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Matthew Rehrl MD
@matthewrehrl.bsky.social
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Writer; Physician; Currently obsessed with the intersection of walking and creativity.
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Three things I took from Jane Friedman’s @janefriedman.com keynote talk at Red Pencil:

1. Em dashes are not the devil 😈 (or AI, if AI is the devil 😉).

2. Consider taking the middle way with AI

3. Writers/Editors with cats 🐈‍⬛ rock!

@edsguild.bsky.social
#EdsGuuld2025
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Whether writing or medical conferences, I always go with a written goal in mind.

At this years Red Pencil Conference (@edsguild.bsky.social
#EdsGuuld2025) my goal is to better understand the regional editing resources available to me as a writer!

A little #AI stuff’s OK too.

🥅

#writing
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s #EdsGuild2025 Red Pencil Conference at the Lynnwood Event Center, but—sadly—my #StetPet Roo isn’t quite as fond of red pencils! 😉

#CatsOfBlueSky
#Seattle
#WritingCommunity
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Can I just say I love how my black cats 🐈‍⬛ coat appears as a beautiful brown in the sunshine?
#CatsOfBlueSky
#cats
A black cat with the sun coming behind it, causing a rim of his fur to appear brown. He’s looking downward to the side at a carpet that is also dappled with sunlight.
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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A post-walk coffee may not be life, but it’s pretty damn great!

#walking
A photo of a coffee with light steam coming out of the top. The cup is paper with a cardboard cupholder around it. It’s set on a wood counter in the back is a window which shows a pumpkin and a street view. The sun is shining towards the coffee and camera.
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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My morning walk in #Seattle.

Although I usually prefer nature walks, city walks do have their own special vibe!

#walking
#ThinkWalking
A view of a dock leading out into the water on a partially cloudy day with a somewhat cool appearance in the foreground is a concrete staircase and walkway in the background is a low hill, which is actually West Seattle.
November 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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🙏🏻
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Seen walking this morning.

Is this why they call autumn fall? 😉

#walking
#leaves 🍁
Picture of a pathway with scattered golden brown leaves. The path leaves leads into a distance with green and yellow trees and bushes on the sides.
November 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Writer’s block this morning.
Literally.
🥰

#writingcommunity
#WritersOfBlueSky
#CatsOfBlueSky
A black cat on a desktop obstructing the view of an iMac. The cat has its head slightly turned. There is a picture of a raven in Native American style on the wall above the computer screen.
October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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First snow ❄️ sighting on my walk: Mt. Si in #NorthBend, just east of #Seattle.

Winter is coming!

#walking
#ThinkWalking
A mountain, mostly trees but with a small snowcapped peak. In the foreground a grass field surrounded by the trees of fall. Light clouds with a deep blue sky.
October 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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A wet morning for walking in Seattle.
#Seattle #walking
City street photo taken via a parking lot mirror showing slight scene curvature on a wet morning with man walking in foreground and skyscraper on the background. Sidewalk is wet.
October 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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October Philosophers!

It’s the best time for you to reread Nagel’s famous paper: “What’s it Like to Be a Bat.”

(No matter how much echolocation data and science a person still doesn’t know what it is to be a bat! 🤓)

www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/i...

#philosoohy
#consciousness
A toy bat hanging from antlers on a wall with a window in the background.
October 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A slight obstruction on my path this morning.

I easily walked around it.

May my writing go as well today. 🙏🏻

#writing
#walking
On a gravel path surrounded by Pacific Northwest trees on both the left and the right there is a tree branch partially obstructing it. The sky is cloudy and bright. The path is partially wet. The leaves are mostly green, but there is some dotting of golden red.
October 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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A creepy little fellow at my favorite coffee shop in North Bend, Wa! 🥺

#coffee
October 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Seen on my think-walk yesterday!

A little patch of my favorite grass:

Bamboo!

(Yes, it’s a grass 🤓)

#Walking
#ThinkWalking
#Bamboo
Bamboo stalks with a brick wall behind it)
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Look! Someone left me a little leaf and rock sculpture on my favorite bench on my favorite walk.

And now?

I am photographing it and memorializing it here. (I doubt the sculptor thought anyone would do that.)

#walking
#thinkwalking
The arm of a wooden bench on it are two leaves, a twig, and a rock. Pass this is gravel. The scene certainly looks created not random.
September 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Walking in the fog.

I love how fog 🌫️ mutes sound; it’s great “thinking weather.”

#walking
A green grass field with a row of trees in the distance partially obscured by the fog.
September 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Good morning, Morning!

I’m going to enjoy walking through you on this fine day!

#walking
#morning
An early morning, photo of two mountains as seen from a field with a thin ripple of fog and a small farmhouse in the center. It appears the sun is just beginning to rise behind the mountain, creating a loss of detail of the mountains themselves. On the right is a tree in the shade.
September 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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A morning walk in Seattle. Really a lovely day!

#walking
City photo on a dock with a Ferris wheel in the distance and the optical illusion of a strand of lights extending to it. Skyline of to the side, with a clear early morning sky.
September 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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My journaling spot this morning.
#writing
#amwriting
A photo with the top of a picnic table in the foreground in the shade with brown grass and dirt leading to a lake separated, apart by a rock wave breaker, and in the distance is a Shoreline across the lake dotted with houses. The sky is washed out blue.The angle of the shade suggest morning.
September 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A Writer’s Prayer, as seen at University of Washington this morning. 😉

#WritersOfBlueSky
#Writing
#amwriting
A paper chart display in a hallway saying Save Work Often with an exit in the distance.
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I’m a little behind on my writing craft reading 😔 , but I enjoyed Michelle Wildgen’s piece in May/June @pw.org mag “On Discomfort.”

She mentions how being out on one’s depth can be thrilling!

I agree. The more resistance I have to doing something, the more I need to do it.

#writing
A photo of poets and writers magazine with my hand, covering the address label A photo of a page in a magazine with the title on discomfort in the section called life with a close-up photo of an author with brunette hair
September 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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On my walk this morning in the foothills of the Cascades, I’m picking what may be the last ripe blackberry of the season.

Goodbye lovely blackberry; hello autumn.

#walking
#ThinkWalking
A thumb and index finger pinching towards a ripe blackberry next to some dried out blackberries and an unripe red blackberry foliage is in the background
September 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A “think-bench at the end of my “think-walk” this morning.

#walking
#ThinkWalking
A black-and-white photo of a dock, extending out midway into a lake with a small rise in the distance with fog and the foreground on the right there is a bush. The waves of the water demonstrate a slight wind.
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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“Fog-walking” this morning!

#walking
A path in a field of grass with a fence on the left leading into the fog
September 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM