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Purple flowers, guest collection #117

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photo by Tricia Dykers Koenig
Louisville, Kentucky
23 May 2020

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Purple flowers, guest collection #116

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photo by Tricia Dykers Koenig
Louisville, Kentucky
23 May 2020

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10 May 2020

Posted a day late.
The first portion is the second half of the Love & Hope in the Age of COVID-19 playlist by Ester Sihite. Sean provided the song for the Playbill 30-Song Challenge. There are tributes to Little Richard and Betty Wright.
Pacing. The Shire.
Bold as Love – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
I’ll Follow the Sun – The Beatles
My  Love Is Your Love – Whitney Houston
Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Holy – Jamila Woods
All These Things That I’ve Done – The Killers
Flashed Junk Mind – Milky Chance
Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae
FourFiveSeconds – Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney
Lovely Day – Bill Withers
Calling All Angels – Train
Cecilia and the Satellite – Andrew McMahon
May This Be Love – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
I Know Him So Well – Chess (Playbill 30-day Challenge, thanks Sean)
Rock Island Line – Little Richard with Fishbone

Little Richard
Lucille
The Girl Can’t Help It
Tutti Frutti
Send Me Some Lovin’
Long Tall Sally
Get Down with It
True Fine Mama
Jenny, Jenny
Good Golly, Miss Molly
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
Anyway You Want Me
You Gotta Feel It

Betty Wright
Clean Up Woman
Tonight Is the Night
Where Is the Love

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9 May 2020

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

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Purple flowers guest collection, #111

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Photo by Tricia Dykers Koenig
Louisville, Kentucky
4 May 2020

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Purple flower guest collection, #110

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Photo by Tricia Dykers Koenig
Louisville, Kentucky
4 May 2020

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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.

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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?

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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!!

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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)

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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)

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