Walking. Stretching.
Albuquerque.
Remembering the Dakota men executed one hundred sixty years ago this day.
St. Stephen’s Day.
King Wenceslas.
Treaties – Frank Waln
Intertribal Song – Dakota Nation & Red Bull United Tribes International
Standing Alone – Buddy Red Bow
Reflections of Paha Sapa – Bryan Akipa
The Moon Is Shining – Indigenous
Round Dance – Dakota Nation & Red Bull United Tribes International
Peyote Healing – Robbie Robertson
Thunder Horse – Kevin Locke
Lakota Forever – Brule
Many and Great (Dakota) – Jon Sarta (this was sung by the men to be executed as they were taken to the gallows)
Good King Wenceslas / Rakes Of Mallow – The Boys of County Bucks
Good King Wenceslas – The Roches
The Wren in the Furze – The Chieftains
St. Stephen’s Day Murders – Elvis Costello
Monthly Archives: December 2023
26 December 2023
Filed under Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
25 December 2023
Walk. Albuquerque.
Snow on the Sandias.
Canticle of the Turning – Princeton Seminary Choir
Happy Christmas – Angelique Kidjo
Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn
Christmas in the Trenches – John McCutcheon
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
The Bushes of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains & Jackson Browne
We Are Christmas – Spelman Glee Club
Away in a Manger – The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. George Clinton & Robert Randolph
We Wait for You – The Many
Mary’s Boy Child – Harry Belafonte
The First Noel – R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton
It Came upon the Midnight Clear – Mahalia Jackson
Silent Night – Aretha Franklin
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Dolly Parton
Filed under Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
24 December 2023 – The Christmas Truce
No focused exercise.
The 1914 Christmas Truce.
Snoopy’s Christmas – The Royal Guardsmen
Christmas Truce – Sabaton
Pipes of Peace – Paul McCartney
1914, the Carol of Christmas – Military Voices & Abby Scott, feat. Flt Lt Matt Little, the RAF Spitfire Choir & William Inscoe
Let the Truce Be Known – Orphaned Land
Christmas 1914 – John McDermott
It Could Happen Again – Colin Raye
All Together Now – The Farm
Christmas True of 1914 – Joyce Cooling
The Christmas True – Carol Dowgiallo & Bob Dowgiallo
Ode to the Christmas Truce of 1914 – Marshall Hattersley
Christmas Truce – Fenya
The Christmas Truce – Gloucester Cathedral Choir, Adrian Partington, Jonathan Hope, Sacha Fullerton, Jack Parry, Deryck Webb & Nicholas Perfect
Christmas in the Trenches – John McCutcheon
Silent Night/Stille Nacht – John McCutcheon
Filed under Music, New Mexico, playlist
24 December 2023
No real exercise.
Cooked and lit luminaries in Albuquerque.
Snow on the Sandias.
Holy Night/Rise Up Shepherd – Jersey Boys Ensemble
For Unto Us a Child Is Born – Core Cotton, Jamecia Bennett, James Wright, Carrie Harrington, Pat Lacy & Sounds of Blackness
Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
The Bushes of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains and Jackson Browne
Uncle Carl – Aaron Lacombe
Canticle of the Turning – Rory Cooney, Gary Daigle & Theresa Donohoo
Midnight Christmas Eve -Trans-Siberian Orchestra
O Holy Night – Indigo Girls
Away in a Manger – Jack Gladstone
Sweet Little Jesus – Natalie Cole
The Huron Carole – Tom Jackson
Noisey Night – david m. bailey
Silent Night – Christine Anu
Christmas Eve – Robert Mirabel
Silent Night – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Filed under Family, Music, New Mexico, playlist
A thought for Christmas Eve
Written a couple years ago, this remains relevant and may even be more so than ever.
It comes this night.
Faintly,
ever so faintly,
it comes.
Above the roar
of anger and hatred,
Above the howl
of prejudice and bigotry,
Above the oppressive maelstrom
of systems and structures,
Above the crash
of violence and war,
Above the groan
of doubt and despair,
Above the dis-ease
of heartache and heartbreak
Above the tumult
of turmoil and trouble
Above the clamor
of struggle and strife.
Above it all,
despite it all
because of it all,
it comes this night.
Faintly,
ever so faintly,
it comes.
This night
and all nights,
It comes.
Thank God, it comes.
23 December 2023
Inside walk.
We Are Christmas – Spelman Glee Club
God Rest Ye, Merry Jazzmen – Bill Carter and The Presbybop Quartet
Variations on Pachelbel’s Canon – Ed Gerhard
We Three Kings – The Rhos Orpheus Male choir
O Holy Night – Darlene Silversmith
A Star in the East – Harry Belafonte
Silent Night – Rod Stewart
The First Noel – Tracy Scott Silverman & Thea Suits-Silverman
Where Is the Light – Peter Mayer
In This World – The Many
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – Karla Bonoff
Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn
The Bushes of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
Trepak from “The Nutcracker” – Modern Mandolin Quartet
Filed under Exercise, New Mexico
A prayer after a moment of joy
For almost two-year olds,
dressed in Minnie Pull-ups,
who greet your entrance
with shouts of delight,
a happy dance,
and a smile bigger
than the Grand Canyon,
I thank you God.
May everyone experience
such moments of joy.
Often.
Amen.
22 December 2023
Walk. Albuquerque.
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
I Believe in Father Christmas – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head – John McCutcheon
Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes – Bruce Cockburn
Angels We Have Heard on High – R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton
Ode to Joy to the World – The Piano Guys
Love, Love, Love – Clarence Fountain & The Blind Boys of Alabama
Angels W Have Heard on High – Pentatonix
The Story of Christmas – Peter Mayer
Patapan – Julie Andrews
Little Drummer Boy – Jonathan Maracle
Merry Christmas to You – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Christmas Morning – Bill Miller
Christ Child Lullaby – Rosemary Beland
Mistletoe and Wine – Cwmbach Male Choir
Away in a Manger – Ed Gerhard
Filed under Advent, Exercise, New Mexico, playlist
Along the Graybeard Trail 