Morning movement. Pacing in apartment. Stretching.
We The People – Brulé
We the People…. – A Tribe Called Quest
People Have The Power – Patti Smith
This Land Is Your Land – Chicano Batman
One Small Voice – Carole King
Fly On Your Wall – Angel Olsen
HEAVEN – Troye Sivan, feat. Betty Who
Revolution 9 01 – Danbert Nobacon & The Axis of Dissent
Not Gonna Say Your Name – Entrance
Erupt & Matter – Moby & The Void Pacific Choir
Love Makes the World – Sateen
Troubled Times – Green Day
One Man Revolution – Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
LAND OF THE FREE – Joey Bada$$
I Give You Power – Arcade Fire I feat. Mavis Staples
Fight the Power – Public Enemy
Which Side Are You On – Natalie Merchant
Get Up Stand Up -Bob Marley & The Wailers
Ella’s Song – Sweet Honey
Singing For Our Lives – Holly Near
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream – Simon & Garfunkel
We Shall Not Be Moved – Marchers from Selma, Alabama
Siyahamba – Morgan State University Choir & James Abbington
I Am a Patriot (And the River Opens For the Righteous) – Little Steven V
Oh Freedom – Mary D Williams
Step By Step – John McCutcheon
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
Solidarity Forever – Pete Seeger
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round -The Freedom Singers
Imagine – John Lennon
There’ll Be Sunshine In The Morning – Jim And Jean Strathdee
Category Archives: Albuquerque
20 January 2025
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17 January 2025
Walking. By car dealer twice and once in La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Happy Birthday, Muhammad Ali.
I Am the Greatest – Muhammad Ali
Doin’ the Ali Shuffle – Alvin Cash
Ali (Take 3) -Miles Davis
Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like a Bee – Teo Macero
Ali (Take 4) – Miles Davis
The Louisville Lip – PRGMAT
Muhammad Ali – Big Head Todd & The Monsters
Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) 3- Johnny Wakelin
Muhammad Ali – Faithless
The World’s Greatest – Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Muhammad Ali – Tom Russell
Stand by Me – Muhammad Ali
Someone Else Decide – John McCutcheon
My Cape Breton Home – James Galway
1993 – Manila Killa
The Earl of March’s Daughter – Aoife Clancy
Kite – U2
Paper and Ink – Tracy Chapman
This Hard Land – Bruce Springsteen
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525 – Erich Leinsdorf & Boston Symphony Orchestra
Nowhere To Go – Melissa Etheridge
Troubadours – Van Morrison
Still Remember – Indigenous
We Are the Children – Nobuko Miyamoto, feat. Derek Nakamoto
All Along the Watchtower – Playing for Change, feat. Warren Haynes, Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville & John Cruz
A Song For You – Leon Russell
Goin’ Back to New Orleans – Dr. John
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16 January 2025
Walking. North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center. And some other places. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
The Sound Of Silence – Paul Simon
South Australia – Avon Faire, feat. Cait O’riordan
Thug Like Me – Wyclef Jean
One Of These Days – Santana
Ichigo Ichie – Nobuko Miyamoto, feat. Kenny Endo
Tom Dooley – The Smothers Brothers
A Day in the Life – Jake Shimabukuro, feat. Jon Anderson
When She Sleeps – Relativity
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You – Stevie Nicks
This Is My Country – Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
New Killer Star – David Bowie
Live and Let Die – Paul McCartney
Hurt So Bad – The Temptations
Start Me Up – The Rolling Stones
Love Like Ghosts – Lord Huron
flowers – Joy Oladokun
Didn’t You Tell Me Not to Be Hard on You? – Kiha & The Faces
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15 January 2025
Walking. South on Wyoming to see the Sandias. Around the Larry H. Miller Toyota dealership. Morning Movement. Chair stretching.
Happy Birthday Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happy Birthday – Stevie Wonder
By the Time I Get to Arizona – Public Enemy
One Vision – Queen
Proud to Be Black – Run-DMC
One – India.Arie
Wake Up – Rage Against the Machine
Ballad of Martin Luther King – Pete Seeger, Brother Kirk & The Sesame Street Kids
Letter to the King – The Game, feat. Nas
Pride (In The Name Of Love) – U2
Letter To Dr. Martin Luther King – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Abraham, Martin and John – Harry Belafonte
King Holiday – Dream Chorus & The Holiday Crew
Up to the Mountain (MLK Song) – Patty Griffin
MLK Song – Mavis Staples
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
We Shall Not Be Moved – Marchers from Selma
We Shall Overcome – Toots & The Maytals
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Let It Be – Bill Withers
Glory – Common & John Legend
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13 January 2025
Walking. North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center track. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Korean-American Day.
Drawing the Line – Royal Pirates
Butterfly – Jessica & KRYSTAL
Roses – Annalé Roses
Gotta Work – Amerie
Honestly – Eric Nam
Human Nature – Tiger JK
Good Bye Sadness, Hello Happiness – YOON MI RAE
Every Last Drop – Dumbfoundead
Goodbye – Sam Ock
Come Over – MRSHLL, feat. pH-1
In the Water – Run River North
All Along The Watchtower – Luna
Take It One Day at a Time – Jennifer Chung
Slow – Kahi
Never Not – Jessi Lee
Dream – Priscilla Ahn
Brave New World – Sera
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12 January 2025
Walking, Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Ira Hays birthday.
