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		<title>Guardian Angel of San Jose</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This weekend Laura and I are heading to San Diego to watch my friends in Agent 51 play their CD release show for their recently released album, &#8220;Age of Validation&#8221;. They play on Friday at the Belly Up in Solano Beach, just north of San Diego. &#8220;Age of Validation&#8221; is fantastic! Every song is solid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>ECCC 2025, Music, Science Fairs, and our Backyard Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What a busy week for all of us! I&#8217;ll jump right into it. Final Thought &#8220;This Land is Your Land&#8221; by Woody Guthrie This land is your land, and this land is my land&#160;From California to the New York island&#160;From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters&#160;This land was made for you and me [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Holt Updates for March 3, 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The kids stayed busy this week with music. Both kids performed in their high school Band and Jazz Concert last Thursday evening. Autumn performed solely on the vibraphone in Jazz 2 &#8211; a first for her. She starts vibraphone lessons this week. In addition to the concert Ethan performed in a jazz combo gig for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hamilton and a MalletKAT</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We treated ourselves last Sunday to Hamilton at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Seattle. We arrived downtown early in the afternoon to walk around and grab dinner before arriving at the theater. We took in the performance from the upper deck where the views were wonderful. While the music is fun to sing along too, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>REboot 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to reboot our website to where our family is today.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ethan plays bass in his first orchestra concert</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 03:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s all about that bass!&#8221; Ethan played in his first orchestra concert last night. The school beginner, intermediate/advanced, and middle school orchestra took turns performing for a packed gym of family and friends.&#160; It was a lot of fun seeing his hard work pay off. I know the songs seem simple but he &#160;and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Holt Family 2016 In Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 07:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy Holidays Family and Friends &#8211; We hope you have enjoyed 2016 and look forward to 2017. We had a great year full of new experiences, creative opportunities, and lots of laughter. See the many photos below at the end of the post. Our family made some wonderful trips this year. In July, we explored [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Little Ballerina Performed Four Times Last Weekend</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2016 06:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Autumn participated in her second season of The Nutcracker this past weekend.&#160;She was a Bon Bon and had the best time performing three times last week. She has been working on this performance since early October at her dance school. For kids her age, the Bon Bons are the only option for her in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Keep on rockin&#8217; Kyle! You are missed my friend.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My friend Kyle Sasse passed away earlier this year, much too soon for all his friends and family. Unfortunately, I just heard about it but that&#8217;s how it goes. I had not seen Kyle since 2009 at the Boy Kicks Girl reunion show pre-party, but we corresponded each year, usually at Christmas. Distance and time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Celebrating our 13th Wedding Anniversary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 23:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We met for the first time at a 5k run in Burns, Oregon on June 2001. 15.5 years later, we celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary. It&#8217;s been a wonderful journey filled with joy, tears, laughter, and many firsts. Marriage is nothing to take lightly as it&#8217;s a public, and legal, commitment to each other. Through [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I learned how to network by playing in a punk rock band</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 06:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I learned the importance of networking while drumming for and managing a punk rock band in the 90s. If my band was going to move beyond the garage then we had to reach out to others. I didn&#8217;t intend to be a networker. It just happened. I would promote local&#160;shows for out of town bands [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Anchorage, Alaska for a few days</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2016 01:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent a few days in Anchorage, Alaska last week. It was for business, as I had meetings with the state emergency management, but did get out for a couple good runs and a moose sighting. If the skies are clear then the flight to and from Anchorage is probably the best part. I get [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ethan attains red belt in Tae Kwon Do!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 21:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, we attended Ethan&#8217;s graduation ceremony to red belt in Tae Kwon Do. During the ceremony he demonstrated his form, answered questions on what it means to be a senior student, sparred, and broke boards. He is very committed to obtaining black belt in a couple years and worked hard the past few years [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kids are building a bunker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 12:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sure. You can dig a hole. Just keep the dirt off the grass.&#8221; Infamous last words as both my kids and the neighbor kids created their bunker. It&#8217;s a work in progress I&#8217;m told. Honestly, I do enjoy their creativity and using the recently cut down branches. Save]]></description>
		
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		<title>Building a Shed with (mostly) Reclaimed Wood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Holt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I took a week off last August to start building my shed. Just about each weekend since then, I&#8217;ve spent a day or two trying to complete the project before the rains hit! I have another 2 or 3 days to finish the trim and ramp. This shed is for both my wife to have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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