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🎲 Want more magic in your life? 📅 Schedule

🎲 Want more magic in your life?

📅 Schedule it. Seriously.

@VibrantBadass shares how she balances fun + planning with what she calls “structured unstructure.”

It’s not about winging it or losing control. It’s about carving out time to ask:

💬 “What do I feel like doing right now?”
🧠 This simple practice can shift your whole relationship to joy.
🎧 Listen to the full conversation on the Merriment Making Podcast

📍Or find it inside Positive Pulse with exclusive extras:

🌀 Affirmations to validate your weird joy
📓 Journal prompts to unmask invisible rules
⚡️ Mini challenges to stretch your comfort zone

Interested? Drop a balloon 🎈 for the info!

#SpontaneityTools #MentalHealthTips #JoyPractice #SelfCareRituals #PositivePulse #SelfKindness #UncustomaryPodcast #AltJoy #PersonalGrowthJourney #InnerChildHealing #SlowLivingMagic #TimeBlockingForJoy #NeurodivergentSupport #WeirdJoyWins #GentleProductivity #PermissionToRest

⚡ Let’s do a JOY SPEED ROUND! ⚡ Tell me one

⚡ Let’s do a JOY SPEED ROUND! ⚡
Tell me one tiny thing that made you smile today — we’ll go first:

🐕 Yellow dogs in outfits
🪄 Pixie sticks
📚 Audiobooks
🎨 Street art
🎻 Electric violin sounds
🌈 Rainbows
🍋 Lemonade
🎭 Costumes
🦆 Ducks

This clip is from our first-ever Positive Pulse Party — and since then, this community has DOUBLED in size. 💛

If you’re new here… welcome!
We do things differently — weird, warm, wonderful.

💬 Drop your joy in the comments ⬇
🔗 [uncustomary.org/positive-pulse](https://f.mtr.cool/llgfxijsdh)

#JoyIsContagious #JoySpeedRound #PositivePulse #MerrimentMaking #PlayfulHealing #SmallJoysMatter #MicroJoyChallenge #AltJoy #CommunityOfJoy #JoyScrollStopper #NervousSystemSupport #YouBelongHere #ColorfulCare #RadicalWhimsy

🌈 What is Merriment Art? I believe joy is a fo

🌈 What is Merriment Art?

I believe joy is a form of rebellion—and interactive art helps people break out of autopilot.
Last year, I became the Merriment + Art Director for Hampden Highlights and created:

🍭 80 giant popsicle sculptures
💌 A love letter swap inside a giant tinsel mailbox
🌈 A rainbow wishing pole
🧵 A fabric garland strung across fire escapes
🎨 Sidewalk surprises that made people stop and smile

It was pure magic.
This year, we’re going even bigger—with new installations, rainbow rituals, and secret surprises.
✨ Let’s make Baltimore brighter—together.

📅 June 7 | Hampden Highlights Festival
📍 Hampden, Baltimore
🎨 HampdenHighlightsFest.com for details

#HampdenHighlights #MerrimentArt #InteractiveArt #AltJoy #PublicArtMatters #JoyIsRebellion #BaltimoreEvents #FestivalSeason #WhimsicalWorlds #CommunityArt #Uncustomary #StreetArtMagic #PlayfulInstallations

Don’t you dare. Don’t you dare forget the lov

Don’t you dare.

Don’t you dare forget the love that exists. 🩷 The sweetness you can taste. 🍯 The potential we have ALREADY DEMONSTRATED as humans. 🌎

Love yourself. 💖 Love others. 🤝 Love the world. 🌍

The more you find love in yourself the more you’ll love the rest. The more love will COME back to you. 🔄💗

The more you judge and look for the bad, the more you’ll find it. 👀⚠️

What you give out you get back — so LOOK FOR THE GOOD. 🔍 Be grateful for the good. 🙏💛 And very importantly — BE the good. 🌈

#memes #positivity #positivitymindset #positivevibes #behappy #kindnessmemes #happymemes #wholesomememes #merrimentmemes #positivememes #goodnews #absurdity #absurdmemes #bemorekind #joyscrolling #feelgoodfeed #dopaminesnacks

💬 “Why not you?” 💎 You are not the exce

💬 “Why not you?”

💎 You are not the exception to joy.
💎 You are not too complicated, too broken, too late, too anything to experience magic.
💎 You are important enough to feel good.

You deserve delight. You deserve wonder. You’re allowed to be happy just because.

