December 31, 2023 · 3:55 pm
t seems difficult to believe that fifty years ago today, Roberto Clemente died on an errand of mercy.
I will remember how he played. I will remember how he lived.
Remembering, I made a donation to the Roberto Clemente Foundation.
Remembering, I created this playlist:
Roberto – Ismael Miranda
Sueño Se Un Niño – Tito Allen
Somos La Fuerza Latina – Andy Montañez & Ismael Miranda
Roberto Y Tirabala – Andy Montañez
Orgullo De Borinquen – Lefty Pérez
Clemente (Estrella 21) – Edel Borrero
Jugando La Pelota – Jesús “Chocolate” Coombs
Jardonero Del Amor – Wichi Camacho
Lo Mejor Que Dios Ha Hecho – Angel Ramírez
Roberto Clemente – Bill Tiberio Band
Roberto Clemente – Nelson Feliciano and His Orchestra (feat. Junior Cordova)
Te Recuerdo – John McCutcheon
December 29, 2023 · 4:39 pm
Stretching. Albuquerque.
Happy Second Birthday, Lucy!!
Cut the Cake – John McCutcheon
Sesame Street – Elmo
The People in Your Neighborhood – Sesame Street’s Bob & The Sesame Street Anything Muppets
We Shall Be Known – MaMuse, feat. Thrive
Unafraid – Matthew Black
Change the World – Gabrielle, Elmo, Rosita, Tamir & Sesame Street’s Charlie
Don’t Be Afraid – Chorus Pro Musica, Alison Adam, John Bell & William Chin
Sweet Slumber – David Asheba Wilson
The Hurting Times – Barnaby Bright
God with Us – The Many
Coat of Many Colors – Dolly Parton
My Girl – The Temptations
Dancing in the Street – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
You Are the Sunshine of My Life – Stevie Wonder
How Sweet It Is – Marvin Gaye
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross
Boomer Sooner – The University of Oklahoma Marching Band
Blue Is the Colour – Chelsea Football Club
Elmo’s Song – Elmo, Big Bird & Snuffleupagus
Wheels on the Bus – Gracie’s Corner
Dinosaur Song – Gracie’s Corner
Circle of Life – Carmen Twillie & Lebo M
Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Po La’i E/Silent Night – C. Pueo Pata, Leimana Abenes
Happy Birthday Lucy
December 29, 2023 · 4:21 pm
Several short walks with Bentley. Albuquerque.
Remembering Wounded Knee.
Wounded Knee – Mickie Free
Ghost Dance – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Wounded Knee – Walela
Dreams of Wounded Knee – Bill Miller
Wounded Knee Hero – Thunder Bird Sisters
We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee – Redbone
December 28, 2023 · 6:38 pm
Walking. Ancestral Sites Trail. Pecos National Historical Park. Stretching.
Silent Night – Idina Menzel
Happy Christmas – John Lennon
I Believe in Father Christmas – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains and Jackson Browne
Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn
Simple Praise – Joanie Madden
Shepherd’s Rocking Carol – Philip Aaberg
The First Noel – Mahalia Jackson
First Noel – Leslie Odom, Jr.
In the Stillness – The Many
Fireside Ki Ho’alu – George Kuo
What Child Is This – Trace Bundy
All We Like Sheep – Sutherland/Bumbry/Mckellar/Ward/Sir Adrian Boult
Of the Father’s Love Begotten – Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
December 27, 2023 · 7:00 pm
Some slow walking. Stretching. Albuquerque.
Unless otherwise noted, all songs by The Smothers Brothers.
Rest in peace, Tommy. Thank you.
Give Peace a Chance – The Plastic Ono Band
Pretoria
Tom Dooley
Chocolate
Laredo
Daniel Boone
Gnus
Crabs Walk Straight
Jenny Brown
The Military Lovers
Mediocre Fred
Mom Always Liked You Best
You Can Call Me Stupid
I Talk to the Trees
Hangman
Cabbage
Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
You Didn’t Come In
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December 26, 2023 · 9:23 pm
Walking. Stretching.
Albuquerque.
Remembering the Dakota men executed one hundred sixty years ago this day.
St. Stephen’s Day.
