Music listened to while working on this edition (at the request of Susan, Markus and Jayson).
Carole King's A Natural Woman: The Ode Collection 1968-1976
Michael Franti & Spearhead's Yell Fire
The REM Collection Disc 2 Michael Stipe Presents . . . (via UNCUT Masters)
Laura Nyro's Christmas and the Beads of Sweat
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Pack Up The Plantation Live!
John & York/Plastic Ono Band With Elephant's Memory's Some Time in New York City
Ani DiFranco's Reprieve
Ben Harper's Both Sides of the Gun
Jefferson Airplane's Crown of Creation
Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach's Painted From Memory
Carly Simon's Have You Seen Me Lately?
Otis Redding's Otis Blue
The Mamas & The Papas' The Papas & The Mamas
Key lyric, from Laura Nyro's "Christmas in my soul:"
I love my country
as it dies
in war and pain
before my eyes
I walk the streets
where disrespect has been
The sins of politics
the politics of sin
the heartlessness that darkens my soul on Christmas