Most days, I create the playlist myself.
Some days, I get by with help from friends and family.
This is one of those days.
The first song was added to the list when Alonzo posted it this morning.
The middle section is half of a playlist, Love & Hope in the Age of Coronavirus by Ester. The second half will come tomorrow.
The final song was given to me by Sean as part of the Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge.
Pacing. The Shire.
Backlash Blues – Nina Simone
Sunday Best – Surfaces
Anything at All – Over the Rhine
Biking – Frank Ocean
Ends of the Earth – Lord Huron
“40” – U2
Angel from Montgomery – John Prine & Bonnie Raitt
42 – Mumford & Sons
Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
How Can I Keep from Singing – Eva Cassidy
Blackbird – Brad Mehldau
Lean on Me – Bill Withers
Where the Light Is – Surfaces
Sal Tlay Ka Siti – Book of Mormon
Category Archives: Family
9 May 2020
Take a walk
Perhaps it is the sun pouring through my window.
Perhaps it is because Wednesday was Earth Day.
Perhaps it is because our Gospel lesson for Sunday tells of what happened to two of Jesus’ disciples as they walked to Emmaus.
Perhaps it is having been inside (for most of the time – I have stepped outs on a few occasions when deliveries arrived and to take some mail to the mailbox) since March 18.
Probably it is a combination of all those factors and more.
I want to take my camera and go to a park and take photos.
No need for anyone to find my doctor’s phone number and call her.
I will stay in. I will stay in.
I might look out the window more frequently today.
And I will share one photo that makes me smile.
The pond at Morningside Park has turtles, among other creatures.
One day, I caught them doing yoga.
What walks do you remember?
What made you smile as you walked?
What fed your spirit? What nurtured your soul?
Where might you walk today – in real life or in your imagination?
Filed under Current Events, Family, Friends, New York, Photo
19 April 2020
Pacing. Stretching. The Shire.
Cut the Cake – John McCutcheon
Third Movement of the Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
Running on Empty – Jackson Browne
The Pony Man – Gordon Lightfoot
38 Planes (Reprise)/Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere – Come from Away
Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
Just My Imagination – The Temptations
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught – South Pacific
I Could Have Danced All Night – My Fair Lady
Dance to the Music – Sly & The Family Stone
Free to Be … You and Me – The New Seekers
Let It Be – The Beatles
Feel Like a Natural Woman – Carole King
Quite Early Morning – The Mammals
Pata Pata 2000 – Miriam Makeba
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Happy Birthday, Tricia!!
29 March 2020
Walking (or pacing – there is a debate as to the right verb) in the Shire.
Old Soul – Highwomen
Walk through Fire – Yola
Someday – Ruby Ibarra
Daughter of the Deser – Rim Banna
Feel Like a Natural Woman – Carole King
I Am Woman Helen Reddy
The Weight – Aretha Franklin
Blood and Bones – Our Native World
Closer to Fine – Indigo Girls
Not to Blame – Joni Mitchell
Agolo – Angelique Kidjo
Stay Strong – Kelly Fraser
When a Woman – Shakira
Maybe Angel’s – Sheryl Crow
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands – Odetta
I Am What I Am – George Hearn from La Cage Aux Folles (the Playbill 30 Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)
28 March 2020
Pacing in the Shire.
I Heard an Owl – Carrie Newcomer
Rise Up – Andra Day
Presence – Brittany Howard
Como la Flor – Selena
Redesigning Women – The Highwomen
Cosmic Warrior – Lucia Hwong
Lionheart – Demi Lovato
Replay – Zendaya
La vie en rose – Edith Piaf
Us – Ruby Ibarra
One Woman: A Song for UN Women – Many artists
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
Fight Like a Girl – Kalie Shorr
Love Don’t Cost a Thing – Jennifer Lopez
This Is My Life – Shirley Bassey
The Four Legged Ones – Joanne Shennandoah
Five Zeroes – On the 20th Century (the Playbill 30 Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)
27 March 2020
Pacing. Stretching. The Shire.
Revolution – Kirk Franklin & The Family (in memory of Buddy Monahan)
Formation – Beyonce
Play a Love Song – Hikaru Utada
Freedom Train – Sweet Honey in the Rock
The Chain – Shawn Colvin
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
Waiting for Tonight – Jennifer Lopez
When a Woman – Shakira
Fight for the Rights – Kelly Fraser
State of the World – Janet Jackson
Rock Me on the Water – Annie Humphrey
Electric Lady – Janelle Monae
History Repeats – Brittany Howard
Un Dia Mas – Lya Barrioz
Cama-I – Mary Youngblood
Simple Joys – Pippin (the Playbill 30 Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)
26 March 2020
Walking. The Shire.
Third Movement of the Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian – Sean Koenig
We Dance – Once on This Island
I’ve Decided to Marry You – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly – My Fair Lady
Yorktown – Hamilton
Down on MacGonnachy Square – Brigadoon
Raise You Up/Just Be – Kinky Boots
Hello, Dolly – Hello, Dolly!
Seventy Six Trombones – The Music Man
Prayer – Come from Away
For Good – Wicked
Tonight – West Side Story
Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
Luck Be a Lady – Guys and Dolls (the Playbill 30 Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)
Happy Birthday Sean!
25 March 2020
Walking & Stretching in The Shire.
Unionhouse Branch – Alison Krauss & Union Station
My Foolish Heart – Roberta Flack
Mother – Magdalen Hsu-Li
Stand Up for Something – Andra Day
My Lord, What a Morning – Marian Anderson
See Saw – Aretha Franklin
Isketayo Sewow – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Prayer for the People – Carolyn M. Brittell
I Used to Be a Sailor – Tracy Chapman
Get It Up – TLC
Down the Road I Be Going – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Redemption Day – Sheryl Crow
Not Myself – Sharon Van Etten
Ndodemnyama Verwoerd – Miriam Makeba
Okay – Macy Gray
Robot Heart – Jessi Lee
Under the Sea – The Little Mermaid (the Playbill 30 Day Song Challenge – thanks Sean)
Along the Graybeard Trail 