iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kathy treated me to a succulent arranging class. Three months later they’re still thriving! 🙌🫶✌️

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A quiet moment with Ani and Quinby

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An old wall mural designed to brighten my Florida room.

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Playing with with mixed paint mediums

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Playing with the engraving pen and some old scraps of barnwood. The second piece made a perfect air plant “vase.”

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Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

A few more small primitive plates and pendants from some pre holiday playtime in our local studio.

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These two sg pieces were another experiment with the engraving pen, inspired by lines of poetry written by Deborah Miranda, in her collection The Alter for Broken Things.

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Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

This piece was designed by an old friend who passed away. I finished it for his parter of many decades in the weeks following his death.

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Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

One of six plates made at the local pottery studio. I felt rushed through the design phase of this class, but I look forward to making more

Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Seriously, the wildlife is just a little too comfortable over here! 🥰

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Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This is my third piece, and I’m still learning. My original design had 3 hinge lines and had to be adjusted. I definitely will plan better if I make this design again.

Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It’s true, I come here for the news that runs through my feed, but I also need a moment between horrifying headlines, so here are Ani and Quinby while I coffee and scroll. 🥰

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Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Once asked if “when I hang out with my [anti-fascist] friends, we just sit around being angry and sad,” I couldn’t explain it well, but there is such joy in being surrounded by people who care enough about others to be angry right now. It keeps me from drowning in disappointment about the rest.

Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I still haven’t figured out how to share anything of length here, but if you’re looking for inspiration this morning… #ki #kin #purposefullife

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/03/2025

"Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service. This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."

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Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Sometimes, when the world rushes and clamors too much, it is my camera that grounds me. I know I should pay attention, but I also need to quiet the noise. Please share one of your quiet moments in the comments ♥️

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Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

My brother actually made me take one those tests one time…predictably I ended up on the axis graph somewhere south and left of Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, but I think the orcas get me… 🤔 🤷‍♀️

pamlhouston.bsky.social @pamlhouston.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

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Wrote a thing on Substack open.substack.com/pub/pamhoust...

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Paolo Cozzi @paolocozzi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

DOGE, the cuts, the tax cuts all rely on the perception that the US government apparatus is just dead weight getting in the way of business and people's lives. The US needs a movement to reassert the idea that public service is a noble calling.

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Kelly Joslyn @kellyjos.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I wanted to use this space to mostly share the art and new skills I am learning in retirement (these may by necessity start to include survival strategies, but isn’t that what art essentially is?) Anyways, I took some paintings out on the sidewalk to dry in deeply cold temps yesterday.

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I thought I’d write a bit more in retirement than I have, and I enjoyed the publishing process more than I thought I would. These are a few of the poems I worked through until they felt “finished.” I hope to take a few others to that point this year.

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I enjoyed this simple pottery class and would love to go back for another.

Playing with water colors - I painted various papers and put together these quick collages as gifts for a small gathering of friends on Festivus.

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In 2024, I started a stained glass class that I enjoy immensely. It has also influenced some of the painting I’ve dabbled in this winter.

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