#The Annapolis Podcast

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For the Birds with Jack Wildlife

Today Jack Turner talks all things birds. This is the episode for any aspiring birder in Annapolis or beyond! Jack has an instagram page that has gone viral with interesting birding tidbits, gorgeous pictures and fun memes.

Here is Jack Wildlife Turner's instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/jack_wildlife/

  Check out this episode of The Annapolis Podcast! #Annapolispodcast

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ROCKS

Hello again fellow bloggers,

The most amazing thing about nature for me is the geology of an area. My main fixation in general is pollinators, as exemplified by my group's podcast, “What the Buzz?” and I love bees and ants and stuff like that. However, anytime I'm out hiking or just exploring, I can't help but get excited about rocks. The geology and topography of an area tell a story that goes back millions of years. For instance, down where I'm from in Nova Scotia there is a place called the Bay of Fundy, I'm sure you've all heard f it considering it is home to the world's highest tides.  Down near a little village named Walton there is a shale beach with a massive cliff and folds in the rocks. 

This cliff face tells the story of two landmasses colliding together to form what is now Nova Scotia. Initially happening long before the Atlantic formed. And then the Bay of Fundy itself formed from the rifting of North America from Africa and Europe. This caused the split in the mountain chain that now has pieces in Morocco, Scotland, the USA, Canada, and Norway!

(pictures taken by me, Walton Cliffs)

A little closer to campus there is a location in Hamilton called the Devil's Punchbowl. I've gone there twice now for class field trips. The Devil's Punchbowl tells a story of the ancient seas and streams that used to run through this area of southwest Ontario. The grains of sand that make up the sandstone tell stories of millions of years ago. The dolomitic capstone of the Niagara Escarpment tells another story, so long as you speak the language of rocks and sediment. 

(another photo by me, Devils Punchbowl)

Another area of Nova Scotia I've hiked through is on the Cape Split Peninsula. This region of the province is located on basaltic bedrock which formed during the same event that formed the Bay of Fundy. Magma pours out of the earth to form the north mountain range which makes up the sea sideward side of the Annapolis valley. The cape is covered in rocks filled with copper ore speckled through basaltic rock. Based on the patterns and the lack of crystallization you can tell that this magma cools very quickly, likely due to a rushing in of seawater after the rifting event. 

(another photo by me, Cape Split Point)

Further up the bay, there are a few islands, near Parrsboro, the indigenous peoples of the area, the Mi’kmaq, called these the five islands. The five islands are part of the legends passed down by the Mi’kmaq people. The story goes that Kluskap, or Glooscap as the settlers called him, who was a giant man, was fighting a giant beaver in the bay. During the fight, Kluskap hurled 5 large boulders at the beaver that formed the islands today, the beaver was said to have been trapped by the boulders and sticks causing him to turn into gold underground. Geologically these islands are exposed parts of the north mountain chain that I talked about earlier but it's neat learning about the indigenous peoples’ folklore, especially when centered around how the landscape was formed. 

Anyways, till next week bloggers!

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Episode 544 - Mitchell Prothero

Investigative journalist & longtime pal Mitchell Prothero joins the show to talk about his new podcast, GATEWAY: Cocaine, Murder, and Dirty Money in Europe (Project Brazen). We get into how the project evolved from his reporting on the global war on terror, how the cocaine trade mirrors the globalization wave, how Colombia's piece deal led to mega-cartel consolidation, why his EU law enforcement sources did not want to talk about the cocaine trade, and whether the Netherlands trial of drug kingpin Ridouan Taghi reveals cracks in the security of the state itself. We also talk about the differences between writing for a podcast vs. writing for readers (like his reporting at Vice News), the strains of scheduling interviews with people under security detail, the changes in the media landscape over the course of his career, and his path through journalism, covering our days together in Annapolis to his time as a Capitol Hill reporter to stints in Afghanistan, Iraq, Serbia, and beyond. And we discuss how living and reporting in Baltimore in the 1990s prepared him for pretty much any scenario he's encountered since. Follow Mitch on Twitter • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our Substack

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University of Austin aims to foster free inquiry, entrepreneurship

A VISION FOR EDUCATION Ramya Nambala’s dream was simple: go to Harvard University’s Law School and become president of the United States.

