Reposted by Erin J KahnKathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Did Amy March do this? 171
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” - Thoreau There’s an amendment in the current Senate bill that would allow for the sale of millions of acres of protected land. This sets a dangerous precedent. If you care, please sign and share: chng.it/ybcSyKfB4zchng.itThis campaign needs you nowSTOP THE SALE of Millions of Acres of Protected Federal Land (Big Beautiful Bill) 063
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 12/09/2024“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” #ThoreauThursday 041
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 16/08/2024My poem inspired by Tolkien, Heaney, (probably Lewis too), and various thoughts I had in my room one time is now published! segullah.org/the-authorsegullah.orgThe Author - SegullahHe wrote the prologue and appeared in it,The Author made flesh became the WordAnd dwelt among His characters,Redeeming them with the ink of His blood.The Poet who spoke creationSpoke Himself into the ... 231
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 02/08/2024You know it’s a good party when you have to repaint the ceiling afterward. 120
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 26/07/2024We are now more than halfway to Christmas so it’s basically Halloween. I don’t make the rules. 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 11/07/2024“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion…till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, ‘This is, and no mistake.’” 020
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 04/07/2024“I began to occupy my house on the 4th of July, as soon as it was boarded and roofed, for the boards were carefully feather-edged and lapped, so that it was perfectly impervious to the rain.” #ThoreauThursday 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 29/06/2024“I was snuggling with my headless horseman plushie and I thought, ‘this is kind of morbid.’” - my sister 040
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 06/06/2024“We are most apt to remember and cherish the flowers which appear earliest in the spring. I look with equal affection on those which are the latest to bloom in the fall.” #ThoreauThursday 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 02/06/2024The feminine urge to buy a VCR and hunt down old VHS tapes so you can watch Star Wars in its original glory the way God intended 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 16/05/2024Happy 16-year-anniversary to an absolutely perfect movie that still fills me with inconsolable longing 120
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 09/05/2024“No day will have been wholly misspent, if one sincere, thoughtful page has been written.” #ThoreauThursday 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 07/05/2024Love it when I go for a walk and discover free books 120
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 23/04/2024Society when we finally make a good film adaptation of Persuasion 000
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 18/04/2024“I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers.” #ThoreauThursday 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Happy Ides of March. Today we celebrate setting aside our political differences and coming together to… *checks notes* …violently stab someone 23 times on the floor of the Senate 372
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Some days all you feel like doing is sitting on the floor and making a shamrock chain while listening to Olivia Newton-John 130
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Will never understand why my clients ask me to write something, then completely rewrite it themselves, then ask me to rewrite what they wrote. 000
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 27/02/2024There are currently THREE(!) cardinals sitting in the tree outside my window. Is this a message from the fae? 020
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Chocolate waffles for breakfast. Chocolate smoothies for dinner. This is adulting. 020
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 15/02/2024“Be not simply good, be good for something.” #ThoreauThursday 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 12/02/2024You’re watching the Super Bowl. I’m watching Prince Caspian. We are not the same. 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 11/02/2024The Decemberists just released their first song in 6 years and it’s called “Burial Ground.” Knew there was a reason I liked them. 020
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 08/02/2024“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” #ThoreauThursday 020
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 05/02/2024You may be cool but you’ll never be as cool as CS Lewis publishing both The Last Battle AND Till We Have Faces in the same year 051
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 01/02/2024“At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” #ThoreauThursday 130
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 31/01/2024My favorite thing about the Percy Jackson book series was the sass, the spunk, the outrageous humor. The show captured almost none of that. 110
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 26/01/2024The great thing about being an adult is you can sit in your room blasting Wagner and no one can stop you 440
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 25/01/2024“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” #ThoreauThursday 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 19/01/2024Happy Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday to all who celebrate 020
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 18/01/2024“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.” #ThoreauThursday 020
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 14/01/2024It’s so cold today I went to church looking like Hodel on her way to the frozen wastes of Siberia 230
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 08/01/2024If you’ve never walked through a snowy cemetery just before sunset, highly recommend. 120
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 25/12/2023“Yes,” said Queen Lucy. “In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.” Merry Christmas, everyone! 120
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 24/12/2023Me: wow Mom what’s this cool book you have? My mom: oh I bought that for you but I didn’t think you’d want it 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 16/12/2023“The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, with peace on earth, goodwill to men.” Christmas at the Longfellow House 010
Erin J Kahn @erinjkahn.bsky.social · 16/12/2023Roommate: are you ok? @leahthepoet.bsky.social: yeah I’m just trying to figure out where to put my bones 010