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
25 June 2025
Filed under Antiracism, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Purple flowers, Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Gardens 4
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
Evansville, Indiana
1 June 2025
Purple flowers, Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden 3
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
Evansville, Indiana
1 June 2025
A prayer to the Creative Spirit of diversity
Creative Spirit,
you make all that is,
you make the human family,
in rich, wild diversity,
each one in your own image,
everyone beloved by you.
The diversity you create
enlarges the sphere of possibilities
for all of us.
Help us
acknowledge the diversity you create
as your gift to us;
understand the diversity you create
as enhancing your world;
and celebrate the diversity you create
as enriching our lives.
Inspire us to reject and dismantle
all systems and ideologies
that erroneously and sinfully
maintain that some of us have greater value.
Guide us to welcome all people
as your beloved children
and to love one another
as taught and lived by Jesus
in whose name we pray.
Amen.
inspired by When God Became White by the Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim (subscribe to her Substack account)
Filed under Antiracism, Books, Current Events, Human Rights
Purple flowers, Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden 2
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
Evansville, Indiana
1 June 2025
Purple flowers, Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden 1
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
Evansville, Indiana
1 June 2025
22 June 2025 – Songs for peace
Work began on this playlist last night as reports of the United States bombing Iran began to appear. It was “completed” this morning. Note that this list deviates from the rules (well, guidelines really) of playlists in two ways. Some artists appear more than once. Some songs do as well. Although not every song with the same title is the same song.
Heaven Help Us All – Stevie Wonder
Heaven Help Us All – Ray Charles & Gladys Knight
Heaven Help Us All – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Heaven Help Us All – Joan Baez
Give Peace a Chance – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Give Peace A Chance – Aerosmith Feat. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars
Peace Train – Yusuf Islam (recorded as Cat Stevens)
A Song of Peace – Abraham Jam
Where Have All The Flowers Gone – Dolores Keane, Tommy Sands & Vedran Smailovic
Imagine – Willie Nelson
Imagine – Keb’ Mo’
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Pipes of Peace – Paul McCartney
The Great Peace March – Holly Near
War No More – Wyclef Jean
Peace Train/Isitimela Sokuthula – Dolly Parton, feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Peace in the Valley – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Peace on Earth – U2
Peace. Salaam, Shalom – emma’s revolution
War – The Temptations
War – Edwin Starr
War – Bob Marley & The Wailers
When the Wind Blows – Eric Bogle with John Munro & Brent Miller
Peace Has Broken Out – Eric Bogle
Study War No More – Pete Seeger
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream – Simon & Garfunkel
Military Madness – Graham Nash
Masters of War – Bob Dylan
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Give Me Love – Billy Preston
Peter – David LaMotte
No Nuclear War – Peter Tosh
Christmas In The Trenches – John McCutcheon
Land of Hope and Dreams (Introduction) [Live in Manchester, May 14, 2025] – Bruce Springsteen
Land of Hope and Dreams (Live in Manchester, May 14, 2025) – Bruce Springsteen
A Song of Peace – Denver Brass
A Song of Peace – Gandharvas
A Song of Peace – Kim Young-Im
How Can I Keep From Singing – Eva Cassidy
Filed under Current Events, Human Rights, Music, playlist
A prayer upon learning the U.S. has bombed Iran
Gracious God,
my heart aches
as I read of the United States dropping bombs on Iran.
I mourn for the people, your children,
who were killed and wounded in the attack.
My spirit sags
as I ponder what may come next.
For bombs often lead to more bombs.
Violence begets violence.
The killing of any person is
an attack on your image
in which you create every person.
God who desires
wholeness and well-being for all
Give leaders of the United States, Israel, Iran, Hamas,
and all countries and peoples
the courage to break the cycle of violence,
to pursue justice and work for peace.
I pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
Filed under Current Events, Prayer
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
Along the Graybeard Trail 