Stretching. Walk. North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center.
Opus 17 – Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
The Child Deirdre – Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Carol Channing –
Nowhere to Run – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Five Little Monkeys – Sharon, Lois & Bram
For The Holy Land – Abraham Jam
99 1/2 Won’t Do – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Charmed – Los Lobos
Mustang Island =The Native Flute Ensemble
Ocarina – Agua Clara
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) – Luna
Old – Paul Simon
My Baby Left Me – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Ballad Of A Dead Soulja – 2Pac
구두가게신사 – TARIN
Brooklyn, Goodbye- Black 47 with Suzzy Roche
I Like It – The Chicks
Category Archives: Exercise
14 January 2026
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
04 January 2026
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
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
31 December 2025 – Watch Night – New Year’s Eve – Clemente
Walk – slowly – North Domingo Baca Park
Watch Night.
Roberto Clemente death.
Farewell 2025, welcome 2026.
The World Is Old Tonight – Little Windows
Auld Lang Syne – Jersey Boys Ensemble
Auld Lang Syne – Eric Rigler
Auld Lang Syne – Shawn Lyons
Canticle of the Turning – Rory Cooney, Gary Daigle & Theresa Donohoo
New Year’s Resolution – Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
Kingdom Coming – Matt Glaser, Evan Stover, Jay Ungar, Art Baron & Molly Mason
Freedom – Pharrell Williams
Freedom – Richie Havens
Freedom Highway – Rhiannon Giddens
Freedom Now – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys Of Alabama
Freedom Train – Toots & The Maytals
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around – The Freedom Singers
Oh Freedom – The Princely Players
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Te Recuerdo – John McCutcheon
All Through the Night – Nancy Wilson
Auld Lang Syne – Joanne Shenandoah
The Parting Glass – The Wailin’ Jennys
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Christmas, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
20 December 2025
Stretching. Walk, slowly, ever so slowly, in La Cueva neighborhood.
Christmas In The Trenches – John McCutcheon
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains
What Child Is This? – Mahalia Jackson
We Are Christmas – Spelman Glee Club
Go Tell It On The Mountain – The Blind Boys Of Alabama Feat. Tom Waits
Jehovah The Lord Will Provide – Harry Belafonte
I Saw Three Ships – Robin Stapleton, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, BBC Philharmonic, Coventry Cathedral Choir & Lichfield Cathedral Choir
Las Posadas – José Feliciano
Silent Night – The Temptations
Asleep At Last -The Wailin’ Jennys
A Cradle In Bethlehem – Nat King Cole
I Wonder as I Wander – Ed Ames
O Holy Night – Jennifer Nettles
Little Drummer Boy – Peter Mayer
Carol of the Bells – Windham Hill Artists
Come Faithful Ones – Red Nativity
Filed under Advent, Albuquerque, Christmas, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
19 December 2025
Walking North Domingo Multigenerational Center track. Marginally faster than yesterday.
The Rebel Jesus – Seven Nations
Once in Royal David’s City – David Briggs, Orgnn/Stephen Cleobury/Choir of King’s College, Cambridge King’s College Choir
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) – Sarah McLachlan, feat. The Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach Children’s Choir and Youth Choir
We Three Kings – R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton
The Little Drummer Boy – Dolly Parton
Silent Night – Johnny Cash
O Holy Night – Frances
Magical World – Peter Mayer
The Holly And The Ivy – Alex de Grassi
Go Tell It On The Mountain – James Taylor
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Michael Manring
Fairytale Of New York – The Pogues
O Come O Come Emmanuel – Carpenters
O Little One Sweet – The Royal College Of Music Chamber Choi
Stille Nacht – James Galway; John Georgiadis: Munich Radio Orchestra, Regensburg Cathedral Choir
Behold, The Lamb Of God – Yellowjackets
18 December 2025
International Migrants Day. Walking 2.13 miles at North Domingo Baca Multicultural Center. Slower pace than yesterday. Stretching.
Unite 75 – Daara J Family
Immigrant – John McCutcheon
Ave Que Emigra – Gabby Moreno
The Migrant Worker – Jim Croce
Gourma – Etran Fintawa
Take Me to Cleveland – Robert Neustadt
No Geography – The Chemical Brothers
Look in Their Eyes – David Crosby
Why We Build the Wall – Hadestown
La Jaula de Oro – Los Tigres del Norte
Alien – Gil-Scott Heron
Cages – Redbait
Bad Hombres y Mujeres – Antonio Sanchez
La Frontera – Lagartijeando, feat. Minuk
Migration – Jonny Lipford
The Dreamer – Jackson Browne
My Only Home – Unchained XL, feat. Genesis Elijah & Femi Ashiru
A Safe Place to Land – Sara Bareilles, feat. John Legend
Running – Keyon Harrold, Andrea Pizziconi & Jasson Harrold, feat. Running feat. Common & Gregory Porter
Amor Migrante – Elena & Los Fulanos
Go Tell a Bird – Maya De Vitry
Beyond the Border – Bhi Bhiman
Godspeed – Radney Foster
Where We Are – Diana Jones
Migra – Santana
Immigrant Eyes – Willie Nelson
The Immigrants – Gabby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks
Deportees – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) – K’naan, Snow Tha Product, Riz MC & Residente
Refugee King – Liz Vice, feat. Hannah Glover
No Human Is Illegal – The Wakes
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Along the Graybeard Trail 