Morning Ramble. Morningside Gardens.
Making sure that motivation does not lag as it did yesterday.
Misty Morning, Albert Bridge – The Pogues
Good Morning Aztlan – Los Lobos
As I Went out One Morning – Bob Dylan
Dusty Morning – Johnathan Edwards
Good Morning Good Morning – The Beatles
There’ll Be Sunshine in the Morning – Jim & Jean Strathdee
Woke Up This Morning – Fannie Lou Hamer
One Too Many Mornings – Johnny Cash & The Avrett Brothers
Good Morning – Lenny Kravitz
Quite Early Morning – Holly Near
Every Morning – Keb’ Mo’
6 July 2019
5 July 2019
Hard day. Not motivated (which given that it was only walking says a lot about lack of motivation). Tired. Not feeling well. Pushed through.
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Kalimba Blues – Earth, Wind & Fire
A New Machine – Pink Floyd
Last Best Place – Jack Gladstone
Busigan – Las Golondrinas Viajeras
Wind That Shakes the Barley – The Chieftains
Cherry Avenue – Melissa Etheridge
Life Is for Living – Santana
Break Your Heart – Natalie Merchant
Call Me, Tell Me – Pure Prairie League
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again – Bob Dylan
Rock Island Line – Little Richard
The Retreat Song – Miriam Makeba
When Sick Is It Tea You Want – Boys of the Lough
Đời Gọi Em Biết Bao Lần – Hồng Nhung
Every Picture Tells a Story – Rod Stewart
The Strangers – Eric Bogle & John Munroe
4 July 2019, part deux
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Treaties – Frank Wain
American Tune – Eva Cassidy
Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Great Peace March – Holly Near
Freedom – Richie Havens
Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen
Freedom Now – Sweet Honey in the Rock
For America – Jackson Browne
My Country ‘Tis of Thy People Are Dying – Buffy Sainte-Marie
We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee – Redbone
Yorktown – Hamilton
Sounds Like America to Me – Harry Chapin
Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) – K’naan, Snow Tha Product, Riz MC & Residente
America – Tracy Chapman
We Are the Children – Omar Calimbas, Jen Low, Glenn Fajardo and Karen Ng
Glory – Common & Legend
I Am a Patriot – Little Steven
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Freedom – Pharrell Williams
Querido FBI – Calle 13
Freedom – Beyonce
This Land – Gary Clark, Jr.
We Shall Overcome – Tao Rodriquez-Seeger, Pete Seeger, Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Let America Be America Again (by Langston Hughes) – James Earl Jones
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, New York, playlist
4 July 2019
Happy Birthday to my sister Patty.
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Mary’s Boy Child – Harry Belafonte
Do You Hear What I Hear – Ed Ames
The Sound of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
I Dreamed a Dream – Les Miserables
Orinico Flow – Enya
To Each His Dulcinea – Man of La Mancha
Our House – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught – South Pacific
The Pony Man – Gordon Lightfoot
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – Joan Baez
Let the River Run – Carly Simon
Boris the Spider – The Who
American Pie – Don McLean
Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning – Alfred Drake
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
Fields of Gold – Eva Cassidy
Scholarship support for Areej
Cutting to the chase:
Areej Murad, a Palestinian Christian seeks scholarship support for her studies. I gave. You can too.
What Areej wants to do:
Areej is applying to pursue an MBA in Social Impact at Eastern University, Pennsylvania. It’s a 2-year program starting in September, 2019 and ending in 2021. The program will be by correspondence, which means she will maintain her position at Bethlehem Bible College while she studies to be able to support my education.
Areej’s plans:
Areej is called to work in community development in a professional way. Her studies will allow her to fill in the gaps between a heart called to serve, and the professional knowledge needed to do so. Her vision focuses on serving Palestinian Christians, in part to seek ways to prevent Christians from leaving the Holy Land. High numbers of Palestinian Christians are leaving the Holy Land due to the lack of economic growth and limited job opportunities. God glorifying entrepreneurship is her calling. Through this MBA program her purpose is to be an active member of the holy body of Christ and to empower other Christians to be and do the same.
