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Sparky Harlan (she/her)

@sparkyharlan.bsky.social

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Worked 40 years as CEO of nonprofit housing 1000 homeless youth and families a night in Silicon Valley. #justice #LGBTQ #housing #homelessness. Live in Santa Cruz Mountains in CA. Grew up near Yosemite. #hiking #gardening #photography #fungi 🍄

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · Jul 28

A bit of blue sky appears as storm clouds loom over the dawn skies. #BlueSkyMonday #sunrise #landscape #landscapephotography #photography

Storm clouds of dark gray with streaks and spots of orange. Some light blue sky between dark clouds and mountains in shadow.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 19h

Every Wednesday attorneys will answer phones to help youth and young adults obtain US state-specific info on vital docs. #youth #homeless #fostercare #justice

National Network for Youth @nn4youth.bsky.social · 1d

📞 The Vital Document Legal Hotline for Youth is OPEN NOW!
Need an ID, birth certificate, or other documents, but don’t know where to start? Call or text 1-888-870-DOCS (1-888-870-3627).

Real lawyers. Real help.
#VitalDocsHotline #endyouthhomelessness

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National Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social · 1d

NEW REPORT: The Criminalization of Homelessness & Mental Health Conditions in the US, published in collaboration with the UMiami Law Human Rights Clinic, examines how forced institutionalization is increasingly used to criminalize unhoused individuals with mental health conditions.

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Report: Criminalization of Homelessness and Mental Health in the US

This report examines the current policies which enable the criminalization of homelessness and mental health, violations of international human rights standards, and potential evidence-based alternatives to provide mental health support to unhoused individuals.

homelesslaw.org

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 1d

October rains and the fall fungi cycle begins. (Marasmiellus candidus). 🍄 #fungi #whiteWed #bloomscrolling #mushrooms #photography

Marasmiellus candidus fairy mushrooms on mossy log.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 2d

Solo hiking down to the Rio Grande from a White Rock Parajito Plateau trail. Sometimes the unexpected trails are the best. #rivers #canyons #NewMexico #landscape #photography #hiking

Blue dot-Red dot trails from White Rock, NM. Starts from the top of a mesa and looks down to Rio Grande snaking through valley and mountains. Trail drops down to river and goes along it.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 3d

Stormy fall day hiking Utah’s red country. #BlueskyMonday #Utah #landscape #landscapephotography #photography #hiking

Storm clouds with rays of sun above red flat top mountains with gold trees and town below. Trail traverses hilltop of red desert.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 5d

Rocks on the New Mexico skyline. #Scape #desert #landscape #photography #hiking

Two pillar rocks with brown layered on top of orange. Desert of reds, yellow. Blue sky in background.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 7d

Flowers and bees for #YellowThu. #bloomscrolling #bees #flowers #photography

Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 7d

Stormy day on the creek. #landscape #photograhy

Wide shallow creek flowing through conifers. Sun peaking through clouds.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 8d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 11d

Fall is in the air. Hiking solo in Mokelumne Wilderness on a sunny #Stunday. #hiking #mountains #wilderness #California #landscape #photography #moss #lichen

Above Carson Pass the lake is surrounded by gold colored willow and low ground cover stump in foreground is covered in light green moss and
lichen.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 11d

Love it!

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 11d

Frozen art from nature in Greenland…

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 15d

Rainy day in the mountains. #WindowsonWednesday #windows #photography

Looking out wood framed window to rock and wood building some small town on the TMB.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 15d

Waiting for the right light on the Clementine Lake Dam waterfall. #waterfallWednesday #hiking #photography #waterfalls

Waterfall coming over the Lake Clementine dam in Auburn Recreation Area CA. Sunlight on waterfall.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 16d

Fungi on tree. #fungi #mushroom 🍄 #photography

Two small and one tiny orange mushrooms growing out of hole in smooth tree trunk.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 17d

I love the center of this rose. #roses #pinkMon #flowers #bloomscrolling

One pink rosebud and pink rose blossom with tight petals in circle in middle.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 17d

Fungi on Eucalyptus tree. #MushroomMonday #Fungifriends #fungi #photography

Looking up the side of tree with gilled fungi.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 18d

Gosh, it has been years since I have been back there. Used to stay at Sorenson's and hike around Grover Hot Springs. Was more chill than Tahoe area.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 18d

Nothing beats iconic Hope Valley in Fall.

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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 18d

Yes, sheep in the house could be a problem!

Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 18d

That moment before you hit the glass surface of the lake just because you can. Kinney Lake, BC. #hiking #mountains #Canada #landscape #landscapephotography #reflections #Stunday