Category Archives: Family

29 July 2023

Home – Karla Bonoff

Raise You Up / Just Be – Kinky Boots Original Broadway 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 – Once on This Island Original Broadway Cast

The President Sang Amazing Grace – Joan Baez

Waltzing Matilda – Seona McDowell

Finale – Come From Away Original Broadway Cast

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

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot

You’ve Got a Friend – James Taylor

Pata Pata 2000 – Miriam Makeba

What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel

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22 July 2023

Birthday playlist – normal rules do not apply. This played through the day.
Camp Nelson National Monument. Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument. Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.
Cut the Cake – John McCutcheon
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
That’s the Way God Planned It – Billy Preston
Tapestry – Carole King
I Will Find You – Clannad
Idiot Wind – bob Dylan
This Little Light of Mine – Fannie Lou Hamer
I Know Where I’ve Been – Queen Latifah
Golden Feather – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Glory – Common & John Legend
We Shall Remain – Kaolin Johnson
Whiskey in the Jar – Thin Lizzy
These Days – Nico
No Human Is Illegal – The Wakes
For a Dancer – Jackson Browne
The Big Fellah – Black 47
All Along the Watchtower – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Mr. Bojangles – Nina Simone
How Can I Keep from Singing – Eva Cassidy
No Surrender – Bruce Springsteen
Long May You Run – Neil Young
Lean on Me – Bill Withers
The Great Peace March – Holly Near
Let It Be – The Beatles
Younger Men Grow Older – Richie Havens
Carry on Til Tomorrow – Badfinger
Imagine – Willie Nelson
Let the Circle Be Wide – Tommy Sands
Three Little Birds – Bob Marley &The Wailers
Step by Step – Sweet Honey in the Rock
The Weight – Aretha Franklin
Helpless – k.d. lang
Further On – Johnny Cash
My Shot – Hamilton
Cradle to the Grace – Eric Bogle
Find Your Way – Adina Nyree DinaDeen Mardenbergh
Peace Anthem – Sera
A Song of Peace – David LaMotte
This Wheel’s on Fire – The Band
Theme for an Imaginary Western – Mountain
Child of the Wind – Bruce Cockburn
Tiny Dancer – Elton John
Ghosts of Houston Street- Raya Zaragoza
Younger Men Grow Older – Richie Havens
Apple Cider Re-Constitution – Al Stewart
Rock Me on the Water – Annie Humphrey
Charcoal Lane – Archie Roach
Victor Hara – Arlo Guthrie
Streets of London – Ralph McTell
Manhattan Island Serenade – Leon Russell
One Light in a Dark Valley – Harry Chapin
Conquistador – Procol Harum
I Shall Be Released – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Long as I Can See the Light – Joe Cocker
Morning Has Broken – Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam
Who’ll Stop the Rain – Credence Clearwater Revival
After the Goldrush – Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmy Lou Harris
Don’t Stop – Fleetwood Mac
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
Boulder to Birmingham – Emmylou Harris
Southbound Train – Graham Nash & David Crosby
The Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
It’s All Right to Cry – Rosey Grier
Piper to the End – Mark Knoplfer
Magic Man – Tom Chapin
River of Time – Bill Miller
I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash
Loch Lomond – Paul Robeson
Jolly Roger – Roger McGuinn
Angie – The Rolling Stones
Old Friends – Simon & Garfunkel
Mother and Child Reunion – Paul Simon
Waiting on the World to Change – Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’
The Great Storm Is Over – Bob Framke

The Weight – Playing for Change
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Forever Young – The Band
Forever Young – Rod Stewart
Forever Young – Rhiannon Giddens & Iron & Wine
Forever Young – Joan Baez
Forever Young – Pete Seeger with The Rivertown Kids

