April 1, 2025 · 12:15 am
Hiking. Mesa View Trail, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. Quarai Ruins, Salinas Pueblos Missions National Monument.
International Transgender Day of Visibility
Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
I’d Love to Change the World – Shea Diamond
iT – Christine and the Queens
Warrior Heart – Shawnee
Thorn In Your Side – namoli brennet
Body Was Made – Ezra Furman
Girls and Boys – Blur
King for a Day – Green Day
Androgynous – The Replacements
For Marsha P. Johnson – Bryce Dessner
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
We Exist – Arcade Fire
Eudaemonia – Them Are Us Too
What Is This Thing Called Love – Billy Tipton
Sometimes I Cry – Jason Kwan
Heartbreaker – Ah-Mer-Ah-Su
Girl In Blue – Animal Sun
Stand Up – Tom Morello, Shea Diamond & Dan Reynolds, feat. The Bloody Beetroots0
This Is Home – Cavetown
Forever in Sunset – Ezra Furman
To be honest – Christine and the Queens
Gospel For a New Century – Yves Tumor
Feel the Power – Glovibes, Luciana & Sasha Colby
Overthinking out Loud – Moore Kismet
want – Dua Saleh
Born 2 Live – Dreamer Isioma
And a couple for Bill
Spanish Inquisition (Part 1) – Monty Python
Spanish Inquisition (Part 2) – Monty Python
Spanish Inquisition (Part 3) – Monty Python
Spanish Inquisition Revisited – Monty Python
Drop Kick Me Jesus – Ray Stevens
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Friends, hiking, Human Rights, Music, National Park, New Mexico, playlist
Tagged as Bill Schram, International Transgender Day of Visibility, Mesa View Trail, Monty Python, Quarai Ruins, Salinas Pueblos Missions National Monument, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge
February 27, 2025 · 9:08 pm
Hiking. Alameda Open Space.
Black History Month
Coolman Baby Archie Roach, Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky & Ruby Hunter
Some Other Spring – Billie Holiday
Simbonile – The Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble
See The Light – Earth, Wind & Fire
Gracious – Bobby McFerrin
Can Anyone Ask For Money – Ray Charles
So Far to Go – Common & D’Angelo
(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below We’re All Going To Go – Curtis Mayfield
Too Many Bridges – Archie Roach
Portrait Of An Ermite – Thelonious Monk
Real Real – Nina Simone
Arabesque Cookie – Duke Ellington
Respect Yourself – The Staple Singers
Wheels on the Bus – Gracie’s Corner
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May – Bayard Rustin
DUST/DIVINITY – Joy Oladokun
Mahalla – Carolina Chocolate Drops
Money Is King – Leyla McCalla
Rose Garden – Dobie Gray
Friend – Roberta Flack
Awesome – The Temptations
Everyday Heroes & Heroines – Deidre McCalla
Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar
You’ll Never Walk Alone – Brittany Howard
February 22, 2025 · 12:41 am
Hiking. The Volcanoes. Petroglyph National Monument.
Malcolm X / El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz assassination.
Nina Simone birth.
Black History Month.
Revolution – Nina Simone
I Wish I Knew How I Would Feel to Be Free – Nina Simone
The Malcolm X Jazz Suite – Terence Blanchard
Roll ‘Em Pete – Big Joe Turner
Flying Home – Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
My Prayer – The Ink Spots
Big Stuff – Billie Holiday
Don’t Cry Baby – Erskine Childers
Bean and Cornbread – Louis Jordan
Azure – Ella Fitzgerald
Alabama – John Coltrane
That Lucky Old Sun Just Rolls Around Heaven – Ray Charles
Arabesque Cookie – Duke Ellington
Shotgun – Junior Walker & The All Stars
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Tagged as Black History Month, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, hiking, Malcom X, Nina Simone, Petroglyph National Monument, The Volcanoes
February 20, 2025 · 9:20 pm
Hiking. Sandia Foothills. Stretching.
Black History Month.
Someday We’ll All Be Free – Keb’ Mo’
Mbube – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Love’s In Need of Love Today – The String Queens
Spring Is Here – Ahmad Jamal
Home – Diana Ross, The Wiz: Original Soundtrack
Fly Girl – Queen Latifah
Brand New Second Hand – Peter Tosh
A Sign of the Ages – Gil Scott-Heron
Starlight – Yola
Finally Made Me Happy – Macy Gray
Hard To Love – H.E.R.
I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About In My Song – Mahalia Jackson
Yellow Moon – The Neville Brothers
What Now – Rihanna
Crush – Yuna, feat. Usher
February 7, 2025 · 5:49 pm
Hiking. Elena Gallegos Open Space. Morning Movement. Hand weights. Chair stretching.
Black History Month.
