For the folks in #OlyWA #OlympiaWA: Tonight #ImprovOly has an open rehearsal 6:30-8 at Wild Child. An open rehearsal is interactive if you want to try improv, or you can just come and laugh at other people trying improv with our troupe. https://www.improvoly.com/calendar #ImprovOly #LaughOutLoud #ImprovOlympia #Improv #Comedy #ImprovComedy #WhoseLine #OlympiaEvents

An excerpt from "Evidence" by Mary Oliver:

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in
singing, especially when singing is not necessarily
prescribed.

https://yearsrisingmaryoliver.blogspot.com/2011/02/evidence.html

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #MaryOliver #PoetryOfPresence

"In Broad Daylight" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2026/01/26/in-broad-daylight/.

Excerpt:

not to rid myself of rage
but to become a clearer channel
to meet the chest-scouring,
scab-clawing, cell-screaming,
throat-burning fury of rage

#TodaysPoem #PoemADay #poem #poems #poetry #RosemerryWahtolaTrommer #anger #rage #PoetryOfPresence

@floy More on that sweater project-- beautiful job on the FIT. I haven't knitted clothing for a long time-- have been making afghans, scarves, shawls, one-size things. I'm now adult enough to know it matters to check gauge before I start so maybe the jacket I'm going to make next will actually turn out.

@ascentale @bikenite Thanks for sharing my MLK question on #BikeNite! I'm not as active here as in the dead-to-me birdspace so I don't often jump on in real time. Glad to have bike community active here though.

#BikeTooter #BikeEverywhere #BicyclesChangeLives #cycling

WTS Puget Sound South Sound event Feb. 5: Transportation policy discussion in the state capital during the legislative session. What could be more timely?
Get your ticket before they're all gone. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wts-south-sound-transportation-policy-panel-discussion-networking-tickets-1980199312449?aff=oddtdtcreator
#WALeg #WATransport #transportation #WTS #WTSPugetSound

@cainmark I have this car, or close to it: 1998 Honda Odyssey. Still runs great. Does have electric window controls (bought a device that would let me break the window from the inside if I needed to). Lights and windshield wipers are controlled with knobs. CD player, no tape deck but I own no tapes. Actual physical key, no fob. It also has much better visibility for me to see people outside the vehicle than any newer model--great window clear space, small A pillar. #tl_automotive #cars

I wrote this back in 2020 https://bikestylelife.com/2020/01/20/street-of-dreams-can-we-live-the-martin-luther-king-jr-way/. If your town has a street named after Dr. King, how well does it reflect the values he stood for? If they don't have one and they're going to propose a renaming, which street would do the most to honor his spirit?

#MLK #ReclaimMLK #MLKDay #justice #SocialJustice #transportation #StreetNames #MartinLutherKingJr

You may need one or more of these poems today https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html.

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #activism #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #WordsMatter

“There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the other person, but because if you don’t speak, they have changed you.” --Mary Quinn, 2010

#FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #1stAmendment #activism #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #WordsMatter #MaryQuinn

My post for Winter Solstice, with links to poems and essays. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/12/winter-solstice-2025.html

We're always turning toward the light as long as we keep going.

#solstice #WinterSolstice #darkness #light #seasons #winter #poetry #poem #poems #PoemADay #TodaysPoem

@floy Beautiful knitting! Great sweater. Congrats on finishing. (The hardest part of every project for me is that last bit of blocking, sewing together....)

Helping Hands — by Exitenter in Florence, Italy

#StreetArt

Reading through posts I wrote for Winter Solstice the past few years with collections of poetry, readings, and other links.
2024: https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/12/winter-solstice-2024.html
2023: https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/12/winter-solstice-readings-and-more.html
2022: https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2022/12/winter-solstice-readings.html

#Solstice #WinterSolstice #poetry #poem #poems #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #winter #darkness #light

Thanks + Giving: A poetry collection I rounded up last year and some thoughts about Native American Heritage Day https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/11/thanks-giving.html. Hat tip to Rebecca Solnit for the fabulous graphic, which she posted on BlueSky last year.

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #Thanksgiving #Indigenous #nativeamericanHeritageMonth #gratitude #giving

I wrote this 3 years ago. Would love to write an update if you know of programs related to tribal people in the Americas and bicycling or walking. I've heard a couple of talks on great work being done for trails and safety in Pueblo of Jemez, NM. Tell me about others! https://bikestylelife.com/2022/11/27/we-are-still-here-indigenous-focused-bicycle-programs/
#NDN #Tribes #Indigenous #cycling #BikeTooter #BicyclesChangeLives #SafeRoutesNow #KidsDeserveIt #PedestrianDignity #RoadSafety #WhyWeRide #BikeLove #KidsBike

"That's not a big deal, how many people actually work on farms anyway?"

About 2 million! Just hired hands, not including people who live on & own family farms!

The US also has about 2 million waiters/waitresses and about 2 million truck drivers.

a generation of people enjoying the prosocial power of the internet before the age of slop: lets put all this cool stuff online for free! :)

emboldened capitalists in the 2010s-20s: wow look at all the stuff these suckers put online for free. I wonder what’s the worst possible thing we could do with it

@cainmark Thanks!
#WarmFeetAreHappyFeet #BikeTooter

I come back to this post every so often. We can't win with poetry alone, but without poetry what world are we hoping for? https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #PoetryOfPresence #PoetryOfPolitics #activism #AdvocacyMatters #advocacy