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Kathleen Rowan 🌱

@rowanauthor.bsky.social

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🔸️writing fantasy & sci-fantasy🔸️living real life adventures🔸️marveling at the mundane & the majestic🔸️breathing courage into your embers 🔸️GentlyRowan on AO3 & Tumblr (HZD) 🔸️photography by me & my husband 🔸️🥔 📷 me on a Horizon-inspired adventure to Arches NP

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · Apr 10

#PublicLands
A quote from the #NPS Visitor Center at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming (just S of Yellowstone):

"You must search for the loveliness in America; it is not obvious; it is scattered; but when you find it, it touches you and binds you to it like a great secret oath taken in silence."

In a blue ombre dress spangled with tiny white stars, Kathleen Rowan sits on a low, irregular stone wall, gazing past pines and across Jenny Lake to the hazy blue Grand Teton mountains that rise majestically to the left and right with a sharp V between them.
Photo by Mr. Rowan

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 13h

Just ONE WEEK from tomorrow, I'll be at one of the 2,000+ events planned nationwide for a second #NoKings Day.

It's because I LOVE my country.

I don't think I need to tell you that.

Kathleen Rowan, in a wind-billowed, deep blue dress under a bright blue sky, looks across a sunny vista of snow-capped mountains with clouds in the valley below. Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA

I sit on a boulder at a cliff's edge, leaning eagerly forward to look out over a canyon with a waterfall in the distance at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

Kathleen Rowan crouches on the bank of a swamp, surrounded by bald cypresses and their reflections in the brown, green and blue sunlit water, one hand upturned and lifting as if drawing the short cypresses fingers up out of the ground in a circle around her.
Natchez Trace, Mississippi, USA

Almost silhouetted in the shadows of the foreground, I gaze up at afternoon-bright peaks of Zion Canyon under blue sky and leafless branches. Emerald Pools Trail, Zion National Park, Utah, USA

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 18h

"8 of buttons", oil on watercolour paper, 5/14 x 7 1/4", 2025- $125(Cdn) #art

A small painting of 8 shirt buttons in a variety of shapes and sizes, laid out like the suit on a playing card.

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Murk @ginkgogoes.bsky.social · 14h

digital drawing (black and white) of a character in some sort of janese maid cafe outfit snuggling with a tiger

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14h

I never understand folks who complain abt how OTHER ppl protest. If you don’t like protesters to cuss or where frog suits, why don’t YOU go protest wearing a tuxedo and reciting the Magna Carta? No one’s stopping you, least of all the frogman, who will likely leap for joy for your involvement

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Murk @ginkgogoes.bsky.social · 18d

an old one but i still like it

Digital black and white ink drawing of a calico cat sleeping on the back of a bull sitting on some grass.

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Jim Ferguson 🫘 @jimferguson.bsky.social · 23h

What's black, and white, an orange all over? #FungiFriday of course! #photography #Turkey_Run #Support_Public_Lands

Black mushrooms are growing from the soil beneath a clump of moss in our woods.

White coral mushrooms are growing from a well rotted log in our woods.

A profusion of orange Chicken of the woods mushrooms are growing on a log at Turkey Run State Park, Parke County, Indiana.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 20h

PRECIOUS 💙

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 20h

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 20h

This is a great shirt.

Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 20h

But they hit now, when my body still has something to give to resistance, and my mind is more prepared to understand what I'm seeing and to respond - not with despair, but with defiant hope and helping hands.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 20h

These times could've hit when I was making a new life and finding unexpected joy there, in the people and places that have enriched and strengthened me.

Or when I'm older, when the already mounting difficulties of *having a body* have grown yet more difficult.

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 20h

These times are filling me with a strange, fiery gratitude.

They could've hit in my teens, when I knew only what I was told.
Or in my 20's, in my second big bout of depression, or my third.
Or when I started rebuilding myself and demanding the space to develop my own, better-informed views.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 21h

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 21h

Art versus Artist, but make it all celestial bodies.

#artvsartist #artvsartist2025

composition of 8 illustrations of planets and moons from fantasy maps around my selfie. I wear glasses and have a beard.

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Sapling 🌱 Print shop open! @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 1d

This is HUGE! Please share so people with ME/CFS can learn about this incredible medical breakthrough!!

It not only helps develop a diagnostic test, but also points to immune and inflammatory changes to aid future treatments. After 80+ years of no treatment, there’s some hope, finally!!

Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 3d

A new blood test demonstrates 96% accuracy in diagnosing myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, offering a potential advance in reliable identification and management of the condition.