[Carter]: Non, li pa detèminasyon, se li?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yon angajman klima asosye.
[Carter]: Kliyan angajman asosye, wi, bèl. Shannon angaje manm kominote a ak òganizasyon nan kominote yo en erè asire solisyon klima fleksib reflete enterè yo ak bezwen yo. Li travay sou bati relasyon alantou enpak yo nan inondasyon dlo lapli ak lòt pwoblèm rezidan yo ap fè fas akòz chanjman nan klima. Anvan rantre nan Mira, li ranpli yon tèm sèvis nan sante piblik nan AmeriCorps, akomode pa kiltivatè kominote Everett. Pandan tan sa a, li te grandi yon pasyon pou angajman kominote a ak jistis manje. Shannon gradye nan Inivèsite Connecticut, ale Huskies, ak yon bakaloreya nan atizay nan etid anviwònman ak dwa moun. Nan tan lib li, sa a se enteresan, li jwi ale pou mache, Kwochè, Koupe cheve. Mwen te ap eseye figi ke yon sèl soti. Ok. Ak ap eseye manje nouvo. Tanpri pèmèt mwen prezante yon nouvo zanmi nan pwogram nan, Myra Shannon Collins. Tout righty. Tout righty. 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Se konsa, anpil premye, anpil istwa, se konsa ti tan yo gou ak pou konsève pou, prezève ak pase sou. Se konsa, anpil depa ak pou kèk arive nan nwa a ak mawon an ak tan an. Pandan se tan, devlopè yo sitou gen wout yo. Travayè yo jou Panyòl chire l ', bati l' tounen moute. Tankou Lee Majors ak sis milyon dola moun nan, yo gen teknoloji a. Yo ka fè yo pi bon pase yo te. Pi bon, pi fò, pi vit. Condos ak ranje, Tony ak tendans soti ak fin vye granmoun lan, nan ak nouvo a. Lave, rense, ak repete. Pandan se tan, frèch Quaffed Boho ti gason yo fè videyo byen imobilye, ègzile bèl kalite yo sibtilite nan West Medford ak lavi ansanm larivyè Lefrat la Mystic. Tout dwa. Tout dwa. Trè bon. Trè bon. Se konsa, kounye a kite a gen yon gade nan Myra ak wè sa ki nan nouvo ak eksitan. Li lè pou yon chat zanmitay ak zanmi nou an Shannon Collins. Se konsa, Shannon, ou pral pale yon ti kras sou background edikasyon ou ak sa ki atire ou nan etid anviwònman ak dwa moun kòm yon gwo?
[SPEAKER_02]: Absoliman. Se konsa, mwen etidye etid anviwònman nan UConn ak mwen te kòmanse fè syans anviwònman paske mwen vrèman jis tankou yo te deyò ak Lè sa a, te pran premye klas laboratwa mwen ak reyalize mwen pa t 'kapab fè matematik la ak tankou mikwoskòp kalite syans. Men, mwen reyèlman te renmen anviwònman an toujou, e mwen te konnen mwen te renmen moun, se konsa mwen te tankou, ki jan mwen jwenn yon travay kote mwen ka travay ak moun tout jounen an, men li la pou amelyorasyon nan anviwònman an ak adrese chanjman nan klima, ki mwen panse ke se pwobableman pwoblèm nan nan jenerasyon m 'yo. Mwen imedyatman apre lekòl te travay nan Everett nan Everett Kominote Kiltivatè Kominote Farm òganizasyon an ak li te tankou yon konbinezon pafè nan travay ak moun ak yon kominote lokal yo ak ap resevwa kèk bagay reyèlman enpòtan fè men tankou pou tè a ak pou kominote a ak sa a, se bagay pi renmen m 'konsa nan Mystic River Watershed mwen te fè yon travay reyèlman menm jan mwen renmen li.
[Carter]: Kokenn. Koulye a, ou te soti isit la orijinal?
[SPEAKER_02]: Se konsa, mwen te grandi nan Melrose, papa m 'te grandi nan Arlington, ak premye apatman paran mwen yo ansanm te aktyèlman sou High Street.
[Carter]: Oke, se konsa ou se yon ti jan lokal yo. Joli lokal yo. Oke, trè bon, trè bon. Pou jan yo ki ka pa abitye ak Mira, ou ka pale sou misyon an ak travay la nan òganizasyon an?
[SPEAKER_02]: Wi, se konsa basen vèsan an, pou moun ki pa konnen, se yon gwo fason rejyonal nan panse sou koneksyon ki soti nan larivyè Lefrat la Mystic. Se konsa, li nan 21 kominote soti nan Boston jiska Burlington ak lekti, tout nan ant, epi li tout odtoki nan larivyè Lefrat la Mystic. Se konsa, sa a, se zòn nan nou travay nan. E paske dlo pa pran swen sou liy vil yo, nou travay nan tout tout ti bouk sa yo ak kominote yo. Myra travay ak kenbe gwo larivyè Lefrat la an sante, kominote yo an sante, e li te kòmanse kòm jis yon òganizasyon bon jan kalite dlo ak Lè sa a, te grandi fason plis nan gade nan pak ak chemen tankou nou ap pale de jodi a, gade nan klima, gade nan River Herring. Se konsa, wi, nou fè yon anpil nan bagay sa yo fre.
[Carter]: Oke, trè bon, trè bon. Se konsa, pwòp eksperyans mwen ak Myra te montre m 'ke ou se anpil yon òganizasyon volontè-kondwi. Ki kalite fason manm kominote a ka patisipe nan basen vèsan an?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, se konsa li nan mwa pwezi ak li la tou Mwa Latè, ki se yon konbinezon reyèlman fre. Se konsa, kòm li a ap vin pi cho, gen nan anpil fason jwenn soti nan basen vèsan an ak fè kèk volontè avèk nou ak lòt gwoup awizom. Se konsa, nou gen yon tòn evènman yo. Mwen te ekri kèk desann paske li nan yon tan reyèlman enteresan. Nou gen yon anpil nan plantasyon pyebwa vini, ki pral yo dwe reyèlman plezi pou Latè Mwa. Nou fè kamyonèt fatra tou. Se konsa, jwenn gan ou sou yo ak ranmase kèk fatra nan pak pi renmen ou. Nou ap fè yon rafrechi nan miral la moute nan baraj la Mystic. Se konsa, nou fè anpil nan pwojè atizay, tankou pwogram edikasyon tou, ki se fre. Ou ta ka ede soti ak anyen. Nou fè anvayisan ranvwa espès yo. Se konsa, plant ki étoufan, tankou plant yo natif natal, nou rip yo soti. Nou pote moun ki gen yon pakèt moun sou tay ak gan ak RIP yo soti. Nou fè siveyans bon jan kalite dlo pou ou ka sèvi kòm volontè epi ou ka aprann sou ki jan nou mezire bon jan kalite a dlo ak jwenn desann nan dlo a epi gade nan echantiyon la. Nou konte aran an rivyè epi swiv migrasyon yo. Yeah, epi nou gen evènman reyèlman fre vini ete sa a. Se konsa, si ou abònman nan bilten nou an, ou ka tande sou yon bagay chak mwa epi patisipe nan.
[Carter]: Yeah, mwen renmen lefèt ke gen nan nòmalman pa gen anyen ke ou fè ke ou pa chache tande vwa yo nan kominote yo ke yo te afekte pa tou sa li se ke ou ap pale de, tou sa li se ke w ap planifye ak pale sou. Se konsa, mwen konnen kontra a gwo pou òganizasyon an kounye a an tèm de, ou konnen, kalite pwojè planifikasyon ak devlope nouvo estrateji se pwòp nou Mystic Shoreline inisyativ. Se konsa, ou ta renmen klere nou yon ti kras sou sa?
[SPEAKER_02]: Absoliman, se konsa inisyativ la Shoreline Mystic se yon pati nan pwogram Greenways nou an, se konsa pale sou chemen yo sou gwo larivyè Lefrat la oswa pak yo tou. Ak nan pwojè sa a, li te kontinyèl pou yon koup ane, nou ap pale de Mystic Lakes yo, lès plaj la ak Mystic Valley Parkway, desann sot pase yo Rotaries yo sou High Street, tout wout la moute alantou bèl nou an West Medford plaj Boston Ave. Se konsa, sa a zòn pwojè nou an. Ak nan pwojè sa a, nou te tou gade sekirite wout la. Ki te vin anpil plis ane pase. Ak ane sa a, nou te pase anpil plis tan sou West Medford moso nan plaj la tèt li. Se konsa, li te yon pwosesis reyèlman fre. Apre sa, mwen ka plonje yon ti kras plis nan spesifik yo nan pwojè a.
[Carter]: Wi, absoliman. Men, mwen vle bay yon avètisman an premye. Mwen aktyèlman te gen plezi nan Syèk Limyè a nan sèvi nan komite a volan pou yon mwatye nan inisyativ sa a plaj ak kounye a sèvi nan komite a volan pou lòt mwatye a, ki se Kisa k ap pase isit la nan West Medford? Se konsa, mwen jis vle vle fè w konnen mwen se yon gwo fanatik. Mwen se yon gwo fanatik nan sa ki te diskite oke, se konsa pran li ale.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. Yeah, ak tankou ou te di, li nan tout kominote kondwi. Se konsa, nou kontan yo dwe diskite sou li konsa fondamantalman, nou konnen sa a se yon etonan zòn kiltirèl rich anviwònman an enkwayab Istorikman enpòtan pou yon anpil nan jan ak nou te tou tande soti nan yon anpil nan jan nan kominote a ak eta a ak ke gen nan kèk defi la. Se konsa, nou ap chèche nan aksè pou moun ke yo te kapab sèvi ak chemen an ak tout bezwen tankou ak nou ap chèche nan amelyorasyon ekolojik Se konsa, lè li rive ewozyon nan chemen yo oswa fason dlo lapli a ki afekte nan gwo larivyè Lefrat la ak E nou ap gade tou nan rekreyasyon. Se konsa, nou bezwen plis ban? Stuff tankou sa. Se konsa, sa a, se pwojè nou an kounye a, ki se reyèlman awizom. E tankou ou te di, nou gen yon komite volan, ki se enkwayab, ki se 14 moun ki soti nan katye a. Yo tout gen orijin etonan ak istwa ki gen rapò ak katye a ak gwo larivyè Lefrat la. E nou vini ansanm epi nou pale sou, oke, ki sa nou vle wè isit la? E nou menm tou nou plonje nan ak kat ak reyèlman jwenn nan spesifik yo. Nou menm tou nou pote l 'soti nan kominote a nan gwo. Mwen te mete avyatè moute si nenpòt moun wè yo nan lari yo.