King Wenceslas.
Treaties – Frank Waln
Intertribal Song – Dakota Nation & Red Bull United Tribes International
Standing Alone – Buddy Red Bow
Reflections of Paha Sapa – Bryan Akipa
The Moon Is Shining – Indigenous
Round Dance – Dakota Nation & Red Bull United Tribes International
Peyote Healing – Robbie Robertson
Thunder Horse – Kevin Locke
Lakota Forever – Brule
Many and Great (Dakota) – Jon Sarta (this was sung by the men to be executed as they were taken to the gallows)
Good King Wenceslas / Rakes Of Mallow – The Boys of County Bucks
Good King Wenceslas – The Roches
The Wren in the Furze – The Chieftains
St. Stephen’s Day Murders – Elvis Costello
December 25, 2023 · 4:12 pm
Walk. Albuquerque.
Snow on the Sandias.
Canticle of the Turning – Princeton Seminary Choir
Happy Christmas – Angelique Kidjo
Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn
Christmas in the Trenches – John McCutcheon
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
The Bushes of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains & Jackson Browne
We Are Christmas – Spelman Glee Club
Away in a Manger – The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. George Clinton & Robert Randolph
We Wait for You – The Many
Mary’s Boy Child – Harry Belafonte
The First Noel – R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton
It Came upon the Midnight Clear – Mahalia Jackson
Silent Night – Aretha Franklin
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Dolly Parton
December 25, 2023 · 2:17 pm
No focused exercise.
The 1914 Christmas Truce.
Snoopy’s Christmas – The Royal Guardsmen
Christmas Truce – Sabaton
Pipes of Peace – Paul McCartney
1914, the Carol of Christmas – Military Voices & Abby Scott, feat. Flt Lt Matt Little, the RAF Spitfire Choir & William Inscoe
Let the Truce Be Known – Orphaned Land
Christmas 1914 – John McDermott
It Could Happen Again – Colin Raye
All Together Now – The Farm
Christmas True of 1914 – Joyce Cooling
The Christmas True – Carol Dowgiallo & Bob Dowgiallo
Ode to the Christmas Truce of 1914 – Marshall Hattersley
Christmas Truce – Fenya
The Christmas Truce – Gloucester Cathedral Choir, Adrian Partington, Jonathan Hope, Sacha Fullerton, Jack Parry, Deryck Webb & Nicholas Perfect
Christmas in the Trenches – John McCutcheon
Silent Night/Stille Nacht – John McCutcheon
December 25, 2023 · 2:08 pm
No real exercise.
Cooked and lit luminaries in Albuquerque.
Snow on the Sandias.
Holy Night/Rise Up Shepherd – Jersey Boys Ensemble
For Unto Us a Child Is Born – Core Cotton, Jamecia Bennett, James Wright, Carrie Harrington, Pat Lacy & Sounds of Blackness
Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
The Bushes of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains and Jackson Browne
Uncle Carl – Aaron Lacombe
Canticle of the Turning – Rory Cooney, Gary Daigle & Theresa Donohoo
Midnight Christmas Eve -Trans-Siberian Orchestra
O Holy Night – Indigo Girls
Away in a Manger – Jack Gladstone
Sweet Little Jesus – Natalie Cole
The Huron Carole – Tom Jackson
Noisey Night – david m. bailey
Silent Night – Christine Anu
Christmas Eve – Robert Mirabel
Silent Night – Sweet Honey in the Rock
December 22, 2023 · 3:29 pm
Walk. Albuquerque.
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
I Believe in Father Christmas – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head – John McCutcheon
Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes – Bruce Cockburn
Angels We Have Heard on High – R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton
Ode to Joy to the World – The Piano Guys
Love, Love, Love – Clarence Fountain & The Blind Boys of Alabama
Angels W Have Heard on High – Pentatonix
The Story of Christmas – Peter Mayer
Patapan – Julie Andrews
Little Drummer Boy – Jonathan Maracle
Merry Christmas to You – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Christmas Morning – Bill Miller
Christ Child Lullaby – Rosemary Beland
Mistletoe and Wine – Cwmbach Male Choir
Away in a Manger – Ed Gerhard
Along the Graybeard Trail 