Raspberry pre-dawn
Brewing dreams in the blue light
Soothing worn edges
Laurel
“June bugs in a web,”
Said the spider to the fly,
“Will see no July,”
Max Q
Too much change you say.
You think you don't have to change?
Ask the dinosaurs.
Bill
A distant thunder
Peace prize for the Antichrist
There are no heroes
Rikosan
The release of light
Empties the fractured vessel
Shining love from us
Maeve
We were oh, so blessed:
Our friendship with affection
Impossibly true.
MaxQ
The moon and the stars
All aligned in the night sky
Shining above us
Nikki
Freshly laundered sheets
Miles and miles of skin
The flesh of my flesh
Nikki
Watch a friend lose it
A relationship dissolves
Will they recover
Bill
Eyes welling with tears
An umbrella of sadness
Envelopes the world
Rikosan
Soar like the condor
Above the stinking remains
A gorgeous buffet
Maeve
If you missed this episode, you can check it out at: https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_250617_160000b.mp3. Also available as a podcast on the KYRS archive page.
Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. You can also subscribe to it as a podcast. Thanks for listening! Maeve
TOPDOG/UNDERDOG runs through the 29th. You can get tickets at https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/stage-left-theater-association/6644bedff7bc6f7e5c601837
We were directed to keep it under three minutes because we only had an hour (actually only 45 minutes because the production before ours went long) for the rally before people had to leave for the street protest. Here is my speech. I worked hard to keep it under three minutes so everybody would have a chance to be heard, and it came in at about 2:45. Here it is if you are interested!
Hi my name is Maeve Griffith, I am a retired firefighter for the city of Spokane. I am also a veteran and a trans woman.
Many of us are here today because we did something very difficult. We told others the truth about ourselves, a truth that doesn’t make our lives any easier or safer. It was hard to do, to come out, but telling the truth was the honorable thing to do.
Most of us here, as kids, learned we should strive to be honorable people. Most of us here , I would wager, still believe the same. Yet, America elected to its highest office an embodiment of dishonor - a 34 time convicted felon, a clown who can’t open his mouth without lying, a con artist who stole money from veterans, someone who called those killed in action - Suckers and Losers, an adjudicated rapist, a thief, a traitor, a loser. I think that is why he hates LGBT people. We tell the truth. Truth and honor are concepts that he and his minions not only do not understand but are also concepts that they truly hate.
Our country will be forever damaged by those who flushed their honor down the toilet and voted for Trump. They knew who he was and what he would do. Even if justice is brought to Trump and all of his Republican enablers, including our own Congressman Baumgartner, the damage is done. There is little we can do to prove to other nations that we will not go off the rails again. With our breaking of trade agreements, our ignoring of our own laws and international laws, our stupid cruelty… How can we be trusted in anything now?
Trump is who he always showed us he was. But what of those who still support him? What happened to them? Why did they abandon their honor, their credibility, their humanity to join this shameful cult? Maybe now they realize how much they have irreparably hurt our nation and are in so deep that they think that is impossible to leave. But, they can leave.
To my Trump-supporting friends - If you continue down this road, embracing comfortable lies instead of accepting hard truths, it will kill you. You were raised the same as us - to value truth and honor. To keep ignoring the truth and suppressing your decency and humanity will be awful for you and the ones you love. One can look to the record of rampant substance abuse within the Trump Administration to see how people killed the pain of suppressing truth and their humanity.
We are going to have to figure out a way to welcome back the courageous few who have and will leave the pitiful Republican death cult, while it’s still possible. They will call it “woke” or “virtue signaling” as we offer a hand to them to rejoin a world of truth, decency and humanity. But we will do it because it is the honorable thing to do.
Thank you.
Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. And you can subscribe to it as a podcast. Thanks for listening! Maeve
This Tyrannosaurus Rex
Shits fetid hubris.
Max Q
Shining tuxedo
Dance in perpetuity
Beetle promenade
Laurel
An entire country
reduced to the level of
the lowest quartile
Bill
We are different
but put us all together
and we are stronger
Bill
Revenge is a dish
At the appropriate time
Best served with relish
Rikosan
Pulling weeds in Magh Meall
Doing my part for Gaia
Did one just pull back!?!
Maeve
Yesterday, I had a conversation with journalist and activist Pia Hallenberg. We talked about the current anti-democracy efforts of the Trump Administration and how decent, honest people can push back against those machinations. We also talked about how she became an ally for the LGBTQ community.
Her work has landed her a spot as this year’s Pride Parade’s ally grand marshal. Pia has also helped organize this Saturday's No-Kings/Stonewall Rally at the Lilac Bowl. On Saturday, the parade starts at noon and the rally is at 3 pm. Head out Saturday to Downtown Spokane and enjoy hanging out with thousands of kind and happy people. It will make you feel good!
Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. You can also subscribe to it as a podcast. Thanks for listening! Maeve
You can check out this episode at https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_250610_160000b.mp3
Also available as a podcast on the KYRS archive page.
Today on Out and About, I will be talking with Pia Hallenberg. Pia is the ally grand marshal for the Pride Parade on Saturday and she's one of the organizers of the stonewall/No-Kings rally which takes place in the Lilac Bowl starting at 3 pm on Saturday, as well. Pride is going to be amazing this year! Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. You can also subscribe to it as a podcast. Thanks for listening! Maeve