[Carter]: Mwen te wè yon sèl jodi a.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bon, bon. Ak yè swa nou te gen dezyèm reyinyon nou an ki te piblik sou Zoom. Se konsa, gen nou pote l 'bay tout moun e nou di, isit la nan plan nou an, ki sa ou nèg panse? Nou gen moun ki mete opinyon yo dwa nan rale, epi si ou pa ka fè li nan rale, ou ka ranpli yon sondaj apre. Se konsa, nou ap eseye jwenn kòm anpil kòmantè ke posib, epi nou te vinn dè milye de kòmantè nan opinyon moun nan sou lide a, se konsa li a awizom.
[Carter]: Yeah, epi li ka pran yon bon bout tan pou li rive, men nan chak ka, ka a soti nan High Street desann nan lak yo Mystic ak yon ti kras pi lwen pase sa, kòm byen ke ka a soti nan bò sa a nan High Street ak sou desann nan Boston Ave, Tou de devlopman yo ta dramatikman chanje ak amelyore fason ke gen moun ki ka itilize resous yo. Mwen reyèlman kwè ke se vre. Se konsa, li nan bagay trè ekstraòdinè, men li la tou reyèlman, reyèlman anbisye, espesyalman bay yo, ou konnen, kalite kote nou ap nan sosyalman kounye a. Se konsa, epi ou te pale sou ke yo te kèk defi. Èske ou ka pale yon ti kras plis sou sa ki kèk nan defi sa yo ta ka?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, se konsa defi yo kounye a ke nou ap wè sou chemen an ke gen moun ki ap pote nan nou yo se yon anpil, yon anpil nan kòmantè sou ki jan li nan yon chemen pousyè tè ak yon anpil nan rasin ak ki jis se pa aksesib pou yon chèz woulant, pou yon pousèt. Se konsa, kalite jis tankou, ki sa nou ka fè fè chemen sa a aktyèl plis konekte ak aksesib pou tout moun? Se konsa, sa a, se youn nan objektif gwo nou an. Nou te tou te kap nan sekirite trafik yon anpil ak pase a trajik pa Rotary a sa a sezon fredi se absoliman ogmante ki jan enpòtan sa a se nan zòn sa a pou nou te vinn anpil kòmantè sou jis fè pasaj pou pyeton tankou vitès, men tou sa nou ka fè sa a se tou yon bagay gwo. Nou ap gade ak Lè sa a, ak ewozyon, se konsa gade nan anviwònman an plaj aktyèl, epi nou gen plant pwogrese, nou gen kote li jis pa konstwi byen sou gwo larivyè Lefrat la, se konsa li pa bon pou gwo larivyè Lefrat la oswa peyi a, se konsa yeah, anpil nan gwo opòtinite.
[Carter]: Yeah, mwen vle di, se konsa anpil bagay yo te vini nan diskisyon nou yo an tèm de komite a volan, ak pwoblèm nan nan pakin, evidamman, ak Lè sa a, la, Ou konnen, pwoblèm yo ki nan, ou konnen, kalite bri ak, ou konnen, abutters yo, ou konnen, gen kèk pwoblèm ak, ou konnen, kèk nan bagay sa yo ke yo, ou konnen, ale sou pandan ete a, epi, ou konnen. Se youn nan moun ou pa ka fè tout moun kontan, men ou eseye jwenn solisyon ki amelyore li yon ti kras pou tout moun ak yon anpil pou kèk jan, ak èspere ke tout moun. Se konsa, mwen devine lòt bagay la se kounye a mete ann aplikasyon amelyorasyon enfrastrikti chè san yo pa gen kontwòl konplè sou sous yo finansman Ak eta a egzije ak sipò federal, li mete nou nan yon mare reyèl an tèm de predi ke konbyen tan bagay sa yo ka rive.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absoliman, epi li se kesyon ki pi difisil paske ak travay sa a, ou fè kalite gen reyalize li pran ane jis yo ka resevwa yon plan ak Lè sa a, yo ka resevwa plan an apwouve ak Lè sa a, yo ka resevwa bagay konstwi. Li pran lontan, men wòl òganizasyon mwen an se bèl anpil jis ke yo te youn nan mennen sa yo Pwosesis kominote a ak reyinyon yo ak sondaj yo epi nou ap jis kolekte tout enfòmasyon yo pou ke evantyèlman ak evidamman nou pa ka pwomèt anyen, ou konnen, ou pa janm reyèlman konnen men tankou sa ki enpòtan se jis ap resevwa tout bagay sa yo ansanm pou nou ka lage li ak èspere ke wè li nan
[Carter]: Mwen vle di, nou nan sant kominotè a reyèlman konnen sou men sa a premye paske nou te ap eseye pwovoke pouvwa yo ki dwe, patikilyèman vil la nan Medford ak DCR nan patenarya, fè kèk amelyorasyon tounen soti isit la pou nou te ka gen de bagay sa yo. Youn nan se yon chemen atravè peyi a DCR nan lari a, se konsa ke gen moun ki vini nan sant la soti nan bò sa a pa gen nan mache nan bouyi ak labou ak nèj, pou nou te ka omwen gen yon chemen pavable. Lè sa a, lòt bagay la se pwoblèm sekirite ak pwoblèm pakin sou Mystic River Road. E nou finalman gen bèl anpil tout nwa yo ak boulon nan plas yo gen ki rive. E erezman, Li aktyèlman kalite ale pi lwen pase sa nou ap tann ak tounen yon plan pou fondamantalman soti nan Harvard Ave tout wout la desann nan Fairfield Street. Se konsa, li pral fè kèk amelyorasyon trè dramatik an jeneral nan ki jan moun ka fè eksperyans pati sa a nan jewografi a ke ou nèg ap pale de ak bò larivyè Lefrat la Mystic nan pwojè a chemen. Se konsa, di m 'plis espesyalman ki kalite pwosesis angajman piblik ou sanble.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, se konsa li te yon pwosesis reyèlman, reyèlman enkwayab ak mwen te gen yon anpil nan plezi ap travay sou sa a paske fondamantalman yon anpil nan travay mwen te pandye moute avyatè ak mwen te jwenn bèl, jou bèl. Mwen mache leve, li desann, mwen mache nan katye yo ak sa nou fè se nou gen yon komite volan mete tèt yo ansanm, jan enkwayab ak istwa sa yo etonan yo pote ak konvèsasyon sa yo gwo atravè tab la. Oke ou konnen li enpòtan yo gen tankou kèk kòmantè sou nou renmen yon santi natirèl nan bagay sa yo ou konnen pafwa moun reyèlman renmen pousyè tè a dwa randone santi konsa ki jan nou ki jan nou onore sa ak ki jan nou menm tou nou ajoute aksè ak li nan yon dyalòg reyèlman awizom ak nou se konsa rekonesan yo gen lidè nan kominote tankou ou nan komite volan nou an.
[Carter]: Mwen pa t 'janm tande pale de yon ramble jiskaske nou te kòmanse pale sou ki jan chemen natirèl la nan kèk ka se pi preferab ke nenpòt ki bagay ki vrèman Enjenieri. Men tou pou kontrekare sa ki te, epi ou mansyone li pi bonè, Tout rasin ki soti nan pyebwa yo ki ka pafwa gen enpak sou ki jan bèl chemen natirèl ka jwenn aksè pa moun ki gen nenpòt ki andikap, patikilyèman ki mande pou yon chèz woulant oswa baton, beki, elatriye. ak pou fè. Se konsa, wi, li trè enteresan. Li nan gwo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ak diferan istwa moun yo sou tankou, byen, yon sèl fwa mwen te mete kayak mwen an sou isit la ak oswa yon sèl fwa mwen te nan Winchester ak mwen te wè sa a ban nouvo. Èske nou ka jwenn yon bagay konsa? Tankou tande opinyon espesifik moun nan se konsa etonan. Epi li vrèman amizan pou mwen tou paske mwen jwenn pou koute konvèsasyon sa yo, lè sa a nou louvri l 'sou rale epi nou envite tout vwazen yo vini ak chat ak nou epi nou jwenn anpil plis kòmantè la. Lè sa a, nou tounen nan biwo nou yo ak li nan yo tout ak sòt yo deyò epi nou di, oke, nou te resevwa 100 kòmantè sou chemen an, nou te resevwa 60 kòmantè sou ban, siy, li vrèman enteresan. Mwen gen kèk spesifik pou ou si w enterese. Se konsa, nou te kraze l 'nan twa kategori, se konsa aksè, tankou chemen yo ak sa yo, anviwònman an, se konsa litoral yo, sante anviwònman an, ak rekreyasyon an. Se konsa, nou te resevwa 162 kòmantè pale sou travèse wout san danje, nan sipriz pa gen yon sèl la, se konsa sa a, se yon bagay aksè gwo. Epitou anpil kòmantè sou aksè nan plaj la, signalisation entèpretasyon edikasyon, ki se reyèlman plezi, Oke, sa ki te m 'ekleraj petèt kèk signalisation wayfinding konsa renmen montre moun ki kote yo ap nan kèk bagay plis tankou istwa tankou sa pou sa ki te vrèman fre kèk kòmantè espesifik nou te resevwa yo te yon anpil sou pon yo ak rotary yo ak jis konekte santye yo ak tou, yeah, tankou mwen gen yon pousèt. Mwen gen yon chèz woulant. Sa a se pa aksesib pou mwen tankou sa a, se anpil valè tande pou nou epi pote tounen nan ekip la pwojè. Absoliman Lè sa a, tou lè nou gade anviwònman an, nou te resevwa 70 plis kòmantè sou pyebwa yo bèl, asire w ke nou ap pwoteje pyebwa yo sou chemen an, petèt gen kèk plis pyebwa oswa pi bon kenbe nouvo pyebwa yo. Nou te resevwa yon anpil nan kòmantè sou kèk plantasyon natif natal. Se konsa, araché soti sa yo espès anvayisan ki ap kwense ak ki gen tankou yon Meadow polinizateur oswa tankou plant ki gen yo kenbe siksè akademik ak natirèl nan zòn nan. Se konsa, anpil nan kòmantè sou sa. Nou te resevwa yon anpil nan kòmantè fatra fatra. Sa a se yon yon sèl gwo konsa yeah bagay reyèlman fre. Mwen renmen lide a nan tankou enkòpore memoryal atizay piblik tankou enfòmasyon ak Lè sa a, pou rekreyasyon nou te resevwa yon anpil nan kòmantè sou gen plis don konsa tankou netwaye entansyonèl yo gade soti nan gwo larivyè Lefrat la pou petèt jis sa a, se retire yon ti kras nan ti pyebwa a nan pati anba a ak louvri l 'yon ti kras plis ak Amelyore aksè bato ki pa motè se yon gwo. Se konsa, sa a, se tankou yon kesyon nan reyinyon nou an se ki jan ou kite moun mete kayak yo, men li pa yon ski jè. Sa te vini anpil. Ak yeah, kèk kòmantè fre sou zòn yo gazon louvri. Se konsa, tankou moun ki pataje yo ke yo pote chen yo, ki jan li enpòtan pou sa. Tab piknik, tout vrèman fre, bagay vrèman fre. Se konsa, wi, epi nou toujou ouvè a kòmantè. Li se yon pwosesis kontinyèl.
