Anna Elisabeth Howard

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

Yaaaaassssss!!!!

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

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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Community fights fascism. Joy fights fascism. Fun fights fascism.

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Lovely morning hike ❤️

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

Don't Let Bishop Budde Stand Alone: A Challenge to Every Minister in America. To the Ministers in America,

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Over five miles on the White House greenway yesterday. Trying to get better at posting over here.

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That post workout, I did more with my triceps and now it hurts to get dressed feeling…

Having a buddy for those six miles walks makes them go faster!

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 🤣

- Anna Howard - Make-A-Wish Foundation

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I’m trapped

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.

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!

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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?

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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.

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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…

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After Thanksgiving hike at Montgomery Bell. Great morning in the woods!

Part 2: pie and board games followed by watching Moana together. Awesome family day ❤️ 3/3

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/

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/