July 2024.
Endings. Changes. Transitions.
This playlist was on repeat for the month.
Whenever there was time, it played.
Thanks to all who contributed songs.
All Good Things – Jackson Browne
The End – The Beatles
Journey’s End – Clannad
Love You ‘Till the End – The Pogues
Farewell – Rihanna
Voodoo Child – Angélique Kidjo
Goodbye Song – Ranky Tanky
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
See You Again – Wiz Khalifa, feat. Charlie Puth
Wave Myself Goodbye – Rory Gallagher
Go Your Own Way – The Cranberries
Ashokan Farewell – Jay Ungar, Matt Glasser, Evan Stover, Russ Barenburg, Molly Mason
The Last Goodbye – Billy Boyd
The Parting Glass – The Wailin’ Jennys
One Last Time – Hamilton Original Broadway Cast
All Things Must Pass – George Harrison
Don’t Stop – Fleetwood Mac
Don’t Stop Me Now – QueeN
On The Road Again – Willie Nelson
Remember Me – Gael García Bernal, Gabriella Flores & Libertad García Fonzi
Remember Me – Benjamin Bratt
Remember Me – Lucky Dube
Remember Me – Miguel, feat. Natalia Lafourcade
Remember When The Music – Harry Chapin
Forever Young – Rod Stewart
Carry On Till Tomorrow – Badfinger
I Shall Be Released – The Band
No Surrender – Bruce Springsteen
Long As I Can See the Light -Dolly Parton, feat. John Fogerty
Change the World All Around – The Vulgar Boatmen
Walk With Me – Fannie Lou Hamer
Things Are Changin’ – Gary Clark Jr.
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
After All (These Years) – Jennifer Chung
Path Of Beauty – Joanne Shenandoah
The Times They Are a Changin’ – Nina Simone
Tour’s End – Stan Getz & Oscar Peterson Trio
Golden Feather – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Song Of The Wind – Santana
Further On Up the Road – Johnny Cash
On the Road Again – Juanita du Plessis
My Opening Farewell – JD Souther
So Long, Farewell – The Sound Of Music
Homeward Bound – Simon & Garfunkel
Keep Me In Your Heart – Warren Zevon
I Know the End – Phoebe Bridgers
Till the End of the Day- The Kinks
Fields of Gold – Sting
Both Sides Now – Judy Collins
Good Riddance – Green Day
Closing Time – Semisonic
I Will Remember You – Sarah McLachlan
Happy Trails – Roy Rogers, Dale Evans & The Whippoorwills
Can’t Go Back Now – The Weepies
All Is Not Lost – OK Go
Once and Never More – Shadow Academy
Watershed – Indigo Girls
Time to Ring Some Changes – Richard Thompson
Changes – Phil Ochs
Changes – H.E.R.
Changes – Emma Donovan
Changes – David Bowie
Change Your World – Ziggy Marley
Change Your Life – Kehlani
A Change Would Do You Good – Sheryl Crow
Change the World – Magdalen Hsu-Li
Change the World – Gabrielle, Elmo, Rosita, Tamir & Sesame Street’s Charlie
Change Of The Guard – Steely Dan
Change It – Stevie Ray Vaughan
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
A Change Is Gonna Come – The Neville Brothers
A Change Is Gonna Come – Christine Anu
A Change Is Gonna Come – The Band
Change is Coming – Ruby Amanfu
A Change Gonna Come – Ruby Hunter
Change Gonna Come Otis Redding
Change – Tracy Chapman
Change – Melissa Etheridge
Change – Mavis Staples
Change – Emma’s Revolution
Change – Christina Aguilera
Change – Black 47
Changing, Changing – Ed Ames
Changing of the Guards – The Gaslight Anthem
Changing Colours – Great Lake Swimmers
Changes – 2Pac & Talent
So What – Miles Davis
The Wicked Flee – Carter Burwell
Leaning On the Everlasting Arm – Iris DeMent
Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye – Leonard Cohen
At the End of the Day – Tom Chapin
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye – Steam
My Father’s Waltz – Hem
Take Yourself With You – Matthew Black
Theme For An Imaginary Western – Mountain
Homeward Through The Haze – Crosby & Nash
Landslide – The Chicks
Leaving the Land – Eric Bogle
Bye Bye Bye – NSYNC
Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Simple Minds
Time for Me to Fly – REO Speedwagon
It’s the End of the World As We Know It – R.E.M.
