Steelers 5K Run Walk to support the Art Rooney Scholarship Fund and the Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research. Done virtually in North Domingo Baca Park.
Renegade – Styx
Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
Apple Cider Re-Constitution – Al Stewart
The Weight – Aretha Franklin
Running On Empty – Jackson Browne
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
Long May You Run – Neil Young
Let The Circle Be Wide – Tommy Sands
Grapefruit Moon – Tom Waits
Nantucket Sleighride – Mountain
Last Lonely Eagle – New Riders of the Purple Sage
Mr. Bojangles – Nina Simone
A Whiter Shade Of Pale – Procol Harum
Tell Me Why – Archie Roach
Victor Jara – Arlo Guthrie
Carry On Till Tomorrow – Badfinger
Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles
Will It Go Round in Circles – Billy Preston
Fire Of Freedom – Black 47
Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Calling All The Children Home – John McCutcheon
No Surrender – Bruce Springsteen
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
The Rocky Road To Dublin – The Chieftains & The Rolling Stones
Stairway to Heaven – Dolly Parton
Piper to the End – Mark Knopfler
Gone To Shiloh – Elton John & Leon Russell
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
Boulder to Birmingham – Emmylou Harris
Someday We’ll All Be Free 40 Keb’ Mo’
Category Archives: Football
Steelers 5K Run Walk
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Exercise, Football, Music, New Mexico, Pittsburgh Steelers, playlist
There’s a lot in a name
Isn’t it odd that the same person who removed the Indigenous name Denali from the mountain in Alaska now wants to return the name of the Washington football team to a racist slur because “Our great Indian people … their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them.”???
Spoiler:
This is a rhetorical question.
There is nothing odd about it.
It is the same old white supremacist bs that undergirds the dominant society and is being expressed in so many ways by the current administration.
Here endeth the lesson.
Here begineth and continueth the advocacy.
Advocacy opportunities related to the use of Indigenous names and imagery include
National Congress of American Indians
Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance
Not Your Mascot
National Museum of the American Indian Webinar: Changing the Narrative About Native Americans
Twin Cities PBS: Not Your Mascot: Native Americans and Team Mascots
The Lakota Law Project provides many opportunities for advocacy around issues facing Indigenous peoples
In Whose Honor? – video from more than 20 years ago that, sadly, remains relevant in the current atmosphere
For information about the naming of Denali and the suggestion to change back the names of the Washington football team and the Cleveland base ball see:
Denali name change
Proposed sports name changes
Filed under Antiracism, Baseball, Current Events, Football, Human Rights, Sports
5 September 2024
Self-care started again.
Morning movement. Hand weights. Walking. Chair stretching. Floor stretching.
The Dawning of the Day – Mary Fahl
The Gift Of Years – Eric Bogle
Color-Blind Angel – Robin Rogers
Mary Of The Wild Moor – Johnny Cash
Opus – Black Violin
War of Man – Neil Young
Either Way – Wilco
Izithembiso Zenkosi – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Didn’t It Rain – Amy Helm
Sugar Magnolia – Grateful Dead
Son Sventa N’ahual San Lorenzo – Lol Gomez, Xun Perez, and Mariano Santis Hernandez
You – Marvin Gaye
Fashion – David Bowie Legacy
A Case Of You – k.d. lang
Bad To Me – Billy J. Kramer
The City of Chicago – Christy Moore
Screech Out – Come From Away
Dhrinnin Dhu Dhrinnin -Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand & David Sear
Victim of Love – Eagles
I Will Be There – Tina Turner
Clear the Track – Pete Seeger
Ruler of My Heart – Robert Mirabal
A.D. 2000 – Erykah Badu
I Say A Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin
Fire and Rain – James Taylor
Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Just My Imagination – The Temptations
The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel
I Shall Be Released – Nina Simone
Seven Spanish Angels – Willie Nelson with Ray Charles
A Song for You – Donny Hathaway
The Weight- Playing for Change
Caught Up In a Situation – Emma Donovan
Ghost Light – John McCutcheon
COFFEE BEAN – Travis Scott
Star Of The County Down – Van Morrison & The Chieftains
Jesus Is On the Wire – Thea Hopkins
The Hang-Down Curtain – Hong Ting
Free – H.E.R.
