Walking the arroyo. Stretching.
Silent Night – Lindsey Stirling
Quiet Time – Jim Brickman
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – BeBe & CeCe Winans
This Rush of Wings – Metamora
We Three Kings – Michael Doucet
Do You Hear What I Hear – Ed Ames
Canticle of the Turning – Rory Cooney, Gary Daigle & Theresa Donohoo
Good King Wenceslas – Ed Gerhard
Merry Christmas! – The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day – Johnny Cash
Uncle Carl – Aaron Lacombe
Mary’s Little Boy Child – José Feliciano
What Child Is This – Jonathan Maracle
Holy Is Your Name – The Many
Circle of Love – Jennifer Nettles
Christmas Is Coming – Harry Belafonte
The First Noel – Charles. T. Cozens
Monthly Archives: January 2026
04 January 2026
Filed under Albuquerque, Christmas, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
03 January 2026
Walk at Rio Grande Nature Center with Lucy, Eric, and Tricia.
Banish Misfortune – Rosemary Beland
In the Bleak Midwinter – The Many
The Son Of Mary – Harry Belafonte
I Believe in Father Christmas – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Huron Carol – Jonathan Maracle
God is a River – Peter Mayer
Asleep The Snow Came Flying – Tim Story
Christmas In The Trenches – John McCutcheon
The Sun is Rising – The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal
No. 44 – Chorus “Hallelujah” – Sutherland/Bumbry/Mckellar/Ward/Sir Adrian Boult
First Noël – Dolly Parton
Northumbrian Lullabye – Malcolm Dalglish
O Holy Night – Mahalia Jackson
Wexford Carol – Lumiere String Quartet
Christmas Feast – Rim Banna
I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day – Burl Ives
Filed under Albuquerque, Christmas, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
2 January 2026
Stretching
If You Believe – Tom Jackson
Silent Night – Harry Belafonte
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear – Bruce Cockburn
O Come, O Come Emmanuel- Robin Stapleton, Michael George, BBC Philharmonic, Coventry Cathedral Choir & Lichfield Cathedral Choir
Carol of the Bells – Carpenters
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing – José Feliciano
Wexford Carol – Nightnoise
Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion – Joan Sutherland, Grace Bumbry, Etc.; Adrian Boult: London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
The Rebel Jesus – Seven Nations
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Mahalia Jackson
We Three Kings – Marion Meadows
Comfort, Comfort Ye My People – The Many
The First Noel – Ed Ames
Ave Maria – Will Galison And Toninho Horta
What Child Is This? – Julie Andrews
Joy to the World – Robin Stapleton, Michael George, BBC Philharmonic, Coventry Cathedral Choir & Lichfield Cathedral Choir
O Come Little Children/We’ll Dress The House – Liz Story
Filed under Albuquerque, Christmas, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
01 January 2026
New Year’s Day. Haitian Independence Day.
Short hike with Lucy, Tricia and Sean. Contemplation Trail.
Stretching.
Treadmill at the apartment.
The New Year – Death Cab for Cutie
The First Day Of The Year – Katie McMaho
New Life – Brianna Lea Pruett
New Generation – Nemaska Community
A Brand New Me – Aretha Franklin
New Beginning – Tracy Chapman
New Redemption Song – Over The Rhine
Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears – Celtic Woman
New Time & Age – Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
New Year’s Day – U2 War
Turn Over A New Leaf – John Lee Hooker
New Year’s Luck – Kiha & The Faces
What’s New – Harry Pickens
You Make Me Feel Brand New – Roberta Flack
At the Door of the Year – Jim & Jean Strathdee
How Can I Keep From Singing – Little Windows 2
Haïti chérie – Kali, feat. Emeline Michel
Tankou melodi – Emeline Michel
Aux Antilles – Tabou Combo
La Dessalinienne – Haïtian Troubadours
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First hike 2026
January 1, 2026. Contemplation Trail. Albuquerque.
Lucy and Eric invited Tricia and me to a New Year’s Day hike at Contemplation Trail in the bosque near the Rio Grande.
Lucy brought the camera her Uncle Sean gave her for Christmas.
Clearly she knows how to work her camera better than I know how to work my trekking poles.
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Family, Hike, New Mexico
Along the Graybeard Trail 