Are You With Me Now? — AJ Ryder “How can you be in two places at once when you are not anywhere at all?”— Firesign Theatre Considering that we spent a lovely evening at the Fringe Circus, Firesign Theatre once again tickled my Wayback Machine nerve, reminding me that We’re All Bozos on This Bus. Ahh! The joy of sharing perfect imperfection. It was really nice being with everyone at the Weavers gathering in Rochester, New York. Jen Ghidu was a great host and showed us lots of

Are you with me now? AJ Ryder Alone Together – Dave Mason or Sherry Turkle? First off, congratulations on the inaugural flight of Class of 2006 by Andrew, Sam Broun and all of the advisees. What a re great start. More to come. Here’s the info for participating in the Episode #2 Talkback. This week, lots of meetings and work continued around the skilled trades—both from land and at sea. That included meetings with Connie Yowell and Sasha Goldman from Northeastern University ab

Are you with me now? AJ Ryder Sankofa Days Sankofa Days are a time for BPL community to reach back to the wisdom, history, and lessons of the past to guide our progress in the present and future. For me, this was done both on Zoom and by being at The Met during those two days. Both had their charm and benefits but for me always being in the place where it all started has deep personal meaning. There was so much to take in. It is always great to come back to The Met during the