Happy anniversary Tricia
48th Anniversary
Home – Karla Bonoff
Raise You Up / Just Be – Kinky Boots Cast
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond
The Load-Out / Stay – Jackson Browne
Calling All The Children Home – John McCutcheon
Bright Path – Jack Gladstone
O Little Town Of Bethlehem – The Roches
I Hear A Symphony – Diana Ross & The Supremes
Why We Tell The Story – Company Once On This Island
Waltzing Matilda – Seona McDowell
Finale – Joel Hatch & ‘Come From Away’ Company
The City of New Orleans – Arlo Guthrie
Whiskey & Sangria – Eileen Ivers
Third Movement of the Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot
Pata Pata 2000 – Miriam Makeba
My Shot – Hamilton
You’ve Got A Friend – James Taylor
Weary Mothers – Joan Baez
Wheel’s on the Bus – Gracie’s Corner
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
Category Archives: Family
29 July 2026
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2 July 2026
Happy Birthday, Paul!!
Hello Muddah Hello Faddah – Allan Sherman
Snoopy vs. The Red Baron – The Royal Guardsmen
I Got A Name – Jim Croce
This Is the Time – Billy Joel
Shut Up and Dance – WALK THE MOON
Day By Day – The Hooters
Fool’s Parade – Michael Stanley Band
Thunder Island – Jay Ferguson
Classical Gas – Mason Williams
Icarus (Borne On Wings of Steel) – Kansas
Fishin’ In the Dark – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
China Grove – The Doobie Brothers
Africa – Toto
Desperado – Linda Ronstadt
The Sounds Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
The Sound of Silence – Disturbed
Under Pressure – David Bowie & Queen
Seven Bridges Road – Eagles
The Tears Of A Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Nostradamus – Al Stewart
Never Been Any Reason – Head East
What Is Life – George Harrison
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4 July 2026 – Patty’s birthday
Happy Birthday, Sister Patty!
How Long Will I Love You – Ellie Goulding
Girls Just Want to Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper
Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Poison
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) – The Andrews Sisters
Peace Train/Isitimela Sokuthula – Dolly Parton (feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
Calypso – John Denver
Movin’ Right Along – Kermit & Fozzie
Mairzy Doats – The Pied Pipers
Lady – Little River Band
If I Could Turn Back Time – Cher
The Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley
Shallow – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Tallis Canon – Sounds Like Reign
A Year Ago – NEFFEX
Burning Love – Elvis Presley
Distant Melody – Mary Martin & Kathy Nolan
Far Away Places – Margaret Whiting
Heaven is a Place on Earth- Belinda Carlisle
I Love Rock ‘N Roll – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
It’s You I Like – Mister Rogers
Louie Louie – The Kingsmen
Moon River- Andy Williams
Queen of Kings – Alessandra
Sinking Friendships – Jónsi
The Battle of New Orleans – Johnny Horton
Top of the World- Carpenters
Wellerman – Nathan Evans
Wrecking Ball – Miley Cyrus
What Now My Love- John Gary
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12 June 2026
Treadmill. Arterra Fitness Center.
Swimming with Lucy. Arterra Pool.
Remembering Pulse.
Remembering Medgar Evans.
Remembering Paul Robeson.
The Greatest – Sia (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Hands – Various Artists
Love Make the World Go Round – Jennifer Lopez & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Pulse – Chakra Khan
Not Myself – Sharon Van Etten
Razade Mi Colores – Ricky Martin
I Know a Place – MUNA
Misirlou – Kumbia Queers
Here in Spirit – Jim James
Beautiful Strangers – Kevin Morby
Pulse – Mel Hsu
Antonio – Bruno Toro
God Bless the Children – TT the Artist
La Yuta – Dani Umpi
Pulse (The City Beautiful) – Zen Fuse Box
Pulse – Melissa Etheridge
I Am Orlando – Alejandra Ribera
Medgar Evers Lullaby -Judy Collins
Ballad of Medgar Evers – Phil Ochs
Too Many Martyrs – Windborne
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
Paul Robeson – Kay Benson
Paul Robeson – Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, Jeanne Humphries & Pete Seeger
Paul Robeson (Born to Be Free) – Black 47
Go Down, Moses- Paul Robeson
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Family, Music, playlist
A realization
And just like that (yesterday), granddaughter Lucy spent four hours in the pool at “the apartment” (her name for where Tricia and I live).
Lucy and I played in the pool for about two hours – when I finally had to give up. Then she played for another two hours by herself and with “my new friends” – a couple older girls and a five-year old boy. It was precious to watch.
