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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Jun 25

Resurfacing amid big life swirls. How's the #creative journey?

I'm relocating to the #UpperValley of #WesternMass! Landing me in #Greenfield / #TurnerFalls.

Here's to #LivingAdventurously and to keeping an #OpenHeart in #TurbulentTimes. Plus sweet sojourns to the #art haven of #MASSMoCA!

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Jun 25

#Creativity is a choice! Keep on, fellow #creatives -- #artists, #poets, #performers 💜.

www.npr.org/2025/05/06/1...

How to be more creative — using science : Short Wave

Do you consider yourself a creative person? If not, you may be holding yourself back. Psychologist Zorana Ivcevic Pringle says creativity isn't a trait. Creativity is a choice. After studying creativi...

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George Wachsmuth @georgewachsmuth.bsky.social · May 5

Amidst all the ugliness & hate & horror….there are people in this world that help all they encounter to realize there is good in the world, they show that people can be much much more….& they inspire us to try to become the better version of ourselves. Open your heart & eyes, they are all around us.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · May 6

Fyi @reginaholliday.bsky.social

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · May 6

🚨ATTENTION CDC AND ALLIES!🚨

We have power together. To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health.

Please spread the word!

#courageiscontagious #wearthecolor #spreadthecolor

a green sesame street character is surrounded by green flames .

Alt: A green elmo looking up towards the sky with both arms raised as green flames rise up in the background.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · May 6

Being #creative is a choice.

Yep.

#CreateOn.

www.npr.org/2025/05/06/1...

How to be more creative — using science : Short Wave

Do you consider yourself a creative person? If not, you may be holding yourself back. Psychologist Zorana Ivcevic Pringle says creativity isn't a trait. Creativity is a choice. After studying creativi...

www.npr.org

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · May 5

Small #strides in #creative life, apace with full-time #caregiving. Current #whimsy piece: graphite (drawing), watercolor pencils (mostly used), & gouache (least used). Steps detailed in ALT text.

#BskyArt. #MixedMedia on #Paper.

Expanded silver gouache from lower background to all the background.

Also drew a large owl in the left upper segment.

Donuts along bottom portion. Owlets sitting along a branch in the middle and at the edge of a tree hole.

This stage shows the painted frame: a thorny vine (brown), sparsely leafed (green).

This is a 3rd piece in a whimsy series featuring owls, donuts, & trees.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · May 4

#Art for everyone 💯❤️

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · May 3

This is Mister Winston. He has a very impressive gallery wall above his food bowl to enjoy while he eats. Really thinks art makes a house a home. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

a brown chihuahua with a white snout sits on a blue tasseled rug and looks directly at the camera. he’s in front of his gallery, which includes 15 tiny framed pieces of art mounted on the wall above his two blue ceramic bowls – some florals, some bones, and at least one minuscule portrait.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · May 3

#SoberSky.

Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · May 3

Last week's travel for my #LiveIn parent fared well. Only select moments felt #MidwestGothic, as certain family maintains certain cycles.

#Grateful for #recovery "away" from #trauma reactions, & for #sobriety with mindful responses to difficult dynamics.

Here's to #living & #overcoming. ✨

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · May 3

Last week's travel for my #LiveIn parent fared well. Only select moments felt #MidwestGothic, as certain family maintains certain cycles.

#Grateful for #recovery "away" from #trauma reactions, & for #sobriety with mindful responses to difficult dynamics.

Here's to #living & #overcoming. ✨

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yvesbroeckx.bsky.social @yvesbroeckx.bsky.social · May 3

I N O I S A C O M P L E T E
S E N T E N C E I

You don't have to explain yourself or say you're sorry that you can't do something. You can simply say “no.”

- The Asylum Art -

Art and Words by Yves

#art #artist #paint #painting #blueskyart #red #no #noisacompletesentence #complexptsd

The word NO SCRATCHED ACROS A BLACK BLACKGROUD WITH RED SCRATCHES EVOLING RAGE

Art copyright ©Yves Broeckx

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Apr 26

Contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline if you are experiencing mental health-related distress or are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support:
- Call/text 988
- Chat/visit: 988lifeline.org

Connect with a trained crisis counselor. 988 is confidential, free, and available 24/7/365.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 27

Reminds me of #resilience.