Changes – Yes
End of the Day – Beck Sea
Them Changes – Buddy Miles
Change the World All Around – The Vulgar Boatmen
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Lost – Amanda Palmer
Rivers of Mercy – Peter Mayer
Leaving on a Jet Plane – John Denver
The Weight – Aretha Franklin
How Can I Keep From Singing Eva Cassidy
Three Little Birds – Gracie’s Corner
Tag Archives: retirement
Endings, Changes & Transitions
A prayer poem as Roger Federer’s career comes to an end
All things end, God.
You alone are permanent.
All good things,
all bad things,
all things end, God.
Some endings we choose,
some are forced upon us,
all things end, God.
Some endings we welcome,
some we seek mightily to avoid,
all things end, God.
May the awareness of endings
lead us
to live fully in the moments we have,
to love boldly the people with whom we share life,
to enjoy wholly our experiences.
May our awareness of endings
inspire us
to love kindness – now,
to do justice – now,
to walk humbly – now.
And to do so in every now we have.
For all things end, God.
Amen.
Filed under Current Events, Sports, tennis
Thank you, Serena Williams
Greatness.
Grace.
Power.
Prowess.
Passion.
Swift feet.
Sharp eyes.
Brilliant mind.
Strong spirit.
Sound heart.
Commitment.
I saw Serena play.
I saw Serena live.
And I am changed and grateful.
Filed under Current Events, New York, tennis
Wow! Thanks Mean Joe!
The commercial has iconic status.
Joe Greene, hall of fame defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, limps down a ramp toward the locker room. Battered and weary, he carries his jersey draped over his shoulder.
A child offers asks Joe if he needs help. Joe tries to avoid the child. The child persists, offering Joe his Coke.
Joe accepts. Taking the Coke in his massive hand, he downs it in one gulp.
Joe starts down the ramp. A bit confused, and perhaps disappointed, the child says good-bye and moves toward the stadium.
Joe stops, turns and calls: “Hey kid. Catch.” He tosses his jersey to the child whose eyes go wide as he pulls in the precious jersey. Awe fills his voice as he says: “Wow! Thanks Mean Joe!”
Those of us who inhabit Steelers Nation have said those words many times over the years. Today, they carry special meaning.
When he arrived in Pittsburgh in 1969, people asked “Joe who?” Chuck Noll made a defensive tackle from North Texas State University the fourth pick of the 1969 draft and the first pick of his coaching career. Most folks in Pittsburgh had never heard of the school or of Joe Greene despite his outstanding college career. Joe quickly taught us to know and admire him becoming one of the dominant players of his era and the cornerstone of the Steel Curtain.
The Steelers had never won a championship when Joe arrived. Now six Lombardi Trophies decorate Heinz Field. Joe Greene anchored the defensive line on four championship teams. He served in the front office when the Steelers won the other two.
Fans referred to the “same old Steelers” with an air of resignation when he arrived. Today, a .500 season marks a bitter disappointment.
No one player makes a team. But few players have played such key role in transforming a franchise as Joe Greene did.
He forced offenses to adapt to account for him: double teaming him, triple teaming him, still failing to stop him. He played with a fervor that led by example and raised the play of those around him.
The outstanding North Texas State University defense earned the nickname, “Mean Green.” The name followed Joe to Pittsburgh and stuck to him. “Mean Joe Greene.”
At moments he lived into the nickname, particularly in his early years when the Steelers’ losing seasons frustrated him. He reportedly spat at Dick Butkus in one game. He tossed his helmet into the stands in another. His intensity drew the team together and led others to adopt a similar attitude and match it with their play.
Of course, the fire burned all the years. Late in his career, as the Steelers faced elimination in the playoffs, officials ejected Joe for punching an opponent.
When he retired, for the first time, as a player, he became the defensive line coach under his former head coach Chuck Noll. Noll’s retirement brought speculation that the Steelers might hire Joe as the head coach. It did not happen. This resulted in a second retirement from the Steelers organization. The new coach, Bill Cowher, did not keep Joe on the staff.
Steelers Nation found it hard to watch at times, but Joe spent a few years coaching with the Dolphins and Cardinals. After the Cardinals let him go in 2004, the Steelers created a position for Joe in their scouting and player personnel department. He served for nine years before retiring for the third, and he says final, time today.
Player. Hall of Famer. Coach. Executive. As Steeler President Art Rooney said:
“There are very few people in the history of the NFL who have had a greater impact on one franchise than Joe Greene has had on the Pittsburgh Steelers.”
Wow! Thanks Mean Joe!
See you along the Trail.
Filed under Football
Along the Graybeard Trail 