – Nora Roman & The Border Busters
Sans Addresse – Ramzi Aburedwan
Passport – Marcel Khalife
Dignity – El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
Daughter of the Desert – Rim Banna, feat. Bugge Wesseltoft & Checkpoint 303
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Music, New York, playlist
14 May 2020
Pacing. Stretching. The Shire.
High Flyin Bird – Richie Havens
Gembi – Ramatou Diakite
Silgugu Isiphambano – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ghost – Indigo Girls
Carnival – Natalie Merchant
Jesus to a Child – George Michael
Get Me Bodied – Beyonce
I Hear a Symphony – Diana Ross & The Supremes
Full Circle – Loreena McKennitt
Vivir Sin Aire – El Sueno del Inka
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry – Bob Dylan
Midnite Cruiser – Steely Dan
Island Paddy – Lunasa
The Farmer and the Cowman – Oklahoma (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)
13 May 2020
Pacing. Stretching. The Shire.
All songs by Stevie Wonder.
Happy Birthday
My Cherie Amour
Have a Talk with God
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Superstition
You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Ordinary Pain
Higher Ground
Living for the City
I Just Called to Say I Love You
As
Sir Duke
Pastime Paradise
Isn’t She Lovely
Blowin’ in the Wind
For Once in My Life
Shelter in the Rain
Rainbow High – Evita (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)
12 May 2020
Pacing. Stretching. The Shire.
The Look of Love – Isaac Hayes
I’ll Be Around – Howlin’ Wolf
Mourne Maggie – The Sands Family
Make We Cry – Unchained XL
Zero G – Eileen Ivers
The Dalai Lama’s Candle – Eric Bogle
Star of the County Down – The Pogues
Eschucha Me – Gipsy Kings
Way of the World – Genesis
Go to Sleep – Ranky Tanky
The Girl with the Weight of the World in Her Hands – Indigo Girls
Fountain of Sorrow – Jackson Browne
Unforgettable – Roberta Flack
Good Hearted Woman – Willie Nelson
Dancing Feathers – Brule
Rose’s Turn – Gypsy (Playbill 30-Day Song Playlist – thanks Sean)
11 May 2020
Pacing. Stretching. The Shire.
Rashaida Dance – Indigenous Rashaida People
Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen
Better Together – Jack Johnson
Feels Like Fire – Santana
Hurt – Johnny Cash
Black Spasmodic – A Tribe Called Quest
There Goes My Baby – The Drifters
Ex-Factor – Lauryn Hill
500 Drums – Charles Jefferson, Cynthia Jefferson & Mel Adams
Maria Christina – Los Lobos
My World Is Empty without You Babe – Diana Ross & The Supremes
Eleanor Rigby – Aretha Franklin
Not Looking – Mary J. Blige
Not to Blame – Joni Mitchell
Just You Wait – My Fair Lady (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)
10 May 2020
Posted a day late.
The first portion is the second half of the Love & Hope in the Age of COVID-19 playlist by Ester Sihite. Sean provided the song for the Playbill 30-Song Challenge. There are tributes to Little Richard and Betty Wright.
Pacing. The Shire.
Bold as Love – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
I’ll Follow the Sun – The Beatles
My Love Is Your Love – Whitney Houston
Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Holy – Jamila Woods
All These Things That I’ve Done – The Killers
Flashed Junk Mind – Milky Chance
Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae
FourFiveSeconds – Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney
Lovely Day – Bill Withers
Calling All Angels – Train
Cecilia and the Satellite – Andrew McMahon
May This Be Love – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
I Know Him So Well – Chess (Playbill 30-day Challenge, thanks Sean)
Rock Island Line – Little Richard with Fishbone
Little Richard
Lucille
The Girl Can’t Help It
Tutti Frutti
Send Me Some Lovin’
Long Tall Sally
Get Down with It
True Fine Mama
Jenny, Jenny
Good Golly, Miss Molly
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
Anyway You Want Me
You Gotta Feel It
Betty Wright
Clean Up Woman
Tonight Is the Night
Where Is the Love
A Prayer in the Age of COVID-19
Thanks to the Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb for this prayer.
“O child of Bethlehem, Emmanuel, God with us, who in your eternal wisdom chose to incarnate in Bethlehem, Palestine, to take on our flesh, fragility, and vulnerability, we thank you for being near us wherever we are today.”
Heavenly Father, our creator, who breathed into us the breath of life, we ask you to give us the needed strength to continue our journey even when we feel a shortness in breath, fatigue, and suffocation under stifling pressures. Teach us the art of breathing, especially when we feel that the marathon is too long and the path too thorny. Help us to see your thoughts and plans for us.
O child of Bethlehem, Emmanuel, God with us, who in your eternal wisdom chose to incarnate in Bethlehem, Palestine, to take on our flesh, fragility, and vulnerability, we thank you for being near us wherever we are today. We thank you for being our healer, who went throughout Palestine healing the sick and lifting up those left behind. We thank you for all the healers of today, the doctors, nurses and caregivers who are working tirelessly risking their lives so…
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Filed under Current Events, Friends, Human Rights, Prayer
Purple flowers, Morningside Gardens #59

9 May 2020
There is a construction project underway.
These flowers are not in quarantine.