(Playlist for walking,)
The Ballad of Ira Hayes – Kris Kristofferson, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Heritage – Shelley Morningsong
You Will Have Peace – Joanne Shenandoah
Honoring – Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai
The Ballad of Ira Hayes -Johnny Cash
Healing Song # 3 – Primeaux, Mike & Attson
Justice Hunters – Annie Humphrey
Golden Feather – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Brother Warrior – Sharon Burch
Calling All Warriors – Leela Gilday
Calling the Spirit Back – Joy Harjo, feat. Rahim Alhaj
Navajo Code Talkers – Jack Gladstone
Ira Hayes – Peter LaFarge
The Marines’ Hymn – United States Marine Band
The Last Post – Band Of The Royal Regiment Of New Zealand Artillery
Summertime – Eva Cassidy
Seven Spanish Angels = Willie Nelson with Ray Charles
Dragon = Jake Shimabukuro
Ireland of My Dreams – Si Kahn
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11 January 2025
Walking. Morning Movement. Chair Stretching. LKR dance class.
RIP and thank you, Sam Moore.
(Playlist for walking.) All songs by Sam & Dave unless otherwise noted.
Hold On! I’m A Comin
You Don’t Know Like I Know
I Take What I Want
Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody
You Got Me Hummin’
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
Small Portion Of Your Love
Soothe Me
I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down
Soul Man
I Thank You
Wrap It Up
You Don’t Know What You Mean To Me
Can’t You Find Another Way (
Everybody Got To Believe In Somebody
Soul Sister, Brown Sugar
The Long View (A Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 9 Songs): No. 5, Anita’s Story – Patrice Michaels & Kuang-Hao Huang
Phantom – Rina Sawayama
The “In” Crowd – Dobie Gray
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10 January 2025
Walking. Shire arroyo. Near Lucy’s. Morning movement. Chair stretching. Happy Birthday Rod Stewart.
(Playlist is for walking.)
Alabama – John Coltrane
Motherless Child – The String Queens
Piece of My Life – Leela Gilday
What’s Going On? – Al Stewart
I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross
Jackie Robinson – Mark Isham
Everywhere I Go -Bonnie Raitt & David Lindley
Sing Me Life – Gaby Moreno
Kamalani – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Hunter – Si Kahn
Vanlose Stairway – Van Morrison
Same Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg
Good Enough – Sarah McLachlan
Tom Traubert’s Blues (Waltzing Matilda) – Rod Stewart
Girl From The North Country – Rod Stewart
Handbags And Gladrags – Rod Stewart
Country Comforts – Rod Stewart
Tomorrow Is A Long Time – Rod Stewart
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9 January 2025
Walking. North Domingo Baca Park. La Cueva Neighborhood. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Playlist for walk.
My Blue Tears – Dolly Parton feat. Simon Le Bon
Mainstreet Jigs – Morgan Toney
Evening Star – Calvin Standing Bear
Invisible Man – Joshua Kadison
Fallen Angel – Uriah Heep
Ay Pena, Penita – Celia Cruz Regalo del Alma
I Shall Not Be Moved – Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
Reasons – Earth, Wind & Fire
Indian Reservation – Buddy Red Bow
Johnny Comes a’Courtin – Black 47
Pusherman – Curtis Mayfield
Carolina In My Mind – James Taylor
Can’t Buy Me Love – Paul McCartney
Go Tell It On the Mountain – Simon & Garfunkel
Grey Funnel Line – Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
Doctor My Eyes – Ladies of the Canyon, feat. Isabelle
Make You Feel Good – Leon Russell
He Was a Friend of Mine – The Byrds
Twenty-One – The Eagles
I’d Have You Anytime – George Harrison
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Intentions for 2025
Inspired by my friend Abbie Waters, I have decided to identify intentions for 2025.Something about that word works better for me than does “resolutions.” I can’t articulate what it is. But I’m going to role with it.
Health and Fitness
- Cardio of some sort (300 days)
- Morning stretches (300 days)
- Chair stretches (300 days)
- Floor stretches (180 days)
- Strength exercises (180 days)
- Eat well in terms of carbs, calories, and quantities (300 days)
Steps and Miles
- 14,000 steps daily average
- 5,000,000 steps for the year
- 3.65 miles daily average
- 1,300 miles for the year
Travel
- Nicole & Desi’s wedding
- Tommy & Brooke’s wedding – possible road trip
Reading/Learning
- Read 52 books
- Great Courses
Spirituality
- Write and share daily prayers
- Worship in the congregation granddaughter attends
- Find and support at least one group involved in justice work in Albuquerque
- Supply preach as invited
- Engage in advocacy
Hiking
- Obtain equipment
- 40 hikes (at least 3 miles length)
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Along the Graybeard Trail 