Small DC 2020

Light

Necronomicon by Raymond Arnold ◦ What "Winter Wonderland" is to the teachings of Jesus, this song is to incomprehensible horrors that shape our world.
The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas by They Might Be Giants (Or Glazer & Evans) ◦ A mostly accurate ode to the sun
Bold Orion by Leo Kretzner and Jon Bell ◦ A mythologically inspired ode to Orion the Hunter
Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
Intro to a small DC Solstice for 2020 by Maia Werbos

Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
Happiness Letters
Beautiful Tomorrow by Evgeny Krylatov (Music), Yuri Entin (Original Lyrics) and Anna Tchetchetkine et. al. (English Translation) ◦ Tomorrow calls to me

How We Remember and What by Sideria and Taymon Beal
Beneath Midwinter Midnight by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lament of winter, contrasting with repeated "we are not alone"s
Story from Bergamo by Daniele Macchini, translated by Silvia Stringhini, adapted by Maia Werbos
Minute of Silence

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
500 Million: 2020 Addendum by Maia Werbos
Long December by the Counting Crows
Amy AKA Spent Gladiator 1 by The Mountain Goats
Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton ◦ A smug, sociopathic celebration of survival and science