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THE PROGRESSIVE HOUR IN THE MIX VOL. 004 [FULL SET]

#amwriting Thursday, January 9, 2025

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I am in the throes of a Fig Newton crisis.

We enjoyed the sunset on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Friday evening

We enjoyed the sunset on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Friday evening Nov..8, 2024

Equador - Bones Of Man (Gareth Emery Remix)

Bones of Man Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Are we just now until we start again?

We travel all alone, this is not the end

[Hook]

Follow that road

Follow that road

(Maybe)

[Chorus]

You've gotta let it go

On a low

'Cause buried in the sand

The bones of man

[Verse 2]

Everything you know will carry on in us

And somewhere in my dreams is everything I lost

[Hook]

Follow that road

Follow that road

(Maybe)

[Chorus]

You've gotta let it go

On a low

'Cause buried in the sand

The bones of man

You've gotta let it go

(Fly so high 'til I move my wings)

All alone

(Fell so far thought I might drown at sea.)

'Cause buried in the sand

(Somewhere there's a place where we begin)

The bones of man.

(Meet you there 'cause this is not the end)

We have guards in place on our kitchen table.

Snickerdoodles for dessert last Friday, 25Oct2024. Yum

"At the ready." The Westminster Fire Department 12Oct2024

9Oct2024 Tech Fest at the Westminster MD Playground

Wednesday, October 9, 2024: Tech Fest with Billy Lyve, Tony Gerald, Collision Course, London-Nicole Pettis, Diana Flores, Find Your Purpose, Carroll Technology and Innovation Council, Wisdom Court, DJ Anchor and the Bank. Westminster Playground, 11 Longwell Avenue, Westminster Maryland 21157. 9October2024

Westminster Playground 9Oct2024 Kevin Dayhoff

Pencils

Sunset over Patapsco. Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Lady Gaga Saga 2011 Version, The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet

The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet performs an improved and expanded version of their all-time greatest hit, Lady Gaga Saga.  Our drummer is Jonny Allen.  Arrangements by Kara LaMoure and Brittany Harrington.  Special thanks to David Weinberg for reprising his role as our announcer and to camera operators Justis Mackenzie and Anna Brumbaugh.

Our quartet was formed in 2008 in Rochester, NY.  This was from our concert in the Eastman School of Music's new Hatch Recital Hall.  Members are Brittany Harrington, Yuki Katayama, Kara LaMoure, and Lauren Yu.

Memorial Gateway, Center Street, Westminster, MD.

July 25, 2022 - County Announces Bokey as New Director of Public Works

County Announces Bokey as New Director of Public Works

 

Westminster, MD, Monday, July 25, 2022 –The Carroll County Board of County Commissioners is pleased to introduce Bryan Bokey as the new county Director of the Department of Public Works. Mr. Bokey will join the county in his new role on August 18, 2022.

Mr. Bokey is a Certified Professional Engineer who brings a strong educational background, public works leadership and more than 15 years of engineering expertise from both the public and private sectors to this position. Director Bokey will be charged with direction of the overall coordination, evaluation, and operation of the Department of Public Works, ensuring compliance with appropriate governmental and other regulatory and reporting requirements.  As Director of Public Works, he is responsible for oversite of nine divisions consisting of Building Construction, Engineering, Facilities, Fleet Management, Permits & Inspections, Roads Operations, Solid Waste, Utilities, and Airport Operations, in addition to transit services and building security.

“Growing up, my parents were public servants, and I knew I would follow in their footsteps one day. When offered an opportunity to serve the people of Carroll County, I was truly humbled and honored to be selected for this position,” said Mr. Bokey. “I look forward to a long, fulfilling career with Carroll County Government and tackling the challenges ahead for the Department of Public Works.”

Mr. Bokey’s experience includes progressive experience as an engineer and program manager in the public sector in addition to five years at Baltimore County Department of Public Works and Transportation as a project engineer and bureau chief of utilities. These positions included strategic and master planning as well as providing leadership, administration and supervision to over 250 employees.  Previous positions include demonstrated skill in budgeting, quality control, asset management, development management and code enforcement with strong emphasis on data-driven solutions.

Mr. Bokey earned a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. His education and training also include professional certifications, licensures and extensive coursework in water and wastewater condition assessment programs and hydraulic modeling. 

