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Todd Temkin

@toddtemkin.bsky.social

Poet, author, Patagonian alpaca farmer. A Wisconsin boy living in Chile between Valparaiso & Futaleufú. Please don’t ask about book #3. It’s coming. All llamas, alpacas & Icelandic horses are Green Bay Packers fans. No DMs. No porn. No crypto.

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Congrats to Eliza & Little Willie. The new baby is gorgeous and 100% all daddy.

05.12.2025 12:23 — 👍 73    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0
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Baby is daddy’s coloring

05.12.2025 16:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congrats to Eliza & Little Willie. The new baby is gorgeous and 100% all daddy.

05.12.2025 12:23 — 👍 73    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

04.12.2025 13:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spring flowers in Valparaiso,
Chile. No city has shaped my professional, intellectual, & spiritual life more profoundly.

03.12.2025 12:31 — 👍 89    🔁 7    💬 5    📌 0

After years teaching at 2 local universities, I became enraptured by the chaos of Valpo and founded an NGO that helped spearhead the UNESCO world heritage process. I also traveled around the world promoting the city and served as Sunday columnist for the local newspaper. Amongst many other things😊

04.12.2025 00:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Google my name and Valparaiso 😂😂

03.12.2025 22:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Spring flowers in Valparaiso,
Chile. No city has shaped my professional, intellectual, & spiritual life more profoundly.

03.12.2025 12:31 — 👍 89    🔁 7    💬 5    📌 0
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My son, Nico, at Mirador Pozòn de los Reyes high above Chile’s mighty Futaleufú. He will turn 24 next week and is scheduled to defend his thesis on his birthday. Assuming that goes well, he will be a Civil Industrial Engineer.

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Thank you!

30.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Encantado amiga

30.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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My son, Nico, at Mirador Pozòn de los Reyes high above Chile’s mighty Futaleufú. He will turn 24 next week and is scheduled to defend his thesis on his birthday. Assuming that goes well, he will be a Civil Industrial Engineer.

30.11.2025 12:52 — 👍 103    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 1
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Here is an idea: This #Thanksgiving, let’s not give thanks to things that we “have.” Let’s give thanks to those things that we love.

Happy Thanksgiving

27.11.2025 14:41 — 👍 98    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 1
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Here is an idea: This #Thanksgiving, let’s not give thanks to things that we “have.” Let’s give thanks to those things that we love.

Happy Thanksgiving

27.11.2025 14:41 — 👍 98    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 1
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Good morning! I am, actually, in Valpo—not Patagonia—this week so feel free to send your Packers-Vikings content to Little Willie via Bluesky. He gets anxious on game days when I am not around.

23.11.2025 13:42 — 👍 96    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
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Good morning! I am, actually, in Valpo—not Patagonia—this week so feel free to send your Packers-Vikings content to Little Willie via Bluesky. He gets anxious on game days when I am not around.

23.11.2025 13:42 — 👍 96    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
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Good morning! It’s the old “dusk reflecting on the pond” trick, from Chilean Patagonia. Wishing all of our American friends a relaxing “final weekend before you fight with all your relatives at Thanksgiving.”

22.11.2025 12:28 — 👍 117    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 1

I knew them from the 70s, too, but, in the US, by the 90s they were basically a nostalgia act I hadn’t heard in years.

Then I arrived in Chile and discovered they were still huge stars here.

22.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When I moved to Chile in 1993 I was surprised to discover this band is wildly popular here. They still are.

22.11.2025 14:13 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Good morning! It’s the old “dusk reflecting on the pond” trick, from Chilean Patagonia. Wishing all of our American friends a relaxing “final weekend before you fight with all your relatives at Thanksgiving.”

22.11.2025 12:28 — 👍 117    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 1

In order: Rush Limbaugh & his innumerable radio clones, Newt Gingrich, Fox News. The profitization of anger & resentment.

21.11.2025 23:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Retamos: Scottish broom

21.11.2025 04:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sometimes, when I am writing and fully present, a miracle happens. If you want to call that God, that is ok. Then my cursed mind, greedy & ambitious, says, “That is really good! You should send it to the New Yorker.” The moment has now been defiled. It is time to go for a walk & listen to the river.

20.11.2025 14:17 — 👍 55    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Sometimes, when I am writing and fully present, a miracle happens. If you want to call that God, that is ok. Then my cursed mind, greedy & ambitious, says, “That is really good! You should send it to the New Yorker.” The moment has now been defiled. It is time to go for a walk & listen to the river.

20.11.2025 14:17 — 👍 55    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Good morning Bluesky friends. Just a reminder: while Patagonia is indeed one of the world’s most beautiful places, it is also one of the world’s wildest places. Extreme weather all over the region the past few days. We join in mourning the loss of 5 tourists who perished at Torres del Paine.

19.11.2025 12:10 — 👍 101    🔁 16    💬 5    📌 0

The mountain is called Cerro Tres Monjas

19.11.2025 23:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Good morning Bluesky friends. Just a reminder: while Patagonia is indeed one of the world’s most beautiful places, it is also one of the world’s wildest places. Extreme weather all over the region the past few days. We join in mourning the loss of 5 tourists who perished at Torres del Paine.

19.11.2025 12:10 — 👍 101    🔁 16    💬 5    📌 0
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“Arroyo Partido” in autumn & winter. This mountain stream originates at Cerro Chapelco, a ski area in San Martin de los Andes, Argentina. The stream splits in 2 at a rocky outcrop. The branch on the left flows 200km, into Chile, and the Pacific Ocean. The right branch flows 1200 km to the Atlantic.

17.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 54    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
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Good morning! Ori & Baldur, our 2 Icelandic stallions, are out there working off some of the stress after a tense Packers victory yesterday.

17.11.2025 13:19 — 👍 106    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 1

They were purchased from acreditaded breeders in the US are are registered with FIEF, the international federation.

17.11.2025 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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