BUT – here’s the point of this. When we were alone, Lucy decided we would play “car.” This involved her getting on my back and directing me around the pool. We had not been playing long when I realized that in my most recent self-care effort, I have lost a couple pounds more than Lucy weighs.
And just like that, I smiled.
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18 April 2026
Mỹ Lai – First Landing: Flight -6 Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert & Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ
I Call Your Name – The Mamas & The Papas
Airplane – Indigo Girls
Keeper Of The Songs – William Gutierrez
My Life – ZHU, feat. Tame Impala
500 Years – Annie Humphrey
Ring of Fire – Micki Free
Time After Time – Eva Cassidy
Anger In the Nation – Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314 – London Philharmonic Orchestra & David Parry
Shayalan Amabala – Lalela Cape Town Choir
Climb Ev’ry Mountain (Reprise) – Patricia Neway & The Sound Of Music Ensemble
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31 January 2026
Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood.
Third Movement of the Violin Concero by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
Honky Tonk – Miles Davis
A Song for You – Donny Hathaway
Kanawa – Habib Koité & Bamada
A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles
Happy Lesser Bairam Feast – Rim Banna
This World – The Staple Singers
Turn It Over – Noel Paul Stookey
Breathe – Roger Waters
The Kelly’s Keep Comin’ – Kris Kristofferson
Dancer – David Crosby
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28 January 2026
Most days no introduction to the playlist is provided. Today, as does every January 28, marks an exception.
About today’s playlist.
Fifty-one years ago today, my father, William H. Koenig, died in a plane crash. A private pilot, he was flying with a colleague to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to advocate for funds for the Grove City school district where they were working. My father served as the assistant superintendent.
They did not make it to the state capital. The plane went down. Both men died.
Prior to becoming a school administrator he had been a high school band director. He kept his hands in music as he career moved in a different direction. He played string bass in the pit orchestra for high school musicals and he was the first director of the hand bell choir at our church.
He also directed a community band for several years. For two years, I played baritone horn in that band.
One or another of the bands my father directed, played almost all of the songs on this playlist at some point. Many of them I played under my father’s direction.
Dad – since it fell unto your lot
That you should rise and I should not
I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call
Good night and joy be with you
Walking. North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center.
Unless otherwise noted, the artist performing the songs is the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein.
Light Calvary Overture – London Festival Orchestra
Semper Fidelis
The Thunderer
Washington Post
Hands Across the Sea
Radetsky March, Op. 228
Under the Double Eagle
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Stars and Stripes Forever
The British Grenadiers
Rule Bittania
The National Emblem
Rakoczy March/Hungarian March
March of the Toreadors from Carmen, Suite No. 1
Coronation March from Le Prophete
March from the Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33a
War March of the Priests from Athalie, Op, 74
Grand March from Aida
Procession of the Sardar from Two Caucasian Sketches, Op. 10
March from Symphonic Metamorphoses
Pomp and Circumstance
Scotland the Brave – The Pipes & Drums of the Royal Tank Regiment
Anchors Aweigh
Le Marseillaise
Fest March from Tanhauser
Colonel Bogey
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22 January 2026
Lucy baptism. So Jung Kim birthday.
For Lucy.
For So Jung.
For us all.
Ementha-Papaguneray (Turtle Song) – Emily Wurramara
Carnival of the Animals: IV. Tortoises – Isata Kanneh-Mason, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Ayla Sahin, Timothy Ridout, Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Toby Hughes
Turtle Island – Jay Red Eagle
Turtle Island – Native American Music Consort
Sea Turtle – Hermanito
Flying with the Turtles – Laurent Perez Del Mar
Turtle – PARK JUNG EUN
A Turtle’s Heart – Mili Mag Mell
Keep Me In Your Heart – Jorge Calderon
Christ Is Risen! Shout Hosanna! – First Plymouth Congregational Church, Tom Trenney & Jeremy Bankson
For all the Saints – St Paul’s Cathedral Choir & Malcolm Archer
What A Wonderful World – Eva Cassidy
Coat of Many Colors -Dolly Parton
God With Us – The Many
If I Had a Dinosaur – Raffi
Wheels on the Bus – Gracie’s Corner
Hippopotamus – David Polansky
Circle of Life – Carmen Twillie & Lebo M
Let It Go – Idina Menzel Frozen
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing – JJ Heller
Child of Blessing Child of Promise – John Keys
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong –
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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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Along the Graybeard Trail 