Together with Tx Month to month, Katy Vine’s ‘Shed and Found’ is currently available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast fits the top quality production of a full-length audio program.

Katy Vine’s ‘Lost and Present’ is a thoughtful and uplifting look into a refugee community in the heart of Texas at the same time when political sentiment encircling refugees and immigration turned increasingly harmful.

Texas is known nationwide for accepting a high ratio of refugees about Lost and Found admitted to the United States. Though most end up in Houston, small town of Amarillo has become a harbor for new immigrants looking to start anew. One crucial part of the essential Amarillo refugee community can be Evelyn Lyles, a female in her 60s who volunteers her period to help families assimilate and learn the means of their new homeland. Her help runs from assisting fresh family members using the myriad forms and paperwork needed of these; rallying community support to pay for steep medical expenses; or simply, providing as a friendly, generous neighbor.

‘Lost and Present’ is a snapshot seeing that life as a refugee, honing in in a few families, each with their personal struggles and hurdles, their own dreams and expectations for the future, and the normal thread of the helping hand in Evelyn.