following threads | David Hasbury

Oct 28, 20234 min read

100 Year Work

In 2020 as the pandemic hit, and being at home, working and relating from a distance through the internet, became the norm, I created...

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Jun 1, 20237 min read

Creatively Responding to the World

I named this blog, "Following Threads". It began as as a vehicle to follow threads of thought and practice I come across that I sense are...

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Apr 27, 20233 min read

Probing 'uncertainties that matter'

This week a group of friends and collaborators were talking about continuing to co-create a learning space and experience for people who...

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Jan 30, 20235 min read

Everyone Is A Creator...A Journey

For a good chunk of last year, depression visited me. Depression in my life is the flood of heavy dark voices in my head that isolate...

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The courage of stepping into 'I don't know'

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Dec 15, 20224 min read

The courage of stepping into 'I don't know'

A couple of weeks ago I was in Spain where I met new friends, some who are wonderful artists, poets, visual artists, and performance...

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May 3, 20224 min read

no intimacy no empathy

I must admit, despair is never far away. Divisions are present everywhere and they are so stark. When we feel disconnected, we are at...

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Apr 29, 20224 min read

The profound naïveté of “just us”

Patti and I planned to travel up to Vermont on Feb. 25, for a winter change of scenery at the end of the second year of the pandemic. The...

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Mar 3, 20223 min read

Stillness in the face of stupid

Last week, I went to bed on Wednesday with awareness that a massive war was being unleashed on Ukraine, by an egotistical, angry, little...

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Feb 24, 20222 min read

A bias for beauty

This morning I woke up earlier than usual by mistake (I thought my watch said 5:00, but it was before 4:00). Early wake up just increased...

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Feb 22, 20222 min read

Lingering in liminal space

We are going into our 3rd year in the land of somewhere between what once was, and what will become. Daily life interactions have been...

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Feb 21, 20226 min read

Life lessons from the band

I continue reading Arthur Brooks' book "From Strength to Strength - Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of...

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In search of cross generational relationship

David Hasbury

Feb 17, 20223 min read

In search of cross generational relationship

I started reading Arthur Brooks' book, "From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of...

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Feb 11, 20224 min read

Following questions

Today I started reading "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon. It is a book about making your creative process visible, and public, while you...

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Feb 9, 20225 min read

habitually creating

I write to understand...and make sense. I am old enough to look back at my life and see a laundry list of things that I do, or don't do,...

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Feb 3, 20223 min read

Why look to artists for social change?

Social change I spend a lot of my time observing the state of the world --division, conflict, violence, domination-- and waffling between...

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Jan 30, 20224 min read

Fight, flight, freeze...create

I am a seer Some people are doers; adventurers, makers, creators. Some people are students; thirsting for knowledge, wanting to...

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Jan 27, 20223 min read

Something worth knowing about

In December 1997, I traveled to a TASH conference in Boston. A group of friends and colleagues visited Herb Lovett, psychologist, author,...

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Jan 25, 20222 min read

Shapes of things to come

In pursuing a vision, I am open to how the shape of it changes as people engage with it. The justus cafe Advisors gathered for the first...

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Jan 19, 20227 min read

Following threads

I am interested in the role that time passing plays in the process of creativity, and in particular the time to take an internal vision,...

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Jan 17, 20224 min read

Threads of a vision

Over the years, John O’Brien, a friend and teacher of mine for almost 40 years, has introduced me (and so many other friends and...

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