30 September is observed in Canada as The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and generational impact committed on First Nations peoples by the Canadian Indian residential school system. It has expanded in the United State as a day to remember the atrocities and generational impact inflicted by the U.S. boarding school system on Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of Australia had a similar experience.
Walking. Germantown. Schnitzelburg.
Lost Souls – Tom Jackson Lost Souls
Residential School Song (Indian Boarding School Song) – Cheryl Bear
Child of the Government – Jayli Wolf
BEFORE – A Tribe Called Red, feat. Joseph Boyden
Apatapasiq – Mike Bern
Battlefields – Twin Flames
Savage Mob – Snotty Nose Rez Kids, feat. Nooky & Birdz
open window – nêhiyawak
Took the Children Away – Archie Roach, Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky & Ruby Hunter (the Australian Indigenous experience)
Take Me Home – Indian City
Spirit Horses – Annie Humphrey
The Land of the Blind – Ira Provost
Why Us – N’we Jinan Artists
500 Years – Rhonda Head
Residential School – Jerry Alfred & The Medicine Beat
Cut My Hair – Digging Roots
Residential School – Chris Pierce
For Our Children – Bryan Akipa
Monthly Archives: September 2024
30 September 2024
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
29 September 2024
Remembering Kris Kristofferson.
All songs by Kristofferson unless otherwise indicated.
Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Highwayman – Highwaymen
Sister Sinead
Me And Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash
For the Good Times – Al Green
Help Me Make It Through the Night – Gladys Knight & The Pips
From the Bottle to the Bottom
Come Sundown
Darby’s Castle
The Sabre and the Rose
The Pilgrim, Chapter
Casey’s Last Ride – Kris Kristofferson & Willie Nelson
Desperados Waiting for a Train – Highwaymen
Against the Wind – Highwaymen
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
24 September 2024
Baltimore – Audra McDonald
No One in the World – Anita Baker
Breathe – In The Heights Original Broadway Cast
Rez Yard – Native Root
No Human Is Illegal – The Wakes
L’Amour Ou La Folie – BeauSoleil
Buckets Of Rain – Bob Dylan
Featherbed – John McCutcheon
Picture Postcards from L.A. – Joshua Kadison
Rock and Roll Time – Roger McGuinn
Rhapsody – Black Violin
The Revolution Starts Now – Steve Earle
I Know Where I’m Going – Harry Belafonte
634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.) – Wilson Pickett
Brasilia – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Crimson Parsons – Keith Secola
The Twins – Fire Crow
Filed under Louisville, Movie, playlist
23 September 2024
El Grito
Bruce Springsteen Birthday.
Eric Bogle Birthday.
El Grito de Lares – Chencho Rivera y Su Conjunto Abacoa, feat. José Velez, Amicar Santiago, Modesto Nieves & Ana Rita Delgado
Bruce Springsteen
No Surrender
Thunder Road
The Promised Land
All The Way Home
Across The Border
Blinded By The Light
All Or Nothin’ At All
The Power Of Prayer
If I Should Fall Behind
Long Walk Home
Reason To Believe
The Brokenhearted
The Promise
Further On (Up The Road)
Independence Day
The Price You Pay
Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee)
Tougher Then The Rest
The E Street Shuffle
Land of Hope and Dreams
Eric Bogle
The Dalai Lama’s Candle
Care For The Land
Standing In the Light
The Road To El Dorado
All the Fine Young Men
Plastic Paddy
Somewhere In America
Hallowed Ground
No Man’s Land
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Now I’m Easy
Dedication Day
Going Back To Dublin
The Flag
Freedom Lost
Peace Has Broken Out
When the Wind Blows – with John Munro & Brent Miller
Safe In the Harbour – with John Munro & Brent Miller
Home Is the Hero – Eric Bogle & John Munro
Filed under Louisville, Music, playlist
22 September 2024
Autumnal equinox.
Bilbo Baggins birthday.
Frodo Baggins birthday.
The Shire – Howard Shore
Bag End – Howard Shore
Farewell Dear Bilbo – Howard Shore
Equinox – John Coltrane
Autumn – The Edgar Winter Group
Autumn Child / Heaton Chapel – Lúnasa
Autumn In New York – Billie Holiday
Autumn Park – Yumi Matsutoya
Autumn Rain – Randy Petersen
Autumn Rain – Tom Chapin
Autumn Symphony – Jack Gladstone
Autumn To May – Ann & Nancy Wilson
Fall – Peter Mayer
It’s Fall – John McCutcheon
Autumn Moon Over Still Lake – Hong Ting
Autumn Leaves – Eva Cassidy
The Parting of Sam and Frodo – Howard Shore
“For Frodo” – Howard Shore, feat. Ben Del Maestro
Filed under Louisville, Music, playlist
21 September 2024
International Day of Peace.