But as a sophomore at the University of Texas’ prestigious Canfield Business Honors Program, she began questioning what she wanted higher education to do for her.

“What I wanted to do is be my own boss and create things that are good,” Nambala said.

“UT and many other traditional schools are built to get you a job.”

Torn, Nambala created a vision board and cut out a quote: “Say yes.”

The next day, while listening to a podcast, she heard venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale discuss the innovative energy in the fledgling University of Austin, where he was one of four cofounders.

“I just looked at that vision board,” Nambala said. “I was like, ‘Why is this so perfect?’ ”

On Sept. 9, Nambala restarted her undergraduate career to join 91 other students as the founding class of the University of Austin – the city’s newest higher education institute, nestled on the third floor of the historic Scarbrough Building downtown.

Many questioned her choice, she said.

But to her, not taking that chance would have been unthinkable.

“So much is broken in America. But higher education might be the most fractured institution of all.”

Pano Kanelos

UATX president

At a time when one college is closing per week, according to The Hechinger Report, the University of Austin wants to lead the industry into a hopeful future, integrating an inventive spirit with a return to the study of classic, foundational texts.

Culturally, it wants to counter illiberalism and censorship, which school leaders say is pervasive in higher education today, with a commitment to free inquiry and pursuit of truth. And students want to lead.

“Students here are true builders. It’s so inspiring to see how they will be creators,” said Nambala, who spoke to the American-Statesman during her second week of class.

“We all say we know a couple of us will be billionaires, and it’s a joke, but I feel like it’s actually true.”

Why was the University of Austin launched?

When Pano Kanelos said in 2021 that he was founding a new university in Austin, everybody listened.

“So much is broken in America. But higher education might be the most fractured institution of all,” wrote Kanelos, who had been the president of the country’s third-oldest university, St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md.

In some corners, the notion that something was wrong with higher education struck a nerve.

Critics argued that the University of Austin was a college for canceled conservative-leaning thinkers against woke ideology, and advisers such as the former University of Chicago president backed out early.

But in other corners, it resonated.

More than 1,000 people submitted inquiries in the first 24 hours, and 100% of faculty members who were offered a job accepted it, said Jacob Howland, the founding provost and dean of intellectual foundations.

Once it secured a certificate of authority from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the university began recruiting applicants and offering free tuition for the founding class.

In early September, Gov. Greg Abbott welcomed that class at the Capitol, shaking each student’s hand.

“The interest is enormous,” Howland said. “We feel like we have a lot of momentum right now, and we’re going to need it, because we still have a lot we need to do.”

How is the University of Austin different?

Sept. 9 was the students’ first day, but it’s far from the university’s first outing.

At the March 9 opening of its Austin Union, the school’s debate society, former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke.

The self-styled UATX sponsored an event at South by Southwest and formed a partnership with Capital Factory, a local startup incubator and center for entrepreneurs, which will hold the university’s Office of Entrepreneurship and Leadership and help students through their four-year project.

The university’s foundations already diverge from tradition.

UATX does not have tenure, or diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

None of its deans has held such a position before, Howland said.

“Ours is a revolutionary institution – revolutionary in the proper sense,” Kanelos, the founding president, said in his opening welcome Sept. 2.

“The word revolution – in its original sense, revolvere – means to revolve, to turn back to a point of origin, with the purpose of renewing an original spirit or ideal.”

UATX released a constitution codifying its leaders’ responsibilities, notably creating an independent judicial body to hold the leaders accountable to the institution’s values, something leaders say has not been done at a university before.

The university also started a bitcoin endowment aiming to raise $5 million, what it says is the first such long-term endowment at a higher education institution.

How does UATX fit into political landscape?

The school has a philosophy of teaching and learning in a way that all views can be put forth and debated to pursue the truth.

Howland said this requires a commitment to academic freedom and prioritizing learning over activism.

As public trust in higher education has plummeted and tensions on campuses over domestic and international conflicts brew, the University of Austin has surfaced as an appealing antidote to some.

Bloomberg reported that the controversy over how Ivy League presidents handled antisemitism after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel brought more donors and applicants to UATX.

Parents “want that joyful, rich education that they had to be available to their students,” Howland said. “And they began to worry; especially after Oct. 7, they realized that there’s a lot of things going on in universities other than teaching and learning.”

