River of Lights. ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden.
Refugee King – Liz Vice Refugee King
Do You Hear What I Hear? – Mahalia Jackson
I Saw Three Ships – Bruce Cockburn
The Moon Shines Bright – Quadriga Consort
The Simple Birth – Barbara Higbie
O Holy Night – The Chieftains
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen – Eileen Bedlington & Lumiere String Quartet
Room for Us All – The Many
Silent Night – Ed Ames
Christmas In New Orleans – John Legend
Star In The East 3:09 John McCutcheon Winter Solstice Christmas 0
O Come All Ye Faithful – Holiday Traditions
Rain Into Snow – William Coulter
Patapan – Julie Andrews
We Three Kings Of Orient Are – José Feliciano
Jesus Christ The Apple Tree – John Rutter: Clare College Singers & Orchestra
Like The First Time It’s Christmas Time – Tommy Sands
Angels We Have Heard On High – Nashville Christmas Orchestra
Stars and Midnight Blue – Enya
Category Archives: Family
28 December 2025
Filed under Albuquerque, Christmas, Family, Music, New Mexico, playlist, zoo
25 December 2025
No exercise.
Canticle of the Turning – Princeton Seminary Choir
Happy Christmas – Angelique Kidjo
Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn
Christmas in the Trenches – John McCutcheon
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
The Bushes of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains & Jackson Browne
We Are Christmas – Spelman Glee Club
Away in a Manger – The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. George Clinton & Robert Randolph
Mary’s Boy Child – Harry Belafonte
Silent Night – Aretha Franklin
The First Noel – R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton
It Came upon the Midnight Clear – Mahalia Jackson
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Cumberland Gap Reunion
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Dolly Parton
Joy to the World – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus
Christmas Morning – Peter Mayer
Filed under Albuquerque, Christmas, Family, Music, New Mexico, playlist
24 December – Christmas Eve
No exercise.
Sean here.
Services at First Presbyterian and St. Andrew.
Visited the Bugg Lights with Lucy.
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 Advent, Albuquerque, Christmas, Family, Music, New Mexico, playlist
21 December 2025
21 December 2025. Day 7.
Rest day. Minimal walking in La Cueva Neighborhood. Making Christmas cookies with Lucy and Tricia.
Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere).
Solstice Hymn – Jay Ungar/Mary Lea/Abby Newton/Molly Mason
Western Sky – Brian Keane, Michael Manring & Paul McCandless
Joyful Times – Marion Meadows
Winter Solstice Song – Rosemary Beland
Secret Places – Todd Cochran
Solstice Prayer – R. Carlos Nakai
Northern Lights – Lisa Lynne
New England Morning – William Ackerman & Joan Jeanrenaud
Ursa Major – Michael Hedges
Winter Solstice – Robert Mirabal
Winter Solstice Sunrise – Mothertongue
A Long, Long Night – Crow Women Seasons:
The Year Is Born Anew – Jaiya Firedance:
Ring Out, Solstice Bells – Jethro Tull
The Sun Is Gonna Rise – Bill Miller
Drive the Cold Winter Away – Horslips
Night Falls on the Great Plains – Jessita Reyes
Winter Solstice – Karim Kamar
Winter Solstice – Taya Tenney
Winter Solstice – D.M.
Mountain Song – Eric Gillette
Winter Solstice Night – The Dolmen
Winter Solstice – Felt Galaxy
Winter Solstice – Sollaris
Winter Solstice – BEN WISCH
Shortest Day of the Year – Crystal Stones
Snow On The Mesa – David Arkenstone
White Is In the Winter Night – Enya And Winter Came
Now Winter Comes Slowly – Sting If On A Winter’s Night
A prayer to find home
On this day
and every day,
may each heart,
may every heart,
find some place,
find some people,
to call home.
Amen.
Filed under Current Events, Family, Friends, Prayer
So Jung, you are remembered
Before her death in January of this year, my friend the Rev. Dr. So Jung Kim, who served the PC(USA) as the associate for theology in the Office of Theology and Worship, said to me in very low moment, “No one will remember me.”
I told her she was wrong.
On Sunday, St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, where my son Eric serves as transitional pastor, will include So Jung among the saints they name. I am grateful.
If your congregation is naming saints, I am sure you have many individuals to remember. I give thanks for each one of them.
And if you are so inclined, please include the Rev. Dr. So Jung Kim and help demonstrate that we do remember her.
For the Rev. Dr. So Jung Kim and all the saints – thanks be to God!
Filed under Family, Friends, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Worship
20 August 2025
Happy Birthday, Eric.
Cut The Cake – John McCutcheon
On Top of the World – Imagine Dragons
No Need for Words – Sean Jones
Home We’ll Go (Take My Hand) – Steve Aoki & Walk Off the Earth
A Night In Tunisia – Miles Davis
Whistles The Wind – Flogging Molly
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
Take Me Home Country Roads – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Good People – Jack Johnson
A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement – John Coltrane
Sunshine Highway – Dropkick Murphys
Young Wolves – Fire Crow
Mumbles – Oscar Peterson Trio & Clark Terry
Birthday Party – AJR
Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
Blue Is The Colour – Chelsea Football Club
If We Could Be Brave – Matthew Black
Captain America Main Titles – Alan Silvestri
Captain America “We Did It” – Alan Silvestri
Captain America March – Alan Silvestri
Filed under Albuquerque, Family, Music, New Mexico, playlist
29 July 2025
47th 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
You’ve Got A Friend – James Taylor
Weary Mothers – Joan Baez
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
Filed under Albuquerque, Family, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Purple flowers, Washita Battlefield National Historic Park 4
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Cheyenne, Oklahoma
June 14, 2025
Filed under Family, National Park, Photo, Travel
Purple flowers, Washita Battlefield National Historic Park 3
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Cheyenne, Oklahoma
June 14, 2025
Filed under Family, National Park, Photo, Travel
Along the Graybeard Trail 