Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
Your Obedient Servant – Hamilton
Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore – Mary D. Williams
Hava Nageela – Harry Belafonte
3,00 Miles – Tracy Chpman
Military Madness – Graham Nash
Rapids Reel – Aurora Celtic
Only One – James Taylor
Doolin-Dalton – Eagles
Freedom – Pharrell Williams
Roundabout – Yes
Don’t Throw away Your Dreams – Eric Bogle & John Munro
I Still Carry You Around – Steve Earle
Purple Haze – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Ships Are Sailing – Eileen Ivers
17 October 2022
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
A prayer for the children of Iran
We pray, God,
for the children of Iran
who demonstrate incredible courage
by joining protests against the government.
Watch over children who take a stand.
Protect children taken into custody.
Work healing in children who are injured.
Comfort family and friends
who grieve for children who have been killed.
Speed the day when justice which leads to peace
prevails in Iran—for the children and all the people.
We pray in the name of Jesus who welcomed children. Amen
Filed under Current Events, Human Rights, Prayer
A prayer in the parking lot
God grant me the knowledge
that if I push that motorcycle
out of its spot, its owner
will recognize my car
and
grant me the wisdom
to behave accordingly.
Amen.
14 October 2022
Filed under Prayer
13 October 2022
Walk. Gym in the Apartment
Confident – Demi Lovato
Never Been in Love – Talib Kweli
Mother – Magdalen Hsu-Li
Samson, oratorio, Act 3, HWV 57: Let the Bright Seraphim – Kathleen Battle, Wynton Marsalis, John Nelson, Anthony Newman, John Feeney, Daire Fitzgerald & Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Motherland – Natalie Merchant
I’m Walkin’ – Fats Domino
Boys Keep Swinging – David Bowie
City Called Heaven – Fannie Lou Hamer
Lullabies – Yuna
Chain Gang Medley – Jim Croce
Just Like a Woman – Bob Dylan & George Harrison
Mercedes Benz – Janis Joplin
Farther down the Line – Willie Nelson
Mo Bhron – Black 47
A Pair of Brown Eyes – Christy Moore
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
12 October 2022
Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
Cool for the Summer – Demi Lovato
Song for Laughing Eyes – Shelley Morningstar
Together Again – Janet Jackson
Melatonin – A Tribe Called Quest
I Still Do – The Cranberries
Old – Paul Simon
El Pueblo Unido Jamàs Serà Vencido – Inti-Illimini
The End of an Auld Song – Eric Bogle & John Munro
Kahawi’tha – Joanne Shenandoah
Hermana Tierra – Laura Pausini
Borrowed Time – John Lennon
There But for Fortune – Phil Ochs
8:30 a.m. Glasgow Cross – The Wakes
Hudson Bay Blues – Jack Gladstone & Rob Quist
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
11 October 2022
Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
National Coming Out Day.
True Colors – Cindy Lauper
Proud – Heather Small
Freedom! ’90 – George Michael
Born This Way – Lady Gaga
Girls and Boys – Blur
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
I Am Her – Shea Diamond
I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross
Elton’s Song – Elton John
That’s What Friends Are For – Dionne Warwick with Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
Q.U.E.E.N. – Janelle Monae, feat. Erykah Badu
Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters
Silent Legacy – Melissa Etheridge
Constant Craving – k.d. lang
This Is Me – Angel Haze
Rest in peace, Angela Lansbury, with thanks
Beauty and the Beast
A Little Priest
Rose’s Turn
Everything’s Coming up Roses
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
October 13, 2022
Every year on this date, I find myself in mind and spirit and heart at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. With my father, I sit in the right field stands watching Game 7 of the 1960 World Series.
62 years ago today, my father took me out of school on Neville Island for the day. We travelled 11 miles or so to see the game, to see history.
Heavy underdogs, the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the New York Yankees when Bill Mazeroski hit a home run in the bottom of the 9th inning.
The memories of the day remain clear. But time has blurred the source, particularly in regard to the game. Some of it, I believe I still remember on my own; some is from remembering each year; some I remember from reading, seeing photos, and watching clips on TV (see below), and some is from watching the full game for the last ten years through the magic of film transferred to DVD.
Whatever the source, the memories remain of one of the most special days of my life.
Filed under Family, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sports
10 October 2022 – playlist two
Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Native North American Child – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Yo So Boricua – Taino
Red Dress – Amanda Rheaume, feat. Chantal Kreviazuk
No More – Fawn Wood
Standing Alone – Buddy Red Bow
Best of My Days – Indigenous
Hawai’i ’78 – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Rockin The Res – John Trudell
We Are Here – Sharon Burch
Golden Sun Goddess – Jesse Ed Davis
2 Live & Die on the Plains – Frank Waln
Shimmer, Prayer for Cleansing the Water – Joy Harjo
Wake Up – Pamyua
Chant: 13th Hour – Redbone
Retribution – Tanya Tagaq
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
We Shall Remain – Kaolin Johnson
Indian City – A Tribe Called Red, feat. Northern Voice
Tana’ke – Jana
Know Better Do Better – Supaman
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
