Walking. By car dealer twice and once in La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Happy Birthday, Muhammad Ali.
I Am the Greatest – Muhammad Ali
Doin’ the Ali Shuffle – Alvin Cash
Ali (Take 3) -Miles Davis
Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like a Bee – Teo Macero
Ali (Take 4) – Miles Davis
The Louisville Lip – PRGMAT
Muhammad Ali – Big Head Todd & The Monsters
Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) 3- Johnny Wakelin
Muhammad Ali – Faithless
The World’s Greatest – Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Muhammad Ali – Tom Russell
Stand by Me – Muhammad Ali
Someone Else Decide – John McCutcheon
My Cape Breton Home – James Galway
1993 – Manila Killa
The Earl of March’s Daughter – Aoife Clancy
Kite – U2
Paper and Ink – Tracy Chapman
This Hard Land – Bruce Springsteen
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525 – Erich Leinsdorf & Boston Symphony Orchestra
Nowhere To Go – Melissa Etheridge
Troubadours – Van Morrison
Still Remember – Indigenous
We Are the Children – Nobuko Miyamoto, feat. Derek Nakamoto
All Along the Watchtower – Playing for Change, feat. Warren Haynes, Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville & John Cruz
A Song For You – Leon Russell
Goin’ Back to New Orleans – Dr. John
Tag Archives: justice
17 January 2025
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Pardon Ravi Ragbir
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Filed under Antiracism, Friends, Human Rights
A prayer of thanks – President Jimmy Carter
Gracious God,
we thank you for
your beloved child,
Jesus’ faithful follower,
Jimmy Carter.
For his multiple contributions
to the lives of individuals,
to this country,
and to the international community,
we give you praise.
For his gracious being and living,
his goodness and kindness,
his integrity and compassion,
his work as a humble servant leader,
his courage in the facae of death,
we give you praise.
For his consistent witness to justice,
his tireless work for human rights,
his unshakeable belief that
all people and each person
are made in your image
and are to be treated with the
dignity that status confers,
we give you praise,
We thank you that for President Carter
death is past and
all pain and suffering and weakness has ended and,
reunited with his beloved Rosalynn
he has entered into the joy and love
you have prepared for us.
As we remember and give thanks
for President Carter,
may we learn from his example
how to follow more nearly Jesus
in whose name we pray.
Amen.
Filed under Current Events, Prayer
A prayer about seeking Christ
(nspired by the Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac; words in quotations are his.
Great Spirit, Immanuel,
in this Advent season,
we prepare to celebrate anew
the birth of Christ.
As we sing the songs
that tell us Christ will be bornin a manager,
remind us that again this year,
we will find “Christ in the rubble” of Gaza.
For Christ comes to the margins of life.
Not to the imperial palace
but to the humble people
Christ comes.
Not to the seat of powerbut to Bethlehem, little and insignificant
Christ comes.
Not to those enthroned
but to the disinherited and dispossesed
Christ comes.
For Christmas is your act of solidarity
with your beloved children who are oppressed.
Christmas provides a ray of hope
amid the “heart of pain and suffering.”
“Christmas is the radiance of life
from the heart of destruction and death.”
Inspire us, God, to seek Christ under the rubble.
Inspire us, God, to see Christ on the margins.
Inspire us, God, to follow Christ by working for
liberation and justice.
Amen.
Last year, the Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac and the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem introduced the concept of Christ in the Rubble in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Their advent creche showed the Christ child surrounded by broken stones and concreate and other representations of destruction.
This prayer, built on that image, focuses on the rubble of Gaza. Rubble, in many forms—physical, psychological, social, and more, exists around. May we seek Christ in all the rubble of the world and respond.
Filed under Advent, Current Events, Human Rights
16 October 2024
Walking. Louisville.
World Food Day.
Bread For the World – Bryan Field McFarland and Jacob’s Join
Is This the World We Created…? Queen
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) Bob Marley & The Wailers
Imperialism Is Another Word for Hunger – “Charlie” Chin, Chris Kando Iijima & Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto
Feed the Children – Eric Bogle
Coat of Many Colors – Dolly Parton
Whitey on the Moon – Gil Scott-Heron
Hungry Freaks, Daddy – The Mothers of Invention
Jubilee – Jim And Jean Stradthdee
Break Bread Together – Mary D Williams
One World One Song – Dionne Warwick & Joe McElderry
Far From The Arms Of Hunger – Jackson Browne
No Hunger – Donovan
Pastures of Plenty – Woody Guthrie
More Than Enough – Roy Bailey
My Land Is a Good Land – Pete Seeger
The Gap ($8,825 An Hour) – Si Kahn
Hard Times Come Again No More – Nanci Griffith
Hard Times – John Lee Hooker
Justice – Toshi Reagon
Ode To The International Debt – Sweet Honey In The Rock
…Until All Are Fed – Bryan Field McFarland and Jacob’s Join
Filed under Current Events, Louisville, Music, playlist
A prayer to do one thing
Inspire us, God,
to do one thing.
