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Anna Elisabeth Howard

@aehowardwrites.bsky.social
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“Quills” ✍🏼🥾🏳️‍🌈 she/her Highly caffeinated takes on mutual thriving, reclaiming ourselves as nature, & experiencing the grace of the wilderness aehowardwrites.substack.com hype.co/@aehowardwrites

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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
What if What if the world is dying? Do we leave that which we love? What if democracy is failing? Do we abandon hope? Everything and everyone we love Has always been dying The flip side of loving That which is mortal That which is finite Everything we love has limits Our love does not
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Yaaaaassssss!!!!
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Dandelion My root is long Far longer than what you see I am strong Cut me and I’ll grow back Scatter me And I will multiply Can’t you see? I am the resistance You’ll never be rid of me —Anna Elisabeth Howard
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Stayed up way too late last night but, worth it! Taken through our telescope with my phone. Handheld bc the little contraption that’s supposed to hold the phone to do this, wasn’t lining the correct lens up and nothing I did seemed to fix it.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
aehowardwrites.substack.com/p/the-becoming
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Community fights fascism. Joy fights fascism. Fun fights fascism.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Lovely morning hike ❤️
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The news is bad Like always Greedy corporations cashing in On our despair I go to the woods Take my soul for a walk Air it out Breathe out the despair The trees take in Turn it back into oxygen Unseen birds chirp lullabies Each note Gives me back myself
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
While I’ve gratefully watched Bishop Budde's act of bravery remind us of the power of a single voice, my greatest fear is that she will be the only one of her kind; that in a few days she will prove to be an outlier, just a beautiful aberration. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-let-b...
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Don't Let Bishop Budde Stand Alone: A Challenge to Every Minister in America.
To the Ministers in America,
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
So we’ve got to do whatever we need to do to not be exhausted and discouraged. It’s clearly not okay. But refusing to engage with all the crazy-making and staying hyper-local with our focus is, I think, the only way through. Just think of how much we’ll accomplish if enough of us take this to heart.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The point of what they’re doing is to spin ppl out all the time til we’re too exhausted to do anything. Like Dr. Dillamond said in wicked, you can keep anyone silent if you make it discouraging enough.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
So we’ve got to do whatever we need to do to not be exhausted and discouraged. It’s clearly not okay. But refusing to engage with all the crazy-making and staying hyper-local with our focus is, I think, the only way through. Just think of how much we’ll accomplish if enough of us take this to heart.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Over five miles on the White House greenway yesterday. Trying to get better at posting over here.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
👋🏻
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
That post workout, I did more with my triceps and now it hurts to get dressed feeling…
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Having a buddy for those six miles walks makes them go faster!
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Ten miles at long hunter today, and more frost flowers! No, I’m not tired of them yet. Yes, I did resist taking pictures of every single one, partly bc there were so many I’d have gotten no hiking in 🤣
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just realized blue sky doesn’t like my shortened url. Here’s the full one: secure2.wish.org/site/TR;jses...
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- Anna Howard - Make-A-Wish Foundation
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I’m trapped
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Cold and frosty 5.5 ish miles on the greenway this morning, and I found dozens of frost flowers! And even found a few in my own yard too! Fixed myself a proper hot breakfast at 11 am when I got back to warm up.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Each year for the past 3 years, our chapter has raised a million dollars with the trailblaze challenge alone, and we are setting out to do again! No gift to too small. We can do awesome things when we come together! Site.wish.org/goto/quills2025
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The power of a wish has been documented and it actually aids in the healing process because hope is a mighty thing. Will you join me for giving Tuesday and help me grant wishes? Site.wish.org/goto/quills2025
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It’s Trailblaze time again! Year four!!! As many of you know, each year I take on the Trailblaze challenge for Make-A-Wish to raise money for chronically ill kids to give hope to them and their families. Site.wish.org/goto/quills2025
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
And register for a three week live discussion starting on Wednesday: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Grounded and Rooted in Love: A Foundation for Whatever Comes. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Advent with Lady Julian St. Julian of Norwich lived in a world where plagues wiped out as much as half the population of Norwich in her lifetime. She survived catastrophic flooding, violent storms, ...
