Walking the arroyo. Morning movement.
One Of The Best Ones – Bruce Cockburn
My Greatest Masterpiece – Bif Naked
Northern Plains – Alan Doyle
Four Seasons – Melanie Durrant
Hallelujah -Leonard Cohen
Catharsis – Natalie MacMaster
Share the Land – The Guess Who
Canadian Railroad Trilogy – Gordon Lightfoot
After The Gold Rush – k.d. lang
Don’t Let It Bring You Down – Neil Young
A Case of You -Joni Mitchell
People -Oscar Peterson Trio
O Canada – Canadian Anthem Singers
Pauli Murray – Michael Sloan
Pauli Murray – 9th Wonder & GIVE EM SOUL
Be Like Pauli – RaShad, feat. Young Ert
Song In A Weary Throat – Jongnic Bontemps
Category Archives: New Mexico
1 July 2025 – Canada Day, Pauli Murray Feast Day
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Purple flowers, Albuquerque 17
Wyoming Boulevard
Albuquerque, New Mexico
27 June 2025
Filed under Albuquerque, New Mexico, Photo
27 June 2025
Walk. From Eric & Essie’s house to our apartment.
No matter what the current administration does. we will remember. The first four songs remember Harvey Milk. The remainder of the playlist remembers the Stonewall Uprising which began on 28 June. According to the Stonewall Veteran’s Association, the songs on this playlist were among the most popular songs in the Stonewall jukebox during the week of the Stonewall Rebellion.
Tired of the Silence – Andrew Lippa, Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Dr. Timothy Seelig & San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
The Times of Harvey Milk – Mark Isham
Wave a Flag for Harvey Milk – Mr. Greg & Cass McCombs
Give ‘Em Hope – Boys’ Entrance
Crystal Blue Persuasion – Tommy James & The Shondells
Grazing In the Grass – The Friends of Distinction
Romeo and Juliet – Henry Mancini
(We’ve Got) Honey Love – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
The More I See You – Chris Montez
Don’t Let the Joneses Get You Down – The Temptations
Before the Parade Passes By – Barbra Streisand
More Today Than Yesterday – The Spiral Starecase
The Young Folks p Diana Ross & The Supremes
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In – The 5th Dimension
It’s Your Thing – The Isley Brothers
While You’re Out Looking for Sugar – Honey Cone
Don’t Bring Back Memories – Four Tops
The Windmills of Your Mind – Dusty Springfield
My Way – Frank Sinatra
This Is My Life (La Vita) – Shirley Bassey
What Does It Take – Junior Walker & The All Stars
My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder
Get Back – The Beatles
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
26 June 2025
International Workers of the World founded.
She Works Hard For the Money – Donna Summer
The Hands That Built America – U2
Bracero – Phil Ochs
The Rebel Girl – Hazel Dickens
Working Class Hero – Green Day
Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) – Randy Newman
Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
Working On The Highway – Bruce Springsteen
Bread and Roses – Judy Collins
Which Side Are You On – Natalie Merchant
Three Miles Down – Gil Scott-Heron
9 To 5 – Dolly Parton
Joe Hill – Paul Robeson
Joe Hill’s Last Wil – John McCutcheon
Ship In The Sky – Woody Guthrie
There is Power in a Union – Entertainment Workers IU 630
We Will Sing One Song – Joe Glazer
The Internationale – Billy Bragg
Solidarity Forever – Pete Seeger
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, New Mexico, playlist
25 June 2025
Battle of the Greasy Grass
Wash Your Spirit Clean – Walela
Sitting Bull’s Medicine Song – Kevin Locke
It Is A Good Day To Die – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road
Lakota Forever – Brulé
The Little Bighorn March – Bill Miller
A Man Named Crazy Horse – Shannon Thunderbird
Tatanka – Luis Cachiguango
Garryowne & Valley Of Little Big Horn – Jack Gladstone
Crazy Horse Prayer – Peter Kater
Buffalo Prayer Song – Robert Tree Cody & Hovia Edwards
Little Big Horn Battle Song – Porcupine Singers
In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse – Thunder Bird Sisters
The Legend of Crazy Horse – Jim Young
Battle of Little Bighorn – Sencheng Zhang
Battle of Little Bighorn – RedCloud, feat. Def Shepard
Filed under Antiracism, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
21 June 2025 Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice
Summer – War
Hot Fun In The Summertime – Sly & The Family Stone
I Love Summer – John McCutcheon
It’s Almost Summer – Billy Thorpe
Cool for the Summer – Demi Lovato
Long Hot Summer – Black 47
Long Hot Summer Night – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Magot Tcheri Fatal Mambo
