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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 · 1d
Last night's calm before today's storm. #sunset #BlueskyMonday #photography
Orange and yellow Sun reflecting on calm ocean waters, with beach and storm clouds forming.
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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 3d
Fungi, lichen, and moss. #greenSat #Fall #nature #fungi #moss 🍄 #photography
Rocks with random moss, fungi, small sticks, small brown leaves.
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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 3d
Rain is coming Monday the same day I have a retaining wall being replaced.😃
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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 4d
I hope to be back there next summer. Heading to Utah in a couple of weeks.
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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 4d
Just another sunny day meandering through the woods. #scape #nature #Fall #solohiking #photography
Sandy trail through tall yellow grasses with pine trees in background.
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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 4d
Sitting on a lazy river just gazing at the mountains. #B&WFri #Scape #landscape #monochrome #photography #Yukon #hiking
Black and white photo of flat river with rocky shore and trees lined in back. Distant snow-capped mountain range in back. Cloudy skies.
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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 5d
Every Wednesday attorneys will answer phones to help youth and young adults obtain US state-specific info on vital docs. #youth #homeless #fostercare #justice
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National Network for Youth @nn4youth.bsky.social · 6d
📞 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 · 6d
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.
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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 5d
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 · 7d
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 · 8d
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 · 10d
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 · 12d
Flowers and bees for #YellowThu. #bloomscrolling #bees #flowers #photography
Yellow flowers with two bees.
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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 12d
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 · 12d
“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 · 16d
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 · 16d
Love it!
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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 16d
Frozen art from nature in Greenland…
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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · 20d
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 · 20d
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 · 21d
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 · 22d
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 · 22d
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 · 22d
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 · 23d
Nothing beats iconic Hope Valley in Fall.
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