Lucy gives a purple flower to Gimli
Albuquerque, New Mexico
photo by Essie Koenig-Reinke
18 March 2024
Monthly Archives: March 2024
Purple flower, guest collection #238
17 March 2024
I’ll Walking. Gym in the Apartment. Louisville Waterfront Park.
Hand weights. Gym in the Apartment.
Soldier’s Song – The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
God Save Ireland – Barleycorn
Easter Rebellion – Sinead O’Connor
James Connolly – James McEvoy
he Minstrel Boy – James Galway
Whiskey in the Jar – Thin Lizzy
Women of Ireland – The Wolfe Tones
Long Journey Home – The Chieftains with Elvis Costello
4 Green Fields – The Dublin City Ramblers
Song for Ireland – The Irish Tenors
A Nation Once Again – Paddy Reilly
Roger Casement – Eugene McEldowney
The Big Fellah – Black 47
There Were Roses – Tommy Sands
My Land – Celtic Woman
I’ll Walk Beside You – Cherish the Ladies
Wind That Shakes the Barley – The Chieftains
Bobby Sands – Claymore
O’Donnell’s Lament – Eileen Ivers
Only Our Rivers Run Free – The Molly Maguires
Back Home in Derry – Christie Moore
The Galway Girl – Steve Earle
The Rocky Road to Dublin – Cruachan
Ellis Island – Mary Black
On Raglan Road – The Dubliners
On Grafton Street – Frances Black
Hills of Connemara – Gaelic Storm
Against the Wind – Maire Brennan
The Boys of the Old Brigade – Paddy McGuigan
Peace on Earth – U2
Amhrainn Na Bfhiann – Pearse
Filed under Exercise, Ireland, Louisville, Music, playlist
St. Patrick’s Day 2024
My annual St. Patrick’s day statement seems more appropriate this year than ever.
I speak for no others,
only for myself.
For me, this day has
nothing to do with
green beer or
green rivers or
green clothing or
green anything,
this day has nothing to do with
pinching me or kissing me;
my bad jokes aside,
this day has nothing to do even with Jameson.
Today is a day
to remember oppression
to honor resistance
to recognize that, despite the efforts of
systems of race and racialization
to separate us,
struggles for dignity and justice,
freedom and equality,
human rights and humanity
are inseparably linked:
none of us are free until all of us are free.
for that reason, in that spirit, and in my own fashion,
I mark this day, and each 17th of March.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
Fitzgerald on my mother’s side
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, Ireland
16 March 2024
Walking. Germantown and Schnitzelburg.
My Lai Massacre day.
Song for Hugh Thompson – David Rovics
For Hugh Thompson Who Stood His Ground – The Oaks
Pinkville Helicopter – Thom Parrott
Mỹ Lai, opera composed by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto)
Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ
Lullaby
First Landing: Flight
First Landing: Descent
First Landing: The Ditch
Second Landing: Hovering
Second Landing: Bunker
Third Landing: Postcard
Third Landing: Fishing
Filed under Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
15 March 2024
Walking inside. Gym in the Apartment.
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
The Blue Hour: No 11, Firmament – Shara Nova & A Far Cry
Ngerraberrakernama – Emily Wurramara
Academia – Sia
The Queen Of Connemara Carraroe Jig The Lilting Fisherman – Cherish the Ladies
Eleanor Rigby – Aretha Franklin
Pancho & Lefty – Emmylou Harris
I Understand – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Đời Gọi Em Biết Bao Lần – Hồng Nhung
Farewell My Love – Eileen Ivers
I Live Not Where I Love – Mary Black
xoxo moongirl – Mel Hsu
Rock in This Pocket – Suzanne Vega
Siempre Te Amare – Lucha Reyes
Storm – Annie Humphreys
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
14 March 2024
Fannie Lou Hamer Birthday. Pi Day.
All songs by Fannie Lou Hamer unless otherwise noted.
Precious Lord
On Being a Sharecropper
Run Mourner, Run
City Called Heaven
All the Pretty Little Horses
I’m Gonna Land on the Shore
Oh Lord, You Know Just How I Feel
I’m Going Down to the River
Jesus Is My Only Friend
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
Walk with Me
This Little Light of Mine
Mass Meeting Speech
Certainly Lord
Woke up This Morning
American Pie – Shea Diamond
Blueberry Pie – Bette Midler
Narcissa Cutie Pie – Joi
Sweetest Pie – Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa
Filed under Antiracism, Louisville, Music, playlist
Purple flowers guest collection #237
13 March 2024
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Lucy Koenig-Reinke
Filed under Family, New Mexico, Photo
13 March 2024
Walking. Germantown and Schnitzelburg. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Going Home – Mary Fahl
Water Is Life – Wanita Bird
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
I Know Where I’m Going – Queen Latifah
High Road – Tennis
Out of the Blue – Yumi Matsutoya
The Road’s My Middle Name – Bonnie Raitt
Bring It On – Teagan Littlechief
Stay Soft – Mitski
Boing – Jessi
Fantasy End – Carole King
Pumping – Patti Smith Group
Theme from “Mahogany” – Diana Ross
Tip Toe Home/Paddy Kelly’s – Cherish the Ladies
The Other Side – Sweet Honey in the Rock
So Close, So Near – Ruby Hunter
Nobody Lives Without Love – Mary Black
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
11 March 2024
Walking. Germantown/Schnitzelburg.
Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Gidde Wich – Shazia Manzoor
Bully Bully – Holly Near
Ojibwe Love Charm Song – Georgia Wettlin-Larsen
Ready to Run – The Chicks
Taking Our Freedom – Irina Rivkin
Where You Lead – Carole King
Nothing But a Heartache – The Flirtations
Dante’s Prayer – Loreena McKennitt
The Blue Hour: No. 40, 3rd Refrain – Shara Nova & A Far Cry
Find Me – Joi
The Connection – Emmylou Harris
I’m Going Down to the River of Jordan – Fannie Lou Hamer
It Don’t Mean a Thing – Eva Cassidy
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – Eartha Ktt
Favorite Flavor – Indigo Girls
Interlude – Hikaru Utada
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
10 March 2024
Walking. Louisville Waterfront Park. Germantown/Schnitzelburg.
Harriet Tubman date of death; an unknown day in March is considered by many to be her date of birth.
Swing Low. Sweet Chariot – Joan Baez
The Ballad of Harriet Tubman – Magpie
Go Down, Moses – Mavis Staples
Harriet Tubman – Holy Near
Harriet Tubman – Kim & Reggie Harris
Stand Up – Cynthia Erivo
Freedom Highway – Rhiannon Giddens
Oh Freedom – Mary D. Williams
Wade in the Water – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Woke up This Morning – Fannie Lou Hamer
Gospel Train – The Gospel Harmonettes
Follow the Drinking Gourd – The Sey Sisters
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Along the Graybeard Trail 