Stairway to Heaven – Jana
We Rise – Rhiannon Giddens
Om Hare Om (Gopala Krishna) – George Harrison
Across the Blue Mountains – Aoife Clancy
I’ve Been Loving You Too Long – Otis Redding
Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
Moon Meets The Sun – Our Native Daughters
Filed under Exercise, Football, Louisville, Music, Poem
Keep running – a reflection on the death of Franco Harris
This morning brought the news that
Franco Harris, Hall of Fame running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers
died unexpectedly last night at age 72.
Recognized as one of the great running backs in the NFL,
Franco played on four Super Bowl champions
and still holds Super Bowl records
as well as multiple Steelers records.
He stood at the center of an iconic moment in the 1972 playoffs.
The Steelers, who had experienced a distinct lack of success as a team,
trailed the Oakland Raiders.
With time running out, a desperation pass ricocheted
off a player or players whose name remains unknown.
The ball fell toward the ground.
The hopes of Steelers players and supporters began to sink.
For a moment, defeat loomed. Again.
The moment of despair proved fleeting.
Then, Franco Harris, who kept running as the play developed,
scooped up the ball and kept running into the end zone
for a Steelers touchdown and a victory that helped launch a dynasty.
It would be false to say that Franco is a hero of my childhood—
he was only four years older than me.
It would be true to say that in my life,
I have owned two shirts that bore the name of athlete and that athlete’s number:
Roberto Clemente 21.
Franco Harris. 32.
Although I never had the privilege to meet Franco in person,
I did visit his statue every time I was in the Pittsburgh airport.
I remember and grieve this day for:
an elite athlete,
a valued teammate
a respected adversary.
I remember and grieve this day for:
a husband, father, family man,
a mentor,
an encourager.
I remember and grieve this day for:
an advocate for racial justice,
an individual who reached out to people in need,
an ambassador for Pittsburgh.
I remember and grieve this day for
a man described by teammates, opponents, and most everyone who knew him
on the field or off the field as:
kind,
friendly,
gracious,
good,
humble,
accommodating,
gentle,
and loving.
As I remember,
and as I grieve,
I give thanks that
I saw Franco Harris play
I give thanks that
I sawFranco Harris live.
Keep running.
Filed under Current Events, Football
11 September 2022
Walking. Slow jogging. Steelers Virtual 5K Run and Walk. Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research. Germantown;.
Rolling. Stretching. Hand weights.
Mychal – Black 47
One Morning In Bar Harbour – Eric Bogle
Believe – Yellowcard
Tuesday Morning – Melissa Etheridge
Rules – Wu-Tang Clan
Hole In the Sky – Juliana Hatfield
Grand Central Station – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Our Town – Linda Bonadies
I Can’t See New York – Tori Amos
Heroes – David Bowie
Out of Our Heads – Sheryl Crow
If This Is Goodbye – Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
The Bravest – Tom Paxton
My Last Breath – Evamescence
I Heard an Owl – Carrie Newcomer
Akai Inochi – MISIA fear. Erykah Baud
Tuesday – Five for Fighting
The Proud – Talib Kweli
On That Day – Leonard Cohen
Let’s Roll – Neil Young
Empty Sky – Bruce Springsteen
Prayer – Come from Away
Venceremos – Ventiscka
Compañero Presidente – Angel Parra
Manifiesto – Victor Jara
Filed under Exercise, Football, Louisville, Music, playlist
30 November 2019
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Assorted college football games.
16 November 2019
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Listening to Oklahoma – Baylor football.
10 November 2019
Walking. Chelsea. Sometimes with Henrik.
Dreamscapes: Canyon People – R. Carlos Nakai
So Far Away – Carole King
Daniel and the Sacred Harp – The Band
In da Club – 50 Cent
Touch – Sarah McLachlan
Steelers football
We Meet Again Tour – 7 January 2018
Sports continued to feature prominently in the early part of the We Meet Again Tour. This time it involved watching the Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL playoffs. For a number of reasons, I have mixed feelings about watching football, particularly pro football. But I did again this year. We will see what next year brings.
The Shire does not have cable tv so I went to Sean’s apartment to watch. He went to see Bette Midler in her final performance in Hello Dolly.
Henrik watched with me. That was the highlight of the day.
Bowl-ing
After celebrating Christmas Eve Day in Ann Arbor, we (Tricia, Eric, Essie, Bentley, and me) loaded into Tricia’s car and drove to Solon to celebrate Christmas Day with my brother and sister-in-law and their family.
On the day after Christmas, we loaded into the car again and returned to Ann Arbor. Then we drove to Ford Field in Detroit where we watched Duke beat Northern Illinois in the Quick Lane Bowl.
See you along the Trail.
Along the Graybeard Trail 