Morgan Marietta joined the University of Austin as dean of the Center for Economics, Politics and History after a brief stint at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Marietta had resigned from his post after the dean of his college instituted new guidelines for events, including mandating prior approval, sharing a copy of planned remarks and a risk assessment and mitigation plan, after he held a Q& A that escalated when pro-Palestinian students claimed the event was onesided.

In an interview with the Statesman, he critiqued academia as prioritizing “mainstream liberal progressive” hires over unconventional thinkers like himself, and institutions as practicing conformity and censorship instead of tackling highly charged topics.

“The decline has been just horrifying over the last 20 years, watching the ability to engage in other discussions of important events just decline and decline,” Marietta said. “We need new institutions. I don’t think the current schools are going to reform themselves.”

Who is UATX attracting?

For Constantin Whitmire, UATX stood out from the other places to which he applied. Whitmire, who has lived in San Francisco and Germany, wanted to study where he could focus on learning and building new things away from “echo chambers.”

“I didn’t want to go to a place that was all politically buzzed up (and focused on) modern-day politics and current events and going out demonstrating the entire day,” Whitmire said. “I wanted to spend time focusing on my academics and maybe building a project on the side.”

Nambala, who said she considers herself to be politically moderate, chose UATX not for the political landscape but to pursue all of her passions, from her artificial intelligence nonprofit to her novel to her interest in space and quantum computing.

“I truly believe I could impact a billion people, but before UATX, I didn’t actually think I could,” said Nambala, who hopes to create such an impact within 10 years.

“These successful people are looking to invest in ambitious young people, and they will provide you with outsized opportunities that you can only dream of.”

Ben Crocker, the university’s director of special programs and associate director of admission, said applicants largely are from families that have been interested since the beginning or are students the school recruited like “an elite sports team,” an idea he credits to Lonsdale.

He characterizes the institution’s students as patriotic, independent and highly motivated.

“A lot of these kids have sort of been in relative isolation,” Crocker said. At an event for prospective students last winter, he said their union was incredible. “There was this explosion of creativity and energy; they were just over the moon.”

Before classes began, students formed organizations, wrote and directed a seven- minute film, and founded a publication called the Austin Beacon, Howland said, speaking to the students’ drive to boldly “found” the institution.

Howland said students have diverse ages, socioeconomic backgrounds and political persuasions.

Data the college released showed that 68% of its students are male and 45% are from Texas.

The college had an acceptance rate of 26%, and deans directly approved the applicants.

The school did not release racial demographic data for applicants.

Applications for its next class opened Friday, also offering free tuition for four years.

What will UATX become?

Students occupy most of two floors of a West Campus residential complex, Howland said.

A shuttle takes them to the downtown campus – a navy- and gold-themed open floor with a library, a lecture hall and four classrooms, a dining area where students eat lunch with professors, and an open atrium to play chess, converse and pore over texts in study nooks.

As staff and faculty members soak in their realized vision, they feel eager for the world to see the university’s potential to transform students’ lives.

“Our donors are saying, ‘We really want to transform higher education as a whole,’ ” Howland said. “All these things just (make) an unbeatable package of excellence, and that’s my hope, that we quickly become known for that.”

Kanelos told the Statesman last winter that he sees the long-term vision of the institution as a “Stanford to UT’s Berkeley,” rivaling the flagship university on the Forty Acres, about a mile and a half north.

More broadly, he sees UATX as higher education’s “north star” – a symbol also on the school’s logo – that poses an alternative to polarization.

“We’re an immensely hopeful university,” Kanelos said “The fact that we’re succeeding is simply a sign that there is such hunger for institutions that want to be problem solving and want to be helpful in the future.”

Mike Shires, the university’s chief of staff and a professor, shares

Kanelos’ belief that UATX will transform higher education and help rebuild trust. And to him, that starts with the students.

“They’re young men and women who have literally chosen to pick an institution where there’s risk associated. It’s brand new,” Shires said.

“They’ve come here to build a student body in a student learning community that can carry forward for future generations.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Adnan Syed’s murder conviction still stands after Maryland’s highest court Friday ordered a redo of the hearing that freed him. The court ruled that the earlier proceeding violated the legal rights of the victim’s family, marking the latest development in a legal saga of global interest because of the hit podcast “Serial.”