I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross
Enough!! – A Tribe Called Quest
S.O.S (Mother Nature) – will.i.am
Fight the Power – Public Enemy
Ooo Baby Baby – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Human Mic – Talib Kweli
I Can’t Describe (The Way I Feel) – Jennifer Hudson, feat. T.J.
World Wide Rebel Songs – Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
You Beat Me to the Punch – Mary Wells
Matter of Time – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
The Lord’s Prayer – Aaron Neville
Oh Lord, You Know Just How I Feel 4:00 Fannie Lou Hamer
Behind Enemy Lines – Dead Prez
I’ll Fly Away – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Governor O.K. Allen – Lead Belly
Latifah’s Had It Up To Here – Queen Latifah
Still Gone – Yola
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Tagged as Black History Month, chair stretching, Elena Gallegos Open Space, hand weights, iking, morning movement
February 5, 2025 · 12:39 am
Hiking. Petroglyph National Monument. Boca Negra Canyon Mesa Point Trail. Boca Negra Canyon Cliff Base Trail. Walking. Neighborhood.
Mrs. Rosa Parks birthday. Mr. Amadou Diallo death.
Sister Rosa – The Neville Brothers
Rosa Sat – Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir
Rosa Parks – Outkast
Diallo – Wyclef Jean
American Skin (41 Shots) – Bruce Springsteen
A.D. 2000 – Erykah Badu
I Find It Hard to Say (Rebel) – Lauryn Hill
I Know Where I’ve Been – Queen Latifah
Freedom (Celebration Mix) – Joi
That’s Who I Am – Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’
Woke Up This Morning – Fannie Lou Hamer
We’ll Never Turn Back – Sweet Honey In the Rock, James Horner, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ysaye M. Barnwell, Nitanju Bolade Casel, Aisha Kahlil, Carol Maillard & Michael Fisher
Eyes on the Prize – Mavis Staples
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Tagged as Amadou Diallo, Black History Month, Boca Negra Canyon, Petroglyph National Monument, Rosa Parks, walking
February 3, 2025 · 10:37 pm
Hike. Rio Grande Nature Center State Park. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Black History Month.
I Want You Back – Yuna
New Life – Black Violin
Spirit of Place – Archie Roach
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Paul Robeson
Reason to Love – The Staple Singers
Dancing In the Street – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Am I Black Enough for You? – Billy Paul
I’ve Got To Use My Imagination – Gladys Knight & The Pips
I’m Crying (Mother’s Tears) – Grace Jones
Many Rivers To Cross – Jimmy Cliff
Rhythym Child – Carlos Jones and the PLUS Band
Patriot Act – Heems
Baby I Love You – Aretha Franklin
Rockin’ Daddy – Howlin’ Wolf
I Would Die 4 U – Prince
February 1, 2025 · 8:59 pm
Hike. Aldo Leopold Trail, Rio Grande Nature Center. Walk. Wyoming Blvd. Morning movement. Hand weights. Chair stretching.
Black History Month.
Let America Be America Again By Langston Hughes – James Earl Jones
Lift Every Voice and Sing – The Boys Choir of Harlem
Rise Up – Andra Day
Ain’t I a Woman – Avery Sharpe, feat. Jeri Brown, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Craig Handy, Duane Eubanks & Yoron Israel
You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow! – Bayard Rustin
Fight for Your Mind – Ben Harper
AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM – Beyoncé
That’s the Way God Planned It – Billy Preston 6
If I Could Help Somebody – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Hands Up – Blood Orange
History Repeats – Brittany Howard
Prayer for New Orleans – Charlie Miller
Young, Gifted and Black – Aretha Franklin
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Black America Again – Common, feat. Stevie Wonder
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) – Marvin Gaye
Woke Up This Morning – Fannie Lou Hamer
Wade In the Water – The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Everytime I Feel the Spirit -The Florida A&M University Concert Choir
Ain’t No New Thing – Gil Scott-Heron
Deep River – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matters) – Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis
People Gotta Be Free – Keb’ Mo’
Keep Your Hand On the Plow – Mahalia Jackson
Blood Done Sign My Name – Mary D Williams
Eyes on the Prize – Mavis Staples
Strange Fruit – Nina Simone
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Odetta
Go Down, Moses – Paul Robeson
We March – Prince
Oh Freedom – The Princely Players
We Rise – Rhiannon Giddens
The Klan – Richie Havens
Precious Lord – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Beautiful Struggle – Talib Kweli
Changes – 2Pac & Talent
You’re Not Alone – Our Native Daughters
Step By Step – Sweet Honey In The Rock
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
I Know Where I’ve Been – Queen Latifah
Grandma’s Hands -Bill Withers
Respect – Otis Redding
Roll Over Beethoven – Chuck Berry
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) – Fats Domino
We Are Each Others Angels – African Children’s Choir
I’ve Got Dreams To Remember – Angélique Kidjo
Prayers To the Ancestors – Afro Drums
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Along the Graybeard Trail 