Category Archives: Family

5 April 2023

Walk with Lucy. We met Luke and his person Libby.

Elmo’s Song – Elmo, Big Bird & Snuffleupagus
Wheels on the Bus – Gracie’s Corner
The Wheels on the Bus – Bert & Ernie
Wheels on the Bus – Raffi
The Wheels on the Bus – Sharon, Lois & Bram
Wheels on the Bus – Gracie’s Corner
The Wheels on the Bus – Bert & Ernie
Wheels on the Bus – Raffi
The Wheels on the Bus – Sharon, Lois & Bram
Wheels on the Bus – Gracie’s Corner
The Wheels on the Bus – Bert & Ernie
Wheels on the Bus – Raffi
The Wheels on the Bus – Sharon, Lois & Bram

It was a reasonably long walk. And they are short songs. And someone has a favorite song

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Purple flowers, Dickeyville #1

! April 2023
Dickeyville, Maryland

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30 March 2023

License plates for Dawn Treader. Post Office. Laundry. Dishes.
You’ve Got to Run – Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq
Cakewalk – Awkwafina
Taste of Ashes – Laurie Lewis
These Days – Nico
Aguis Mahasnik Biman – Rasha
Remember My Name – Yuna
I Am Her – Shea Diamond
Always in My Head – India.Arie
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – Judy Collins
Cold Wind – Mary Youngblood
Like a Swallow / Tsubame No Youni – Yumi Matsutoya
Hands – Jewel
Bridge over Troubled Water – Aretha Franklin
Hear Me Lord – Bonnie Raitt
Stand – Joi

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26 March 2023

Third Movement of the Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
Hello, Dolly! – 2017 Broadway Cast of Hello, Dolly! & Bette Midler
I’ve Decided to Marry You – Lauren Worsham, Lisa O’Hare & Bryce Pinkham
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly – Julie Andrews
A Weekend in the Country – A Little Night Music Ensemble
Under the Sea – Samuel E. Wright
I Am What I Am – Donald Pippin & George Hearn
I’m Here – Cynthia Erivo
One Hand, One Heart – Matt Cavenaugh & Josefina Scaglion3
Do-Re-Mi – Mary Martin, Lauri Peters, William Snowden, Kathy Dunn, Joseph Stewart, Marilyn Rogers, Mary Susan Locke & Evanna Lien
Your Daddy’s Son – Audra McDonald
Ease On Down the Road – The Wiz
Everything Old Is New Again – Hugh Jackman, Patrick Vaccariello & Various Artists
Ya Got Trouble – Robert Preston
Eye of the Tiger – Survivor

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St. Patrick’s Day

I speak for no others,

only for myself.

For me, this day has

nothing to do with

green beer or

green rivers or

green clothing,

this day has nothing to do with

pinching me or kissing me;

my bad jokes aside,

this day has nothing to do even with Jameson.

Today is a day

to remember oppression

to honor resistance

to recognize that, despite the efforts of

systems of race and racialization

to separate us,

struggles for dignity and justice,

freedom and equality,

human rights and humanity

are inseparably linked:

none of us are free until all of us are free.

for that reason, in that spirit, and in my own fashion,

I mark this day, and each 17th of March.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

Fitzgerald, from County Cork, on my mother’s side

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A prayer about steps

We rejoice with all your beloved children

who took their first steps today;

may their families and friends

love, nurture, and protect them;

may we create a society

in which they are cared for well.

We remember all your beloved children

who took their final steps today;

may they already be received into your nearer presence

where pain is no more and all tears are wiped away;

may those who mourn receive comfort and support

as they walk this shadowed valley.

We pray in the name of your Beloved Child Jesus,

the itinerant preacher who proclaimed and lived your love.

Amen.

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Purple flowers, Waterfront Botanical Park 13

Louisville Waterfront Botanical Garden
Louisville, Kentucky
25 February 2023

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Purple flowers, Waterfront Botanical Park 12

Louisville Waterfront Botanical Park
Louisville, Kentucky
25 February 2023

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25 February 2023

Walking. Louisville Waterfront Botanical Park.
Overture – Black Violin
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron
Waterfalls – TLC
Feed the Babies – Gary Clark, Jr.
I Shall Not Walk Alone – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Brown Skin – Indi.Arie
Welcome to the Terrordome – Public Enemy
State of the World – Janet Jackson
You’re Not Alone – Our Native Daughters
Glory – Common & John Legend
All in My Blood – Wiz Khalifa
Walk with Me – Fannie Lou Hamer
Black Betty – Lead Belly
Love Is Like an Aching in My Heart – The Supremes
Break Bread Together – Mary D. Williams
Let’s Get Married – Al Green

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20 February 2023

Walking. The Parklands of Floyds Fork.
Fight for Your Rights – Chili Most
Blood and Bones – Our Native Daughters
A Song for Assata – Common, feat. Cee-Lo
Or Down You Fall – Gil Scott-Heron
Theme from Mahogany – Diana Ross
I Don’t Live Today – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Dream Rag – Eubie Blake
Deep River – Pau; Robeson
The One Who Really Loves You – Mary Wells
I Want to Get Married – B.B. King
Outta-Speace – Billy Preston
Moonlight in Vermont – Harry Pickens
Give Me Your Kisses – Louis Armstrong
Phatsha-Phatsha – Hugh Masekela
Georgia Rose – Queen Latifah, feat. Stevie Wonder
I Was a Fool – Elmore James
Overture – Black Violin
Work for Your Money – Howlin’ Wolf

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