The 4-3 ruling upheld an appellate court’s decision to reinstate Syed’s conviction. It comes about 11 months after the court heard arguments last October in a case that has been fraught with legal twists and divided court rulings since Syed was convicted in 2000 of killing his high school ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee.

The justices said that Syed, who was released from prison in 2022, can remain free as the case heads to a new lower court judge to determine whether Syed’s conviction should be tossed. Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates on Friday said his office is reviewing the ruling and declined to comment further.

The court concluded that in an effort to remedy what was perceived to be an injustice to Syed, prosecutors and a lower court “worked an injustice” against Lee’s brother, Young Lee. The court ruled that Lee was not treated with “dignity, respect, and sensitivity,” because he was not given reasonable notice of the hearing that resulted in Syed being freed.

The court also said Lee would be afforded reasonable notice of the new hearing, “sufficient to provide Mr. Lee with a reasonable opportunity to attend such a hearing in person,” and for him or his counsel to be heard.

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Michele Hotten wrote that “this case exists as a procedural zombie.”

“It has been reanimated, despite its expiration,” Hotten wrote. “The doctrine of mootness was designed to prevent such judicial necromancy.”

The latest issue in the case pitted recent criminal justice reform efforts against the legal rights of crime victims and their families, whose voices are often at odds with a growing movement to acknowledge and correct systemic issues, including historic racism, police misconduct and prosecutorial missteps.

David Sanford, an attorney who represents the victim’s family, said the ruling “acknowledges what Hae Min Lee‘s family has argued: crime victims have a right to be heard in court.”

“If there is compelling evidence to support vacating the conviction of Adnan Syed, we will be the first to agree,” Sanford said. “To date, the public has not seen evidence which would warrant overturning a murder conviction that has withstood appeals for over two decades.”

The panel of seven judges weighed the extent to which crime victims have a right to participate in hearings where a conviction could be vacated. To that end, the court considered whether to uphold a lower appellate court ruling in 2023 in favor of the Lee family. It reinstated Syed’s murder conviction a year after a judge granted a request from Baltimore prosecutors to vacate it because of flawed evidence.

Syed, 43, has maintained his innocence and has often expressed concern for Lee’s surviving relatives. The teenage girl was found strangled to death and buried in an unmarked grave in 1999. Syed was sentenced to life in prison, plus 30 years.

Syed was released from prison in September 2022, when a Baltimore judge overturned his conviction after city prosecutors found flaws in the evidence.

However, in March 2023, the Appellate Court of Maryland, the state’s intermediate appellate court, ordered a redo of the hearing that won Syed his freedom and reinstated his conviction. The court said the victim’s family didn’t receive adequate notice to attend the hearing in person, violating their right under state law to be “treated with dignity and respect.”

Syed’s lawyer Erica Suter has argued that the state did meet its obligation by allowing Young Lee to participate in the hearing via video conference.

Syed appealed his conviction’s reinstatement, and the Lee family also appealed to the state’s highest court, contending that crime victims should be given a larger role in the process of vacating a conviction.

Syed has remained free as the latest set of appeals wind their way through the state court system.

During oral arguments last year, his attorneys argued the Lee family’s appeal was moot because prosecutors decided not to charge him again after his conviction was vacated. And even if her brother’s rights were violated, the attorneys argued, he hasn’t demonstrated whether the alleged violation would have changed the outcome of the hearing.

This wasn’t the first time Maryland’s highest court has taken up Syed’s protracted legal odyssey.

In 2019, a divided court ruled 4-3 to deny Syed a new trial. A lower court had ordered a retrial in 2016 on grounds that Syed’s attorney, Cristina Gutierrez, didn’t contact an alibi witness and provided ineffective counsel. Gutierrez died in 2004.

In November 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the decision by Maryland’s top court.

More recently, Baltimore prosecutors reexamined Syed’s files under a Maryland law targeting so-called “juvenile lifers” because he was 17 when Hae Min Lee’s body was found. Prosecutors uncovered numerous problems, including alternative suspects and the unreliable evidence presented at trial.

Instead of reconsidering his sentence, prosecutors filed a motion to vacate Syed’s conviction entirely. They later chose not to recharge him after receiving the results of DNA testing that was conducted using more modern testing techniques than initially conducted. DNA recovered from Lee’s shoes excluded Syed as a suspect, prosecutors said.