[Carter]: Absoliman, absoliman. Se konsa, an tèm de, se konsa petèt jan ka jwenn yon lide nan kèk nan ki kalite bagay sa yo ki te kalite te takine soti, espesyalman nan plan an soti nan High Street desann nan prèske nan Winchester, oswa aktyèlman nan Winchester, Wedgmere, Ki kalite bagay sa yo, ou konnen, yo te scoped soti an tèm de aplikasyon?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, se konsa ankò, mwen gen nòt mwen isit la paske gen nan yon anpil nan bagay gwo. Se konsa, nou gen yon anpil nan, ankò, kraze l 'nan tankou sekirite, aksè, anviwònman an, nou gen yon anpil nan pwopoze travèse pi an sekirite, ki se gwo, ak ekip konsepsyon nou an fè kat vrèman fre kote yo montre tout bagay sa a soti, epi ou ka jwenn ke sou sit entènèt nou an, ki mwen pral ploge nan fen an. Men, travèse pi an sekirite te yon yon sèl gwo pou yo trase soti yon pakèt moun sou zòn kote yo te panse li ta bon yo gen kèk amelyorasyon sekirite sou wout la nou menm tou nou gen chemen amelyore konsa pa yon chemen pave, men tankou yon pousyè wòch ki pi bon pou yon itilizatè chèz woulant oswa yon bagay e petèt poukisa yo elaji chemen an yon ti kras fè li plis tankou aksesib ak regilye ak jis yon ti kras plis konekte ansanm ak ti kras konekte ak ti kras la ak ti kras ak ti kras ak yon ti jan pi plis konekte ak ti jan an Lè sa a, siy wayfinding, ki mwen panse ke yo pè kèk ban mwen panse ke ta dwe gwo ak yeah, petèt yon BECA Scenic konsa tankou netwaye selektif nan ti pyebwa a gen kèk tach entansyonèl yo ale epi jwi konsa sa yo, se kèk gen kèk plis Info Nou gen wi piknik tab nati jwe ki mwen panse ke se bèl tankou yon ti kras natirèl tankou seri mòso bwa pou timoun yo sote sou bagay tankou ki ki pa motorize lansman bato. Se konsa, jis kalite fòmalize kote moun yo deja mete kayak yo petèt fè kèk nan seksyon yo pi apik yon ti kras plis, ou konnen Regilye etap sa yo soti nan Boston Ave ki ale desann nan chemen an ki gen nan pa gen etap li nan jis kalite tankou ki blòk etranj ak ou se kalite ou santi ou tankou ou nan lakou yon moun nan fòmalize ki antre yon ti jan pou wi anpil nan bagay reyèlman fre ak totalman ale sou sit entènèt nou an ak tcheke deyò foto yo paske sa a, se tankou yon bon fason yo gade absoliman mete opinyon ou.
[Carter]: Yeah kokenn oke mwen Oke, se konsa ankò, si jan vle patisipe, si yo ap jan nan odyans lan oswa jan nan kay la, ki sa ki ta pi bon bagay la pou yo pou yo fè?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, se konsa pou pwosesis sa a, nou te kòmanse ane pase a ak te konsiltan nou yo ak achitèk jaden flè sondaj zòn nan. Se konsa, yo gade tout bagay, te pran foto, tcheke soti ewozyon an, wout yo, tout bagay. Lè sa a, nou te antre nan pwosesis vizyon nou an ki se kote mwen te di nou te resevwa dè milye de kòmantè ak sa ki te kalite jis yon sa ou renmen? Ki sa ou pa renmen? Kisa ou panse nou ta dwe fè? Ki sa ou panse nou pa ta dwe manyen? Se konsa, pwosesis sa a se reyèlman gwo. Sa ki te fre ki te premye reyinyon nou yo nan premye reyinyon piblik nou yo ak reyinyon komite volan te jis yon Anjeneral, ki sa moun gen yo di sou zòn sa a? Lè sa a, yè swa, nou te gen yon reyinyon kote nou te gen desen sa yo premye. Se konsa, sa yo, se kat yo ki ekip nou an mete tèt yo ansanm epi li montre tankou, isit la nan kote nou ap pwopoze yon ban nouvo, isit la nan kote nou ap pwopoze yon pasaj pou pyeton nouvo, bagay tankou sa. E nou prezante sa a jan tou de nan reyinyon an komite volan ak Lè sa a, reyinyon piblik la yè swa. Epi tou li te gen yon opsyon pou moun ki tape si yo sipòte yon lide, pa sipòte yon lide, gen yon lide diferan. Se konsa, pwochen etap nou an ap pase nan tout kòmantè sa yo.
[Carter]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah yon anpil nan biwo vòt yon anpil nan biwo vòt men li la konsa plezi paske mwen renmen li tout kòmantè yo paske li tankou mwen sou òdinatè mwen an, men mwen santi mwen tankou yo ap di m 'sou mache yo sou chemen an ak mwen tankou men apre reyinyon sa a yè swa nou kounye a gen yon sondaj ki gen tout foto sa yo ak mache ou desann liy lan kout epi montre ou diferan lide yo pwopoze ak pou ou ka gade nan chak moso ak mete yo epi yo mete nan chak moso ak mete nan chak moso ak mete yo epi yo mete nan chak moso epi mete yo epi yo mete nan chak moso epi mete yo epi yo mete nan chak moso epi mete yo epi yo ka gade chak moso epi ou ka gade chak moso epi ou ka gade chak moso epi ou ka gade nan chak moso epi ou ka gade chak moso epi ou ka gade chak moso epi ou ka gade chak moso epi ou ka gade chak moso epi ou ka gade nan chak moso epi ou ka gade chak moso epi ou ka gade chak moso epi ou ka gade chak moso epi ou ka gade chak moso. Mwen panse ke sa a, sa a, ak sa a. Mwen pa renmen sa a, sa a, ak sa a. Ou ka mete sa sou sondaj la. Se konsa, sa a, se faz pwochen nou an, ki se reyèlman awizom ak reyèlman enpòtan yo gen tout moun dwe yon pati nan. Lè sa a, nou pral gen yon seri twazyèm nan reyinyon yo. Se konsa, li pral sou, nou te vinn fidbak ou soti nan plan inisyal nou an. Nou te chanje li yon ti kras ki baze sou opinyon moun nan. Sa a se sa nou ap finalize ak voye yo ale nan èspere ke ale nan konstriksyon. Li se yon pwosesis reyèlman fre, men jen yo pral dènye seri nou an nan reyinyon yo, epi ou ta dwe ale nan sit entènèt nou an ak aprann tout bagay sou sa a, ak Lè sa a, nou ka siyen ou pou Imèl yo ka resevwa enfòmasyon sou li.
[Carter]: Absoliman, absoliman. Epi li vrèman yon bèl opòtinite pou ou tande vwa ou sou tout sa ki te diskite.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and I will not forget, next week we're actually having an in-person option too, so if an online survey or meeting isn't the best, we're going to be on Thursday, April 24th, we're going to be at Duggar Park, or if it's raining, we'll be right in here, from 3.30 to 5.30, and we're going to have big maps out on the table with all this stuff, so you can just talk to us and we'll write down what you think. Lè sa a, Vandredi, 25 avril, se konsa yon semèn soti nan jodi a, nou pral yo dwe nan Shannon Beach nan Winchester ak menm bagay la. Men, si sa a, se yon jou lapli, nou pral nan Bibliyotèk la Piblik Winchester soti nan 4 a 515. Se konsa, ekri ki desann oswa ale nan sit entènèt nou an.
[Carter]: Trè bon, trè bon. Se konsa, ak isit la nan kesyon an $ 64,000. Li nan pwobableman yon anpil plis kounye a, men ki sa eta aktyèl la nan kalkil rasyal ak yon retrè k ap grandi nan yon dyalòg ki an sante sou divèsite, ekite, ak enklizyon vle di pou sipò nan jistis anviwònman an nan kominote nou an?