#BskyArt.

#SoberSky.

yvesbroeckx.bsky.social @yvesbroeckx.bsky.social · Apr 26

I S T A Y I N T H E L I G H T I
… even if the dark closes in on you, stay in the light…

- The Asylum Art -

Art and Words by Yves

#photo #photography #fineartphotography #artphotography #blueskyart #art #artist #artagainstanxiety #artagainstcomplexptsd #artagainstptsd #artagainstcptsd

A lonely man standing in the beam of a street light in an otherwise dark park

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 27

Resilient.

Thank you for using AlT text.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 26

Mid-April vista feom #LewistonMaine. #LoveLewiston! Upward slope of the #MtDavid #trailhead.

Upward vista on a sloping hill. White pines in the top section. The ground is blanketed with last season's leaves & pine needles. Shadows overlap the ground.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 26

#Sky #Beauty& #Water wonder on #EarthDay, 23 April 2025 at #LunaPier (Southeast #Michigan) on #LakeErie.

#Art is life.

A sky with shapely cloud forms, backlit by sun, blue sky as background, floating above a still surface of lake water.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 26

Traveling in the #Midwest (#Ohio) of #USA. My mom turns 76 tomorrow, & exceptionally will spend it with her grandkids. She's rocking her #walker & faring well despite late-day challenges. Everyday victories for #PLWD / #PeopleLivingWithDementia & #caregivers = humans #BeingHumans.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 26

I like your stuff.

And I encourage the use ALT text for images. This is for accessibility. You can toggle ALT text when posting images. ✌🏽

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · Apr 18

I'm thinking about how tonight was probably the first time Kilmar Abrego Garcia learned that millions of people care about him - the first time he learned that the United States Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring him home. I'm thinking what it must mean for him to know, right now, that he isn't alone.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 19

Success & safety to joiners for #April19, continuation of #HandsOff!! 🙌🏽🤞🏽🙏🏽🌟

My way, it's a weekend of #ElderCare with travel. Time for an MRI "round two" with ongoing #assessment. Seemingly, pin the tail & spin the #dementia wheel.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Apr 17

You know the *only* reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure.

Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.

Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social · Apr 17

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 17

A 3rd piece in-progress from a new series of #whimsy featuring #Owls, #donuts, & #trees.

#MixedMedia. So far #WatercolorPencil, #gouache, & #graphite.

On sourced #BananaTree paper by women artisans of #Peru.

#BskyArt.

Earliest stage with graphite drawing & some watercolor pencil.

Step 2 photo: with wetted watercolor pencil over graphite drawing, & some gouache (lower section, select donuts).

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 17

#Gratitude. #Joy. Inner #Beauty.

Goal is 50 quips, in this my year of #Age50. We've got a starter so far.

Some inspiration for celebration:

#recovery, #sobriety,

#art for living,

#faith #community,

#nature & the #cosmos.

Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 16

I still am grateful, as of February I made it to #Age50 / #The50.

And I'd love for 50 #gratitudes , #joys, & "quips" of #InnerBeauty be shared/ generated here.

Fyi #SoberSky, #BskyArt, & #Quaker peeps.

🙌🏽🕯️🌅🌟

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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · Apr 16

Thank you Senator Van Hollen

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · Apr 14

Churches Together in England have written to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley calling for a meeting to discuss the police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House on 27 March. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Churches Together in England stand with Quakers

Churches Together in England have written to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley calling for a meeting to discuss the police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House on 27 March.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Mey Hasbrook @junbalm.bsky.social · Apr 16

I still am grateful, as of February I made it to #Age50 / #The50.

And I'd love for 50 #gratitudes , #joys, & "quips" of #InnerBeauty be shared/ generated here.

Fyi #SoberSky, #BskyArt, & #Quaker peeps.

🙌🏽🕯️🌅🌟

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