The Other Side Of Summer – Elvis Costello
Summer Sent You – Mary Black
Summer 2020 – Jhené Aiko
Summer Days – Bob Dylan
Summertime – Janis Joplin=
Summer In The City – The Lovin’ Spoonful
Summer Sunshine – The Corrs
Summertime – Roberta Flack
Summersong – The Decemberists
Summer Junction – Yumi Matsutoya
Summer Lullaby – david m. bailey
A Summer Song – Chad & Jeremy
Summer Solstice – Lejond
Summer Solstice – Meghan Hayes
Summer Solstice – Jada Facer
Summer Solstice – Michele McLaughlin
Summer Solstice – Sean Harkness
Summer (from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons) – Tracy Scott Silverman
Summer Solstice – R. Carlos Nakai
Longest Day of Summer – Every Other Saturday
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, New Mexico, playlist
20 June 2025 World Refugee Day
World Refugee Day Playlist
Refugee – Eric Bogle
Gourma – Etran Fintawa
Song To A Refugee – Diana Jones
Running – Keyon Harrold, Andrea Pizziconi & Jasson Harrold Running, feat. Common & Gregory Porter
Take Me to Cleveland – Robert Neustadt
Look in Their Eyes – David Crosby
The Refugee – U2
Follow Me – Moxie Raia, feat. Wyclef Jean
In Harm’s Way – Amanda Palmer
Is This Called Home – Lucy Rose
Prayer of the Refugee – Rise Against
Coming to America – K’naan
Refugee – Skip Marley
Lady of the Harbor – Si Kahn
Refugee – emma’s revolution
We Won’t Lose Count – TRISHES
Refugee – Bring Water
Refugees – Jimmy Cliff, feat, Wyclef Jean
A Safe Place to Land – Sara Bareilles, feat. John Legend
Émigré – Alela Diane
Living Like a Refugee – Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
World Refugee Day – The Lyrical Lanterns
No Human Is Illegal – The Wakes
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Juneteenth 19 June 2025
Juneteenth.
Juneteenth – Suav
People Get Ready – The Impressions
Oh Freedom – Mary D. Williams
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys of Alabama
People Gotta Be Free – Keb’ Mo’
Free – Prince
Free – Deniece Williams
Is My Living in Vain – Mattie Moss Clark & The Clark Sisters
This Little Light of Mine – Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom Now – Tracy Chapman
I’m Just a Slave – The Roots
Not a Slave – Dre’ Sr
Freedom – Richie Havens
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Harriet Tubman/Steal Away – Kim & Reggie Harris
Juneteenth – Cast of Black-ish
Say It Loud – I ‘m Black and I’m Proud – James Brown
Alright – Kendrick Lamar
A Brand New Day – The Wiz
Fantasy – Earth, Wind & Fire
Yes We Can, Can – The Pointer Sisters
Ella’s Song – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Get Up Stand Up – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway
9th Wonder (Blackitolism) – Digibale Planets
Soul Sista – Bilal
Freedom – Joi
O-O-H Child – The Five Stairsteps
Free – Destiny’s Child
I’ll Take You There – The Staple Singers
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now – McFadden & Whitehead
I Am the Black Gold of the Sun – Rotary Connection & Minnie Riperton
One Nation under a Groove – Funkadelic
Build a House – Rhiannon Giddons & Yo-Yo Ma
Juneteenth Song – Gracie’s Corner
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing – Beyonce
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
17 June 2025 – Mother Emanuel
Tenth anniversary of Mother Emanuel.
Wade In the Water – The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Deep River – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Kehembe Eichelberger
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Too Many Martyrs – Kim & Reggie Harris
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody – Mary D Williams
There Is a Balm In Gilead – The Florida A&M University Concert Choir
Drown In My Own Tears – Richie Havens
Ghosts of Charleston – Marc S. Kruza
Mother Emanuel – Shirley Caesar
Emanuel – Dead 27s
The President Sang Amazing Grace – Zoe Mulford
Of Our New Day Begun – Northern Arizona University Wind Symphony & Stephen Meyer
Remembering those who were murdered: the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Cynthia Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton and Myra Thompson.
Remembering those present who survive — Polly Sheppard, Tywanza’s mother Felicia Sanders and her granddaughter, and the pastor’s wife, Jennifer Pinckney and one of their daughters.
Remembering the community which survives.
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Purple, not flowers, pump handle
Hillcrest Park Zoo
27 May 2025
Clovis, New Mexico
Filed under Family, New Mexico, Photo, Travel, zoo
Along the Graybeard Trail 