Why I gave:
Areej and I served on a panel in Wooster, Ohio a few years ago. She impressed me with her deep faith, her commitment to the Palestinian people and to justice for Palestinians and Israelis, her intelligence, imagination, and love. Areej has already made a difference through her work with Bethlehem Bible College. She has the capacity to do more. It is an honor to support her. It would be your honor too.
Filed under Current Events, Friends
3 July 2019
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Beech Spring – Various
Mujer de Carne y Hueso – Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy
Ten Degrees and Getting Colder – Nanci Griffith
I Used to Love Him – Lauryn Hill
Any Colour You Like – Pink Floyd
Devil in Her Heart – The Beatles
My World Is Empty without You – The Supremes
Maria Maria – Santana
Somebody’s Baby- Jackson Browne
Slowness – Calexico
The Boxer – Mumford & Sons
Leali – Rasha
One Love/People Get Ready – Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Dover Fault – Come from Away
The Rumor – Fiddler on the Roof
We Will Rock You – Queen
2 July 2019
Happy Birthday, to my brother Paul.
Walking. Morningside Gardens
Hello Muddah Hello Faddah
Seven Bridges Road – The Eagles
Nostradamus – Al Stewart
The Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
I Got a Name – Jim Croce
This Is the Time – Billy Joe
Shut Up and Dance – Walk the Moon
Day by Day – The Hooters
Fool’s Parade – Michael Stanley Band
Thunder Island – Jay Ferguson
Classical Gas – Mason Williams
Icarus – Kansas
Fishin’ in the Dark – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Toto – Africa
What Is Life – George Harrison
Desperado – Linda Ronstadt
Under Pressure – David Bowie & Queen
1 July 2019
Treadmill. Gym at the Shire.
Walking. Morningside Gardens
Akua Tuta – Kashtin
My Greatest Masterpiece – Bif Naked
Northern Plains – Alan Doyle
Four Seasons – Melanie Durrant
A Dream Like Mine – Bruce Cockburn
Soul Run- Tanika Charles
Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
Native North American Child – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Prairie Wind – Neil Young
Helpless – k.d. lang
Fallen Angel – Robbie Robertson
Catharsis – Natalie MacMaster
Share the Land – The Guess Who
Canadian Railroad Trilogy – Gordon Lightfoot
O Canada – Canadian Anthem Singers
30 June 2019
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
For Marsha P. Johnson – Bryce Dessner
Over the Rainbow – Judy Garland
I Want to Break Free – Queen
Just the Way I Like – Shawnee
Singing for Our Lives – Holly Near
We Are Family – Sister Sledge
What I Need – Hayley Kiyoko
Candy Says – The Velvet Underground
Lost Angel – Mya Byrne
Constant Craving – k.d. lang
True Colors – Cyndi Lauper
Walk on the Wild Side – Lou Reed
Make Me Feel – Janelle Monae
Born This Way – Lady Gaga
It Can Only Get Better – Charice Pempengco
We Belong – Namoli Brennet
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, playlist
Pride March 2019
Photos and videos of the New York City Pride March shared by family members and friends have touched and blessed me. Next year I will take vacation so I can participate.
My son posted a photo of a hate group with hate signs. He noted that they represent one reason why Pride remains needed. I offered ten points in response to him and to any one who was touched by hate because of their sexual orientation or gender identity today or any day.
- You are right. Pride is a necessary response to such hate.
- I am sorry you are right. I am sorry such thinking still exists. We are working to change it.
- We have work to do. I have work to do.
- These people are wrong.
- These people are [fill in your favorite colorful metaphor here].
- On the off chance that these people are … wait … see number 4.
- Love is stronger than hate and fear and anything else in all creation.
- Love is even stronger than stupidity.
- Each person is precious, beloved, beautiful. Just as the person is.
- I love you.
Happy Pride, son. Happy Pride, friends. Happy Pride, All.
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