Transgender Day of Visibility.
Tree planting. Table putting together. Laundry. Cooking. Straightening granddaughter’s toys.
Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
I’d Love to Change the World – Shea Diamond
iT – Christine and the Queens
Warrior Heart – Shawnee
Thorn In Your Side – namoli brennet
Body Was Made – Ezra Furman
Girls and Boys – Blur
King for a Day – Green Day
Androgynous – The Replacements
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
We Exist – Arcade Fire
What Is This Thing Called Love – Billy Tipton
Eudaemonia – Them Are Us Too
Sometimes I Cry – Jason Kwan
Category Archives: Current Events
31 March 2023
Filed under Current Events, Friends, Music, playlist
St. Patrick’s Day
I speak for no others,
only for myself.
For me, this day has
nothing to do with
green beer or
green clothing,
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, from County Cork, on my mother’s side
Filed under Current Events, Family, Friends, Ireland
A prayer about steps
We rejoice with all your beloved children
who took their first steps today;
may their families and friends
love, nurture, and protect them;
may we create a society
in which they are cared for well.
We remember all your beloved children
who took their final steps today;
may they already be received into your nearer presence
where pain is no more and all tears are wiped away;
may those who mourn receive comfort and support
as they walk this shadowed valley.
We pray in the name of your Beloved Child Jesus,
the itinerant preacher who proclaimed and lived your love.
Amen.
Filed under Current Events, Family, Friends, Prayer
8 March 2023
International Women’s Day
One Woman: A Song for UN Women
Gentle Rebellion – Rebecca Riots
Compassion – Magdalen Hsu-Li
Feel Like A Natural Woman – Carole King
Respect – Aretha Franklin
Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
Born This Way – Lady Gaga
Break the Change – One Billion Rising
Walk Beside Me – Celtic Woman
I Will Not Be Denied – Bonnie Raitt
Motherland – Natalie Merchant
Run the World – Beyonce
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
I AM WOMAN – Emmy Meil
And We Can Love (World) – Mary Youngblood
Ella’s Song – Sweet Honey In the Rock
Imagine – Eva Cassidy
Find Your Way – Adina Nyree
I Am a Woman – Ruby Hunter
I Am Her – Shea Diamond
Warrior Heart – Sjawmee
All That You Have Is Your Soul – Tracy Chapman
Brave New World – Sera
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
Filed under Current Events, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
29 December 2022
Stretching. Apartment.
Wounded Knee – Mickie Free
Ghost Dance – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Wounded Knee – Walela
Dreams of Wounded Knee – Bill Miller
Wounded Knee Hero – Thunder Bird Sisters
We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee – Redbone
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
26 December 2022
Walking. Apartment.
Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride.
Treaties – Frank Waln
Intertribal Song – Dakota Nation & Red Bull
Standing Alone – Buddy Red Bow
Reflections of Paha Sapa – Ryan Akipa
The Moon Is Shining – Indigenous
Round Dance – Dakota Nation & Mandaree Singers
Peyote Healing – Robbie Robertson, Verdell Primeaux & Johnny Mike
Thunder Horse – Kevin Locke
Lakota Forever – Brule
Many and Great – Jonsarta
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Louisville, Music, playlist
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
24 December 2022 – The Christmas Truce
Walking. Apartment.
The 1914 Christmas Truce.
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 Current Events, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
AdventWord 2022 – December 23 – #restore
Great conversation about how to restore people with the Rev. Dr. Don Shriver, president emeritus at Union Theological Seminary, and the Rev. Stanley Chimeysa, prison chaplain from the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian in Malawi.
They are leading thinkers and practitioners of restorative justice.
Their thinking and acting is moving toward transformative justice.
Photo: February 11, 2019; Manhattan, New York; not sure who took the photo. Obviously not me. There were several other people present.
Keep running – a reflection on the death of Franco Harris
This morning brought the news that
Franco Harris, Hall of Fame running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers
died unexpectedly last night at age 72.
Recognized as one of the great running backs in the NFL,
Franco played on four Super Bowl champions
and still holds Super Bowl records
as well as multiple Steelers records.
He stood at the center of an iconic moment in the 1972 playoffs.
The Steelers, who had experienced a distinct lack of success as a team,
trailed the Oakland Raiders.
With time running out, a desperation pass ricocheted
off a player or players whose name remains unknown.
The ball fell toward the ground.
The hopes of Steelers players and supporters began to sink.
For a moment, defeat loomed. Again.
The moment of despair proved fleeting.
Then, Franco Harris, who kept running as the play developed,
scooped up the ball and kept running into the end zone
for a Steelers touchdown and a victory that helped launch a dynasty.
It would be false to say that Franco is a hero of my childhood—
he was only four years older than me.
It would be true to say that in my life,
I have owned two shirts that bore the name of athlete and that athlete’s number:
Roberto Clemente 21.
Franco Harris. 32.
Although I never had the privilege to meet Franco in person,
I did visit his statue every time I was in the Pittsburgh airport.
I remember and grieve this day for:
an elite athlete,
a valued teammate
a respected adversary.
I remember and grieve this day for:
a husband, father, family man,
a mentor,
an encourager.
I remember and grieve this day for:
an advocate for racial justice,
an individual who reached out to people in need,
an ambassador for Pittsburgh.
I remember and grieve this day for
a man described by teammates, opponents, and most everyone who knew him
on the field or off the field as:
kind,
friendly,
gracious,
good,
humble,
accommodating,
gentle,
and loving.
As I remember,
and as I grieve,
I give thanks that
I saw Franco Harris play
I give thanks that
I sawFranco Harris live.
Keep running.
Filed under Current Events, Football
Along the Graybeard Trail 