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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks

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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks

@JeremyWingert79

Here to connect and to stay afloat. Married. Dad of 2. Hiker of trails. Nomadic wanderer of the exvangelical wilds. Carpe of the diem. SEE MY BLOG LINK BELOW.

Near the Appalachian Trail

jeremywingert79.substack.com

Joined September 2012

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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Jun 8
This is what I do in my free time (between 5am & when my kids wake up at 7am). Check out my b*o if you're interested, and sign up if you want! Writing is my favorite way to find catharsis & connection. I wish I had started 20 years earlier, but *much* better late than never. 💙
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Jan 28, 2023
My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Jul 15, 2023
I would like to believe that the dozens of cheap little day trips I/we take with our kids add up to exactly the same amount of joy & happy memories as all the far-flung, picture-perfect tropical vacations everyone else is enjoying. I would like to believe it. And so I will.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
May 28, 2023
I don’t make a lot of money and I never really did anything with my English degree. But I’m giving my kids a magical childhood, filled with nature adventures. And constant reminders of my love. So if you ask me “What do you do?” That’s what I do.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Dec 19, 2023
Hey guys, remember when most holiday greeting cards said "Season's Greetings" in the '80s and '90s — with no reference to Christmas — and absolutely no one cared at all, even slightly? I think about that sometimes.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Jan 28, 2023
Replying to @JeremyWingert79
Holy smokes, you guys. Thank you so much for the solidarity. It means a lot to know that others have a similar feeling about all of this. (Even if I did overstate the “joy” of 2019. I do remember a different kind of angst in the Trump era, but Covid amplified that exponentially.)
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Jan 28, 2023
Replying to @JeremyWingert79
Also, I might delete this. And I don’t specifically know why, other than that I’ll feel self-conscious if no one else feels the same way.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Jan 28, 2023
Replying to @JeremyWingert79
By the way, I tweeted this from the Appalachian Trail on a pretty random impulse. I know I shouldn’t tweet while hiking, but my mental health was rickety this morning and the theory just struck me (yet again) in that moment, out in the fresh air. Anyway, hiking is the best.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Nov 8, 2024
My hottest (& saddest) take is that American evangelical Christianity — which I know like the back of my hand & believed more fervently than maybe any teenager in history — isn’t worth saving. It is ruined, and it is ruining America.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Nov 28, 2023
I feel like people who are anti-oatmeal raisin cookies maybe have never eaten one that's incredibly soft and/or homemade. This is a top 5 cookie, easily.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Nov 15, 2023
Let’s say a person makes $20,000 a year. The doctrine of “tithing” I grew up with tells that person they need to give their church $2,000 a year. How many low-income people do you know who can afford to give $2,000 a year? NONE. That’s my answer. Tithing theology is theft.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Jan 28, 2023
Replying to @JeremyWingert79
This is all very new to me. Two weekends in a row where I wrote something that was somehow seen by a lot of people. It feels surreal. Grateful for the resonance on this particular open wound. I tweet about fatherhood, mental health, music, and movies. Thanks for listening.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Dec 5, 2024
Replying to @pubity
That poor, sweet, innocent little boy.
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Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks
@JeremyWingert79
Feb 4, 2024
I grew up Baptist & this one thing I know: A child can *not* meaningfully consent to a faith-based experience. To proselytize a child — to nudge him to get “saved” or to “ask Jesus into his heart” — is an act of spiritual manipulation. Never, ever convert a child.
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