Erin J Kahn
@erinjkahn.bsky.social
If this were the 19th century, I’d already be dead of consumption.
“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
September 12, 2024 at 1:39 PM
“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
“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.’”
July 11, 2024 at 12:50 PM
“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.’”
“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
July 4, 2024 at 12:21 PM
“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
“We need the tonic of wildness.” #ThoreauThursday
June 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
“We need the tonic of wildness.” #ThoreauThursday
“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
June 6, 2024 at 12:47 PM
“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
Happy 16-year-anniversary to an absolutely perfect movie that still fills me with inconsolable longing
May 16, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Happy 16-year-anniversary to an absolutely perfect movie that still fills me with inconsolable longing
“No day will have been wholly misspent, if one sincere, thoughtful page has been written.” #ThoreauThursday
May 9, 2024 at 2:41 PM
“No day will have been wholly misspent, if one sincere, thoughtful page has been written.” #ThoreauThursday
Love it when I go for a walk and discover free books
May 7, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Love it when I go for a walk and discover free books
Society when we finally make a good film adaptation of Persuasion
April 23, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Society when we finally make a good film adaptation of Persuasion
“I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers.” #ThoreauThursday
April 18, 2024 at 12:38 PM
“I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers.” #ThoreauThursday
Happy Easter!☀️Aslan is on the move.
March 31, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Happy Easter!☀️Aslan is on the move.
Think I found Wednesday and Enid’s future home
March 20, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Think I found Wednesday and Enid’s future home
Some days all you feel like doing is sitting on the floor and making a shamrock chain while listening to Olivia Newton-John
February 29, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Some days all you feel like doing is sitting on the floor and making a shamrock chain while listening to Olivia Newton-John
“Be not simply good, be good for something.” #ThoreauThursday
February 15, 2024 at 3:51 PM
“Be not simply good, be good for something.” #ThoreauThursday
You’re hilarious, Lewis
February 15, 2024 at 2:03 AM
You’re hilarious, Lewis
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” #ThoreauThursday
February 8, 2024 at 1:11 PM
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” #ThoreauThursday
“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
February 1, 2024 at 1:44 PM
“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
Who wants to join me for a sleepover like this
January 28, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Who wants to join me for a sleepover like this
“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
January 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM
“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
Happy Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday to all who celebrate
January 19, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Happy Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday to all who celebrate
“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.” #ThoreauThursday
January 18, 2024 at 6:11 PM
“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.” #ThoreauThursday
CS Lewis’ ideal government
January 12, 2024 at 1:55 AM
CS Lewis’ ideal government
A toast to the Professor!
January 4, 2024 at 5:02 AM
A toast to the Professor!
“The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, with peace on earth, goodwill to men.”
Christmas at the Longfellow House
Christmas at the Longfellow House
December 16, 2023 at 2:55 AM
“The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, with peace on earth, goodwill to men.”
Christmas at the Longfellow House
Christmas at the Longfellow House