Mr. Bokey lives in Carroll County where he resides with his wife, two children, and two dogs.  He is an avid woodworker, an amateur photographer, and enjoys hiking, running, travel, and spending time with his family.

“Bryan’s education, experience and leadership skills are going to be tremendous assets to Carroll County and the Department of Public Works, and we are thrilled to have him join our management team,” said Board of Commissioner President Ed Rothstein. “I am excited for Bryan’s direction to continue the operational excellence in the county’s largest department, which is responsible for providing, managing and sustaining many of the structures and services essential to the welfare and quality of life for our residents.” 

https://www.carrollcountymd.gov/residents/county-news/carroll-county-government-news-release-2022-archive/county-announces-bokey-as-new-director-of-public-works/

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Marjorie Lohnes Interview

Feb 22, 2021: Marjorie Lohnes, shares her thoughts about Civil Rights Activist, Phyllis Scott. This interview was recorded in partnership with the Historical Society of Carroll County.https://hsccmd.org/

Adrian Gamboa - USMC

Adrian Gamboa shares his story of military service with the Carroll History Project on 5-21-2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5V5aQaTxiA

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156 Memorial Day Remembrance Parade and Observance Ceremony 5-29-2023

May 30, 2023: Watch live coverage of the 156th Memorial Day Remembrance Parade and Observance Ceremony in Westminster, MD on Monday, May 29, 2023. Live coverage of the parade begins at 10:00 a.m. and will be followed by the memorial ceremony at 11:00 a.m. For over 80 years, The American Legion - Carroll Post 31 has remembered our fallen servicemen and women through the Memorial Day Remembrance Parade and Observance Ceremony in Westminster. For nearly three decades, the Community Media Center has worked in partnership with Carroll Post 31 to produce the annual program that features one of the longest-running Memorial Day Parades in the nation.

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May 31, 2021 154th Memorial Day Remembrance

May 31, 2021 154th Memorial Day Remembrance

The Community Media Center, (CMC) in partnership with The American Legion - Carroll Post 31 will present a special Memorial Day Remembrance Program starting at 10:00 AM on cable Channel HD 1086, and Channel 19.  CMC is proud to once again be an integral part of Carroll County’s Memorial Day Observance; helping to ensure that stories and sacrifice of our local service members are never forgotten.

Due to COVID-19, Westminster’s traditional Memorial Day Parade was cancelled. However, the Memorial Day Observance Ceremony was recorded virtually. The Memorial Day Observance is a time-honored tradition for Carroll Post #31 American Legion and the community to honor and remember those that have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

The Memorial Day Remembrance program features opening remarks by Adrian Gamboa, Commander of Carroll Post #31. The invocation, given by Richard Stem, Chaplin, Carroll Post #31, The keynote speech is presented by Kevin Dayhoff and the National Anthem is sung by Abby Otradove. The program also includes video tributes from Carroll County residents. taps and a closing prayer. 

Additional  Memorial Day Programming Includes:

 

The 2021 Hampstead American Legion Memorial Day Service. Hampstead American Legion Post #200 Memorial Day Services, including a message from Richard Weaver, Carroll County Commissioner - District 2 and Hampstead Mayor, Christopher Nevin.

 

"Letters to Home" this special rebroadcast features letters from soldiers lost during war to their families here in Carroll County.

 

Veteran Interviews from the Carroll County History Projects Oral History Collection, as a tribute to local veterans we have lost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBUazweVa6M&t=4s

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The railroad tracks in Carrollton

Lindsey Stirling - Love Goes On and On ft. Amy Lee of Evanescence (Offic...

Lindsey Stirling - Love Goes On and On ft. Amy Lee of Evanescence (Official Music Video)

Lindsey Stirling - Carol Of The Bells (Live)

Sylvia Plath said it in good sentences

Sylvia Plath — “God, let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences …”

A compilation by Kevin Dayhoff February 7, 2024

Sylvia Plath tragically died by taking her own life at the age of 30, on February 11, 1963.

She is one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. Her best-known works include the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus,” in addition to a collection of poems, “The Colossus,” published in October 1960,  and the novel “The Bell Jar.” 

Plath was known to starkly express a sense of alienation and self-destruction that resonated with many. The Bell Jar, written under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucus, was not overwhelmingly well accepted when it was first released.

The Bell Jar was a manifestation of her mental crisis. The well-known “fig tree” quote illustrates the paralysis of indecision.