[SPEAKER_02]: Sa se yon gwo kesyon, men se konsa kontan ou te mande sa paske mwen panse ke li enpòtan pou nou tout ap panse sou sa kounye a. Ak pèspektiv mwen se fondamantalman nou dwe jis kenbe kamyon ak fè sa nou kapab ak jis kalite tankou, ou konnen, si nou kite dezespwa a koule nan, Lè sa a, ou se tankou, o, mwen pa pral ale nan reyinyon sa a. Mwen pa pral, Ale nan plaj la ak paske mwen tankou sa ki pral fè yon diferans, ou konnen ak ki kalite atitid se jis tankou pou mwen. Li pa pa ki jan nou jwenn nan. Non, se konsa mwen panse ke sa a se yon gwo egzanp nan tankou sa mwen ka fè nan lakou mwen an rivyè lokal mwen an ak Sa gen kèk enpòtans ak siyifikasyon pou mwen e mwen pa ka kontwole peyi a mwen pa ka kontwole desizyon kèk moun men mwen ka kontwole opinyon mwen nan pwòp pwosesis mwen tankou sa e mwen panse li enpòtan pou patisipe paske li ede enspire ou epi konekte ou ak moun ki se sa nou tout bezwen kounye a
[Carter]: Absoliman dakò tou. Mwen panse ke nan nenpòt moun ki te janm soti nan, ou konnen, konte aran an oswa ede fè fas ak kèk nan la, ou konnen, knotweed Japonè a ak tout bagay sa yo diferan plant anvayisan, ou konnen, mwen panse ke sa a, se atitid la ke yo te pran. Yo te deside ke yo pa pral kite Ou konnen, zafè yo nan jounen an, ak konstan an clanging nan newsreel a kenbe yo nan fè tou sa yo santi yo tankou yo ka fè. Epi ou, kòm yon òganizasyon, ba yo opòtinite pou fè bagay sa yo se reyèlman yon Tonik pou Lespri Bondye a, paske nan yon anpil nan ka, si gen nan pa gen antite yo deyò ke ou ka kalite fòmèlman tache tèt ou nan ak di, oke, mwen avèk mesye sa yo sou isit la, E nou ap fè x ak y ak z, epi nou ap fè yon diferans. Apre sa, mwen panse ke se yon sèl bagay ki Myra fè trè byen, se li bay tout moun yon baz lakay pou yo vini nan ak di, ok, byen, nou ka ale deyò epi nou ka fè sa paske Myra a pral sou isit la. Nou ka ale deyò epi nou ka fè sa paske Myra a pral sou la.
[SPEAKER_02]: Definitivman, e mwen ta di tou ap travay ak kote tankou sant la ak ak jan tankou ou tout ak li a tankou sa a, se sa ki enspire nou ak kenbe nou pral gen afilyasyon ak etonan lòt gwoup lokal yo ak panse sa yo di tankou panse globalman aji lokalman.
[Carter]: Aji lokalman. Se sa nou fè. Ou konnen tip O'Neill te di li pi byen. Li te di tout politik se lokal nan fen jounen an tout politik se lokal konsa Menm gade li nan yon pèspektiv politik, nou dwe fè sa nou kapab kote nou ye. Oh, ak pale nan ki, mwen konnen ke youn nan tribin yo ke w ap plonje koupe nan kounye a, se konsa yo pale, se detèminasyon inondasyon. Èske ou ta pale yon ti kras sou sa?
[SPEAKER_02]: Absoliman, wi, di ou mèsi. Se konsa, travay mwen se ede sipòte yon anpil nan pwojè sa yo ak opinyon kominote a ak lòt bagay ak tou yon bagay ke mwen te ap travay sou nan wòl mwen se kap nan dlo lapli inondasyon nan mistik la. Se konsa Ak fondamantalman objektif nou an ete sa a se jis, menm jan ak pwosesis sa a, rive jwenn deyò epi yo jwenn yon pakèt moun sou moun ak gen yon gwo pati nan kominote a oswa yon bagay epi pou yo jwenn moun ap pale de eksperyans yo ak inondasyon. Epi se tankou mwen te di pi bonè, kote evidamman li nan yon pwosesis ki long. Ou dwe pasyan ak sa nou ka aktyèlman fè sou sa a lè li rive konstwi bagay yon fason diferan. Men, yon bagay sou travay mwen se nou jis nan faz nan koleksyon enfòmasyon. Se konsa, ete sa a mwen pral yo pral soti nan diferan kote tankou sant la ak toupatou nan kominote diferan ak pale ak moun sou kote yo ap wè inondasyon ak mwen panse ke li vrèman li vrèman yon bon bagay fè paske li nan tankou ankò konvèsasyon kominote a se ki jan ou jwenn moun Mobilize ak enspire, se konsa mwen pral pote tounen enfòmasyon sa a nan òganizasyon mwen an ak pouse li pou pi devan ankò nan, oke, kounye a nou te ranmase kote tout inondasyon sa a k ap pase, ki sa nou ka fè sou li? Epi sa a, se yon bagay ke mwen panse se tou jis enpòtan, kenbe ranmase enfòmasyon an menm si ou pa konnen ki sa w ap fè.
[Carter]: Se konsa, mwen gen yon kesyon swivi sa a paske, ou konnen, mwen, e petèt li nan jis inyorans sou pati mwen, men mwen, mwen, Pa okouran de zòn sa a te gen pwoblèm ak mare nan k ap monte nan gwo larivyè Lefrat la ak gen dlo a vini sou nan katye a. Koulye a, ou te wè prèv sa a nan tan lontan an?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, mwen ta dwe klarifye. Se konsa, espesyalman pou pwojè sa a, nou ap chèche nan inondasyon dlo lapli. Se konsa, lè li nan lapli tankou fou ak odtoki ou pa ka kenbe li tout ak li a ap vini oswa li a tankou ou gen yon lari ki pa gen drenaj la dwa.
[Carter]: Se konsa, nou pa aktyèlman ap pale de gwo larivyè Lefrat la debòde bank li yo, se konsa yo pale.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nou pa pale de sa kounye a.
[Carter]: Nou ta dwe pale sou li. Men, wi, li nan tout ki gen rapò, tou. Sa fè sans pafè pou mwen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Men, si moun gen istwa sou sa, nou bezwen tande sa, tou, paske li tout ki gen rapò.
[Carter]: Li se, tout bon. Ok. Se konsa, sa a se kalite yon korolè nan premye kesyon an. Nou gen yon refi sanble, pa anpil, nan yon anpil nan syans klima soubasman. nan retrè a soti nan pwoteksyon anviwònman ak aspirasyon nan direksyon pou fè fas ak bagay sa yo pi byen pa administrasyon federal la. Ki jan kalite bagay sa yo afekte òganizasyon ou an?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, se konsa fason ke mwen panse ke se reyèlman itil pou m 'panse sou li se lè nou ap pale de chanjman nan klima, se konsa tabou pafwa, li vrèman itil pou mwen pou m fraz li san yo pa di tankou, nou ap pale de detèminasyon klima jodi a. Mwen jis di nou ap pale de inondasyon oswa chalè ekstrèm. Paske menm si w ap pale ak moun ki se yon ti kras plis tankou, Oh, mwen pa konnen si mwen kwè nan sa a. Se tankou, ou kwè ke ou se reyèlman cho ete sa a epi li pa te sa a cho anvan? Men, jis paske nou pa bezwen trase l 'tounen nan syans la si moun yo pa vle fè sa, ou ka di, oke, gwo larivyè Lefrat la ap degrade oswa ou pa wè kòm anpil zwazo yo. Genyen bagay ke ou pa bezwen di se klima men moun ka gen rapò ak ak yon jan vin angrenaj yo vire. Se sa ki itil pou mwen omwen.
[Carter]: Se konsa, li fini moute nan yon anpil nan ka yo te kalite tèminoloji ak ki jan ou apwoche li an tèm de si ou pale ak jan pou ke moun ki, si li la sou kloti a oswa si yo ap denye kareman oswa kèlkeswa sa yo, yo ka kalite gen rapò ak li an tèm ki pa mande pou yo panse ke, ou konnen, gen nan yon enjenyè moute ki moun ki ap eseye fè yo fè bagay yo pa vle fè.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absoliman, wi.
[Carter]: Trè bon, trè bon. Oke, se konsa mwen renmen fè sa ak envite mwen ak èspere ke nou ka jwe. Se konsa, mwen vle jwe yon ti jwèt nan asosyasyon mo. Oke. Oke, ak sa mwen ta renmen fè se mwen vle ba ou yon fraz mo-mo epi mande ou a tanpri ban m 'kèk fraz sou sa ki fraz mo-mo vle di ou. Oke. Tout dwa. Se konsa, ou konnen, epi nou te aktyèlman tande yon koup la mo sa yo pandan kou a nan konvèsasyon nou an aswè a. Men, se konsa lè ou tande tèm espès yo pwogrese, ki sa ou panse sou?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oke, mwen panse a tankou yon mons sa ki mal ki nan tankou rale ak k ap grenpe ak vin ak vlope alantou. Paske wout la li vlope alantou plant natif natal, li ka literalman toufe soti. Tankou lè mwen te travay nan jaden an ane pase a, bèl pye nan mayi ap resevwa étoufè pa sa a pye rezen ak li a tankou, li la tankou yon mons.
[Carter]: Ak sa ki te pye rezen an?
[SPEAKER_02]: Mwen tèlman mal. Li ta ka amèr amann, men mwen pa syantis la.
[Carter]: Li nan pè, li la pè. Tout dwa, men fizikman toufe mayi. Yeah, li nan pè, tankou yon tentak. Wow, son tankou lit oswa yon bagay tankou sa. Oke, se konsa ski jè.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mwen panse ke ski jè yo se reyèlman plezi pou tankou kenken oswa yon bagay, men mwen konprann ke petèt yo pa sa ki yon anpil nan moun ki vle wè sou larivyè Lefrat katye yo.