Syed’s case was chronicled in the “Serial” podcast, which debuted in 2014 and drew millions of listeners who became armchair detectives as the series analyzed the case. The show transformed the true-crime genre as it shattered podcast-streaming and downloading records, revealing little-known evidence and raising new questions about the case.

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Sailfaster Podcast with Pete Boland - Episode 1 - Doug Stryker

Doug’s a highly-accomplished sailor from the Annapolis area; I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Doug is obsessed with how to make Mayhem, his J/105, sail faster.  As you’re going to hear.

Doug’s always at the front of the j/105 fleet, despite being relatively new to the design.  I suppose it’s not that surprising that he sailed his way to the front given his formidable achievements in windsurfing earlier in his sailing career – including  two-time winner of US Sailing Youth Championships and the Major Hall Trophy (windsurfing),  he’s a two time US Sailing Rolex Junior Team member, he represented the US at the ‘95 and ‘96 IYRU Youth World Championships and ‘99 World University Summer Games.  What’s more, Dough was the 1995 Olympic Festival Bronze Medalist and member of the US national Sailing Team in 1998 and 1999.

Switching to keelboats, Doug picked up the 2017 Healy Trophy for Overall Cruising One Design.  He was also the 2019 J30 North American Champion and most recently won the 2022 Charles Day Trophy - Best Performance in Fleet (AYC WNR) 

Doug’s always at or close to the front of the J/105 fleet, which as you’ll hear he puts down to his deep knowledge of the J/105 design, relentless preparation and a constant quest for improvement gained both by on the water experience and through learning from others.   As you’ll hear, he’s very willing to share what’s been working for him and his team, a formula that he puts into practice with considerable success.

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FLP POETRY BOOK OF THE DAY: Arrivals and Departures: Poems by Stewart Moss

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The lyrical, often elegiac #poems in Arrivals & Departures, written over many years and set in locales in both America and abroad, explore the phenomena of arriving and departing physically, metaphysically and spiritually. From the coasts of Maine and California, to the Himalaya of Nepal, to the war-ravaged lands of Afghanistan and Iraq and the lives of military personnel involved in conflicts there, Moss’s poems probe the sometimes bittersweet joys of #reunion and the pain of leaving and #loss. As he writes in one poem, “So what is it all for/in this world sighing with loss/its voice the leading edge of silence ….” Regardless of where they are set, these humane, intimately observed poems celebrate acts of #discovery and the richness of language.

Stewart Moss has taught literature and creative writing in both the USA and abroad; Scotland, Greece, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, and Nepal are among the countries in which he has lived and worked. Most recently, he directed a large literary center serving the Washington, DC community and beyond. His poems and essays have been published in journals and books; his chapbook, For Those Whose Lives Have Seen Themselves (Finishing Line Press), was published in 2021. He has also been featured in “The Poet and the Poem” podcasts at The Library of Congress and, in 2022, was the recipient of an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. A native of Boston, MA, he resides in Annapolis, MD.

PRAISE FOR Arrivals and Departures: Poems by Stewart Moss

Stewart Moss’s Arrivals & Departures is a book of longing—to stay, to hold, to witness—even though he is sometimes just a boy, who could not know the wisdom of later years, in “rapt attention/ to the motes drifting and spinning / in shafts of light,” we raise our faces with him to that often inevitable experience of growing up and see the “star shaped frames and out / into the rushing world beyond.” That world filled with wonder is delivered to us in Moss’s beautiful language “precise as chisels then silent as a finished stone.” It is a place where the “cyclone that had gathered all the breaths /we mortals have blown out from our own bodies,” storms our slumber. We are travelers with Moss, “in the endless afterlife of breath…clouds declaring their freedom.” Moss is a master poet, and this collection will sit on my shelf beside Stanley Kunitz, Jane Hirshfield and Jack Gilbert.

