Haiku Friday May 23, 2025
Women, young and old
Walkers, runners, and racers
All wearing big smiles
Bill
School’s out for summer.
What will all those idlers do
In Teenage Wasteland?
Max Q
Velvet guardians
Blue tongues hewn by secrets kept
Indigo silence
Laurel
As the wall brightens
Obscured images revealed
A type of timepiece
Rikosan
Hate and destruction
Starts inside and grows to kill
Look at his people
Maeve
Bill's photo:
Yesterday, I talked with the Executive Director of Spokane Pride - Matt Danielson. As usual, our conversation touched a lot of subjects - love, kindness, truth, honesty and activism - to name a few.
People like Matt are such a gift to Spokane and to our world - creative, loving and willing to roll up their sleeves to do the work. The Pride Festival (June 14th) epitomizes all those values and standards - a family-friendly "kindnessfest" that brings out the best in Spokane. With a best guess of 40,000 people in attendance, it is also a demonstration of what a wonderful community we have here.
One piece of news that I really loved is that one entity stepped up to fill the gap in funding caused by corporations bending to the will of our fascist government. Who was this organization? The Episcopal Diocese of Spokane!
It frustrates me that the media continually labels hate organizations, actually anti—Christ organizations as “Christian,” when their beliefs are demonstrably contrary to the teachings of Jesus. The Episcopal Diocese is the model of a true Christian Church, in my opinion.
If you missed the show, you can check it out at:
https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_250520_160000b.mp3
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 on the KYRS website. Thanks for listening! Maeve
Today, I will be talking with my buddy who also happens to be the Executive Director of Spokane Pride - Matt Danielson. The Pride Festival is coming up fast - June 14th. It probably is an understatement to say that the political landscape has changed somewhat since last year.
The Pride Festival in Spokane is always a demonstration of kindness and love.There are tens of thousands who show up. I would guess that the LGBT folks are outnumbered ten to one by their non-LGBTQ friends, family members and people in the community who are just decent human beings. They are there to have a good time, show their support and exercise their human decency.
Of course, these values are under attack by the current national administration and the MAGA cultists who are unable or unwilling to escape the death cult. Gospel values, humanitarian values, moral values and good-old-fashioned decency and patriotism are derided as "woke" by these pathetic folks. If you walk the walk as a decent human being, your efforts are derided as "virtue signaling" by these unfortunate, frightened Trump cultists.
If you have never been to the Pride festival, take a listen today and hear more about what goes on. For those who have been, tune in to hear what's in store 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. Show notes and playlist at https://kyrs.org/show/out-and-about/ . As always, you can find the latest episodes there or stream them as a podcast. Thanks for listening these last four years! Maeve
Great fun at Brush on the Bluff yesterday. I will keep working on this painting over the next few days. Here's what I have so far... If you are interested in bidding on it, here's the link. It's going to get cooler and cooler! Thanks! Maeve
Heat-blasted roses,
Tender petals seared and crisp:
Summer’s comin’ in.
Max Q
As the next new state
Canada would be blue as
California
Bill
Elvis’s last words
“Just takin care of business“
Yelled from the toilet
Rikosan
The decay has life
More of it than the killers
Pity their failure
Maeve
Stop by and see me tomorrow, May 17. I’m number 38. Sarah will be hanging out for a while too. Brush on the Bluff is a blast - cool art, great food and lots of activities.
An elderly accident-prone "Bernard" and a young person (and erstwhile urchin) "Billy" "accidentally called-in" to ask questions about the event and to add an element of drama, danger and excitement to this rollicking 55 minutes. All in all, I would say the show was madcap, yet endearing.
Brush on the Bluff is this Saturday at Polly Judd Park (hang a right off of High Drive and keep driving straight until you can't) and the surrounding bluff trails from 9 until 4.
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 listen to this show at https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_250513_160000b.mp3.Thanks for supporting your Spokane community radio station! Maeve
We are back from a trip to Chicago, just in time for today's show!
I will be talking with Ava Barany who is one of the dynamic duo known as the Botanical Alchemists. We're going to be talking about Brush on the Bluff, an event that the Botanical Alchemists organize every year. This is an outdoor art show where the artists are working on their pieces which will be auctioned off. You can talk to them while they work. Plus there are a lot of other fun events too, and great food. The auction proceeds are split between the artists and Friends of the Bluff.
I am really happy to be participating in this event again. Arrived home late last night, so fingers crossed that nothing weird happens during today's broadcast. I am beat!
Brush on the Bluff is this Saturday at Polly Judd Park and the surrounding bluff trails from 9 until 4.
Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Show notes and playlist at https://kyrs.org/show/out-and-about/ Thanks for listening! Maeve
As always, I have such a great time hanging out with Dahveed Bullis.
His take on theater, Spokane, and the arts in general, is something I really enjoy. The transformational nature of live theater is palpable, especially today. The current ugly destruction of our nation is on everyone's mind, and it is easy to feel powerless. If you want to fight this destruction, embrace creation. Dahveed is going to bring some beautiful theatrical creation - live, human, face-to-face truth - to Spokane, in his new role as national-award-winning Stage Left Theater's Artistic Director.
If you missed the conversation you can check it out here: https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_250506_160000b.mp3
On today's Out and About, I'll be talking with Dahveed Bullis. Dahveed is the new artistic director for Stage Left Theater. He's also the first African-American artistic director of Stage Left. I am really excited to hear about Dahveed’s vision for the theater. I hope you are too! If you’ve never heard Dahveed before, you are in for a treat. His talent and skillset is amazing and he is just a darn lovely human being.
Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Show notes and playlist at https://kyrs.org/show/out-and-about/ Thanks for listening! Maeve
Haiku Friday May 2, 2025
“Watershed moment:
“Anger, grief, and disbelief.”
Vancouver, B.C.
Max Q
They’re finally here!
The first maggots of the year:
Warm weather coming.
Max Q
Electricity
It is taken for granted
Until it's not there
Bill
Woman weepily
Helping another weepy
Help you helping me
Laurel
Liquor of lilacs
Spring yawns her fragrant welcome
And begins anew
Laurel
He was a hobo
With plastic bags on his feet
On the frozen path
Rikosan
Noises in my head
distractingly pleasant din
New kind of hearing
Maeve
