Happy Birthday, Paul!!
Walking the arroyo. Morning movement.
Hello Muddah Hello Faddah – Allan Sherman
Snoopy vs. The Red Baron – The Royal Guardsmen
I Got A Name – Jim Croce
This Is the Time – Billy Joel
Shut Up and Dance – WALK THE MOON
Day By Day – The Hooters
Fool’s Parade – Michael Stanley Band
Thunder Island – Jay Ferguson
Classical Gas – Mason Williams
Icarus (Borne On Wings of Steel) – Kansas
Fishin’ In the Dark – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
China Grove – The Doobie Brothers
Africa – Toto
Desperado – Linda Ronstadt
The Sounds Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
The Sound of Silence – Disturbed
Under Pressure – David Bowie & Queen
Seven Bridges Road – Eagles
The Tears Of A Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Nostradamus – Al Stewart
Never Been Any Reason – Head East
What Is Life – George Harrison
Tag Archives: stretching
2 July 2025 – Paul’s birthday
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Family, Music, New Mexico, playlist
6 May 2025
Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning Movement. Chair stretching.
家へおいでよ (Come On-A My House) 1 Teresa Teng
Resist (Reprise) – Lea Salonga, feat. Allegiance Original Broadway Cast Allegiance
Bad Friend – Rina Sawayama
Brown Out – Ruby Ibarra
Roses – Annalé
Abracadabra / Yabureta Koi No Naoshi Kata Oshiemasu – Yumi Matsutoya
Kawaikini – Jake Shimabukuro, feat. Kimie Miner
Recluse – Jennifer Chung
Ako ay Pilipino – Kuh Ledesma
forever – Hayley Kiyoko, feat. johnny rain
Crushing – TRACE
Realize – Yanzi
Hype – Chloe Tang
A Good Day (Morning Song) – Priscilla Ahn
A Natural Woman – Christine Anu
Love That Hurts – ZHU, feat. Karnaval Blues & Indiana
Spirit Animal – Jessi
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
5 May 2025
Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement.
National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.
Red Dress – Amanda Rheaume, feat. Chantal Kreviazuk
You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind) – Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq
Run Sister Run- Cass McCombs
Through The Flood – Indian City
Say Her Name – Bear Fox
To All MMIW – Northern Cree
Highway of Tears – Layla Zoe
The Highway – N’we Jinan Artists
Break the Silence – N’we Jinan Artists
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
Pray Sister Pray – Crystal Shawanda
Missing You – Joanne Shenandoah
Little Star – iskwē acākosīk
M.M.I.W. (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) – Jahkota, feat. LB, Drezus & Cleo Big Eagle
We Won’t Forget You – N’we Jinan
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
3 February 2025
Hike. Rio Grande Nature Center State Park. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Black History Month.
I Want You Back – Yuna
New Life – Black Violin
Spirit of Place – Archie Roach
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Paul Robeson
Reason to Love – The Staple Singers
Dancing In the Street – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Am I Black Enough for You? – Billy Paul
I’ve Got To Use My Imagination – Gladys Knight & The Pips
I’m Crying (Mother’s Tears) – Grace Jones
Many Rivers To Cross – Jimmy Cliff
Rhythym Child – Carlos Jones and the PLUS Band
Patriot Act – Heems
Baby I Love You – Aretha Franklin
Rockin’ Daddy – Howlin’ Wolf
I Would Die 4 U – Prince
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, hiking, New Mexico
30 January 2025
Morning movement. Walking to Cherry Hills library and some other places.
Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972.
Sunday Bloody Sunday – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Domhnach Na Fola – T With The Maggies
Minds Locked Shut – Christy Moore
Bloody Sunday – Cruachan
Sunday Bloody Sunday – The Wolfe Tones
Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
Sweetheart Like You – Bob Dylan
All My Loving – Paul McCartney
Rabbit Jim – Si Kahn
Wide Open Spaces – The Chicks
Everything You Need 5:43 Indigenous, feat. Mato Nanji
This Little Light – Mavis Staples
Don’t Stop Lovin’ Me – Eliza Gilkyson
Goodbye Goodnight – Andra Day
Mr. Bojangles – Nina Simone
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
17 January 2025
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
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
You’re Gimli
Ten consecutive days of stretching paid off. When the dance instructor told everyone, students and accompanying adults alike, to get on the floor, I made it. Without hurting myself. Without hurting anyone else. Without embarrassing myself. I made. I even managed to let Lucy sit on my leg without a problem.
“Let’s go around the circle and say our names,” the instructor directed. In turn, students and adult stated their name. Our turn came.
“I’m Lucy,” she said with confidence.”
“I’m Mark,” I said.
Lucy whipped around, put her hand on my mouth, and declared, “No. You’re Gimli.”
“And I’m Lucy,” she affirmed as she turned back to the class.
“It’s a Lord of the Rings thing,” I observed. Everyone laughed. The naming ritual continued.
It took a while to get here. But I am Gimli.
15 November 2024
Morning Movement. Indoor walking.
The playlist is a gift from Jeff DeYoe whose birthday is today and who is dearly missed.
Radio Nowhere – Bruce Springsteen
You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC
The Heart of Rock and Roll – Huey Lewis & The News
Start Me Up – The Rolling Stones
The Rising – Bruce Springsteen
A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles
Old Time Rock And Roll – Bob Seger
Runaway – Bon Jovi
Full Force Gale – Van Morrison
Susie Q – Creedence Clearwater Revival
I Need a Lover – John Cougar
Hey Tonight – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Filed under Exercise, Friends, Louisville, Music, playlist
3 November 2024
Walking. Morning movement. Chair stretching. Germantown. Gym in the apartment.
Incomplete – Pamyua
Childhood Memories – Bear Fox
Over Tokyo And Berlin – Jack Gladstone
Ghostdance – Bill Miller
Mother Of Nations – Joanne Shenandoah
Generation – Buffy Sainte-Marie
First Nation – J25
Spirit Horses – Annie Humphrey
Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad – Jana
Riding With Thunder – The Native Flute Ensemble
Resonance: Departure – R. Carlos Nakai
Sun Roof – El Vate
Tapue Shtutune – Kashtin
Unbound – Robbie Robertson
Circle of Celebration – AIRO. featuring Brule’
The Dance – Robert Mirabal
Earth Prayer – Alice Gomez
The Storm – iskwē
Rich Man’s War – John Trudell & Jesse Ed Davis
Canyon Concerto – Native Flute Ensemble
Dream Shield – Brulé
The Offering – Mary Youngblood
Stadium Pow Wow – The Halluci Nation, feat. Black Bear
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
2 November 2024
Walking. Morning Movement. Stretching.
Germantown. Gym in the apartment.
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
Run With the Wolves – Raye Zaragoza
Sludge Pubby – Nizhóní Girls
Dreams Of Wounded Knee – Bill Miller
Nemi – R. Carlos Nakai
The Virus – A Tribe Called Red, feat. Saul Williams & Chippewa Travellers
Put My Love in You – Nemaska Community
Uprising – Blackfire
Scooby Doo – Ode’min Kwe Singers
Unrequited – Mary Youngblood
Tree Of Life – Indian City
Why is Beauty? – Joy Harjo, feat. Peter Buck & Lisette Garcia
To Marry The Sun – Jack Gladstone
Ohenton Karihwatekwen Karenna – Bear Fox, feat. Lawrence Laughing
Frybread – Native Root
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Along the Graybeard Trail 