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3 July 2023

Walking. The Parklands at Floyds Fork.
Battle Cry of Freedom – Jacqueline Schwab
Who Knows Where the Wind Blows – Tommy Sands
Paddy’s Lamentation – Mary Black
Gettysburg – Tmark Band
Kathleen Mavourneen – John McCormack
Gettysburg – John Bell
The Round Tops – Jeff Stike
Gettysburg – Kyle Thompson
Gettysburg – Civil War
Gettysburg, The Third Day – Sunderman Conservatory Wind Symphony & Russell McCutcheon
Kingdom Coming – Matt Glaser, Evan Stover, Jay Ungar, Art Baron & Molly Mason
Give Us a Flag – Richie Havens
We Are Climbing – Bernice Johnson Reagon
Battle Hymn of the Republic – The Abyssinian Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir
Main Title (“From Gettysburg”) – The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Ashokan Farewell – Jay Unger and Molly Mason

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4 July 2023

Happy Birthday, Patty.
Walking. Gym in the apartment.
Do You Hear What I Hear? – Ed Ames
Wade in the Water – Eva Cassidy
We Are the Champions – Queen
Imagine—John Lennon
You Can’t Always Get What You Want—The Rolling Stones
Soul Man—Sam & Dave
Moonshadow—Cat Stevens/Yusuf
Sloop John B—The Beach Boys
Roundabout—Yes
You’ve Got a Friend in Me—Randy Newman
Wonderful World—Sam Cooke
Reach Out (I’ll Be There)—Four Tops
Rainbow Connection—Kermit the Frog
I’ll Find You—Lecrae feat. Tori Kelly
I Go to Sleep—The Kinks
Down in the Mall—Warren Zevon
Come Sail Away—Styx
Brick by Brick—Arctic Monkeys
Mary’s Boy Child – Harry Belafonte
We Are Family—Sister Sledge

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4 July 2023

4 July. Germantown. Shelby Park. 5K to support The Luminus Network, an organization in Baltimore that offers legal, social and language services to our neighbors.
In Baltimore Lucy rolled and Eric ran. I walked. Slowly.
City of Immigrants – Steve Earle with Forro in the Dark
Immigrant Eyes – Willie Nelson
Immigrant – John McCutcheon
The Immigrants – Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks
Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) – K’naan, Snow Tha Product, Riz MC & Residente
The Dreamer – Jackson Browne
Look in Their Eyes – David Crosby
No Human Is Illegal – The Wakes
Ave Que Emigra – Gaby Morena
Amor Migrante – Elena & Los Fulanos
Migra – Santana

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2 July 2023

Walking. Germantown.
Happy Birthday, Paul Koenig!
Hello Muddah Hello Faddah – Allan Sherman
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 – Kansas
Fishin’ in the Dark – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Africa – Toto
Desperado – Linda Ronstadt
Under Pressure – David Bowie & Queen
Seven Bridges Road – The Eagles
The Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Nostradamus – Al Stewart
What Is Life – George Harrison
Never Been Any Reason – Head East

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19 April 2023

Tricia’s birthday.
Illness continues. Puttering around apartment.
Cut the Cake – John McCutcheon
Third Movement of the Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught – South Pacific
I Could Have Danced All Night – My Fair Lady
Free to Be … You and Me – The New Seekers
Feel Like a Natural Woman – Carole King
Running on Empty – Jackson Browne
The Pony Man – Gordon Lightfoot
Prayer – Come from Away
Raise You Up/Just Be – Kinky Boots
Just My Imagination – The Temptations
Home – Karla Bonoff
Dance to the Music – Sly & The Family Stone
Pata Pata 2000 – Miriam Makeba
Quite Early Morning – The Mammals
Let It Be – The Beatles
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World – Israel KaKamakawiwo’ole
Flamingo – Kero Kero Benito
Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel

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Purple flowers, Dickeyville #4

Lucy’s Easter Flowers
Dickeyville, Maryland
9 April 2023

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And yet

Much like any morning
garbage dumped
coffee made
coffee consumed
dishwasher runs
dryer spins

and yet

with the dawn
comes anew the awareness that
grace abides
hope abounds
love lives
mercy multiplies
justice beckons

for Christ is risen,
risen indeed,
making this day,
and every day,
holy.
Alleluia.

8:45 AM, 9 April 2023
There is poetic license at work here. The closest I came to seeing dawn this Easter day is in some photos of the sunrise service at Second Presbyterian Church in Baltimore that my son Eric took. One of those photos appears in this post.

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Purple, not flowers, bird house

1 April 2023
Dickeyville,, Maryland

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