📺 Catch the full Merriment Mondays Live replay inside Positive Pulse and get BONUSES 🎁

🔗 Watch: uncustomary.org/positive-pulse

#JoyIsEssential #SoftRebellion #YouDeserveJoy #YouAreNotTheException #EmotionalPermissionSlip #ReclaimJoy #RadicalSelfWorth #YouBelongToDelight

Life lately: 🩷 Lunch with April at Arcola @los

Life lately:

🩷 Lunch with April at Arcola @lostwithbob @cafearcola
🧡 Dropping off collaboration supplies at MAKE studio @makestudiobmore
💛Driving around listening to DMX and looking at azalea bushes
💚 Being chronically 10 minutes later than expected because of Magpie Time — like needing to turn around to get a picture of this incredible Snoopy mailbox
💙 Writing kind words on coffee sleeves with Jess at Have A Nice Day @haveaniceday2015
💜 Visiting the Oregon Ridge Nature Center @oregonridgenaturecenter
🩷 Making googly eye art at the most recent Operation Merriment
🧡 Picking up soil and seeds at the local Ace Hardware for the most recent Mixer @acehardware
💛 Seeing Some Like It Hot at the Hippodrome with Alicia @hippodromebway
💚 Yard Sale-ing with Alicia in Abell and Hampden
💙 Eating arugula salads every day for lunch
💜 Putting out novelty toilet paper
🩷 Walking through the Waverly Farmer’s Market and seeing some of the most beautiful vegetables @waverlyiafarmersmarket
🧡 Seeing my odometer turn to 111,111
💛 Stopping on the side of the road to explore a nursery
💚 Checking out a local Asian Market and finding Jumbo Carrots
💙 Writing and sending congratulations, get well, birthday, and just because cards
💜 Writing a love note to Matt every week
🩷 Picking out 90’s themed outfits for photoshoots
🧡 Visiting Daisy the dog, who is always ready for her close up @mapetiteshoe

#simplepleasures #enjoylife #enjoying #enjoyinglife #petitejoys #enjoythelittlethings #sayyes #gratitude #thebaltimorecreative #littlepleasures #dmvartists #baltimoreartists #findjoyeveryday #kindness #celebratelife #findyourfun #gratitudelist

Let’s talk about the Reluctant Joy Seeker.

You’re not into woo-woo self-help. You don’t want to dance in a field or pretend everything’s fine. You’ve got stuff to do, and you like it real, not fluffy.

But lately… something feels off. You’re exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t fix. Life feels flat, and you’re wondering if this is just how it’s going to be.

What if it didn’t have to be like that?

Inside Positive Pulse, you’ll find practical, no-BS joy tools made for skeptics. Breathwork that doesn’t require a yoga mat. Reflection that doesn’t make you cringe. Self-care that actually makes sense.

Because joy doesn’t have to be loud to be life-changing.

🎒 If this sounds like you, take the Joy Archetypes quiz and see what else is waiting for you. [Link in bio]

💬 Tag a friend who’s been “too practical” for joy — until now.

#AltJoy #NoFluffJustJoy #MerrimentMaking #JoyForRealists #EmotionalBurnoutHelp #SelfCareThatWorks #NotWooJustWellness #UncustomaryTools #JoyArchetypes #SkepticsWelcome #ModernMentalHealth #PositivePulse

🚨 TOMORROW! We’re taking over Patterson Park

🚨 TOMORROW!

We’re taking over Patterson Park with chalk, color, and joy ✨

🖍️ Join Operation Merriment for a playful Sunday mission full of art, laughter, and sidewalk surprises.

🎨 We’ll have:

✔️ Chalk paint, stencils, and prompt cards
✔️ Silly murals, interactive games, color zones
✔️ Prizes for the most creative creations
✔️ Optional dress-up props + fairy wings 🧚

💵 $8 covers all supplies — just show up and make the city smile.
📍 Patterson Park (E Baltimore St & Lakewood Ave)
🕰️ Sunday, May 18 | 12–3 PM

🔗 RSVP: uncustomary.org/OPM

#OperationMerriment #SidewalkChalkArt #JoyInPublic #GuerrillaJoy #PlayfulRebellion #BaltimoreEvents #AltJoy #ChalkTheStreets #ColorTheCity #CommunityArt #KindnessInAction #SoftDisruption #DMVEvents

At our first Operation Merriment event, 💌 we we

At our first Operation Merriment event, 💌 we were checking how many compliments we had left to hand out.

And then one compliment that had escaped us — reappeared! It had tire tracks on it, but it returned to us.

💖 Chaz taped it up. Full circle love.

Come to the next OPM — sidewalk chalk edition! 📅 May 18th!

🔗 RSVP: Uncustomary.org/OPM

#DMVEvents #RAOK #kindness #kindnessmatters #raok #raoks #randomactsofkindness #actsofkindness #spreadlove #bekindtooneanother #loveothers #kindpeople #bekind #treatpeoplewithkindness #spreadkindness #killemwithkindness

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