Author | Lightnews

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦

@aahrens430.bsky.social

1.8K followers 1.2K following 2.7K posts

Chaplain, PhD Christian Worship Author: Suffering, Soul Care & Community: The Place of Lament in Corporate Worship. (Wipf & Stock, 2023), musician, teacher. I enjoy nature, birds, music, poetry.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · Apr 23

“Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,

which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.”

-Mary Oliver “Messenger”

A grassy hillside with trees in the sunshine.

1 6 59

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, I do it all the time. Especially when aisles are crowded.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, good! ‘Tis piano tuning season, indeed.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 4h

It’s a textbook narcissist move. Anything that will wound - physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 8h

What could possibly go wrong? To whom could we possibly be selling our soul, piece by piece?

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 9h

They seem to have no regard for nature or natural beauty. I don't understand how they can live without it.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 9h

They are my favorite! You're right that they get lanky. I usually tie them up with twine to various stakes and poles. Am thinking of putting tomato cages/supports around them early on so they can grow up inside of those. Not sure if that would work? Might try it though. 🤔

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 10h

Indeed, James.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 11h

Oh no!

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 11h

I seem to recall hearing about a convo between Mike Johnson and Trump in which Trump told Johnson to kill Biden’s immigration bill because HE wanted to get the credit. Sorry, Bernie. You’re wrong on this one.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 11h

Yep.

Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 15h

This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about.

Would be a shame if it went viral.

1 3

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 13h

These historic pictures made me sad. Even if it needed updating, the secrecy and lies around the decision to demolish it will forever taint the monstrosity of what is to come.
(Gift article link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

A Pile of Rubble: After 123 Years, the East Wing Is Gone

www.nytimes.com

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 14h

I need to try this. At this point, I'll try anything.

Reposted by Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦

AnnieForTruth @anniefortruth1.bsky.social · 16h

Think about that…..

3 33 68

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 16h

‘“… Leavitt concluded with this: “At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.’”

That ballroom is the most ridiculous, giant middle finger to the entire country. It is literally setting in stone his intention to enrich no one but himself.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 16h

Dickerson and Dubois have brought such warmth to that broadcast. So, I guess it’s natural she wants them out. Can’t be having that.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 17h

Zooming in, I see that house and think how lovely it must be to wake up to that view everyday. Gorgeous, indeed!

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 17h

Mother Nature couldn’t make up her mind, it seems.

1 1

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

". . he asked, very nicely. . . " So pathetic.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

Stunningly beautiful.

1 1

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

Their main reason (perhaps only reason?) for pushing the false theory of anti-Christian bias is to ensure they continue to own the large voting block of the Evangelical Right.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

This thread is horrifying. Zhao allowed child sex traffickers to funnel money through his currency. No wonder Trump's fixers (aka the GOP) don't want the Epstein files released.

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 1d

With Trump pardoning Changpeng Zhao and accusing the Biden administration of persecuting him because it hated cryptocurrency, here's a reminder of what the IRS's cybercrime investigators dug up on CZ and Binance. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

More on this. . . and it's worse.

bsky.app/profile/eric...

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 1d

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

Vance's best friend? Yikes. That takes everything to a whole new level of fear and corruption.

Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 1d

This is scary, Chris.

1 1

Reposted by Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦

Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 1d

A Watery Sun. 9°C and rather breezy. Rabbits.

4 12 73