Gretchen Klopfer Wing
@gretchenwing.bsky.social
Guitar-strummin', pie-bakin', novel-writin' former teacher & distance runner limping along on a beautiful island
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Welcome to ON THE BUS: a weekly podcast that provides a dosage of community and connection, of people traveling together through a time of Donald Trump and MAGA darkness with determination and resilie...
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High school teacher for 20 years, in central North Carolina and in Tacoma, WA. Now a writer and baker on Lopez Island. Former runner, now walker and biker. Click to read Gretchen K Wing on Substack. L...
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Sick of Politics? Believe Me, You’ll Want to Read This From the wonderful online news source Salish Current in Bellingham, WA comes this heartening story by Nancy DeVaux. I promise you'll find inspiration here. Read, then tell me what you think!
Sick of Politics? Believe Me, You’ll Want to Read This
From the wonderful online news source Salish Current in Bellingham, WA comes this heartening story by Nancy DeVaux. I promise you'll find inspiration here. Read, then tell me what you think!
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Take heart: listen to Heather and Tim! www.youtube.com/live/5kqslmq...
@ezraklein.bsky.social Please stop calling it the Department of War! Only Congress can rename a department. Using this faux name is simply obedience.
On Moviemaking, Motherhood, and Making a Difference No, this post isn't about Zohran Mamdani. (Well, maybe a little.) I'll skip straight to the moral of the story: if your adult offspring sends you a link, read ALL of it before reacting. That said, sometimes reactions can lead somewhere positive.…
On Moviemaking, Motherhood, and Making a Difference
No, this post isn't about Zohran Mamdani. (Well, maybe a little.) I'll skip straight to the moral of the story: if your adult offspring sends you a link, read ALL of it before reacting. That said, sometimes reactions can lead somewhere positive. Let me explain that statement...and also, for those of you who don't follow my blog, why I'm sending this to you.
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Feeling helpless, watching the invasion of Minnesota? Here's an easy way to say, "I'm with you, stay strong." Donate to the folks keeping their neighbors fed as they hide from the ICE goons. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
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Join our Community Food Drive to support those in need while nurturing faith and fellowship. With your help, we can extend a helping hand and foster a sense of community.Your contribution will go towa...
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@davec3.bsky.social Looking to get hold of emails of CEOs of Minneapolis companies to push them to stand up more against the invasion. Already wrote the Target CEO. Can you suggest other names/emails?
“Loving Forward”: Why America Needs Rev. Dr. William Barber Now…and So Do I Do you recognize this man? Rev. Dr. William Barber If we were back in my childhood of the 1960s-70s, all watching the same 3 or 4 channels, everyone would know this preacher. Everyone would have seen him preaching, heard…
“Loving Forward”: Why America Needs Rev. Dr. William Barber Now…and So Do I
Do you recognize this man? Rev. Dr. William Barber If we were back in my childhood of the 1960s-70s, all watching the same 3 or 4 channels, everyone would know this preacher. Everyone would have seen him preaching, heard him cajoling or roaring from the pulpit. Though his accent is eastern Carolina, not Atlanta, we would have known him the way we knew that other Rev.
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Name and Arrest the ICE Agent Who Killed #KeithPorter
Keith Porter should still be here...to raise his daughters, to love his mother, to fish with his uncle, to bring joy to rooms, and light to community. Black fathers...Black sons...Black people...matte...
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One Question for the Tuned-out Loved One in Your Family "I've tuned out," your adult son, your cousin, your sister-in-law tells you. "Politics is too f**cked up for me bother. And there's nothing I can do anyway." I hope the first thing you do is to support your loved one for prioritizing…
One Question for the Tuned-out Loved One in Your Family
"I've tuned out," your adult son, your cousin, your sister-in-law tells you. "Politics is too f**cked up for me bother. And there's nothing I can do anyway." I hope the first thing you do is to support your loved one for prioritizing self-care. But then I have a question for you to ask them. What does the word "harvest" mean to you?