–Leeya Mehta, A Story of the World Before the Fence

In Arrivals and Departures, Stewart Moss takes us on a poetic trek from Ireland to Nepal, from Afghanistan to Kenya, from Virginia to California, from Long Island to Paris to Kathmandu. Yet, while sharing the world with us, every poem in this marvelous book never lets us forget the affect and value of private experience. For within the context of traveling the world, Moss brilliantly examines the external and internal landscapes of human life. On one hand he observes, “The earth recalls the secret music,” and on the other he says, “There is something more awful / in happiness than in sorrow.” These are poems of self-examination in the best sense, of the recognition that “Ours is a life of small instruments” used in the direct experience of everyday living. “All good art is experience,” W. B Yeats once observed, “all popular bad art generalization.” By this definition, Arrivals and Departures succeeds by chronicling, depicting, and examining a deeply felt life in verse that is by turns tender and traumatic, from the wonder of holding and feeling one’s daughter breathe to the psychological cost of conflict. As Moss writes, “I want to kneel and ask questions.” After reading these poems, like his character Arlene, we are left feeling “fleshless in water, / light as bones.”

V. P. Loggins, The Wild Severance

In Arrivals and Departures, Stewart Moss roams the world and sends dispatches from the human heart. Whether he is meditating upon the taste of an oyster “slippery with brine” or offering a sly commentary on the morning commute, Moss brings to these poems a reverence as well as a sharp, observant eye. “In this world of arrivals and departures / does anything remain?” the title poem asks. I would argue that these poems, with their soaring flights of intellect and graceful landings on the page, provide an answer.

–Sue Ellen Thompson, Sea Nettles: New & Selected Poems, 2010 Maryland Author Award

Please share/please repost #flpauthor #preorder #AwesomeCoverArt #poetry #read #poetrybook #poems

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Maryland’s highest court to hear appeals in ‘Serial’ podcast case

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Supreme Court of Maryland announced Wednesday that it will hear an appeal from Adnan Syed, whose conviction for killing an ex-girlfriend was reinstated by a lower court after he was released from prison. The court scheduled legal brief deadlines for August and oral arguments for Oct. 5. The court also said it will hear appeals from the victim’s family. Syed, whose case was…

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833. Hannah Pittard

Hannah Pittard is the author of the memoir We Are Too Many, available from Henry Holt & Co.

Pittard is the author of four novels. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and a graduate of Deerfield Academy, the University of Chicago, and the University of Virginia. She also spent some time at St. John's College in Annapolis. She is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky and lives in Lexington with her boyfriend and stepdaughter.

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Labor History

Labor Quote: Courtney Jenkins“So that is the power of a union. It’s bigger than just us, right? It’s not the power of me, it’s the power of we.”Jenkins (second from left), the Baltimore labor council president, at Tuesday’s Union Night rally in Annapolis.  Today’s Labor HistoryThis week’s Labor History Today podcast: Erasing Virginia’s labor history. Last week’s show: The Strange Career of “the…

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Ep 246 – Andy Dufresne, but with Pee Jennie and Lauren are back from a brief break to discuss ocean-peeing, hair-puking, road tripping, and drag racing!

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Annapolis Blues Soccer - Insight into our Mid-Atlantic Champions

Today we talk to Hiram Wainwright of the Annapolis Blues Soccer Club. Topics include the origins of the Blues, what the Blues are doing in the Annapolis community and how Annapolis Blues gear is the perfect Annapolis holiday gift for our friends and family. Buy your Annapolis Blues gifts HERE.

Buy your whole family season tickets HERE

  *Apologize that one microphone wasn't working for this interview, so the hosts sound is distant.

  Check out this episode of The Annapolis Podcast! #Annapolispodcast

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AFP 2x13

Top 3 Series: AU - Other

Taking another spin through multiple alternate universes, join red2007, kristinsauter, and banannie_x as they pick their favorite modern day AUs. How else do you like your Scully and Mulder?

