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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David Hasbury
- Jun 1, 2023
- 7 min
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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David Hasbury
- Apr 27, 2023
- 3 min
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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David Hasbury
- Jan 30, 2023
- 5 min
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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David Hasbury
- Dec 15, 2022
- 4 min
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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David Hasbury
- May 3, 2022
- 4 min
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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David Hasbury
- Apr 29, 2022
- 4 min
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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David Hasbury
- Mar 3, 2022
- 3 min
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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David Hasbury
- Feb 24, 2022
- 2 min
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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David Hasbury
- Feb 22, 2022
- 2 min
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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David Hasbury
- Feb 21, 2022
- 6 min
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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David Hasbury
- Feb 17, 2022
- 3 min
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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David Hasbury
- Feb 11, 2022
- 4 min
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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David Hasbury
- Feb 9, 2022
- 5 min
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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David Hasbury
- Feb 3, 2022
- 3 min
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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David Hasbury
- Jan 30, 2022
- 4 min
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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David Hasbury
- Jan 27, 2022
- 3 min
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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David Hasbury
- Jan 25, 2022
- 2 min
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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David Hasbury
- Jan 19, 2022
- 7 min
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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David Hasbury
- Jan 17, 2022
- 4 min
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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