[Carter]: Yeah, kalite pouvwa pou Mystic Lakes yo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Li ta ka, ak aktyèlman zanmi m 'gen yon chat yo te rele Jetski paske li te vit ak danjere, se konsa mwen gen ploge l' tou.
[Carter]: Oke, oke. Omonim ou, Shannon Beach.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, se konsa papa m 'te grandi nan Arlington ak li toujou di nou istwa sou ki jan apre dine l' lè li te tankou 10, tonton gwo l 'oswa kèlkeswa sa ki ta fè l' mache nan tout lak yo Mystic. Se konsa, mwen te gen yon anpil nan istwa komik sou Shannon Beach ak mwen sonje li itilize yo dwe rele Sandy Beach.
[Carter]: Absoliman.
[SPEAKER_02]: Apre sa, mwen sonje lè yo chanje li, youn nan lòt tonton mwen te tankou, hey, ou konnen, yo rele l 'Shannon Beach. Mwen te tankou, ki sa? Men, tout lòt moun se kalite fache sou li.
[Carter]: Yeah, byen, tout moun desann isit la pou asire w te fache sou li paske, ou konnen, sa ki te nou te toujou grandi ak Sandy Beach ak nou pa t 'toujou gen gwo istwa sou li paske, ou konnen, tankou lè mwen te jenn ti gason, ou konnen, nou nou te anmède ak hassled pafwa, ou konnen, pral desann nan plaj la paske, ou konnen, nou gade tankou tout lòt moun. Men, men nou te resevwa sou li. Nou te fè fas ak li, ou konnen. Ok. Aran kouri.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, kouri nan aran. Mwen pral admèt, mwen pa te wè aran an. Se konsa, mwen jis te kòmanse nan Novanm nan. Men, mwen panse ke li nan youn nan bagay sa yo koul ke òganizasyon mwen an fè. Apre sa, mwen panse ke li la konsa enkwayab paske nou te vinn tankou konte a pi gwo nan New England kounye a, mwen panse. Se konsa, e mwen panse ke li nan yon istwa enkwayab nan, tankou, gen nan anpil bèl istwa endijèn sou li, tankou, jis istwa a nan, tankou, aran an, li nan enkwayab.
[Carter]: Men, mwen pa te aktyèlman wè li, se konsa sa a, se sou lis mwen an pou, tankou, nan mwa sa a. Oke, li la konsa, ak lòt bagay la se, li la konsa konjonktif, ki konekte nan istwa a nan, ou konnen, kalite Ameriken natif natal nan zòn nan, paske li te evidamman yon, ou konnen, yon gwo, ou konnen, sous manje ak resous manje. Men, li tou, ou konnen, jis pote tounen tout nan istwa yo nan ki jan natif natal yo reyèlman, reyèlman te vle okòmansman yo pataje peyi a ak yo dwe, ou konnen, vwazen bon. Apre sa, yo te deja bon Stewards ak yo te deja konnen ki jan yo fèm ak pwason ak tout nan sa. Ak bagay sa yo pa t 'travay deyò, ou konnen, trè byen an favè yo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Epitou yon istwa bèl sou detèminasyon menm si paske tankou nou kenbe konekte pi plis ak plis nechèl pwason ak bagay yeah, li pote tounen istwa a ak pwason an sonje wout la, ou konnen byen, mwen konnen, mwen renmen lefèt ke ou gen anpil moun ki soti nan fè bagay sa a an patikilye, ou konnen lè ou gen la
[Carter]: Aran an kouri ak ou bay apèl la pou jan yo soti ak konte pwason an, li vrèman fre ke ou gen literalman dè santèn de moun ki vle soti ak konte pwason.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, ak fant yo volontè ranpli moute nan twa jou.
[Carter]: Yeah, se sa mwen vle di, li trè fou. Li trè fou. Oke, se konsa sa ki ta dwe jan nan odyans nou an ak nan basen vèsan an absoliman konnen sou Myra?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oke, mwen ta di ou ta dwe konnen ke ou toujou akeyi. Se konsa, ale sou entènèt ak jwenn yon imèl ak jis imèl yon moun si w ap enterese nan pwojè yo oswa tankou biwo nou yo se dwa nan Arlington Centre. Montre la, ekri nou yon lèt, kèlkeswa sa ou vle fè. Jis vin pale ak nou e nou toujou vle tande istwa ou ki gen rapò ak gwo larivyè Lefrat la, anviwònman an, tande enkyetid ou yo. Epi li vrèman se yon òganizasyon ki te kondwi nan kominote a. Nou te grandi anpil paske nan tout pouvwa a nan kominote a ak nouvo patenarya yo nou te fè ak lòt bagay. Se konsa, jis jwenn yon fason oswa jwenn yon sèl bagay ou enterese nan. Si li nan pwason, fatra, klima, anyen, jis jwenn wout ou ak yon moun ap renmen pale ak ou epi fè ou patisipe.
[Carter]: Se konsa, yo, epi mwen pa fin sèten ki jan li te vin nan posesyon yo, men òganizasyon an te resevwa sa a gwo kay fin vye granmoun Victorian koupe nan Pleasant Street nan Arlington, epi li vrèman, vrèman fre paske li nan tankou w ap nan travay ak nan kay la nan menm tan an. Mwen te gen yon koup de fwa pou reyinyon nou yo ak sa yo, e menm ale nan twalèt la oswa kèlkeswa sa, Li nan anpil tankou yo te nan pwòp lakay ou. Li pa nan tout tankou yon bilding biznis, men li la reyèl bèl. Apre sa, yo ap trè, trè ouvè ak akeyan. Se konsa, jis tankou si ou te mache nan pòt devan an, li di, sa ki nan sa ki, yo ta pran tan nan pann soti avèk ou epi montre ou alantou epi pale ak ou sou tou sa ou te vle pale sou yo. Se konsa, li reyèl bèl. Absoliman. Yeah. Ok, se konsa mwen vle ba ou dènye mo a. Ki sa ki panse separe ou a?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oke separe panse yo se mwen jis deja santi se konsa enspire soti nan konvèsasyon sa a e mwen espere ke ou nèg yo tout santi yon ti kras leve ak sezon prentan an ak tout bagay k ap pase e mwen panse pou mwen nati se youn nan tankou pi bon fason yo jis tankou re-sant tèt ou ak tout lòt bagay nou ap fè fas ak kounye a tankou jis ale chita sou plaj la epi ou konnen Kèlkeswa sa ou vle fè tankou jwenn ansanm ak yon vwazen tankou kounye a. Nou bezwen ke plis pase tout tan konsa jis jwenn deyò pale ak yon moun ou pral santi ou pi byen tout dwa, trè bon, se konsa mwen
[Carter]: Shannon, reyèlman di ou mèsi anpil pou pote yon pèspektiv gwo ak reyèlman kokenn insight òganizasyonèl ak ekolojik nan kominote sa a nan Greater Medford. Li evidan li enpòtan travay ke Myra fè e mwen espere ke jan tout lòt peyi sou Medford ap vin de pli zan pli plis okouran de enpòtans basen vèsan an, nan ekite li yo kòm yon resous, ak sante li yo ak sekirite. Ak tout moun ki te ap gade nan sal la, evidamman, epi tou yo deyò nan peyi televizyon, menm jan yo te itilize yo rele li, mèsi anpil pou atensyon ou ak enterè ou nan diskisyon nou an. Ak mèsi pou vini ansanm ak nou jan nou kontinye rafrechi pou pi gwo fleksibilite ak pote pi bon istwa yo ak amizman posib. Se konsa, pare pou yon bagay trè espesyal sou bò mizik la nan pyès monnen an dwa apre nou pran yon ti repo Reyajiste etap nou an, epi mwen pral tounen ak pataje kèk anons WMCC, ak Lè sa a, nou pral kòmanse ak pòsyon nan mizik nan mo ak mizik. Mèsi, Shannon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mèsi.
