Walking. ABQ and DAL. Stretching. Louisville. Fairytale of New York – The Pogues I Believe in Father Christmas – Emerson, Lake & Palmer The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains & Jackson Browne Torches – Robin Stapleton, Michael George & BBC Philharmonic Once in Royal David’s City – The Rhos Orpheus Male Choir Silent Night – Peter Mayer What Child Is This – Ed Ames The Holy and the Ivy – Robin Stapleton, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Michael George, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Coventry Cathedral Choir & Lichfield Cathedral Choir Holiday Time in New Orleans – The Dukes of Dixieland God with Us – The Many Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Black Violin Mary Had a Baby – Little Windows Jesus Ahatonnia – Bruce Cockburn We Are Christmas – Spelman Glee Club I Wonder as I Wander – Joanne Shenandoah Veni Emmanuel – Turtle Island String Quartet The Seven Joys of Mary – King’s College Choir The Unbroken Thread – Jay Unger & Molly Mason Silent Night – Over the Rhine The Time Is Approaching – Eileen Ivers I Saw Three Ships – The Piano Guys The First Snowfall – R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton
Stretching. Albuquerque. Happy Second Birthday, Lucy!! Cut the Cake – John McCutcheon Sesame Street – Elmo The People in Your Neighborhood – Sesame Street’s Bob & The Sesame Street Anything Muppets We Shall Be Known – MaMuse, feat. Thrive Unafraid – Matthew Black Change the World – Gabrielle, Elmo, Rosita, Tamir & Sesame Street’s Charlie Don’t Be Afraid – Chorus Pro Musica, Alison Adam, John Bell & William Chin Sweet Slumber – David Asheba Wilson The Hurting Times – Barnaby Bright God with Us – The Many Coat of Many Colors – Dolly Parton My Girl – The Temptations Dancing in the Street – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas You Are the Sunshine of My Life – Stevie Wonder How Sweet It Is – Marvin Gaye Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross Boomer Sooner – The University of Oklahoma Marching Band Blue Is the Colour – Chelsea Football Club Elmo’s Song – Elmo, Big Bird & Snuffleupagus Wheels on the Bus – Gracie’s Corner Dinosaur Song – Gracie’s Corner Circle of Life – Carmen Twillie & Lebo M Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Po La’i E/Silent Night – C. Pueo Pata, Leimana Abenes
Several short walks with Bentley. Albuquerque. Remembering Wounded Knee. Wounded Knee – Mickie Free Ghost Dance – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Buffy Sainte-Marie Wounded Knee – Walela Dreams of Wounded Knee – Bill Miller Wounded Knee Hero – Thunder Bird Sisters We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee – Redbone
Walking. Ancestral Sites Trail. Pecos National Historical Park. Stretching. Silent Night – Idina Menzel Happy Christmas – John Lennon I Believe in Father Christmas – Emerson, Lake & Palmer The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains and Jackson Browne Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn Simple Praise – Joanie Madden Shepherd’s Rocking Carol – Philip Aaberg The First Noel – Mahalia Jackson First Noel – Leslie Odom, Jr. In the Stillness – The Many Fireside Ki Ho’alu – George Kuo What Child Is This – Trace Bundy All We Like Sheep – Sutherland/Bumbry/Mckellar/Ward/Sir Adrian Boult Of the Father’s Love Begotten – Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
Some slow walking. Stretching. Albuquerque. Unless otherwise noted, all songs by The Smothers Brothers. Rest in peace, Tommy. Thank you. Give Peace a Chance – The Plastic Ono Band Pretoria Tom Dooley Chocolate Laredo Daniel Boone Gnus Crabs Walk Straight Jenny Brown The Military Lovers Mediocre Fred Mom Always Liked You Best You Can Call Me Stupid I Talk to the Trees Hangman Cabbage Michael, Row the Boat Ashore You Didn’t Come In
Thank you, Creator, for snow upon the Sandias. For the wonderful view and for the precious water, we give you praise. Appreciating the beauty you create and the gifts you bestow, help us learn to live more wisely, more carefully, more faithfully, within your creation of which we are a part. Amen.
On 24 December 2023, I posted about the 1914 Christmas Truce.
I neglected to include links to advocate for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas taking place in Gaza. This post rectifies that. Note that you can email President Biden about a ceasefire in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia as well.
Respond to the Statement on the Celebration of Advent and Christmas during a Time of War by the Patriarchs and Heads of Communion of the Churches in Jerusalem; observing a moment of silence during this Sunday’s service or providing an opportunity to advocate for a Ceasefire would be two examples.
Walking. Stretching. Albuquerque. Remembering the Dakota men executed one hundred sixty years ago this day. St. Stephen’s Day. King Wenceslas. Treaties – Frank Waln Intertribal Song – Dakota Nation & Red Bull United Tribes International Standing Alone – Buddy Red Bow Reflections of Paha Sapa – Bryan Akipa The Moon Is Shining – Indigenous Round Dance – Dakota Nation & Red Bull United Tribes International Peyote Healing – Robbie Robertson Thunder Horse – Kevin Locke Lakota Forever – Brule Many and Great (Dakota) – Jon Sarta (this was sung by the men to be executed as they were taken to the gallows) Good King Wenceslas / Rakes Of Mallow – The Boys of County Bucks Good King Wenceslas – The Roches The Wren in the Furze – The Chieftains St. Stephen’s Day Murders – Elvis Costello
Walk. Albuquerque. Snow on the Sandias. Canticle of the Turning – Princeton Seminary Choir Happy Christmas – Angelique Kidjo Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn Christmas in the Trenches – John McCutcheon Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band The Bushes of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains & Jackson Browne We Are Christmas – Spelman Glee Club Away in a Manger – The Blind Boys of Alabama feat. George Clinton & Robert Randolph We Wait for You – The Many Mary’s Boy Child – Harry Belafonte The First Noel – R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton It Came upon the Midnight Clear – Mahalia Jackson Silent Night – Aretha Franklin Go Tell It on the Mountain – Dolly Parton