Category Archives: New Mexico

28 April 2025

Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood. Albuquerque.
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Tema. L’istesso tempo – Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel
Hasta Que Pueda – Amanda Martinez
There Is Power In a Union – Joe Glazer
Shining Star – Earth, Wind & Fire
The Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen – Leon Russell
Darma 5- Sorma
Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War- Paul Simon Hearts and Bones
You Put the Sugar in My Bowl – Rhiannon Giddens
Luck Be a Lady – Billy Porter
I’ll Take You There – The Staple Singers
At the Foot of the Mountain – Eliza Gilkyson
Traveling Shoes – Sweet Honey In the Rock
When Napi Roasted Gophers – Jack Gladstone
Canto Libre – Victor Jara
Banana Moon Sky – Deidre McCalla
Blue Roses Falling – Jake Shimabukuro, feat. Meena Cho\

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Parkinson’s Unity Walk 2025

On April 26, I will participate virtually in the Parkinson’s Unity Walk. You can support me with a donation! I’ll walk in Albuquerque as people walk in Central Park, New York. I walk in memory of Bill Handler—our team name is William the Conqueror in his honor. I also walk in support of Bob VanDale, a college professor and friend. And I walk for all affected by Parkinson’s.

The Parkinson’s Unity Walk is powered by The Michael J. Fox Foundation to raise critical funds for Parkinson’s research and public policy priorities. Please consider supporting my efforts by donating through my fundraising page.

 This year, every dollar you donate through event day will be matched up to $1.5 million—doubling the impact of your gift! Your support helps speed new Parkinson’s treatments and moves us closer to a world without the disease. 

100 percent of the Unity Walk proceeds go directly to The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s high-impact research and policy programs. 

The need is greater than ever!

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Purple flowers, Albuquerque 17

Heritage Hills Neighborhood
Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 15, 2025

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Purple flowers, Albuquerque 15

Albuquerque BioPark
Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 7, 2025

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Purple, not flowers, owl eyebrows

Old Town
Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 7 2025

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16 April 2025

Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood.
Got to Get You into My Life – Earth, Wind & Fire
Sugar Ray – Miles Davis
Cherokee Legacy – Jay Red Eagle
The Times They Are A-Changin’ – The Byrds
Let It Be – Paul McCartney
It’s Summer – The Temptations
Shakers And Movers – Midnight Oil
Sea Turtle – Hermanito
A Forgotten Spot (Olvidado) – Lin-Manuel Miranda, Zion & Lennox, De La Ghetto, Ivy Queen, Pj Sin Suela & Lucecita Benitez
Tamatoa – Te Vaka
Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad – Rhiannon Giddens
Summer of Love – Jefferson Airplane
Menina Moca – Dusko Goykovich
The Shape That I’m In – Paul Brady
Little Richard’s Bible 3- Elton John & Brandi Carlile

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4 April 2025

Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated.

Now’s the Time – Charlie Parker & Miles Davis
Motel in Memphis – Life, Explicit
Martin, Martin – Denise Erwin
Wake Up – Rage Against the Machine
They Killed Him – Kate Campbell
Just a Little More Love – David Guetta (feat. Chris Willis)
Ballad of Martin Luther King – Pete Seeger, Brother Kirk & The Sesame Street Kids
Letter To Dr. Martin Luther King – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Blues for Martin Luther King – Otis Spann
March! For Martin Luther King – John Fahey
Like a King – Ben Harper
God Rest His Soul – Gregg Allman
MLK – U2
Mlk Song – Mavis Staples
So Beautiful or So What – Paul Simon
Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) – Nina Simone
Heaven Will Welcome You Dr. King – Big Maybelle
We March – Prince
Abraham, Martin and John – Harry Belafonte
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson

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31 March 2025

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

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24 March 2025

Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Anniversary of assassination of Saint Oscar Romero.
Cherokee Nation Remembrance Day. “186 years ago today, one of the final groups of Cherokees arrived in Indian Territory after being forcibly removed from our homelands and enduring a perilous journey across the Trail of Tears.”
El Padre Antonio Y Su Monaguillo Andrés – Rubén Blades
Homenaje a Rutilio Grande – SON
Oscar Romero – Dafydd Iwan
Romero – The Project Martyrs
El Salvador – Peter, Paul & Mary
Oscar Romero – Brotes de Olivo
Eulogy to Oscar Romero –
Oscar Romero – Garth Hewitt
Oscar Romero – Richard Gilpin
Archbishop Oscar Romero Memorial – Fran Schultz
Cherokee Stomp – Litefoot, feat. Tommy Wildcat
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
Orphan Child – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Cherokee Tears – Jobel Star Cherokee Tears
On the Road Where They Cried – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Cherokee Trail of Tears – Native American Indians
Amazing Grace – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Trail of Tears Song, We Will Go Together -6 Joy Harjo
Trail of a Thousand Tears – Shannon Thunderbird & Sandy Horne
Trail of Tears – Clannad
Cherokee Bend – Gordon Lightfoot
Cherokee Morning Song – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Prayer for My People – Jay Red Eagle
For Those Who Cried (Cherokee Removal) – Jack Gladstone
Trail Of Freedom – Bill Miller

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Purple, not flowers, coat

Lucy’s house
Albuquerque, New Mexico
21 March 2025

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