[Carter]: Thank you. All right. Okay, very good. Check, check. Okay. All right. Here we go. Here we go. All right. Boom, boom, boom. All righty. We're about ready. We're about ready. OK. We're good? OK. I wait to get my high sign from my man back there. Okay, so more often than not, and I'm going to hold off to the end with all the promotional stuff and so forth, because I want to get into this. More often than not, when we do Words in Music, we go out there and we beat the bushes and we find wonderful singers and we find, you know, outstanding musicians. We, you know, we've got, you know, we're looped into the Berkeley community and the New England Conservatory community, and we get some amazing folks to come in, you know, and do stuff for us. But it's Poetry Month. And my bishop, my pastor, would say to us all the time, he would say, it's a sorry frog that won't praise his own pond. So I'm calling my own number tonight. But, and I'm fortunate in this, I'm not doing it by myself. Several years ago, I had the outrageous fortune to link up with this guy. His name is Jonathan Fagan. Okay. And, you know, John kind of heard it through the grapevine that, you know, there was this poet guy out there doing some stuff that, you know, he kind of liked. And we talked, and one thing led to another, and we started talking about a collaboration. And the collaboration became what's known as the Ally Project. And the ally part is obviously a throw to the fact that we were both seeking a way to make poetry and music address some of the social justice issues that we both really feel very strongly about. And that's what it became. And it became that to the effect that we developed this quartet And that's Greg Toro on the bass back there. And our first drummer, John Dalton, real busy guy, doing a bunch of different stuff, and not always available to us. But because Jonathan knows like a million musicians, he was able to find a great drummer that could step into John's shoes. And we literally never missed a beat. So back here is Gordon Angleguy. Okay, and it was cool because we, you know, Jonathan is also the founder of the Medford Jazz Festival, which has been going on for several years now, in which we've had for the past three or four years, here at the community center right out in our backyard. And this summer it's gonna be in August, I think it's the 16th and the 17th, and it's a don't miss thing, because this kind of stuff just doesn't happen in West Medford very often. You want to be able to, you know, we set about 60 or 70 chairs back in the back, and the sun is shining, and oh man, it's a great atmosphere, and it's August, so it's still nice and warm and sunny. So it's a Saturday and a Sunday afternoon, and it's free. And you got access to Duggar Park, and there's refreshments, and we have a big time. So hopefully, you'll do that. But anyways. we've been playing together for several years now, and we actually, we cut a record. So over there on the table is a CD, if anybody still has a CD player, it's crazy. And it's called the Ally Project. So a lot of what we do tonight, and there's some new stuff too, because I'm working on my seventh book, but a lot of it is actually on that CD. So, Greg Toro, Gordon Engelgau, Jonathan Fagan, I'm Terry Cotter, and we are the Allied Project. All right? Can we play for you? All right, let's do it. Okay, John. Okay. This first piece we're going to do is called Hired by the Mystic. And for me, as a poet in West Medford, this is kind of where it all started. So, hopefully you'll enjoy it. They gave my people the lowlands, and not much of it, just a few streets hard by the river. Banks turned a blind eye behind the red lines, and it wasn't about the money. Class was an irresistible force. Race was an immovable object. Perhaps it wasn't the written rule, but white folks knew the legal tool to keep us in our place in this mystic valley space, where slaves and rum and ships had built some mansions, made some millionaires, and hid some old money. So it was hard by the mystic we went, muddy and a bit turned down, the only place where one could be brown in this ancient Middlesex County town. But we named it, we claimed it, we made it our own. Even in the heat of summer when the shores were parched and the soil was rank with the decay of aquatic alchemy, we were one with the river. We followed its flow to the lakes and the sandy beachfront. On our own Jordan shore, we baptized and blessed our brothers and sisters in Christ. We caught the little fishes to go with our loaves of bread and became the teeming multitude who our Lord Jesus fed, hired by the mystic. We became community. We commanded unity. We embraced the village and raised up our children in the way they should go. As the river ebbs and flows, the tides will turn and our fortune grows. A few more streets become our home. Houses on Sharon join Kin on Jerome. From Duggar Park to the railroad tracks, the white folks make more room for blacks. The color line recedes a bit. Church and school and center fit. The Ville becomes the heart of it, hard by the mystic shore. Now the worm has surely learned and folks who left have surely learned things couldn't stay the same. That muddy mystic most days is clean. The banks are freshly cut and green. Faces once distinctly brown are not the only ones in town. These streets that once were our confines must now embrace what gentry defines, condominium culture, bedroom convenience, university sprawl, access, egress, invest, and dispossess. Now those lowlands have become the highlights of a trending city. And sometimes that success isn't pretty when it's at the expense of your black and brown and tan friends. And yet, the river still turns and bends from where it begins to where it ends. the only place where one could be brown in this ancient Middlesex County town. But we named it, we claimed it, and made it our own. Very good. Very good. So when I'm feeling nostalgic, I always go back to living in West Medford. I live in Randolph now. When my wife and I first got married, and we've been married almost 38 years now, The first five years that we were married, we lived on Arlington Street in a rental apartment that some friends of my family had. And loved it here in West Medford. But she was working for, actually for Boston Water and Sewer at the time, and they pressed the residency requirement. And she was six months from getting grandfathered. So we had to move into Boston in order for her to keep her job. She liked her job. I liked her liking her job. So, you know, so we moved. And we moved to Dorchester. And we lived in two different apartments in Dorchester for about 17 years. And then it was, you know, when we thought that we had all of our ducks in a row to be able to buy a house, we came back to Medford first to look. Couldn't touch it. Couldn't touch it. So we started looking. We looked in Boston for like that long. But you could touch, if you couldn't touch Medford, you definitely couldn't touch Boston, especially in the areas where we, that we were interested in. And we started looking south and we had some friends in Randolph. We started looking in Randolph and we finally found a nice place. We have a nice little split level ranch with a big yard in Randolph and that's home. But Home is where the heart is, obviously. So again, whenever I want to reminisce and think back to the good old days, I come back to my West Medford home. And I work here during the week, and it keeps me connected. And the beauty of it is that my mother, my father, and my baby brother all had cancer, and they passed away. And I had it, but I beat it. You know, God is good. And they're looking down on me and I hope they're proud of me. But anyways. It gave me an opportunity, coming back to work at the community center, to be in West Medford, to be with my family, to go through some of what they were going through, and to be there as a resource for them while they were going through it. So, you know, they say, never curse the bridge that brought you safely over. So I never, never curse West Medford. But I do care some of the things that have happened to West Medford that have made it less West Medford for a lot of folks. So this is a little bit of that. I'm not mad. I'm just truthful. This is called Corner Lot. Okay. Getting a little bit of fuzzy fuzzy. Okay. We good? We better? Okay. Okay. Thank you. standing at the apex of Arlington and Jerome, trying to remember the black and the brown and the tan. Ronnie and Otis used to live in the big house on the corner lot. It's probably changed hands half a dozen times since then. Current owner's been there for a minute. He's good with his hands and knows his way around wood and tools. Place has been gussied up quite a bit. Picket fence is off-white, but if you know, you know. Asian kid in a Tufts hoodie just whipped by in a helmet and rollerblades. Didn't see much of that back in the day. The university sort of hit on a hillside trying its best to be a baby Ivy. But the cohorts come here all the time now. Basketballs, tennis rackets, and pickleball paddles in tow on bikes, benzos, and rollerblades. We used to bust ourselves up pretty good on rickety metal skates with clunky keys and leather straps. Nothing a little Vaseline and Mercura comb couldn't handle. How did Henley put it in Invictus? Oh yeah, bloodied but unbowed. Not too many white and off-white kids hanging out down here back then. It was as if the invisible lines once drawn to keep us in sometimes kept other folks out too. Now they've pretty much taken over. Duggar Park, the Rhone Tennis Courts, the Hervey Schoolyard, and a hundred addresses on Arlington, Lincoln, and Jerome. A host of our remembered places, so few of our original faces. Meanwhile, back at Ronnie and Otis's old place, I'm still standing like that centurion, knowing that Jesus doesn't have to go in to heal his servant. He just has to speak a word. I keep hoping that he'll speak a word to the Cornelot, too, and bring back the black and the brown and the tan. Across the street is the river. It's low tide, but the smell is gone and the grass is greener than I recall. That was our little park, away from Duggar and a lot less hectic. We had makeshift bases or discarded cones for football and softball. We lost a few in the river, but nobody was going in that muck to retrieve anything. We'd probably wade in that water today. They planted some trees there many years ago. They're all pretty big now. Maple and ash, I think. Nobody plays baseball or football there anymore. But there are lots of dogs frolicking off leash and gaggles of fat geese daring pitties, pugs, and poodles to chase them off. I can't imagine my childhood without losing a few softballs there. I can't imagine not hearing Mrs. Allen calling James Michael to come eat, or little Charlie watching us play from his folding chair, because his spindly legs were too weak to let him run. I can't imagine that I'm still here. But Ronnie and Otis, Darryl King, Frankie French, Aaron McDaniel, and Marky Davis are all gone. Everyone had a nickname back then. Darryl was super fast, so we called him Road Runner and Jack Rabbit. Mark was thick as a big tree trunk, so we came up with oak for him. Aaron was bud, Frankie was fruit man, and I was top cat. Too cool, ran the school. Everyone wants the corner lot. Little more land, and perhaps the new perspectives that angles create. I wonder if that meant anything to Ronnie and Otis, or Jed and Miles and Gib, Barry, Coco, Keith Wing, and Kenny Byfield. It certainly meant something to the white folks looking to displace, transplant, and uproot the local color. Black folks built homes here, only place where we were allowed to be, where they could color inside the lines Medford once drew against the perceived discomforts of darker skin. We were here first. First firefighters, police officers, war heroes, shop owners, tradesmen, postal chiefs, teachers, artists, and preachers. We were the human bedrock of the only neighborhood they'd let us build. The old church is gone. Nelson even changed the street number as if to erase the fact that the original Shiloh Baptist ever existed. But if you know, you know. That corner lot still has a cornerstone. And Nelson couldn't do nothing about it without a more draconian demolition. two more condos in the house of the Lord, two more houses that us first folk can't afford, two more dismissals of the blessing of his word, one more holy stone rejected and ignored. Okay, nostalgia is hard sometimes, whew. Okay, so, but it's also happy sometimes, so that's what this next piece is about. And you may have heard it before, but you're getting ready to hear it once again more. Okay. Okay. Thank