An except reads, “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. 

“One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet, and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. 

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet...”

However, Charlotte Ahlin calls to our attention in a piece she wrote on March 19, 2018, “This Quote From 'The Bell Jar' Is Always Used Out-Of-Context & It Changes The Whole Meaning.” https://www.bustle.com/p/the-fig-tree-quote-in-the-bell-jar-is-always-used-out-of-context-it-actually-changes-the-entire-meaning-8509944 

“Nearly every young person can relate to the fig tree: that horrible, suffocating feeling of indecision, the sense that every choice you make for the future means giving up on ten other choices. The knowledge that you can only move forward, and that if you choose the wrong "fig," the right fig might fall and rot before you get to it.

“There's nothing necessarily wrong with plucking this quote out of The Bell Jar — in many ways, it captures the crux of Esther's depression in a single paragraph. She feels inadequate, paralyzed by indecision, and unsure of what she wants. She's starving to death and yet unable to reach out and pluck a fig, any fig, from her tree. She can see future happiness, but doesn't know how to grasp it. She's numb to her own life. There's a reason that this quote resonates with so many people.

“But people rarely seem to quote the page after the fig tree.

“Esther has this disturbing vision while out on a date with Constantin, who's giving her a tour of the U.N. Being surrounded by all these accomplished, multilingual young people prompts Esther to start mentally listing all the things she's terrible at. She berates herself on her own flaws (she can't cook, she doesn't know shorthand, she's a bad dancer) until she spirals into the fig tree metaphor, sure that she will never live up to her promise as a gifted, scholarship kid.

“Then, however, Constantin takes her to a restaurant, and Esther has to sit down and eat. Then, there's this: ‘I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach.’”

In college - in January 1955, Plath submitted her thesis “The Magic Mirror: A Study of the Double in Two of Dostoyevsky's Novels.”

In 1956, while on a Fulbright Fellowship at Cambridge University, she married the British poet Ted Hughes after a whirlwind courtship. They were both ambitious, and hoped to become the leading poets of their generation. For Plath, it was a marriage mired with misfortune that rivals that of a Greek tragedy on steroids.  

Interestingly enough, in the later years of her marriage, Hughes and Plath kept bees, the topic of many of her poems.  

I always found it fascinating that in 1958 she worked, for a brief time, as a receptionist in the psychiatric unit of Massachusetts General Hospital.

Her novel, The Bell Jar, was published in London in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. Strongly autobiographical, the book describes the mental breakdown and eventual recovery of a young college girl and parallels Plath's own breakdown and hospitalization in 1953.

After her death, many of us can identify with Al Alvaraz, who later wrote, according to an article in The Guardian, “"I failed her ... I was thirty years old and stupid. What did I know about chronic clinical depression? She kind of needed someone to take care of her. And that was not something I could do…” At the time, Plath had been separated from Hughes for six months while he was having an affair with Assia Gutmann Wevill, who was pregnant with Hughes’ child at the time. In part, haunted by the death of Plath, Wevill took her own life on March 23, 1969. 

Plath’s tombstone reads: “Even amidst fierce flames / the Golden Lotus can be planted.” These lines are from Chinese literature, Wu Cheng'en's Monkey: Journey to the West – although other folks attribute it to the Hindu text from “Bhagavad Gita.”

All this - according to some old, disheveled notes and files recently found in the bottom of a box of discarded poems and short stories that were compiled and assembled from multiple undocumented sources over many-many years. Out of an abundance of caution - no claim to original authorship is either claimed or implied. As a young writer, I was always fascinated with the idea of having the opportunity to have interviewed Sylvia Plath. 

For additional context, read: “'I realised Sylvia knew about Assia's pregnancy - it might have offered a further explanation of her suicide' In a heart-breaking new twist in the story of the lives and deaths of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Sigmund recalls a moment of terrible realization” from The Guardian, April 22, 1999. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/apr/23/features11.g21 

For a brief introduction to Sylvia Plath, be sure to watch a short “TED-ED” on YouTube,  “Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie.” Find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWl8ZIgCHk 

Find an interview with Sylvia Plath from 1962, on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2lMsVpRh5c And a great collection of pictures of Sylvia Plath Here: “Sylvia Plath reads November Graveyard:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ujeHnrT8A (About the graveyard in Heptonstall. in which she was buried in 1963.) 

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