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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Last Friday on the Cook Hill Trail. #PNW

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This morning at the Hardy Ridge Loop Trail to Phlox Point. #PNW

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Ten suggestions for how to be more spiritual: 1. Shout! 2. Have integrity 3. Be curious 4. Get over yourself 5. Reduce harm 6. Be non-violent 7. Get your hands dirty 8. Break yokes 9. Nourish bodies 10. Be truly you (According to Isaiah 58:1-7, one of today’s lectionary texts)

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Family hike at Latourell Falls Loop trail today. #PNW

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This morning on the Green Mountain trail, north of Camas. #PNW

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This morning on the Angel’s Rest Trail. #PNW

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This morning at a wintry but sunny Silver Star Mountain.

Snow covered summit, blue sky in the background

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Yesterday on the trail: Oak Ridge to Bald Butte. ❄️ #PNW

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

A radical left scum manifesto: “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.”

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Fellow Advent observers: Christ is coming! Not at the end of time or in our nostalgia, but in every person seeking food, drink, refuge, warmth, care, and inclusion.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This morning on the Oneonta Gorge Trail. #PNW

Looking past yellow leaves into the gorge

Looking over red and yellows down to the creek

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

How about “No *Shame* November”? A daily practice of rejecting any religion-informed messaging that tells us or others that we’re bad, impure, illegal, inadequate, unacceptable, or undeserving. A daily opportunity to undo any harm we’ve caused others by sustaining ministries built on toxic shame.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

“When we’re hungry, love will keep us alive.” ~The Eagles, correctly

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Love is creating a world where it’s easy to get food, care, and connection and difficult to go hungry, not get the care you need, or be excluded.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Self-love is not selfishness. It’s not a personal flaw to need something. It’s not naughty to want something. Impulses can be trustworthy. Desires can be holy. Fears can be clarifying. Tears can be healing. Doubts can spark needed change.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Seeing lots of people voicing their needs and/or offering support to others, in this fraught time. This is community. This is what it’s all about.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The seeds of Love are planted within every person. How can we nurture these seeds, in one another? How can we create more fertile conditions so that the Love in each can grow and thrive?

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Returning to a favorite this morning: the Salmon River Trail. #PNW

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My favorite place to run in Camas—the Heritage Trail (Lacamas Lake). #PNW

Fall colors on a forested, lakeside trail

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The way we’ll survive this is Love: crowd-feeding, foot-washing, table-flipping, truth-telling, nap-taking, stranger-welcoming, wound-tending, community-building, laugh-inducing, risk-taking Love.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Peaceful protest with Quakers at the Portland ICE facility this morning. As my Friends’ signs say: stop the inhumanity. Love your neighbor.

Two people with signs that say “love your neighbor” and “stop the inhumanity” and one waving frog (me)

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This morning on the east side of Sahalee Tyee (Indian Heaven Wilderness). Fall meets winter. #PNW

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Speaking of frogs and unicorns let me tell you about a time Jesus used whimsy to oppose fascism, it all started with a donkey and a few palm branches…

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

White nostalgia and stubbornness won’t save us. A more reverent connection to the land and to each other might. Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

There are many ways to be violent and to be complicit in violence. It’s a good day to ask whether the theology that soothes you is actually making you more violent.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

My autistic friends and family do not need to be fixed! What needs to be fixed are hearts, communities, practices, and structures that make it needlessly difficult for autistic folks to fully participate and be cherished as their beautiful, authentic selves.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Reverence for every person and the Love within them is the beginning of wisdom.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Happy World Quaker Day! Where are my fellow Friends? Or, where are those listening deeply, speaking truth to power, nurturing the love within yourself and others, resisting authoritarianism, responding to needs of vulnerable neighbors, and remembering to breathe? That’s the Quaker way at its best.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

”Love your neighbor” is not just something that happens in your heart but something tangible we do, together.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Finding Love on the trail. Looking up from the inside of a burned, hollowed tree, near East Zigzag Mountain, Aug ‘23. #PNW

Looking up from inside a burned, hollowed tree to a heart-shaped opening at the top.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

“Faith without works is dead.” Christianity without compassion and liberation is deadly.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It’s going to be wild when Bible publishers are told to remove all the calls for peace and justice and liberation made by Jesus and the prophets because they make our president feel picked on, and when many Christians are fine with that.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

It is special when people work together to address a real, urgent need. That’s an exciting kind of unity! Not the unity of “hey look, we’ve stopped criticizing each other” but the unity that arises when people bring their resources to the table to do good and create positive change, with others.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Remembering an early August hike around Timothy Lake (and nearby Little Crater Lake). #PNW

Rocks and stump under the surface of the lake

Blues and greens and light at Little Crater Lake

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

If you’re in or near SW Washington tomorrow, come say hello to Camas Friends Church at the Vancouver Peace & Justice Fair from 9am-3pm at Esther Short Park. I’ll be at the Camas Friends booth from 11am-1pm.

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Vancouver Peace & Justice Fair

The Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair is at Esther Short Park. Our goal is to build community among groups working for peace and social justice.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Today at Steigerwald Wildlife Refuge. #PNW

Yellow flowers (goldenrod) next to river

Bright green wetland among trees and gray sky

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I will look for the Light in others. I will do my part to help that Light shine. I won’t ignore the bushel of bigotry and cruelty under which that Light is hidden or nearly extinguished. Every person is sacred. Not every person deserves applause.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Being progressive is not about having arrived, it’s about movement. Progressives are right to resist idolizing the past and to recognize that life is dynamic. But tendencies born of privilege and power take time to unlearn.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Pasqueflowers, one of my favorite summer finds at higher elevations. From Paradise Park (mid-August) and McNeil Point (early July). #PNW

Meadow of pasqueflowers (hairy-looking white flowers) and lupine (purple).

Three pasqueflowers in a patch of red and pink flowers.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The Seattle Mariners season may have been saved by an Etsy witch, and the fan who hired them to intervene on the Mariners’ behalf, who is now utilizing the attention to raise funds for the Trevor Project. This week could not be starting off any better.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Nice catch, spider! 🍁 (Fallen Leaf Park in Camas)

Yellow leaf that appears to be suspended in air (next to spider in its web).

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

My spirituality changed dramatically when I came to see my faith not as something to impose on others but a tradition that can awaken and guide the Love within me, a Love present in every person.

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

“In heavenly armor we'll enter the land The battle belongs to [Lord Trump] No weapon that's fashioned against us Shall stand The battle belongs to [Lord Trump] We sing glory, honor Power and strength to [Lord Trump]”

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Asters at Paradise Park (mid-August). #PNW

Meadow of purple flowers, mountain in distance

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Matt Boswell @mattboswellpnw.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Empathy is under attack. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense may become the Department of War and ICE arrested nearly 500 workers at an EV factory in Georgia. Losing empathy makes it easier to destroy lives, families, communities. This is a really, really bad thing. We can’t lose empathy.

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