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Peace In The Valley – John Scofield Mercyland:
Pipes of Peace – Paul McCartney
The Times They Are A Changin’ – Keb’ Mo’
Peace – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Peace March – Bruce Cockburn
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
The Great Peace March – Holly Near
Peace Anthem – Sera
Peace Train – Cat Stevens
Paz Y Libertad – José-Luis Orozco
Song of Peace – Abraham Jam
Go Well and Peace Be with You – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
War No More – Wyclef Jean
Peace. Salaam, Shalom – emma’s revolution
Peace, Perfect Peace – Lucky Dube
Peace Will Rise – Si Kahn
Peace Will Come – Tom Paxton
Peace Train/Isitimela Sokuthula – Dolly Parton, feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Peace Trail – Neil Young
Peace Tonight – Indigo Girls
Peace on Earth – U2
Peace Like a River – Paul Simon
Peace in the Valley – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Peace Has Broken Out – Eric Bogle
Peace for Whom – No Seung Hyuk
Peace at Last – Will Duncan and Bobby Horton
Peace – Los Lobos
Peace – Jeong Jin Seok
Peace – Black & Blues
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
20 September 2024
Walking. Germantown. Schnitzelberg.
Ease On Down The Road # 2 – Diana Ross, Michael Jackson & Nipsey Russel
The Jolly Beggarman – Cherish The Ladies.
Oh What A Night – Wyclef Jean
Fists of Fury – Kamasi Washington
Whispering Pines – Dar Williams
Anna Mae – Larry Long
That Old Feeling – Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
My Sweet Lord – Aretha Franklin
Mas Que Nada – Bab & Rolando 808
Forgive Us – John McCutcheon
En algún lugar Del Puerto – Victor Jara
The Louse House At Kilkenny – The Dubliners Irish
Don’t Go – Mary J. Blige
Filed under Uncategorized
19 September 2024
Talk Like a Pirate Day
He’s a Pirate – Klaus Badelt
Pirates of the League – The Wakes
I Am a Pirate King – Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra & The Linden Singers
I Used To Be A Sailor – Tracy Chapman
The Last Saskatchewan Pirate – Arrogant Worms
Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue) – Rickie Lee Jones
Drawing the Line – Royal Pirates
Come All You Sailors – The Wailin’ Jennys
Christmas At Sea – Sting
The Sailors Dream – Fred Alley, Hans Christian, Ira Stein, Karen Mal
Drunken Sailor – Great Big Sea
Yo Ho – Disney Chorus
Come Sail Away – Styx
Over the Sea to Skye – James Galway & The Chieftains
The Dark and the Rolling Sea – Al Stewart
Jolly Roger – Roger McGuinn
Morgan the Pirate 5:45 Mimi and Richard Farina
A Pirate Looks at Forty – Jimmy Buffett
Pirate Jenny – Nina Simone
Redemption Song – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
18 September 2024
Chile Independence Day
Serenata Cruel – Villa Cariño
El Baile de los Que Sobran – Los Prisioneros
Lo Que No Voy a Decir – Subverso, feat. Portavoz
Shock – Ana Tijoux
Quiero Verte Más – Francisca Valenzuela
Vuelvo – Inti Illimani
Verde, Amarillo, y Rojo – Gondwana
Canto Libre – Victor Jara
Llueve sobre la ciudad – Los Bunkers
Loca – Chico Trujillo
Curiche – Newen Afrobeat Curiche, feat. Oghnene Kologbo, Enrique Camhi & Diego Alarcón
Pisagua 1973 – Los Miserables
Sencillo – Moral Distraida Hacerlo de Día
Me Gustan los Estudiantes – Tita Parra
Venceremos – Ventiscka
Himno Nacional De Chile – National Anthem Band World Cup
Filed under Current Events, Louisville, Music, playlist
Old photographs
Old photographs
Dust accumulated
through years of storage brings
coughing and sneezing,
itching and wheezing.
Faded images stir
vibrant memories of
people and places,
life and love shared.
Sorrow and joy,
joy and sorrow
mingle with the dust.
And the question lingers:
why are there tears?
17 September 2024
Germantown, Louisville, Kentucky
Filed under Family, Friends, Louisville, Poem, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Along the Graybeard Trail 