NYC 2021

A Community of Truth

Evening

• Always Look on the Bright Side by Monty Python ◦ A silly song about making the best of terrible things
• The Sun Is Medley ◦ assembled by Daniel Speyer ◦ Three odes to the sun in one
• When I Die by Glen Raphael ◦ A light-hearted song about death
• Galaxy Song 2014 ◦ by Monty Python ◦ An updated version, with less astronomy and more biology
• Welcome -- Are We All Here? by Daniel Speyer
• Bold Orion by Leo Kretzner and Jon Bell ◦ A mythologically inspired ode to Orion the Hunter

Dusk

• That Problem Solved by Daniel Speyer ◦ I can solve my problems with my parents' teachings... until I can't

Twilight

• Bitter Wind Blown by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lullaby for a child that is shivering in the cold
• Saving the Spark by Daniel Speyer
• Chasing Patterns by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our struggle for understanding
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world

Night

• Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips ◦ A surreal song of love and death
• No Royal Road to Knowledge; No Mercy for Ignorance by Daniel Speyer
• The Voicing of Fear by Daniel Speyer ◦ How much we have to lose and how little chance we have to keep it
• A Little Echo by Raymond Arnold (with a few bits by Daniel Speyer) ◦ Love, life, death, and the desperate hope for life again
• Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
• Bitter Wind March by Raymond Arnold ◦ A return to Bitter Wind Blown, but with determination to do something about it
• We Are Here by Daniel Speyer
• Call and Response: Defiance by Jai Dhyani (Abridged by Daniel Speyer)

Dawn

• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Endless Lights by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities

Morning

• Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles ◦ A light-hearted celebration of the sun
• Here and Now by Raymond Arnold ◦ A celebration of now
• I Have Seen the Tops of Clouds by Daniel Speyer ◦ The miracles of today taken in context
• Monastery and Throne by Jacob Falkovich, adapted as a speech by Daniel Speyer

Days to Come

• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• Five Thousand Years by Raymond Arnold ◦ Looking to the far future
• The Road to Wisdom by Piet Hein