<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Wide Blue World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gretelenck]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:15:47 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.gretelenck.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Drink Your Tea]]></title><description><![CDATA[Social Media: If you could remove one thing from the world, what would it be? The People: hate, “those” people, cancer, starvation, war...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/drink-your-tea</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63ee4de1266912c32fa4589f</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:44:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_47420a3e2bb94f6a95d638d291d00544~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camping with RuPaul]]></title><description><![CDATA[Couple of weeks doing the work to belong to myself. 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You, selling roses out of a silver grocery cart You, in the park, feeding...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/you-are-who-i-love</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b88a453dfd2ebfca11f00f</guid><category><![CDATA[Universal Belonging]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 21:28:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_af0a3932e7934fdb95b34bf60bcf82fd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_640,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Field Guide for Challenging Times]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the year I make a deep dive into a newish subject, a way of looking at the world that seems to summarize what I've learned...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/a-field-guide-for-challenging-times</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b3643d51bcc4e87cf1b657</guid><category><![CDATA[Universal Belonging]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:22:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_4da1f8c5f1214bf38f4e766f6d99639a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spadefoot Season]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cat that I inadvertently locked in the closet woke me at 4 am to beg his freedom. In my awakeness, I lay in bed and listened...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/spadefoot-season</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60dbba9a8833c30015924efa</guid><category><![CDATA[Wide Blue World]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:40:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_6dd2406ad25e4936bbd22d8a4ccf2de5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_640,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Middle Aged White Lady’s Little Book of Watermelons]]></title><description><![CDATA[In honor of Juneteenth, I bought myself a watermelon to have something red to eat, which reminded me of this unfinished treatise holed up...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/the-middle-aged-white-lady-s-little-book-of-watermelons</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60cd11a5bbdb1b0015f28234</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:59:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_f96baa8ffbc842609cfef2a9ea00a5b8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace Land]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Mississippi Delta is shining like a National guitar I am following the highway down the river Through the cradle of the Civil War....]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/grace-land</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6091a050ba38730015103fd9</guid><category><![CDATA[Community]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wide Blue World]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2021 22:31:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_078dce65225e4ca8bb9903778837423b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_640,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hike #10: Out the Back Door and Up the Hill ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don’t have a hill out my back door…at home. But I do at work. And although I’m back in the office three days a week, and I do take...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/hike-10-out-the-back-door-and-up-the-hill</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6068d92d056eca002bed929c</guid><category><![CDATA[Wide Blue World]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2021 21:24:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_76b231aed20240fda7296245d63122ac~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_640,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hike #9: Sweet Sunday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Snuck in a sweet Sunday hike today with one of the finest humans I know. 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This has...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/hike-7-not-quite-slickrock-canyon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6045842232eb9400150ad899</guid><category><![CDATA[Wide Blue World]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 02:39:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_816a1e28e95f4bab81d7286a3c8c6f67~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hike #6: Napping with Persimmons]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dang, yo! We’ve had some obstacles lately in Texas. Two weeks ago we were hunkered down for the apocalyptic storm and outages. 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We get new ones...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/hike-4-simplicity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60148bb1ee104900170cc1ac</guid><category><![CDATA[Wide Blue World]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:32:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_8cdba40481d54390baf528c74de61f74~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hike #3: The Blue of Distance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rebecca Solnit, one of our time’s great thinkers, writes about the blue of distance in her Field Guide to Getting Lost. “The world is...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/hike-3-the-blue-of-distance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">600dba70ecc6000017d162c0</guid><category><![CDATA[Wide Blue World]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2021 18:39:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_f8811276c7d94b6d9ba43f0d4aff3eaf~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hike #2: Going Down to Come Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s hike was to the Chimneys in Big Bend National Park. 4.8 miles round trip, elevation change of about 400’, easy trail both in...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/hike-2-going-down-to-come-up</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6004642924bd2c001799363b</guid><category><![CDATA[Wide Blue World]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:38:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_89e9553950c245be86919546dea989b0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hike #1: My Day Among the Rock Wrens]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I spent that summer in Juneau, people joked that when you land in Anchorage you are just a half hour from Alaska. 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My middle grades novel...]]></description><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/audiobook-on-its-way</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e811433aec14f001714b387</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2020 21:41:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_6b7d153c8a29413eb8f6946f7aa24b4f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Build Community]]></title><link>https://www.gretelenck.com/post/how-to-build-community</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c911d8575cee2001c1cb09c</guid><category><![CDATA[Community]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:50:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5bd22d_c332d8573edd4ba19536da9d5de81e98~mv2_d_2200_3400_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Gretel Enck</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>