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I look out of the window of my house as I write, thinking of the wars, the genocide, the gleeful exaltation of the opposite of good, the perversion of justice, and I feel Julian reaching to me across time, looking out the window of her anchorhold… aehowardwrites.substack.com/p/everything...
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
After Thanksgiving hike at Montgomery Bell. Great morning in the woods!
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Part 2: pie and board games followed by watching Moana together. Awesome family day ❤️ 3/3
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I read the Thanksgiving Address from the Onondaga Nation as shared by Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book Braiding Sweetgrass and we discussed what it means to be part of the community of creation. 2/
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thanksgiving: pomander making, table-scaping. The kids and I went outside and gather leaves, nuts, bark, and seed heads to make our centerpiece. Then we finished cooking with the parade’s replay playing in the background, and finally sat down to our feast. 1/
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A piece I wrote two years ago with @lisasharper.bsky.social on decolonizing Thanksgiving freedomroad.substack.com/p/decolonizi...
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Decolonizing the Holidays: Thanksgiving
Today, people across the country gather with friends and/or family to sit down, overeat and give thanks.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Walkin’ Donate to my Make-A-Wish fundraiser today! I hike, (and walk, and weight train), you donate, and together we grant wishes to 250 kids who are waiting!! ❤️ site.wish.org/goto/quills2025
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
secure2.wish.org/site/TR;jses...
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- Anna Howard - Make-A-Wish Foundation
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Post-workout selfie. I only got about 80% in but in my defense, I had both kids with me, so I think I get bonus points lol. Donate to my Make-A-Wish fundraiser in the profile or story, I hike you donate, and together we gear wishes! site.wish.org/goto/quills2025
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I hike hundreds of miles culminating in a one-day 26.3 mile challenge on the pinhoti trail in Alabama. I hike, you donate, and together we give hope to chronically ill children and their families! I just signed back up, will you donate today and get me off to a running start while I hit the gym? 2/2
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
For the fourth year in a row, I’m taking on the Alabama Trailblaze Challenge! secure2.wish.org/site/TR/Trai... 1/
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- Anna Howard - Make-A-Wish Foundation
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Happy Doctor Who Day! 🟦 ➕ ❤️❤️
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Had a great day down at Sewanee visiting and waking with Hannah Aloysius and Ellie the convent dog. After noon prayers, I left and hiked out on the perimeter trail a little ways and found a view spot for lunch before heading back home.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This book is like a retreat for the mind and soul. Simply gorgeous: I highly recommend it. Picture of Niall Williams’ novel Time of the Child #timeofthechild #niallwilliams @christinebreen.bsky.social
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Rainy day walk. Pursuing my new hobby of learning to identify trees by bark. I’ll spare you the 60 something pictures I took of bark though ;-)
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Axe throwing and a short hike at Bledsoe Creek this afternoon with the Girls Who Hike Tennessee. Finally starting to feel better after this sinus infection and asthma flare.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
All my work at getting back into my body after the election had culminated in this: standing there hyper aware of a sandwich sizzling in a pan, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week, in the middle of the story. aehowardwrites.substack.com/p/the-middle...
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
To be fair, the person making those appointments is looking for toadies not competence 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It’s acquiescing in advance. Exactly what you can’t do with authoritarian leaders
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Inspiration
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Just follow me back now and I won’t judge 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Quote with your full avi, let’s see the full pic
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
How do you face fascism? I like Orwell's version: ground yourself in direct and immediate experience, trust your senses, find some joy, turn back to face the fascists and tell truths to combat the lies.
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Describe yourself with 5 things that are in your purse/backpack at any given moment I don’t carry a bag regularly so we’re doing pockets 1) phone 2) keys 3) pocket knife 4) Burt’s bees peppermint 5) sometimes my wallet
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Anna Elisabeth Howard @aehowardwrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I don’t even have a CAT tourniquet in my first aid kit…
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