you. The Little Store, you're right there. All right. Good, good. Okay. It was a tiny red hovel on Upper Jerome. A bit run down and rough around the edges. And Mr. Henry seemed so old to us, even then, with a lot of whiskers, impatient and a little scary. One would suspect that he didn't even like kids. But he really must have loved us. Or else, where did all that penny candy come from? He had all of it, no seriously. We'd bust in there with a few nickels or a handful of pennies, all loud and unruly. He'd hush us up while he finished up with grown folks' business. Then he'd be back, like a black Willy Wonka up in that old shack. He'd peer over those old horn-rimmed glasses and tell us he didn't have all day. Then he'd blow open one of those small brown craft paper bags and get to stuffing while we were oohing and aahing and huffing and puffing. See, Mr. Henry had all the treats, all of our favorites, a hundred great sweets. root beer barrels and pixie stip, squirrel nut zippers and banana splits, green mint juleps and button strips, red licorice ropes and bottle nips. He had bazooka Joe bubblegum and a tiny sucker called a dum-dum, jawbreakers and tootsie rolls, sugary love for little kids' souls. Candy necklaces to wear and bite, and waxy red lips was such a sight. Fat gum cigars and kids cigarettes, right beside the crunchy six-lets. Mary Jane chewies and BB bats, hot fireballs and Mexican hats. Just the genuine Hershey's kisses, all the hits and none of the misses. Like kits, taffy squares, and Necco wafers, liquor made in Boston baked beans, gold rocks, nuggets of gum in a bag, a kid's idea, sweet to swag. Before the days of Laffy Taffys, we would gobble up peppermint patties. Before we knew about gummy bears, Twizzlers always came in pairs. Chewy cow tails had a creamy filling, but sugar babies had top billing. Reese's peanut butter cups had us squealing like newborn pups. Mike and Ikes and orange slices, saltwater taffy and tiny prices. Lifesavers and charms and fruity flavors, we grabbed those bags like potty favors. Chuckles were a favorite choice, and Milk Duds made us all rejoice. Jolly Ranchers and Bitter Honey, we always got a lot for our money. Talk about kids getting excited. You can't imagine the flame he ignited. Our greedy fingers could barely wait to take that candy like fish take bait. From cold January to chilly December, more kinds of candy than I can remember. At the Ville storefront on Upper Jerome, I knew I had to write this poem. See, Mr. Henry had all the treats, all of our favorites, 100 great sweets. Yeah, a little nicer, a little nicer. OK, very good. Where we going, Jenny? Yes, yes, absolutely. Okay. So in many ways, we as a country are in a bit of a crisis. And unless you were Massachusetts, Pawtucket, Nipmuck, Wampanoag, in this area, you came from someplace else. So this piece is called Beloved Country, and you'll get it. Ah, pat it now, kid. I love it. I can love this country, too. I didn't have to be born on these barney shores. I didn't have to be a son of the Pentacook, Quinnipiac, or Mohican. I didn't have to have a pilgrim pedigree or be a Connecticut Yankee from King Arthur's Corps. I can be the Dahomey, the Pole, or the child of Caribbean suns in Amazon shade. I can love this country too. My green card was a welcome ticket to a new life in a new land. My passport was stamped with new hopes and new dreams. My suitcases were packed full with new aspirations and some apprehensions too. Perhaps I didn't see the harbor sign that said, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. Perhaps I didn't see the lady in the lamp, but I did see the gleaming city on a hill that couldn't be hid, and my soul responded. I can love this country too. I can love its rolling meadows and its gospel songs. I can love its asphalt highways and its born-to-run boss. I can love its teeming ghetto and its urban sprawl. I can love its old spires, new minarets, and golden menorahs. But can America love me too? Can she love my curry spices, roti, and oxtails? Can she love my hijab and henna tattoos? Can she love my Hajj, my Mecca, and my Medina? Can she love my Cinco de Mayo and Dia de los Muertos? Can she love my kente cloth, dredge, twist, and locks? Can she love the skin I'm in? Be it ebony, ivory, dulce de leche, or cafe au lait. Can she love me by name? Chicana Glory, Muhammad bin Said, Anastasia Kozov, Cleophis Dorsey, or Claudia Gonzalez. Can she love me by name? And what if I am among those huddled masses in that wretched refuge or that homeless, tempest-tossed? Will she continue to lift her lamp? Or do war and rumors of war, IEDs, sleeper cells, and faith distortions make me a pariah to be eliminated, a scourge to be annihilated, and a plague to be exterminated? I come in peace. And I love this country too. I love its boundless opportunity. I love its generosity of spirit. I love the audacity of its hope. I love its rolling meadows and its joyful songs. I love its asphalt highways and its little red Corvette. I love its teeming ghetto and its urban sprawl. I love its old spires, new minarets, and golden menorahs. And I love America too. I come in peace. And I love America too. All right. All right. All right. Greg Toro on the big sexy bass. Gordon Angle Gow on the drums. Jonathan Fagan on the keys. All right. All right. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so here's the corollary. All right, because there's always got to be some connective tissue to this stuff. All right, so we're going to do a piece called Alienation. And it's really, really on my mind right now. So maybe on a lot of y'all's as well. So here we go. Is this great? What does this mean? Okay, all right. Here is a fence without a gate. You can't get in, you have to wait. You can't be foreign or somehow strange. This isn't your home, home on the range. You can't arrive in a rickety boat. Our castle has a treacherous moat. We won't host refugees at our door. You're not the sort we're looking for. Take good note. We stay on guard. We don't want you in our backyard. Despite the dangers you seek to avoid, our best deterrents have been deployed. You say your country's full of peril. But like stray cats, we think you're feral. We think you're prone to filth and crime. We don't want either at this time. We don't care what the nations say. They won't do more than hope and pray. Our stance is clear on human rights. Lock the door. Turn off the lights. You saw that statue in the bay. It stood for liberty until today. It welcomed tired and huddled masses, not criminals from your underclasses. We've got militias on the border. They own big guns to keep the order. Law enforcement lets them stay to help them keep your kind at bay. Why do we feel that this is good? Why can't we share the neighborhood? Is it because you're black and brown? No, we just choose to stand our ground. stay in your place, deal with your issues. We'll send lots of coal and tissues. Don't form caravans and run. You'll find yourself in the sight of a gun. There are no streets here lined with gold. Our eyes are closed, our hearts are cold. There is no flowing milk and honey. American skies are not that sunny. The fences we build keep aliens out. They serve to keep our faith devout. This land we scheme to make our own, it's ours, you see, and ours alone. As long as you stay on the other side, we can maintain our national pride. Please don't show us your anguished faces. We're cutting back on other races. We've had enough of this global inclusion. We're ridding this country of race confusion. We know how to win these fights and limit all these civil rights. Safety nets in the welfare state will have to stop for the lost and late. A rising tide that favors the rich. That's our favorite campaign pitch. Me Too movements and Black Lives Matter? In all due time, your ranks will scatter. You think that you shall overcome? Just cross this line. We'll give you some. We'll give you a taste of burning churches and black boys hung from oaks and birches. We'll give you a taste of incarceration in prisons.com, the corporate plantation. We're taking this country back to a time when a brown life wasn't worth a dime, except for the way it worked in the field, except for a bushel of crops to yield. We're taking this country back to the day when white meant right in every way, when men of privilege could rape and beat and kill for spite, then lie and cheat. We're taking this homeland back to the season when hooded marauders needed no reason to hunt folks down with rifles and dogs through the lonely woods, the swamps, and bogs. When Confederate flags were boldly raised and crosses in the darkness blazed and the land was full of racial hate served with grits on a breakfast plate. You thought this worm had surely turned and young black bodies no longer burned. Yet here you are again today with the specter of prejudice winning the day. The MAGA caps we wear with pride, they let us know who's on our side. That pointed hood and long white robe, fine clothes for the xenophobe. Perhaps this place that immigrants covet can somehow heal and rise above it. Until that day, our best advice to call this home, you'll pay a price. You'll pay a price as many misguided embrace the hate their voice provided. His Twitter rants and sound bites full of ethnocentric cock and bull. You'll pay a price as higher walls lead great climbers to greater falls. Where fences are the new condition announcing the refugees abolition. This isn't our nation's greatest hour, this flexing of white supremacist power. And yet, the season is fully revealing the stain of hatred we've been concealing. So take good note and be on guard of deadly traps around the yard. Our agents are on high alert to keep you foreigners off this dirt. Tolerance is in short supply. We won't let your kind occupy this sacred land our forebears built. We don't subscribe to Anglo guilt. This fence was built without a gate to keep out all who come here late. To all you aliens, we don't like strange. No room at the inn in our home on the range. Yeah, okay. All right, so you've had a lot of the social justice, but not as much as the outright jazz. So we're going to do the outright jazz right now. This is called Okay, so backstory on this is Herbie Hancock wrote a beautiful composition many years ago called Tell Me a Bedtime Story, and Quincy Jones re-recorded it beautifully. So this is a reimagining of Tell Me a Bedtime Story, and it's called Tell Me Another Bedtime Story. Is this where the Sandman picks up each grain, restoring the beauty, reducing the pain? Is this where we fly to never, never land like a troop of lost boys with Peter Pan? All of the mystery of hidden dreams, nothing now is as it seems. Tell a sweet tale that sugars and creams with flashes of stardust and shining moonbeams. As I lay down to my slumber, paint a landscape of ochre and umber. Let there be a hint of romance. Turn up the quiet. Love wants to dance. tell me a bedtime story please of secret gardens and pecan trees of babbling brooks and waterfalls of gentle breezes that summer calls of hidden havens and wondrous spaces of astral planes and mystical places Let there be a melody that sings in four-part harmony. Let it resound in symphony, then fold into dreamland's reverie. Tell me a fable of Arabian nights spread on a table of earthly delights, free from the label of anger and fights, willing and able to scale higher heights. Tell me a bedtime story now, as the baby rocks in the maple bough, as the blue ox puts his nose to the plow, and the sweaty farmer wipes his brow, as each green seedling happily vows to yield each fruit the ground allows, and seven dwarves whistle a happy tune, and sleeping beauty awakens soon. Let there be a melody that sings in four-part harmony. Let it resound in symphony, then fold into dreamland's reverie. This is a time when the sandman whispers, and seven grooms meet seven sisters, and the prairie sings an ode to love as angels release the turtle dove. For now, I lay me down to sleep and pray to God my soul to keep. Gordon Angle got on the drums. Yeah, buddy. Real nice, real nice, real nice. Okay, so let's do another jazz piece. Is this just me and you? Okay, so if you know the jazz canon at all, you know like the big names and you know, Miles Davis and you know, John Coltrane and you know, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, you know, you just, you know the big names. Sometimes the folks that could go by a first name only. This was one of those people. And you could use either his first name or his last name. You could call him Monk or you could call him Thelonious. And everybody knew who you were talking about. I call him Thelonious. All right, anyways. This piece