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
Category Archives: Current Events
15 January 2025
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, playlist
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
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Prayer for Southern California
A prayer for Southern California
God who creates scenes of beauty and wonder,
protect the people, the creatures, and all your creation
from the fires that rage in Southern California
or in other places.
Surround the people, creatures, creation
with your grace and peace.
Comfort all who mourn the death of loved ones.
Stand with all who grieve the loss of beloved pets
or dreams and hopes.
Hold those who evacuate in your care.
Accompany all who have been displaced.
Sustain all whose homes or businesses have been destroyed.
Strengthen those who work to control the fires,
guide and bless their efforts.
Lead us to examine
how our lifestyles might
contribute to the fires.
Help us make any needed changes in how we live.
Provide hope and courage and grace
for the living of these days.
Amen.
Filed under Current Events, Prayer
A prayer of thanks – President Jimmy Carter
Gracious God,
we thank you for
your beloved child,
Jesus’ faithful follower,
Jimmy Carter.
For his multiple contributions
to the lives of individuals,
to this country,
and to the international community,
we give you praise.
For his gracious being and living,
his goodness and kindness,
his integrity and compassion,
his work as a humble servant leader,
his courage in the facae of death,
we give you praise.
For his consistent witness to justice,
his tireless work for human rights,
his unshakeable belief that
all people and each person
are made in your image
and are to be treated with the
dignity that status confers,
we give you praise,
We thank you that for President Carter
death is past and
all pain and suffering and weakness has ended and,
reunited with his beloved Rosalynn
he has entered into the joy and love
you have prepared for us.
As we remember and give thanks
for President Carter,
may we learn from his example
how to follow more nearly Jesus
in whose name we pray.
Amen.
Filed under Current Events, Prayer
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
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
19 October 2024
5K walk. Louisville.
Supporting Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women.
And We Can Love – Mary Youngblood
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
Calling All Warriors – Leela Gilday
I Am the Beginning and the End – Dorothy Tsatoke
The Unforgotten – Iskwē acākosīk, feat. Tanya Tagaq
Mother’s Rain Annie Humphrey
Some How – Nizhóní Girls
Through the Eyes of a Woman – Jana
Gentle Warrior – Kalolin Johnson
Indigenous – J25
Honor Song for an Older Sister – Poldine Carlo
Sinnatuumait – Elisapie
Resisto y Ya – Lido Pimienta
Fear – Joy Harjo
Strong Women’s Song – Ode’min Kwe Singers
Broken – Bear Fox
Roots And Wings – Joanne Shenandoah
For Me – Shawnee Kish
One Woman – Teagan Littlechief
Fight for the Rights – Kelly Fraser
God Created Woman – Martha Redbone
No More – Fawn Wood
Tongues – Tanya Tagaq
Grandmother’s Ways – Sharon Burch
The Warrior – Walela
Women’s Fancy Shawl – Shannon Thunderbird & Sandy Horne
One Woman: A Song for UN Women – Ana Bacalhau, Angélique Kidjo, Anoushka Shankar, Bassekou Kouyate, Bebel Gilberto, Beth Blatt, Brian Finnegan, Buika, Charice, Cherine Amr, Debi Nova, Emeline Michel, Fahan Hassan, Jane Zhang, Jim Diamond, Keith Murrell, Lance Ellington, Marta Gómez, Mari
Eagle When She Flies – Thunder Bird Sisters
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
16 October 2024
Walking. Louisville.
World Food Day.
Bread For the World – Bryan Field McFarland and Jacob’s Join
Is This the World We Created…? Queen
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) Bob Marley & The Wailers
Imperialism Is Another Word for Hunger – “Charlie” Chin, Chris Kando Iijima & Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto
Feed the Children – Eric Bogle
Coat of Many Colors – Dolly Parton
Whitey on the Moon – Gil Scott-Heron
Hungry Freaks, Daddy – The Mothers of Invention
Jubilee – Jim And Jean Stradthdee
Break Bread Together – Mary D Williams
One World One Song – Dionne Warwick & Joe McElderry
Far From The Arms Of Hunger – Jackson Browne
No Hunger – Donovan
Pastures of Plenty – Woody Guthrie
More Than Enough – Roy Bailey
My Land Is a Good Land – Pete Seeger
The Gap ($8,825 An Hour) – Si Kahn
Hard Times Come Again No More – Nanci Griffith
Hard Times – John Lee Hooker
Justice – Toshi Reagon
Ode To The International Debt – Sweet Honey In The Rock
…Until All Are Fed – Bryan Field McFarland and Jacob’s Join
Filed under Current Events, Louisville, Music, playlist
30 September 2024
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
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, 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
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Along the Graybeard Trail 