Lucy gives a purple flower to Gimli
Albuquerque, New Mexico
photo by Essie Koenig-Reinke
18 March 2024
Category Archives: Family
Purple flower, guest collection #238
Purple flowers guest collection #237
13 March 2024
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Lucy Koenig-Reinke
Filed under Family, New Mexico, Photo
14 February 2024
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Raise You Up/Just Be – Kinky Boots
All My Life – Karla Bonoff
The Load Out/Stay – Jackson Browne
Calling All the Children Home – John McCutcheon
Bright Path – Jack Gladstone
O Little Town of Bethlehem – The Roches
Why We Tell the Story – Once on This Island
The President Sang Amazing Grace – Joan Baez
The Pony Man – Gordon Lightfoot
Prayer – Come from Away
Waltzing Matilda – Seona McDowell
The City of New Orleans – Arlo Guthrie
Whiskey & Sangria – Eileen Ivers
Third Movement of the Violin Concero by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
Valentine – Willie Nelson
Filed under Exercise, Family, Louisville, Music, Pittsburgh Steelers, playlist
A prayer for communities
God who exists in relationship,
God who creates us for relationship;
Jesus who calls us into relationship;
Holy Spirit who gifts us for relationship;
we thank you for the gift of communities
of which we are a part and
within which we live.
Communities that
care for us,
hold us together,
challenge us,
frustrate us,
wound us,
forgive us
guide us,
enrich us,
bless us
love us;
communities that surround us
even when we are unaware,
even when we are distant from one another.
We ask you God,
to help us live well in communities,
to create space for communities,
in which we
care for one another,
hold one another together,
challenge one another,
frustrate one another,
wound one another,
forgive one another,
guide one another,
enrich one another,
bless one another,
love one another.
We pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
inspired by “Offerings,” season 2, episode 9 of Reservation Dogs and a Zoom conversation with dear friends and valued colleagues
A prayer about self-care
Patient God
who never gives up on us
we know,
you know,
how challenging self-care can be at times.
We know,
you know,
how crucial self-care is.
When those we love
and we ourselves
stand in need of self-care,
inspire us
to listen to,
to heed,
and to practice
the guidance we receive
from those who provide
our medical care.
When we are in need,
and we follow the guidance
we receive,
may we join you
and those who care for us.
in the healing process.
When a loved one is in need,
grant us
the grace and patience,
the strength and wisdom,
to continue in
supporting and challenging the one we love
and in that way,
join you and their care team
in the healing process.
This we pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
28 January 2024
Most days no introduction to the playlist is provided. Today, as does every January 28, marks an exception.
About today’s playlist.
Fifty 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 school district where they were working. The plane went down. Both men died. My father served as the assistant superintendent.
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. Apartment. Germantown.
Unless otherwise noted, the artist performing the songs is the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein.
Semper Fidelis
The Thunderer
Washington Post
Hands Across the Sea
Radetsky March, Op. 228
Scotland the Brave – The Pipes & Drums of the Royal Tank Regiment
Under the Double Eagle
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Stars and Stripes Forever
The British Grenadiers
The National Emblem
Rakoczy March/Hungarian March
Light Calvary Overture – London Festival Orchestra
March of the Toreadors from Carmen, Suite No. 1
Coronation March from Le Prophete
Grand March from Aida
Pomp and Circumstance
22 January 2024
Lucy baptism anniversary. So Jung birthday.
Walking. Germantown. Strength work. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Ementha-Papaguneray (Turtle Song) - Emily Wurramara
Carnival of the Animals: IV. Tortioses – 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 Turtle – Laurent Perez Del Mar
Turtle – PARK JUNG EUN
A Turtle’s Heart – Mili
Turtle – Corinne Sloan
What a Wonderful World – Willie Nelson
Coat of Many Colors – Dolly Parton
God with Us – The Many
If I Had a Dinosaur – Raffi
What a Wonderful World – Eva Cassidy
Wheels on the Bus – Gracie’s Corner
Circle of Life – Carmen Twillie & Lebo M
Elmo’s Song – Elmo, Big Bird & Snuffleupagus
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
21 January 2024 – 2
Walking. Germantown.
New Mexico Women’s Chorus Sing a Rainbow Concert.
De Colores – John Baez
Blue Skies – Ella Fitzgerald
The Rainbow Connection – Christina Perri
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
No Color – Appleton Boys ChoirCo
Colors of the Wind – Vanessa Williams
Rainbowland – Miley Cyrus, feat. Dolly Parton
Blues for a Green Boy – Allison Girvan
True Colors – Cindy Lauper
Over the Rainbow – Judy Garland
Colorful – University of Rochester Eastman School of Music Women’s Chorus
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Family, Louisville, Music, playlist
29 December 2023
Stretching. Albuquerque.
Happy Second Birthday, Lucy!!
Cut the Cake – John McCutcheon
Sesame Street – Elmo
The People in Your Neighborhood – Sesame Street’s Bob & The Sesame Street Anything Muppets
We Shall Be Known – MaMuse, feat. Thrive
Unafraid – Matthew Black
Change the World – Gabrielle, Elmo, Rosita, Tamir & Sesame Street’s Charlie
Don’t Be Afraid – Chorus Pro Musica, Alison Adam, John Bell & William Chin
Sweet Slumber – David Asheba Wilson
The Hurting Times – Barnaby Bright
God with Us – The Many
Coat of Many Colors – Dolly Parton
My Girl – The Temptations
Dancing in the Street – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
You Are the Sunshine of My Life – Stevie Wonder
How Sweet It Is – Marvin Gaye
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross
Boomer Sooner – The University of Oklahoma Marching Band
Blue Is the Colour – Chelsea Football Club
Elmo’s Song – Elmo, Big Bird & Snuffleupagus
Wheels on the Bus – Gracie’s Corner
Dinosaur Song – Gracie’s Corner
Circle of Life – Carmen Twillie & Lebo M
Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Po La’i E/Silent Night – C. Pueo Pata, Leimana Abenes
Happy Birthday Lucy
Filed under Exercise, Family, Music, New Mexico, playlist
24 December 2023
No real exercise.
Cooked and lit luminaries in Albuquerque.
Snow on the Sandias.
Holy Night/Rise Up Shepherd – Jersey Boys Ensemble
For Unto Us a Child Is Born – Core Cotton, Jamecia Bennett, James Wright, Carrie Harrington, Pat Lacy & Sounds of Blackness
Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
The Bushes of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains and Jackson Browne
Uncle Carl – Aaron Lacombe
Canticle of the Turning – Rory Cooney, Gary Daigle & Theresa Donohoo
Midnight Christmas Eve -Trans-Siberian Orchestra
O Holy Night – Indigo Girls
Away in a Manger – Jack Gladstone
Sweet Little Jesus – Natalie Cole
The Huron Carole – Tom Jackson
Noisey Night – david m. bailey
Silent Night – Christine Anu
Christmas Eve – Robert Mirabel
Silent Night – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Filed under Family, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Along the Graybeard Trail 