Helping Eric and Essie move. Preaching at Dickey Memorial Presbyterian Church, So Jung Kim birthday.
Ementha-Papaguneray (Turtle Song) – Emily Wurramara
It’s My Life – Bon Jovi
Carnival of the Animals: IV. Tortioses – Isata Kanneh-Mason, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Ayla Sahin, Timothy Ridout, Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Toby Hughes
Hasten down the Wind – Warren Zevon
Ekka’s Silver Jubilee Song – Eric Bogle
Sweet Reminder – Rebecca Riots
Koroghlu – Ashiq Hasan Trio
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
The Power Is Out – Blackfire
Frutsi – Gabriela Triste
Maneo – The Chieftains
Walkin’ Back to Georgia – Jim Croce
The Fire Inside – Bob Seger
Po’ Boy – Bob Dylan
I’m Ready – Tracy Chapman
I Believe in You – Dolly Parton
Category Archives: Family
22 January 2023
21 January 2023
Helping Eric and Essie move. Walking with Lucy. Dickeysville.
Rosa Sat – Amy Dixon-Kolar
Gnawin’ on It – Bonnie Raitt
The Living – Natalie Merchant
Boris Godounov – Symphonic Synthesis By Leopold Stokowski: II. Coronation of Boris – Cleveland Orchestra
Hello My Baby – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
I Don’t Wanna Talk about It – Indigo Girls
Wide Open Spaces – The Chicks
I’m Not Sleeping – Counting Crows
The Golden Road – Grateful Dead
My Better Years – The Johnson Mountain Boys
Comin’ Around – Steve Earle & Emmylou Harris
Waiting for a Miracle – John McCutcheon
Falling from Sleeves – Calexico
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
I’ll Do Anything for Love – Meat Loaf
19 January 2023
Taking things to the garage for Eric and Essie’s move.
Taking recycling and garbage to the appropriate location.
North East, Maryland.
Dolly Parton’s birthday. All songs by Dolly except as otherwise noted.
When Life Is Good Again
Joshua
Coat of Many Colors
Jolene
I Will Always Love You
Please Don’t Stop Loving Me – feat. Porter Wagoner
Love Is Like a Butterfly
The Bargain Store
Here You Come Again
Eagle When She Flies
It’s All Wrong, But It’s all Right
Heartbreaker
I really Got the Feeling
You’re the Only One
Starting over Again
|Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle
9 to 5
But You Know I Love You
Tennessee Homesick Blues
Islands in the Stream – feat. Kenny Rogers
Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That
After the Gold Rush – with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
18 January 2023
Walking. 5K. Lucy in the stroller. North East.
Never Met a Man Like Yo – Layla Zoe
Wise Man – Uriah Heep
Madman Across the Water – Elton John
The Harvest Home Suite: Autumn – Jay Unger
Love Blues – Keb’ Mo’
Join the Boys – Joan Armatrading
MEDICINE – Shawn Wasabi, feat. Tia Socla
Baby-Baby-Baby – TLC
Chesapeake Moon – Robbin Thompson
Jazz – A Tribe Called Quest
Cotton Fields – Credence Clearwater Revival
Modern Times – Al Stewart
A whimsical prayer after a long walk
Gracious God, I thank you.
I thank you that I was able to take
a long walk today, pushing Lucy in her stroller.
I thank you that we could walk in safety.
I thank you for all the many times Lucy
turned around to look at me
and say “Hiiiii” in a loud voice.
I pray that every grandchild and grandparent
might have the opportunity to take such walks
or engage in other activities freely and safely.
May that day soon come.
Oh, and God, I could use a hand
with some aching muscles.
You know which ones they are.
Amen.
14 January 2023
On the road. Grove City start. North East finish.
Singing for Our Lives – Holly Near
The First Cut Is the Deepest – Cat Stevens
Song to a Refugee – Diana Jones
As I Went Out One Morning – Bob Dylan
Master Blaster – Stevie Wonder
Tell Me Why – Pat Benetar
Goodbye – Tracy Chapman
Arthur McBride – Paul Brady
Almost Home – mxmtoon
The Wizard – Uriah Heep
Manzanar – Tom Paxton & Annie Hills
The Cisco Kid – War
Coyote Dance – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Ramble Tamble – Credence Clearwater Revival
Buddhist Chant – Kazumasa Yoshioka
That’s the Hawaiian in Me – Various Artists
29 December 2022
Walking. Germantown.
Happy Birthday, Lucy!!
Cut the Cake – John McCutcheon
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
ABC Song – Gracie’s Corner
The Hurting Times – Barnaby Bright
God with Us – The Many
9 to 5 – 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
Po La’i E/Silent Night – C. Pueo Pata, Leimana Abenes
Happy Birthday Lucy
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AdventWord 2022 – December 22 – #choose
With thanks to Doc and Robert and all the people I do not know who choose hope and life and love by helping young people think through their choices.
This poster is from the first Teen Forum. The audience has since expanded to include all young people age 13-18.
Photo: 19 October 2022; The Bronx, New York
Filed under Advent, Antiracism, Family, Friends, Human Rights, New York, Photo
Christmas in the Trenches
As the holy day approaches, a number of people are asking, “What is your favorite Christmas song?” A variation is “What non-religious holiday song that moves your spirit?
Recognizing the amazing amount of wonderful holiday music, whether intentionally religious or intentionally non-religious, that exists, I believe my answer would be the same.
Thanks to the Rev. Essie Koenig-Reinke (my daughter-in-love), pastor of Dickey Memorial Presbyterian Church, here is a brief reflection on the song that is my answer. This was originally written for the church’s Advent devotional.
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (Micah 4:3b)
“My name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool.”
So begins ”Christmas in the Trenches” by singer-songwriter John McCutcheon, a song about the 1914 Christmas Truce told through the eyes of Tolliver, a fictional British soldier.
On Christmas Eve in the filth and muck of the trenches along World War I’s Western front, peace broke out.
Most accounts say it began with German soldiers singing Christmas carols. Others joined. And almost in a collective impulse, many German, British, and French soldiers put down their weapons and met in No-Man’s Land.
They sang, shared photos, told stories, and traded gifts from care packages. Some reports speak of makeshift soccer games played on Christmas Day.
Peace did not last as “with sad farewells we each began to settle back to war.”
The war raged until November 1918 and did not end war—wars and conflicts have followed to this day.
Still the Christmas Truce was a wondrous moment. of peace and and promise and possibility, of hope and justice.
Those themes resonate each year at the manger. They echo through Jesus’ life. He invites us to live into them—at Christmas and through the year.
May we so do.
Check out this call for a 2022 Christmas Trues in Ukraine.
Filed under Advent, Current Events, Family, Human Rights, Music
AdventWord 2022 – December 17 – #majesty
Late afternoon, early evening, New York City. From Arthur Ashe Stadium.
August, 2019
Along the Graybeard Trail 