Walking 2.25 miles on the track at North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center. Would post the time but I can’t figure out how to read the sundial that was used. Stretching. The slow start continues.
For Unto Us A Child Is Born – Core Cotton, Jamecia Bennett, James Wright, Carrie Harrington, Pat Lacy & Sounds of Blackness
O Holy Night – Musiq Soulchild
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Celtic Woman
I Believe In Father Christmas – Glòria
Away in a Manger – Joanne Shenandoah
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear -8 Julie Andrews
Celebra – Black Violin, De La Ghetto, Kevin Marcus Sylvester, Phil Beaudreau & Wilner Baptiste
In dulci jubilo – Choir Of St. George’s Chapel
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – John Legend, feat. Esperanza Spalding
The Longest Night – Peter Mayer
Carol of the Bells 3:15 Pentatonix
Cherry Tree Carol – Sting
Angels We Have Heard on High – Karla Bonoff
The Bushes Of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy – Anthony Rapp & Everett Bradley
Silent Night – The Temptations
Category Archives: Advent
17 December 2025
Filed under Advent, Albuquerque, Christmas, Music, playlist
16 December 2025
The comeback begins. Walked slowly in the neighborhood. Did morning stretching.
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem – Darlene Silversmith
Uncle Carl – Aaron Lacombe
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 – Comfort Ye, My People – Joan Sutherland, Grace Bumbry, Etc.; Adrian Boult: London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Gower Wassail – Quadriga Consort
Canticle of the Turning – Rory Cooney, Gary Daigle & Theresa Donohoo
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen – Sam Levine
Snowfall – Liz Story
O Little Town Of Bethlehem – Bruce Cockburn
Carol of the Drum / Peace on Earth – Christine Anu, feat. Jay Laga’aia
Feliz Navidad – Daphne Rubin-Vega
We Wish You – Black Violin, Kevin Marcus Sylvester, Phil Beaudreau & Wilner Baptiste
Carol Of The Bells – Natalie Cole
Cradle Song – John Rutter: Clare College Singers & Orchestra
I Wonder as I Wander Joanne Shenandoah
Hark the Herald Angels Sing – Irish Christmas Folk Music
The Stockford Carol – Loreena McKennitt
Filed under Advent, Albuquerque, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
4 January 2025
Morning movement. Walk in the neighborhood. Chair yoga.
Old City Bar – Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Three Elders – Red Nativity
Breath Of Heaven – Glòria
Wexford Carol – Quadriga Consort
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
O Little Town of Bethlehem – Sarah McLachlan
Filed under Advent, Albuquerque, Music, playlist
Irish Christmas 2024
O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Enya
Seven Days Before Christmas – The Lost Brothers
Christmas Mode – Kean Kavanagh
Vultures of Christmas -The Mary Wallopers
Home For the Holidays – The Divine Comedy
Christmas in Your Arms – Ryan Mack
The Magic Of Christmas – LYRA
Silent Night – Sinéad O’Connor –
Christmas Song – Gaze Is Ghost –
Christmas Past – Mick Flannery –
Lovely Time of Year – Owen Lamont
christmas morning – Luz
Uncomfortable Christmas – CMAT & Junior Brother
Together at Christmas – Irish Women In Harmony
Christmas Once Again – ROE
Joy To The World – Moya Brennan
O Holy Night – Eileen Ivers
Christmas In Killarney – The Irish Rovers
The Sussex Carol – Craig Duncan
The First Noel – Patrick Ball
O Little Town of Bethlehem – Three More Tenors
Fairytale Of New York – The Pogues
The Bushes Of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
Once In Royal David’s City – The Chieftains
The Season’s Upon Us – Dropkick Murphys
24 December 2024 – The Christmas Truce
Because I believe that justice and peace are possible.
Despite the armed violence and warfare that rips the world,
despite the silent testimony of the dead,
despite the witness of the wounded,
despite the heartache of the displaced,
despite the silent cries of creation,
despite the devastation and the rubble,
I believe that justice and peace are possible.
Because I believe, 24 December will always include a playlist focused on the 1914 Christmas Truce. I recognize that my beliefs, statements, and actions my not make a significant difference, but I stand on my right to believe, speak, and act as I choose.
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 Advent, Current Events
8 December 2024
Happy Christmas (War Is Over) – John Lennon
Once In Royal David’s City – David M. Bailey
Silent Night – Oscar Peterson
Christmas Canon Rock – Trans-Siberian Orchestra
In The Bleak Midwinter- Julie Andrews
Noel – Black Violin
O Little Town Of Bethlehem – Nashville Christmas Orchestra
O’ Come Emmanuel – Little Windows
All Through the Night – Nancy Wilson
The First Noel – Karla Bonoff
The Little Road To Bethlehem – Katie McMahon
A Star In The East – Harry Belafonte T
Looking for the Dove – Peter Mayer
Llegó Navidad – Los Lobos
Bach Prelude On In Dulci Jubilo – James Galway; John Georgiadis: Munich Radio Orchestra, Regensburg Cathedral Choir
Silent Night – Over the Rhine
O Little One Sweet – The Piano Guys feat. The King’s Singers
Sweet Little Jesus Boy – Natalie Cole
Uncle Carl – Aaron Lacombe
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A prayer about seeking Christ
(nspired by the Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac; words in quotations are his.
Great Spirit, Immanuel,
in this Advent season,
we prepare to celebrate anew
the birth of Christ.
As we sing the songs
that tell us Christ will be bornin a manager,
remind us that again this year,
we will find “Christ in the rubble” of Gaza.
For Christ comes to the margins of life.
Not to the imperial palace
but to the humble people
Christ comes.
Not to the seat of powerbut to Bethlehem, little and insignificant
Christ comes.
Not to those enthroned
but to the disinherited and dispossesed
Christ comes.
For Christmas is your act of solidarity
with your beloved children who are oppressed.
Christmas provides a ray of hope
amid the “heart of pain and suffering.”
“Christmas is the radiance of life
from the heart of destruction and death.”
Inspire us, God, to seek Christ under the rubble.
Inspire us, God, to see Christ on the margins.
Inspire us, God, to follow Christ by working for
liberation and justice.
Amen.
Last year, the Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac and the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem introduced the concept of Christ in the Rubble in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Their advent creche showed the Christ child surrounded by broken stones and concreate and other representations of destruction.
This prayer, built on that image, focuses on the rubble of Gaza. Rubble, in many forms—physical, psychological, social, and more, exists around. May we seek Christ in all the rubble of the world and respond.
Filed under Advent, Current Events, Human Rights
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.
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
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AdventWord 2022 – December 25 – #Emmanuel
Emmanuel. God with us. If God is with us, any photo would work to express Emmanuel. I chose several that show working for justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God by visiting elected representatives, advocating, making a public witness, and amplifying other voices.
Photo 1 – New York delegation at Ecumenical Advocacy Days 2019, Washington, DC.
Photo 2 – Advocacy postcards for immigration justice, Whitestone, NY – 2018
Photo 3 – Standing Rock, SD – 2016
Photo 4 – Whitestone, NY – 2015
Photo 5 – Louisville, Ky – May 1, 2021
Along the Graybeard Trail 