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	<description>On average we live 4000 Saturdays. By continually exploring the potential of our lives, we are living not existing.</description>
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		<title>Why Music is a Basic Need of Human Survival</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received the following article (thanks Jonathan) which I felt moved to share. As a musician, it struck a major chord. If you are a lover or creator of music or an artist of any discipline, I hope you enjoy it as well.
Welcome address to freshman class at Boston Conservatory given by Karl Paulnack, pianist and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t underestimate your own magnificence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.4000saturdays.com/blog/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we marvel at nature, science, technology and history we often forget that we are part of everything we see. Every day we are surrounded by other people, which conditions us to feel “normal”. A David Attenborough from outer space would marvel at us more than anything else on this planet. Don’t settle for normality. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video is genius&#8230;. (thanks to a Canadian angel for sharing it with me)
 
 
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		<title>Snow Business</title>
		<link>http://www.4000saturdays.com/blog/?p=114</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost business for the UK economy today: £1.2 billion

Having a snowball fight with your kids:     Priceless


I look forward to the day when the media don&#8217;t focus on everything a nation loses when everything grinds to a halt due to the white stuff. Today is a day when people will have a well-earned rest. Today, millions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Another Day?</title>
		<link>http://www.4000saturdays.com/blog/?p=112</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day miracles happen all around us. You only start to see them when you choose to believe that your life is not ordinary. There is no such thing as an ordinary life, an average person. To just be born you defied the odds, in a race of six hundred million! Any child needs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optimism: Where did it go and can we get it back?</title>
		<link>http://www.4000saturdays.com/blog/?p=111</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.4000saturdays.com/blog/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was interviewed yesterday for a really interesting and timely article in The Scotsman Newspaper.
Published Date: 23 January 2009
(c) The Scotsman Newspaper
By Jenny Haworth
THE Great Depression gave us the jet engine and the electric razor, and the First World War provided the inspiration for some of the most moving poetry ever written.
It is only necessary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Attitude of Gratitude</title>
		<link>http://www.4000saturdays.com/blog/?p=109</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I did a show about Gratitude on BBC Radio. It struck me that during these difficult times gratitude can really turn our attitudes and lives around. Here are my Top 5 Tips you can do every day to foster an attitude of gratitude in your life:
1) Every morning when you wake up, simply say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Stuff</title>
		<link>http://www.4000saturdays.com/blog/?p=107</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone listening to tonight&#8217;s BBC Radio show (and everyone else!), here&#8217;s Annie Leonard&#8217;s wonderful twenty minute film called &#8220;The Story of Stuff&#8221;. It&#8217;ll change the way you look at things. I had the privilege of interviewing Annie last week for a new documentary called Part of the Solution (movie.4000saturdays.com)

Find out more at www.storyofstuff.com
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		<title>The Odd Couple</title>
		<link>http://www.4000saturdays.com/blog/?p=106</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something very endearing about this video&#8230;

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		<title>Choosing Hope over Fear</title>
		<link>http://www.4000saturdays.com/blog/?p=105</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.4000saturdays.com/blog/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve seen what fear can do to our world, the economy and our wellbeing and this week we&#8217;ve felt what optimism and hope can create in our hearts. Why would we ever choose the former? We live in a world created by our emotions. Look for the good in everything that happens today.
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