One thing for justice.
One thing for peace.
One thing for love.
Inspire us, God
by doing one thing
to do more.
More for justice.
More for peace.
More for love.
This day.
Every day.
Through Jesus, we pray.
Amen.
inspired by the Guns to Garden panel, James Atwood Institute for Congregational Courage
Filed under Current Events, Gun Violence, Prayer
2 September 2024 – Labor Day
Labor Day. Check out a mini concert for Labor Day by my friend Eric Law.
Walking. Albuquerque.
9 To 5 – Dolly Parton
Workin’ At The Carwash Blues – Jim Croce
The Hands That Built America (Theme from “Gangs of New York”) – U2
She Works Hard For the Money – Donna Summer
Worker’s Song – Dropkick Murphys
Livin’ On a Prayer – Bon Jovi
Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) – Randy Newman
Working Class Hero – Green Day
Working Man – Imagine Dragons
Working On The Highway – Bruce Springsteen
Joe Hill – Paul Robeson
There Is Power in a Union – John McCutcheon
Las Madres Cansadas – Joan Baez
We’Re Still Here – Si Kahn
Which Side Are You On – Natalie Merchant
Bread and Roses – Judy Collins
Three Miles Down – Gil Scott-Heron
More Than a Paycheck – Sweet Honey In the Rock
Ship In The Sky – Woody Guthrie
Solidarity Forever – Pete Seeger
Filed under Current Events, Friends, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
28 August 2024
Emmett Till.
March for Jobs and Freedom.
Walking Albuquerque.
The Death of Emmett Till – Bob Dylan
My Name Is Emmett Till – Emmylou Harris
Emmett’s Ghost – Eric Bibb feat. Ron Carter
The Ballad of Emmett Till – Red River Dave McEnery
The Death of Emmett Till, Pt. 1 – The Ramparts
The Death of Emmett Till, Pt. 2 – The Ramparts
The Death of Emmett Till – Ben Williams
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Bayard Rustin
God Will Take Care of You – Aretha Franklin
Many Rivers To Cross – The Blind Boys Of Alabama
You’ll Never Walk Alone – Brittany Howard
Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding – Keb’ Mo’
Too Many Martyrs – Kim & Reggie Harris
Freedom Time – Lauryn Hill
Keep Your Hand On the Plow – Mahalia Jackson
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody – Mary D Williams
We’ll Never Turn Back – Mavis Staples
Com’ By H’Yere Good Lord – Nina Simone
Hold On – Odetta
Been in the Storm – Ranky Tanky
We Shall Overcome – The Staple Singers
We Shall Overcome – Joan Baez
We Shall Overcome – Toots & The Maytals C
We Shall Overcome – Workers in Selma
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
6 August 2024
Walking. Treadmill. Flex Appeal.
Stretching. Apartment.
Hiroshima Day
Thousand Cranes – Hiroshima
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Russian Roulette – Jim Page
A Thousand Paper Cranes – MONO
I Come And Stand At Every Door – Anne Hills
No Nuclear War – Peter Tosh
Nuclear War – Yo La Tengo
Hiroshima-Nagasaki – Ozymandias
Enola Gay – Utah Phillips
Sadako – The Sands Family
Nagasaki no Kane – Meisterbrass Quartet & Yumi Aikawa Yuuji Koseki
When the Wind Blows – Eric Bogle
Ippon No Enpitsu – HIbari Misori
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream – Simon & Garfunkel
Jamaican Independence Day
Jamaica, Land We Love – The One World Ensemble (The Jamaican National Anthem)
Throne 2:38 Koffee Rapture EP Reggae 0 2
We Shall Overcome – Toots & The Maytals
History of Jamaica – Early B
The Song My Mother Used to Sing – Dennis Brown
Jump Independently – Count Lasher
Teach the Children – Dennis Alcapone
Rivers of Babylon – The Melodians
Rebuild Jamaica – Lee “Scratch” Perry
I Shall Be Free – Toots & The Maytals
Independence Ska – The Baba Brooks Band
Jamaican Spirit – Stacious
I Am Jamaican – DahNiel-Jae
Sweet Jamaica – Casey Donaldson
Jamaica Jamaica – Tricia Cunningham
One Jamaica – Kimiela Candy Isaacs
Fi Mi Island Home – Sister Novelette
Jah Love This Land – Lex M.D
Jamaica Is A Big Brand – TrishMaq
Waa Back Jamaica – Renzzah
Proud Jamaican – Auraiya Hope
Better Jamaica – Reggae Maxx
We Are Jamaicans – Pepita
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
St. Patrick’s Day 2024
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