is called Thelonious Assault. Kind of play on words. Okay. You were the mystic and the mage with every scribble on each lined page. So deadly serious at that bench with eyes ablaze and teeth in clench. Tones that spin, discordant perfection, harmonic twists in every direction. What is the meaning of all this scatter as you summon rhythmic anti-matter? Why must you rage and violently pound each key to achieve such a potent sound, reveling in a cerulean funk? You were the least obedient monk. Sometimes you'd wax melodic and quiet. Then you'd revert to the din of a riot. Every chord with a stranglehold on conventional music's centerfold. A bit of the Duke's panache in style with James P. Johnson's strident guile. Yours was the most ambitious spirit in every bar the night can hear it. The grand piano majestically sits. It has no sense of the crimes it commits. It tolerates explosive bits of cosmic slop as the maestro sits. In a soft felt fez or a pork pie hat? You are a different kind of cat. Fingers like Harlem stickball bats, scurrying quick like tenement rats. Over those keys while the saxophone scats. Over those keys while the drummer pats. Over those keys with sharps and flats while the bass man thumbs out welcome mats. In front of the door of Handy and Fats. Real conversation, not idle chats. Wed to the notes like a pretty young wife, you brought jazz piano back to life. And made the music cut like a knife, skipping chords and dissonant strife. Never to march like a drum and fife, with crackling sparks your soul was rife. Yet waves of sickness embraced your spirit. The music allowed you to hardly hear it. Oceans of darkness and you didn't fear it. A constant hurdle, we watched you clear it. Oh, rather we listened in special awe As camels buckled with every straw You piled on top of harmonic law As bop and stride made doubters thaw You'd ever succumb to a tragic flaw And be undone by depression's claw So still, the vinyl adorns the platter as we revel in musical anti-matter. Madame Panonica's lilting splatter round midnight with a truly mad hatter. Solitude embraces a tortured soul that scales the peaks of an opposite pole through a Thorazine haze that takes its toll. And still the maestro maintains control. The Steinway bursts in dynamic tone, and yet the madness won't leave him alone. The abbot cowers and runs to pray as the musical friar prepares to slay. The Steinway engages in mystical work while legions of demons quietly lurk, ready to take the altar away to assault the monk as we hear him play. Jonathan Fagan on the keys, channeling his inner Thelonious. Very good. Okay, let's do Legacy and if Bobby had a choice. Okay, all right. So, we're gonna do a piece called Legacy that we really, really love. I hope I can find it. Okay, here we go. All right. This is for the storytellers in all of us. Okay, here we go. It's not for you to tell your own story. That is the burden of your children. They must shoulder this yoke with love and loyalty. And yet, you have not gathered them and bid them sit before the campfires of their elders. You have not seasoned their meals with the spice of their identity and the savor of their names. How will they learn to walk the walk and talk the talk? How will they learn to tell your stories even as they live out their own? Sons and daughters and heirs, if you didn't smell the burning ash or feel the warmth of the flame on your neck, you don't know. If you didn't revel in the growl of the griot's earthy reply or the trill of the mockingbird's cry, you don't know. If mama was too tired and daddy too long gone to carry the wood, light the spark, and stoke the flames, you don't know. And until the lion cub knows how to tell the pride stories, the hunters will always tell them first. The good book says, train up the child in the way they should go. Will we let them depart from the community of faith and the city on a hill without the master's touch, without the oil of his anointing and his full measure of grace? Will we not show them Anansi's clever ways, Popo and Fufina's journey, Mufaro's beautiful daughters, the people who could fly, the wonders of Wakanda, and Songololo's new tackies? The prophet says he will encourage fathers and their children to return. But how will they know the way home if no map charts the seas, measures the roads, sites, the peaks and valleys, and names each forest despite the thickening trees? Will the burden of the elder stories be too heavy for the children? Will they care to carry? Will they dare to tarry? Will they linger at the foot of the griot? Will they hunger for the wisdom of the sage? We must put them on the page, where hard work earns the man his wage, where power is measured by God's own gauge, where miracles scoff at the wand of a mage. We must share with them the truth that is loyal and fierce, like Naomi and Ruth, that doesn't wait for the confessional booth, that has the bite of the panther's tooth. This is a gift of legacy, where a glorious past sets the captives free, and a candle's light beckons liberty. Sons and daughters and heirs, I bid you sit before the campfires of your elders, hear their stories, gather up their stones, and build up your strength. They will show you Anansi's clever ways, Popo and Fafina's journey, Mufaro's beautiful daughters, the people who could fly, the wonders of Wakanda and Songololo's new tackies. Soon, you will be the herald. Write these things down on the tablets of your spirit. Let them put a running in your feet. With each quickening step, you repel the arrows of the hunter with the shield of abiding faith. You capture the flags of your enemies and gather up their spoils. You remain the lions of the pride and your tails will always be your children's brand. You will never abandon the community of faith, though you build a thousand cities on a hill, drawing wonderous strength from the master's touch as the oil of his anointing fills your clay jars with his grace. Cool. All right. A long while ago, I wrote this piece, and Ruth Youngblood, God Rest Her Gentle Soul, it was her favorite, favorite poem. And whenever she would hear me, you know, or be somewhere where I was going to read poetry, she would always say, Are you gonna do the Barbie poem? Are you gonna do the Barbie poem? And the poem was called Barbie Doesn't Live Here. I hope that Ruth is in eternity smiling down on us right now, because I wrote a corollary to that poem that I think that she would like as well, and it's called If Barbie Had a Choice. If Barbie had a choice, I believe that from day one, she would have made it a black thing. She would have ditched the creamsicle skin and gone with the lustrous ebony you. She would have spoken with an evil dialect with a true queen's attitude and said, to hell with you colonizers. package me up in a pink box with white lettering and a bunch of beachy palms and sand in the background? I think not. You can't get these ample breasts and these curvaceous hips into that Goldie Hawn psychedelic mini. I'ma need a little something more substantial. I'ma need copious yards of single-leaf cotton with shiny batik totems and all the colors of the motherland. I'ma need a Wakanda seamstress straight out of the Ruth Powder School to hook the thing right and show the world what I'm working with. I'ma need Maiden Dahomey, not by Mattel and Disney. If Barbie had a choice, Ken would have looked more like Ali or Denzel or that fine ass dark chocolate British cat Idris Elba. He would have been melanated, not barely suntanned. And by no means would he have seen more holiday tissue wrap than 150 grit sandpaper. He would have been swashbuckling like Marvel's T'Challa, woke like Tupac, and standing on business like Brother Malcolm. She would have kissed that man with unretouched, un-botoxed, black girl lips, lush and full as a tropical rainforest. She would have engulfed her man in every quaking inch of the last poet's black thighs. If you don't know, YouTube it. She would have no need for a Brazilian butt lift or a Beverly Hills boob job or an Adobe Photoshop session. Mother Africa and a generous genome took care of all of that. You feel me? If Barbie had a choice, you would never have been able to buy her at Toys R Us, F.A.O. Schwartz, or Mary Arnold's. She wouldn't have been a fake trophy bride, a chick on the side, or a Bonnie for Clyde. She wouldn't have been an American Girl Addie, a hot Lana Batty, or Dance Moms Maddie. She wouldn't have been It Girl Margot Robbie, or Cherry Pie's Barbie, or P. Diddy Harvey. I'ma close the flow with a few more rhymes, just a few bronze bars to end this on time. A new newbie and Bobby wouldn't stand for nonsense. A brother's pursuit couldn't sit on the fence. Her womanly wiles would be truly immense. A player would just find her game too intense. With never a true shot at love's recompense. Though he might pull up in a Bentley or Rolls, he'd lose by a landslide at a real queen's pose. A new newbie in Bobby would demand mad respect. She wouldn't suffer abuse or neglect. She'd fight for her own like a goji elite. She wouldn't be tame, demure, or petite. No, things would be different on this I make bet. A pimp or a hustler would not be a threat. As fine as the print on the national debt, her beauty and wisdom would not break a sweat. That glitzy white Barbie might have a toy jet, but she hasn't landed a soul plane yet. My African queen makes the real kings forget. though she might wanna keep that fly pink Corvette. All right, all right. Greg Toro on the bass. Gordon Angle, guy on the drums. My man, Jonathan Fagan on the piano. I'm Terry E. Carter. You've been a very gracious and lovely audience. That's pretty much it for the music portion of this evening. I just want to make a few announcements, a few pauses for the cause. So give me just a second. All right, so again, thanks to everyone who's joined us for the more recent Fresh Fridays program. We've had a lot, we have lots more great conversations to explore and more great music to discover and connect you with. Elders, join us each week, Tuesday through Thursday, for a nutritious lunch and a vibrant fellowship. Lunch is served at 12 noon. Call 781-483-3042 to make a reservation. Please join us in WMCC membership and make sure that we have your contact information for future outreach and noise. 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Okay, so Wednesday, May 7th, 2025, from 6 to 8 p.m., commemorate the significant roles that black people played in the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 1775. Military Patriot Silas Burdue had a key role in that battle. He was an active combatant, and there's been a documentary made about that called the Black Patriots of Lexington. And there's some screenings that will be taking place. okay and and one of them actually will be here at the community center on wednesday may seventh uh... twenty twenty five from six to eight p m west method community center offers community resource drop-in hours with community liaison stacy more and will be She'll be talking to folks as they feel led to talk about MassHealth, the Massachusetts Health Connector, heat assistance, SNAP and WIC, and MBTA reduced fares. So, you know, she's available and she definitely wants to talk with folks here in West Medford. uh... how can you protect yourself from fraud the a a r p is having a spotting scams and staying safe workshop it's free here at the west medford community center five sixteen twenty five or may sixteen uh... two thousand twenty five at eleven a m and you can register online and this will be back on the bulletin board i think it already is and there's an online address where you can register to join in. I want to say thank you to Shannon Collins for joining us tonight and really, really explaining a lot of the good stuff that Myra is doing here in Medford, Massachusetts. I want to say thank you to the great sponsors of WMCC First Fridays program, Medford Arts Council, Medford Community Media, soon to be, if not already, Myra missed river watershed association make sure that we have the email address if you want to be included in our regular constant contact outreach you can also call us anytime at seven eight one forty three zero Thanks again to the Starwarts back there at Medford Community Media, Kevin Harrington, a super volunteer, Mark Davidson. Thanks for lending us your expertise and as usual keeping us on time and in good shape to do what we do. I'm Terry E. Carter. I'm happy to have shared this time with you tonight. That's the Ally Project. And we've loved presenting for you here this evening. Take good care. Have a wonderful night. And we'll hopefully see you back here again soon. Thank you. Oh yeah, if you're interested.