St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
Albuquerque, New Mexico
24 March 2024
Filed under Family, New Mexico, Photo
Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights (1965) reaches Montgomery.
Remembering courage and grace and faith.
If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Oh Freedom – Harry Belafonte
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
If I Had a Hammer – Odetta
God Will Take Care of You – Hosea Williams and Marchers
Steal Away/Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Hosea Williams and Marchers
Come by Here – Marchers
Blowing in the Wind – Peter, Paul & Mary
We Shall Not Be Moved – Marchers
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Which Side Are You On? – James Orange and Protestors
Everybody Wants Freedom – Demonstrators a March
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Joan Baez
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Demonstrators at March
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round – Two Little Girls at March
This Little Light of Mine – Workers in Selma at Mass for Jimmie Lee Jackson
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round – James Orange and Youth
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
Amazing Grace – Fannie Lou Hamer
We Shall Overcome – Workers in Selma at March
Glory – Common and John Legend
Freedom Songs: Selma. Alabama provided a primary resource for this playlist. Other artists appeared at the “Stars for Freedom” Rally on the evening of March 24 although I am not sure whether the songs I choose are the ones they performed.
Filed under Antiracism, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Martyrdom of Saint Oscar Romero.
Cherokee Nation Remembrance Day, marking the arrival of the last of 17 detachments of the Cherokee people in Indian Territory following the Trail of Tears.
CheEl Padre Antonio Y Su Mongaguillo Andres – Ruben Blades
Homenaje a Rutillio Grande – SON Tres Cuartos
Oscar Romero – Dafydd Iwan
Romero – The Project
El Salvador – Peter, Paul, & Mary
Oscar Romero – Brotes de Olivo
Eulogy to Oscar Romero – Jean-Luc Ponty
Oscar Romero – Garth Hewitt
Oscar Romero – Richard Gilpin
Archbishop Oscar Romero Memorial – Fran Schultz
Cherokee Stomp – Litefoot, feat. Tommy Wildcat
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
On the Road Where They Cried – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Orphan Child – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Human Rights, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
photo by Lucy Koenig-Reinke
22 March 2024
Filed under Family, New Mexico, Photo
Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
firebird – Mel Hsu
Always in My Head – India.Arie
Cherry – FLETCHER & Hayley Kiyoko
Woman of the Phoenix – Nanci Griffith
Green Light – Beyonce
The Soul Shall Be Free – Nobuko Miyamoto
Midnight Is a Horn Player – Joy Harjo
Take Me There – Magdalen Hsu-Li
Blood Done Sign My Name – Mary D. Williams
Move Over – Janis Joplin
Stick Game Song – Mary Ann Meanus and Verbena Green
Since You’ve Been Gone – Aretha Franklin
Aurukun Moonlight – Ruby Hunter
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
LLego Con Tres Heridas – Joan Baez
Barbados – Our Native Daughters
Hound Dog – Big Mama Thornton
2 Lit 2 Late Interlude – Nicki Minaj
Shittosarerubeki Jinsei – Hikaru Utada
Simple Life – Nanci Griffith
Crossroads – Eileen Ivers
Hey Love – Emily Wurrramara
Spirit Lullaby – Sweet Honey in the Rock
When Elephants Cry – Mayuka Thais
Wet Heart, No Tear – Ruby Hunter
Never Say Die – The Chicks
Same Old Years – Annie Humphrey
I Don’t Care – Rim Banna
For a Dancer – Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
Video – India.Arie
The Blue Hour: No. 10, Even if by Forgetting – Shara Nova
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Lucy gives a purple flower to Gimli
Albuquerque, New Mexico
photo by Essie Koenig-Reinke
18 March 2024
I’ll Walking. Gym in the Apartment. Louisville Waterfront Park.
Hand weights. Gym in the Apartment.
Soldier’s Song – The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
God Save Ireland – Barleycorn
Easter Rebellion – Sinead O’Connor
James Connolly – James McEvoy
he Minstrel Boy – James Galway
Whiskey in the Jar – Thin Lizzy
Women of Ireland – The Wolfe Tones
Long Journey Home – The Chieftains with Elvis Costello
4 Green Fields – The Dublin City Ramblers
Song for Ireland – The Irish Tenors
A Nation Once Again – Paddy Reilly
Roger Casement – Eugene McEldowney
The Big Fellah – Black 47
There Were Roses – Tommy Sands
My Land – Celtic Woman
I’ll Walk Beside You – Cherish the Ladies
Wind That Shakes the Barley – The Chieftains
Bobby Sands – Claymore
O’Donnell’s Lament – Eileen Ivers
Only Our Rivers Run Free – The Molly Maguires
Back Home in Derry – Christie Moore
The Galway Girl – Steve Earle
The Rocky Road to Dublin – Cruachan
Ellis Island – Mary Black
On Raglan Road – The Dubliners
On Grafton Street – Frances Black
Hills of Connemara – Gaelic Storm
Against the Wind – Maire Brennan
The Boys of the Old Brigade – Paddy McGuigan
Peace on Earth – U2
Amhrainn Na Bfhiann – Pearse
Filed under Exercise, Ireland, Louisville, Music, playlist
My annual St. Patrick’s day statement seems more appropriate this year than ever.
I speak for no others,
only for myself.
For me, this day has
nothing to do with
green beer or
green rivers or
green clothing or
green anything,
this day has nothing to do with
pinching me or kissing me;
my bad jokes aside,
this day has nothing to do even with Jameson.
Today is a day
to remember oppression
to honor resistance
to recognize that, despite the efforts of
systems of race and racialization
to separate us,
struggles for dignity and justice,
freedom and equality,
human rights and humanity
are inseparably linked:
none of us are free until all of us are free.
for that reason, in that spirit, and in my own fashion,
I mark this day, and each 17th of March.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
Fitzgerald on my mother’s side
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, Ireland
Along the Graybeard Trail 