Bare now,
soon to be leafed,
the four hundred
raise their branches
to remember
horror and hope
fear and courage
destruction and grace
and, in a place of death,
to proclaim love and life.
30 March 2021
Louisville, Kentucky
Swamp oaks
30 March 2021
Strength. Stretching. NK Body Philosophy.
Walking. Germantown.
You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind) – Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq
Waltzing Matilda – Seona McDowell
Tomorrow – Brittany Howard
These Days – Nico
Taste of Ashes – Laurie Lewis
Remember My Name – Yuna
Marrow – Ani DiFranco
Love Is Light – Yola
Little David Play On Your Harp – Sweet Honey In The Rock
I Am Her – Shea Diamond
Hands – Jewel
Gravelwalk – Eileen Ivers
Cry for Love – Zendaya
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
Cakewalk – Awkwafina
Aguis Mahasnik Biman – Rasha
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
29 March 2021
Stretching. Gym in the apartment. NK Body Philosophy.
Walking. Germantown.
Old Soul – The Highwomen
Walk Through Fire – Yola
Someday – Ruby Ibarra
Daughter of the desert – Rim Banna (feat. Bugge Wesseltoft & Checkpoint 303)
Feel Like A Natural Woman – Carole King
I Am Woman – Helen Reddy
The Weight – Aretha Franklin
Blood And Bones – Our Native Daughters
Closer To Fine – Indigo Girls
Not to Blame – Joni Mitchell
Agolo – Angélique Kidjo
Stay Strong – Kelly Fraser Sedna
When a Woman – Shakira
Maybe Angels – Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow
He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands – Odetta
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Modest question 1
What if … instead of owning AR-15s to protect ourselves in the event of a natural disaster (per Sen. Lindsay Graham) we worked to build a society in which we all took care of each other at all times including times of natural disaster?
Filed under Current Events
28 March 2021
Walking. Germantown.
I Heard an Owl – Carrie Newcomer
Rise Up – Andra Day
Presence – Brittany Howard
Como la Flor – Selena
Redesigning Women – The Highwomen
Cosmic Warrior – Lucia Hwong
Lionheart – Demi Lovato
Replay – Zendaya
La vie en rose – Edith Piaf
Us – Ruby Ibarra (feat. Rocky Rivera, Klassy & Faith Santilla)
One Woman: A Song for UN Women – One Woman: A Song for UN Women
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
Fight Like a Girl – Kalie Shorr
Love Don’t Cost a Thing – Jennifer Lopez
This Is My Life (La Vita) – Shirley Bassey
The Four Legged Ones – Joanne Shenandoah
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Look what I made
This is a post I never anticipated making. But I got adventurous today and made Keto bagels. They turned out well.
Filed under Family, Food, Louisville
27 March 2021
Stretching. Strength work. Gym in the Apartment. NK Body Philosophy.
Revolution – Kirk Franklin & The Family
Formation – Beyoncé
Play a Love Song – Hikaru Utada
Freedom Train – Sweet Honey In The Rock
The Chain – Shawn Colvin
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
Waiting for Tonight – Jennifer Lopez
When a Woman – Shakira
Fight for the Rights – Kelly Fraser Sedna
State of the World – Janet Jackson
Rock Me On the Water – Annie Humphrey
Electric Lady – Janelle Monáe (feat. Solange)
History Repeats – Brittany Howard
Un Día Más – Lya Barrioz
Music And Joy – Our Native Daughters
Cama-I -8 Mary Youngblood
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
26 March 2021
Stretching. Strength. Gym in the apartment. NK Body Philosophy.
Walking. Germantown. 5K.
Third Movement of the Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
Hello, Dolly! – 2017 Broadway Cast of Hello, Dolly! & Bette Midler
I’ve Decided to Marry You – Lauren Worsham, Lisa O’Hare & Bryce Pinkham – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly – Julie Andrews – My Fair Lady
A Little Night Music: A Weekend in the Country – A Little Night Music Ensemble
Under the Sea – Samuel E. Wright – The Little Mermaid
I Am What I Am – Donald Pippin & George Hearn – La Cage Aux Folles
I’m Here – Cynthia Erivo – The Color Purple
One Hand, One Heart – Matt Cavenaugh & Josefina Scaglione – West Side Story
Do-Re-Mi – Mary Martin, Lauri Peters, William Snowden, Kathy Dunn, Joseph Stewart, Marilyn Rogers, Mary Susan Locke & Evanna Lien – The Sound of Music
Your Daddy’s Son – Audra McDonald- Ragtime
Ease On Down the Road – The Wiz
Everything Old Is New Again – Hugh Jackman, Patrick Vaccariello & Various Artists – The Boy from Oz
Ya Got Trouble – Robert Preston – The Music Man
Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
Happy Birthday – Sean
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
25 March 2021
Stretching. Gym in the apartment. On my own.
Unionhouse Branch – Alison Krauss & Union Station
My Foolish Heart – Roberta Flack
Mother – Magdalen Hsu-Li
Stand Up for Something – Andra Day
My Lord, What a Morning – Marian Anderson
See Saw – Aretha Franklin
Isketayo Sewow (Cree Call) – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Pray For The People- Carolyn M. Brittell
I Used To Be A Sailor – Tracy Chapman
Get It Up – TLC
Down The Road I Be Going – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Redemption Day – Sheryl Crow
Not Myself – Sharon Van Etten
Ndodemnyama Verwoerd (Beware Verwoerd!) – Miriam Makeba
Okay – Macy Gray
Robot Heart – Jessi Lee
Glory – Common & John Legend
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
A prayer for Noble Road Presbyterian Church
Tricia and I served as co-pastors of Noble Road Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio from September 1985 through September 2000. There Eric was baptized, Sean and Eric joined the church, Sean and Eric were ordained as elders, and Eric was ordained as a minister of the word and sacrament.
After a prayerful process of discernment, the congregation made the faithful, courageous, and probably a bit painful, decision to sell the building. This week the sale of the building was approved by the Presbytery of the Western Reserve and the Heights Libraries Board of Trustees (the purchaser). The church is located next to the Noble Neighborhood branch of Heights Libraries. The purchase will allow Heights Libraries to expand the Noble branch building to broaden the services it offers to the surrounding community. It will allow the church building to continue to be used as a place where the community is served.
Because the church is not a building, the congregation will continue in ministry. The congregation is in the process of discerning what that ministry will look like. No doubt it will be faithful, creative, welcoming and including, and committed to justice.
A prayer for Noble Road Presbyterian Church
God of all places,
we thank you for your gift of the place
known as Noble Road Presbyterian Church.
We remember with gratitude
all who worshipped in the sanctuary,
all who provided music in any form,
all who affirmed faith at the font,
all who proclaimed the gospel in the pulpit,
all who received assurance at the table,
all who studied in the classrooms,
and all who went out with the support of the community
to witness and work for justice
in Cleveland Heights, Greater Cleveland, Ohio, the United States, and around your world.
For all whose lives were touched, blessed, enriched, challenged
by the people of Noble Road Presbyterian Church,
we give you thanks and praise.
Guide the congregation members as they
discern new ways to be a community, to worship, and to serve.
Lead the Heights Libraries as they repurpose the building
to continue to serve the Noble community and the world.
With thanks for what was,
some tears for what is,
and profound excitement for what will be,
we offer all praise to you, O God,
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
in the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
this prayer draws on some images from a prayer in the Book of Common Worship
Filed under Cleveland Heights, Current Events, Family, Friends
