5K walk. Louisville.
Supporting Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women.
And We Can Love – Mary Youngblood
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
Calling All Warriors – Leela Gilday
I Am the Beginning and the End – Dorothy Tsatoke
The Unforgotten – Iskwē acākosīk, feat. Tanya Tagaq
Mother’s Rain Annie Humphrey
Some How – Nizhóní Girls
Through the Eyes of a Woman – Jana
Gentle Warrior – Kalolin Johnson
Indigenous – J25
Honor Song for an Older Sister – Poldine Carlo
Sinnatuumait – Elisapie
Resisto y Ya – Lido Pimienta
Fear – Joy Harjo
Strong Women’s Song – Ode’min Kwe Singers
Broken – Bear Fox
Roots And Wings – Joanne Shenandoah
For Me – Shawnee Kish
One Woman – Teagan Littlechief
Fight for the Rights – Kelly Fraser
God Created Woman – Martha Redbone
No More – Fawn Wood
Tongues – Tanya Tagaq
Grandmother’s Ways – Sharon Burch
The Warrior – Walela
Women’s Fancy Shawl – Shannon Thunderbird & Sandy Horne
One Woman: A Song for UN Women – Ana Bacalhau, Angélique Kidjo, Anoushka Shankar, Bassekou Kouyate, Bebel Gilberto, Beth Blatt, Brian Finnegan, Buika, Charice, Cherine Amr, Debi Nova, Emeline Michel, Fahan Hassan, Jane Zhang, Jim Diamond, Keith Murrell, Lance Ellington, Marta Gómez, Mari
Eagle When She Flies – Thunder Bird Sisters
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
30 September is observed in Canada as The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and generational impact committed on First Nations peoples by the Canadian Indian residential school system. It has expanded in the United State as a day to remember the atrocities and generational impact inflicted by the U.S. boarding school system on Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of Australia had a similar experience.
Walking. Germantown. Schnitzelburg.
Lost Souls – Tom Jackson Lost Souls
Residential School Song (Indian Boarding School Song) – Cheryl Bear
Child of the Government – Jayli Wolf
BEFORE – A Tribe Called Red, feat. Joseph Boyden
Apatapasiq – Mike Bern
Battlefields – Twin Flames
Savage Mob – Snotty Nose Rez Kids, feat. Nooky & Birdz
open window – nêhiyawak
Took the Children Away – Archie Roach, Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky & Ruby Hunter (the Australian Indigenous experience)
Take Me Home – Indian City
Spirit Horses – Annie Humphrey
The Land of the Blind – Ira Provost
Why Us – N’we Jinan Artists
500 Years – Rhonda Head
Residential School – Jerry Alfred & The Medicine Beat
Cut My Hair – Digging Roots
Residential School – Chris Pierce
For Our Children – Bryan Akipa
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Remembering Kris Kristofferson.
All songs by Kristofferson unless otherwise indicated.
Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Highwayman – Highwaymen
Sister Sinead
Me And Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash
For the Good Times – Al Green
Help Me Make It Through the Night – Gladys Knight & The Pips
From the Bottle to the Bottom
Come Sundown
Darby’s Castle
The Sabre and the Rose
The Pilgrim, Chapter
Casey’s Last Ride – Kris Kristofferson & Willie Nelson
Desperados Waiting for a Train – Highwaymen
Against the Wind – Highwaymen
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Old photographs
Dust accumulated
through years of storage brings
coughing and sneezing,
itching and wheezing.
Faded images stir
vibrant memories of
people and places,
life and love shared.
Sorrow and joy,
joy and sorrow
mingle with the dust.
And the question lingers:
why are there tears?
17 September 2024
Germantown, Louisville, Kentucky
Filed under Family, Friends, Louisville, Poem, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Mexico Independence Day.
Death of Victor Jara – 1973.
B.B. King Birthday.
Remembering Tito Jackson.
Himno Nacional Mexicano – Banda de Genaro Nuñez & Banda Estudiantil del Estado de Jalisco
Me Gustan los Estudiantes – Tita Parra
El Pueblo Unido Jamàs Serà Vencido – Inti-Illimani
México Lindo – Vicente Fernández
Viva Mexico – Mariachi Veracruz
Mi Ciudad – Lola Beltrán
Pisagua 1973 – Los Miserables
Victor Jara’s Hands – Calexico
Victor Jara – Arlo Guthrie
15 de Septiembre – José Alfredo Jiménez
Estadio Chile – Pete Seeger
Manifiesto – Victor Jara
Juan Sin Tierra – Ska-P
Back Against the Wall – Hogni
It Could Have Been Me – Holly Near
Washington Bullets – The Clash
On My Word Of Honor – B.B. King
You’ve Been An Angel – B.B. King
Blind Love – B.B. King
We Made It – Tito Jackson
Make Your Mind Up – EEDB, Toni Tuklan & Tito Jackson, feat. Kaos MC & Duendy Primero
One Way Street (The Gregg Pagani Mix) – Tito Jackson
So Far So Good – Tito Jackson, feat. 3T
Jammer Street – Tito Jackson, feat. 3T
Cruisin’ – Tito Jackson, feat. Betty Wright
I Ain’t Going Nowhere – Tito Jackson, feat. 3T
Home Is Where the Heart Is – Tito Jackson
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Walking. Germantown.