Even Now In Heaven by @scapegrace74-blog

Quis Si by Trixie • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4

Tandem by @alienqueequeg

From the Mixed-Up Files of Dr. Bryce S. DeWitt by @aloysiavirgata

Candy From a Stranger by Ana Vicente

The Annapolis Grant by @slippinmickeys

Variations on a Theme by @bowiecadmium

Someone's Wife by Donna

Tabulae Anatomicae by @lepus-arcticus

The Darker Timeline by hellsteeth

Gem-like Flame by @slippinmickeys

The Scully File by @mldrgrl

Somewhere A Clock is Ticking by TheAddict4Dramatics

Knit Four, Purl One by @atths--twice

The Post by @slippinmickeys

An Unexpected Discovery by @atths--twice and @gilliansmae

A Companion Unobtrusive by @slippinmickeys

Neuro Nonsense by @wtfmulder Audio

Aprons and Scrubs by @lokisgame

Black Tie Affair Series by @somekindofseizure

The Forgotten Summer by @dksculder

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Had a great meeting with the property manager of Annapolis Roads. Great things are in the world with this partnership! . The treat truck will be coming your way soon! . . #k9funfit #k9funfittreattruck #partnership #dogwalker #dogtrainer #podcast #Annapolisroads #Annapolis #wilshire #Maryland #quietwaterspark #healthydogtreats #gooddog #annearrundelcounty #ilovemypuppy #lookout #comingsoon (at Annapolis Roads) https://www.instagram.com/p/B713Rlohi4U/?igshid=poxepi61ilsw

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I tried to touch up my nail polish and it didn't dry right and now is more messed up then before so that's cool.At least Im in a lot less pain today. Its not all gone but its getting better.

I slept in really late. James went for a long bike ride to Annapolis. So I got to have some time alone. Which was nice honestly. I wasn't in a good headspace. I was still upset about finding out I was exposed again. And I was still aching. I needed to accomplish something big.

I got washed and dressed and got myself psyched up. And I cleaned.

I spent so much time cleaning the bathroom. Over an hour. I took everything out and scrubbed the floors. I did all the things. I even had the scrubby drill attachment out. Honestly our floor always looks dirty because the tile was put down poorly and all the edges have so much concrete build up that it just looks very dirty. But I tried my best to make it clean. I scrubbed and wiped and put things away that weren't getting used. It felt good to make the space very clean again. Like we always just touch up clean it but it was good to really work on it. The space is weird so its not always the easiest to take care of, but I am proud of myself.

Once I was done cleaning I was putting everything away and getting ready to take an animal crossing break when James got back! They smelled so bad??? Understandable with an almost 70 mile bike ride but I literally jumped away from them!! We had a big laugh about it.

James took a shower and we talked about the plan for the afternoon. Rest, lunch, groceries, and James needed to edit their podcast.

I felt weird though. After putting so much effort out. I was, and am, still hurting but I was also bored. I didn't know what to do with my energy.

James would go get us Chipolte. Which was really nice and made me feel a lot better honestly. I needed the food. And James got rid of any old food in the fridge so we would have space for groceries later. And then they spend some time editing while I laid in bed.

Groceries was fun. I always like groceries. We didn't need a ton, mostly we needed drinks and papertowels and kitty litter. But we got a few other things and it was nice walking around.

But my chest hurt and I was having some anxiety about being out of the house. I was glad when we were done. James got in line while I went to grab drink powder but I got stuck in the aisle because it got very busy in there all of a sudden and I got back to the register as she was scanning our last few items. But I made it!

We got back and James unloaded everything. And I gave sweetP the special fish treat we got for him which he loved. It was like a whole fish filet. Im glad he got something special.

After that I got to work on cleaning the kitty litter. I deep cleaned our bathroom so I wanted to deep clean sweetP's bathroom too. And I feel like I hadn't done a full change in a while so it was a lot of ammonia smell but I scrubbed everything down and disinfected everything and it was a lot of work but once I was done James was finishing up dinner.

They made us naan and chana masala and it was very good naan. Which they made themselves. And we watched a video. It was nice.

After dinner James headed to the theater to work for a bit. I worked in the studio. I finished sewing the bear faces for James's commission from me. And I worked on my brother's present because he wont let me buy him something. And then I started another stamp. I did not finish it but I made great progress. It was nice to work.

I took a very long shower. My hair was very dirty. But its very curly and pretty right now. I got to use my new oatmeal lotion that's supposed to help my skin. And then had a very tiny pumpkin pie bite. And then James was home!

We have been chilling since then. James is editing in the other room. Im laying with sweetP. Its pretty chilly right now. My hands are cold. But it is alright. It is time to go to sleep.

Let's hope that tomorrow is a fun and good day. Sleep good everyone.

