North America 2020

Beforehand

• Technical Note 2020 by Alex Altair

Bright

• Necronomicon by Raymond Arnold ◦ What "Winter Wonderland" is to the teachings of Jesus, this song is to incomprehensible horrors that shape our world.
• Welcome to Secular Solstice 2020 by Raymond Arnold, Alex Altair and Laura Vaughan
• Bold Orion by Leo Kretzner and Jon Bell ◦ A mythologically inspired ode to Orion the Hunter
• Meditation on the Past by Raymond Arnold
• Bitter Wind Blown by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lullaby for a child that is shivering in the cold
• Chasing Patterns by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our struggle for understanding
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world

Dim

• Meditation on the Present: Remember to Breathe by Raymond Arnold
• Hard Times Come Again No More by Stephen Foster ◦ An old song of sorrow, hope and compassion
• The Virtues of Solstice by Cody Wild and Raymond Arnold
• Sound Of Silence by Paul Simon, Originally ◦ Trying to hold to something meaningful amidst modern banality and suffering
• I Don't Know by Raymond Arnold
• Stopping in the Woods by Robert Frost and Randall Thompson ◦ A vignette of looking into snowy woods at night
• Blowin in the Wind by Bob Dylan ◦ A catalogue of the world's problems from a vaguely hopeful perspective

Candlelit

• Grief Comes in Many Forms by Cody Wild
• 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
• Orders of Magnitude by Alex Altair

Dark

• Minute of Silence
• Call and Response: Defiance by Jai Dhyani (Abridged by Daniel Speyer)
• 500 Million, But Not a Single One More by Jai Dhyani
• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire

Bright

• Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles ◦ A light-hearted celebration of the sun
• Keeping Your Eyes Open by Jeffrey Ladish
• Beautiful Tomorrow by Evgeny Krylatov (Music), Yuri Entin (Original Lyrics) and Anna Tchetchetkine et. al. (English Translation) ◦ Tomorrow calls to me
• Brighter Futures by Laura Vaughan
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• Meditation on the Future by Raymond Arnold and Nate Soares
• Five Thousand Years by Raymond Arnold ◦ Looking to the far future
• The Road to Wisdom by Piet Hein