A.A. Cameron’s Strathspey / Mrs. Martha Knowles / The Pitnacree Ferryman / The New Shillin’ – Silly Wizard
Emma – Jonathan Edwards
Touch Me Again – Della Reese
Apache Tear – Emmylou Harris & The Milk Carton Kids
Las Golondrinas – Guadalupe Pineda
The Green Fields of France – Dropkick Murphys
Nobody Lives Without – Mary Black
Violencia Contra Violencia – Los Miserables
See-Saw Granpa – Badfinger
I Will Always Love You – The Sands Family
Play Your Cards Right – Common, feat, Bilal
Na-Na Song – Sheryl Crow
Leather And Lace – Stevie Nicks
Canto Libre – Victor Jara
Heal Me – Melissa Etheridge
Glory, Glory – The Byrds
Time After Time – Eva Cassidy
Bygones – Dolly Parton, feat. Rob Halford
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Morning movement. Walking Germantown.
O’ Bhean A’Ti – Máire Brennan
In A Lifetime – Clannad Anam
Cold Lampin’ with Flavor – Public Enemy
Show Me – My Fair Lady
Big Love – Fleetwood Mac
널 알고 싶어 – Hwang Se Ok
Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? – The Beatles
Key To The Highway – The Band
Not Me – John McCutcheon
Shining Star – Earth, Wind & Fire
If Only – Jennifer Chung
Love Is the Only Law – Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – Joan Baez
The Rocky Road To Dublin – Cruachan
Put Your Lights On – Santana
Blues For Sister Someone – Lenny Kravitz
San Patricios – Street Dogs
The San Patricios – The Fenians
4/4 March the Minstrel Boy – Banda de Gaitas del batallón de San Patricio
John Riley – The Paul McKenna Band
Little Wing – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Lookin’ Out My Back Door – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Superstition -Stevie Wonder
Born to Run – Emmylou Harris
The Way You Do the Things You Do – The Temptations
In My Life – Judy Collins
Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher (Higher and Higher) – Chris Ardoin & Double Clutchin’
God Leads Us Along – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Revolution – Bob Marley & The Wailers
The War Is Over – Phil Ochs
Candy Man, Salty Dog – Sharon, Lois & Bram
Before The World Was Made – Van Morrison
Almighty – Yumi Matsutoya
Dakota Flute Song – Bryan Akipa
Stones In the Road – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Death of Steve Biko.
Steve Biko – Beenie Man
Biko – Peter Gabriel
Steve Biko (Stir It Up) – A Tribe Called Quest
Biko’s Kindred Lament – Steel Pulse
Prisoner – Lucky Dube
Kazet – Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens
Not Yet Uhuru – Letta Mbulu
Tomorrow Nation – O’ Yaba
Hellfire – African Jazz Pioneers
Unfinished Story – Stimela
Biko Drum – Christy Moore
Asimbonanga / Biko – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir Symphonic, feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo
The Death Of Stephen Biko – Tom Paxton
Tribute to Steve Biko – Tappa Zukie
Nkosi Sikelel ‘IAfrica – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Filed under Antiracism, Easter, Louisville, Music, playlist
San Patricios Brigade. Saint Patrick’s Battalion.
St Patricks Battalion – The Wakes
San Patricio Brigade – Black 47 with Eileen Ivers
La Iguana – The Chieftains With Lila Downs
La Golondrina – The Chieftains With Los Folkloristas
A La Orilla De Un Palmar – The Chieftains With Linda Ronstadt
Danza De Concheros – The Chieftains With Los Folkloristas
El Chivo – The Chieftains With Los Cenzontles
San Campio – The Chieftains With Carlos Núñez
The Sands Of Mexico – The Chieftains Feat. Ry Cooder
Sailing To Mexico – The Chieftains With Carlos Núñez
El Caballo – The Chieftains With Los Camperos De Valles
March To Battle (Across The Rio Grande) – The Chieftains With Banda De Gaitas Del Batallón De San Patricio, Liam Neeson, Los Cenzontles & L.A. Juvenil
Lullaby For The Dead – The Chieftains With Moya Brennn
Luz De Luna – The Chieftains With Chavela Vargas
Persecución De Villa – The Chieftains With Mariachi Santa Fe De Jesus Guzman
Canción Mixteca (Intro) – The Chieftains Feat. Ry Cooder
Canción Mixteca – The Chieftains With Los Tigres Del Norte
Ojitos Negros – The Chieftains With Los Cenzontles
El Relampago – The Chieftains With Lila Downs
El Pájaro Cu – The Chieftains With La Negra Graciana
Finale – The Chieftains With Los Cenzontles, Carlos Núñez, Los Folkloristas, Banda De Gaitas Del Batallón De San Patricio, L.A. Juvenil
St Patrick’s Brave Brigade – Damien Dempsey
San Patricios – The Regulars
San Patricios – The Donegal X-Press Translations Irish 0
San Patricios – The Plankrunners
John Riley – Mary McPartlan
John Riley – The Paul McKenna Band
Along the Graybeard Trail 