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No Name, No Number, No Publication Outlet: My Cousin Puts her Father’s Auschwitz Survival Story on Kindle Fifteen years ago, I interviewed my LA-based cousin, Susi Kaminski Klein, about her experiences as a child survivor of the Holocaust. Over the course of four days, hanging out here on Lopez…
No Name, No Number, No Publication Outlet: My Cousin Puts her Father’s Auschwitz Survival Story on Kindle
Fifteen years ago, I interviewed my LA-based cousin, Susi Kaminski Klein, about her experiences as a child survivor of the Holocaust. Over the course of four days, hanging out here on Lopez Island and visiting beautiful Victoria, BC, I recorded Susi narrating her story. Susi & I taking a break from history in Butchart Gardens, 2010 Nine years ago, I blogged about Susi's story as depicted in…
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Ford Owner? You Can’t AfFORD to Look Away Right Now Dear Ford CEO Jim Farley, My name is Ol' Blue. I'm a 2003 Ford Explorer. In case you were wondering about my name... I've asked one of my humans to write this letter for me, as writing is a challenge--me being an SUV and all. After what happened…
Ford Owner? You Can’t AfFORD to Look Away Right Now
Dear Ford CEO Jim Farley, My name is Ol' Blue. I'm a 2003 Ford Explorer. In case you were wondering about my name... I've asked one of my humans to write this letter for me, as writing is a challenge--me being an SUV and all. After what happened in the Oval Office on December 4, my humans wanted me to tell you they'll "never buy another Ford!" But I just wanted to ask you, CEO Jim Farley...
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Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport: More Than a T-shirt Slogan (Though it is a really good T-shirt slogan.) Really good shirt, too--thanks, Etsy!) This was my birthday present to myself, fresh from my Virginia-canvassing-and-family trip, and amped up--only a week later--by democracy's powerful…
Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport: More Than a T-shirt Slogan
(Though it is a really good T-shirt slogan.) Really good shirt, too--thanks, Etsy!) This was my birthday present to myself, fresh from my Virginia-canvassing-and-family trip, and amped up--only a week later--by democracy's powerful showing in the November 4 elections. Notice I didn't say Democrats (though they did well, and I'm glad). Nine months in to this presidency, people on all sides of politics--including no politics at all!--are starting to coalesce around the basic idea that…
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My Democracy Anti-Panic Medicine: Read Joyce, Read Joyce, You Have No Choice/But to Carry On Not that Joyce. Nothing against Dubliners or Ulysses; I just don't think they'll help get you through another week of our current presidency. I mean Joyce Vance, author of this book that was waiting for…
My Democracy Anti-Panic Medicine: Read Joyce, Read Joyce, You Have No Choice/But to Carry On
Not that Joyce. Nothing against Dubliners or Ulysses; I just don't think they'll help get you through another week of our current presidency. I mean Joyce Vance, author of this book that was waiting for me, hot off its October 21st release, when I got home from my canvassing trip this week: Mine's autographed! 🙂 To judge a book by its cover, this one looks boring.
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The Tail That Wagged the Dog of our BC Trip: UBC in Vancouver No, The Mate and I were not touring a college campus in a fit of nostalgia for our parenting days. We had someone to visit. Meeeee! No, Oliver--Ollie to his friends, which we now are!--did not invite us to Vancouver. But Ollie's "dad",…
The Tail That Wagged the Dog of our BC Trip: UBC in Vancouver
No, The Mate and I were not touring a college campus in a fit of nostalgia for our parenting days. We had someone to visit. Meeeee! No, Oliver--Ollie to his friends, which we now are!--did not invite us to Vancouver. But Ollie's "dad", a former student of The Mate's, now practically family--just took an important job @ UBC. Apart from all the other good reasons to, um, get away to Canada just now...we couldn't WAIT to come visit and see firsthand the new Canadian life of our friends.
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Disappearing Waterfalls and September Blackberries on Vancouver (“The Other Big Island”) Island You're halfway up Vancouver Island. You only have a few days before heading back to the mainland--not enough time to get out to the Wild West Coast, nor down to Victoria. Where do you go? How 'bout…
Disappearing Waterfalls and September Blackberries on Vancouver (“The Other Big Island”) Island
You're halfway up Vancouver Island. You only have a few days before heading back to the mainland--not enough time to get out to the Wild West Coast, nor down to Victoria. Where do you go? How 'bout here? This is Englishman Falls Provincial Park, just a hop & skip off the main highway between Campbell River and Nanaimo. And yes, that disappearing waterfall is even more insane in real life.
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Trump Allies Lean On Obscure Agency To Change Election Rules
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(Re)Discovering BC’s Discovery Islands: Quirky Quadra, Cordial Cortes Actually, Cortes Islanders would probably prefer that "quirky" label, while we found Quadrans (Quadrants?) plenty cordial. Either way, both islands, between BC's mainland and big Vancouver Island, became big highlights of our…
(Re)Discovering BC’s Discovery Islands: Quirky Quadra, Cordial Cortes
Actually, Cortes Islanders would probably prefer that "quirky" label, while we found Quadrans (Quadrants?) plenty cordial. Either way, both islands, between BC's mainland and big Vancouver Island, became big highlights of our British Columbia wanderings in 2018, and we were overjoyed to wander back. Whale-com back to Quadra! With a week to spend, between our Bella Coola adventures and our visit with our friends in Vancouver, we headed over to Horseshoe Bay for the big ferry to Nanaimo.
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