[finishinglinepress]

FLP FEATURED AUTHOR OF THE DAY: As the former Executive Director of The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, one of the largest literary centers in the USA, Stewart Moss helped establish creative writing programs for adult immigrants, and members of the military being treated for neurological and psychological trauma. Moss has essays included in “Retire the Colors: Veterans & Civilians on Iraq & Afghanistan” (Hudson Whitman/Excelsior College Press, 2016) and Plume Literary Journal, and poetry in the spring ’16 edition of Origins Literary Review. He has also been featured in “The Poet and the Poem” podcasts at The Library of Congress. He was educated at Union College (NY) and Harvard University. A native of Boston, MA he resides in Annapolis, MD. His chapbook For Those Whose Lives Have Seen Themselves: Poems is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

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ADVANCE PRAISE: For Those Whose Lives Have Seen Themselves: Poems by Stewart Moss

For Those Whose Lives Have Seen Themselves opens with the question “What is seeing and knowing/ what I see” and launches a quest for the answer. In these palpably sensuous poems of Rilkian adoration of the natural and human world, the speaker is “in a perpetual state of unrequited love, / always exposed and reaching out/ then attending to the silence.” When this tender, devoted attentiveness is reciprocated and “…the quickening world/reaches forward and grabs the quivering brain” rhapsodies of ecstasy, imagination and language—poetry, poetry! explode on the page. Gorgeous, celebratory, healing and redemptive, this collection is essential reading for our times.

–Nancy Mitchell, The Out of Body Shop

In this extraordinary chapbook, Stewart Moss describes its theme in both the title and text of the very first poem, “A Kind of Attentiveness” — “that groping outward/breath by breath/as the quickening world/reaches forward/and grabs the quivering brain…” Isn’t it exactly this willed attentiveness that draws us to poetry in the first place? If that’s so, then Moss has us readers from the jump. And what a far-flung world it is – hallucinatory and intimate, ferocious and kind; here is Tripoli, here Amsterdam, here a park, where we sit beside our (for by this attentiveness she has become ours) daughter’s stroller. Far-flung, yes, but exquisitely, viscerally detailed (“the day hemorrhages dust/into a cloudless sky”); masterful in craft, privy to the deepest human signs and secrets (“Like Adam/in his first embrace,I was pulled into the world/of blood, then into the whiteness/that covers blood.”). But perhaps above all, it is generosity that is the animating virtue here. Consider for a moment the title poem, when the poets says, with a grand sweep of a superb host’s or magician’s arm one imagines, “Welcome all who have traveled the long road/from where your deepest dreams began/in the wild ferment of sleep,” who could resist such an offer? Who could not ask of this immensely gifted poet, Just one more, just one more? An entreaty to which Mr. Moss graciously accedes page after marvelous page. And will go on doing so, one hopes, for many years and many books to come.

–Danny Lawless, The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With, and founding editor of Plume Poetry Journal

Stewart Moss has a rare ability to draw the sublime to everyday people and situations. For Those Whose Lives Have Seen Themselves touches the ordinary with a light that can only be elevated by language and craft. Moss knows what cannot be said, and then he says it beautifully–rarifying meanings made clear and sustainable because his poems are lived experiences. These stories, sequenced with ideas and memories, make us return again and again. “Reading Buber” begins ‘Everything in the living world is connected/ to everything else.’ What an excellent description of this book where the poet’s authority and humility are so well connected. Here is a poet whose passion is vibrant on the page, making us the lucky recipients.

–Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate

For Those Whose Lives Have Seen Themselves:, by Stewart Moss, lays bare in contemplatively elegiac poems the plat of the poet’s heart. The emotional range and voltage of these poems is extraordinary – from pedestrian observations of the natural world to epic musings on ontology. Regardless of where his gaze lands, Moss fashions a poetry that is at once profound and accessible. This is the poetry of witness, the excavation of not only the human heart, and what keeps it beating and yearning; but also the literal terrain of exotic, often forbidden, dangerous countries that Moss explores and renders with documentary precision, and the thrumming language and aural mastery of a composer. Ultimately, this splendid volume is a meditation on shared humanity, its triumph and frailty, the precarious perch from which we all tenuously depend, testifying that “Everything in the living world is connected / to everything else. / Just the appearances of things /are different.” This is a beautifully wise book, of peace and surrender, and blinding illumination.

–Joseph Bathanti, North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-2014) & author of The 13th Sunday after Pentecost.

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