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		<title>Coronavirus is Our Experience, Like It or Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 22:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whoa, I need to get it together. Looks like I haven’t posted in over a year, which is crazy since puhlenty has been happening! How many wood-turned bowls have I made since my last blog? (Lots—and thank goodness they&#8217;re looking better and better!) At this moment, no news competes with the pandemic affecting the world. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My First Art Show Was&#8230; Calm!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 01:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve noticed that when I have an experience that feels deeply significant, I go quiet. After hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru for my 50th, it took awhile to write about it. Same with the 100-mile kayaking trips through Utah’s serene and stunning canyons each spring. The words sit inside me and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bowls, bowls and more bowls!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yes, you&#8217;re in the right place! Please feel free to contact me with any questions about my bowl turning or special requests. I&#8217;ll be delighted to help! &#160; P.S. I&#8217;m Stop # 21 on the Placer County Artists Studio Tour in Auburn, California Nov 9-11, 2018. Come see me turn and check out my latest [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not Just Another Roadtrip (!!!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I try to slow down often to listen to my gut. You know, just be… and hear what needs to be heard. It’s simpler, mind you, to do Life every other way—especially with a cell phone that fits snugly in our grip and is so connected to relentless information, drama and distraction. Heck I don’t really [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dope Is Not A Drug—and Yet It Is!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the best things about road trips is DISCOVERY! There is so much new and unknown to explore. If I was ever afraid of going where I know so little, I’m not anymore, because I’ve experienced time and again that sweet sense of achievement and satisfaction after racing headfirst toward my fears and finding [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Venturing Solo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ok so I&#8217;ve gotta admit&#8230; as Jim and I headed from Moab to the Salt Lake City airport with our buddy Scott, after a tremendous week of kayaking down the Green River through some of Utah&#8217;s most beautiful canyons, my inner voice was aggressively second guessing&#8230; well, ME. &#8220;What are you doingggg??&#8221; it pestered. As [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Adventure on the Green River in Utah</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 01:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The fearless float begins! I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s anything mystical, but it&#8217;s not procrastination, either. Sometimes I experience something so&#8230; perfect&#8230; that I just can&#8217;t write about it right away. It was that way after I hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru with Jim and Corey for my 50th birthday. The words [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tackling the West at Long Last</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 02:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; It has been awhile since I’ve felt this giddy. Yep, I’m on the cusp of another adventure! This one is multi tiered! In a few hours, Jim and I will fly to Utah and join a friend to carefully pack three touring kayaks [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hurricane Matthew, Haiti and Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ever mull something while asleep? When I woke up this morning, I realized I&#8217;d been pondering most of the night. It&#8217;s hard, in our culture, to understand theirs. If you want to sorta kinda slightly approach fathoming what some Haitians are experiencing&#8230; right this moment&#8230; imagine. Imagine what we are living, but from their first [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One Step At A Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[July 27, 2013 So the bucket list hike begins tomorrow and I feel as though I could write a book about all the emotions careening through me. I’ve worked myself into a bit of a tizzy of anxiety, because it’s going to test my physical limits AND be freezing each night. I don’t feel prepared—and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So I began to wonder why we wait until we get cancer or our health begins to fail to plan the year of our dreams. I mean, really. No one would fault you, if your life’s calendar was suddenly running out, should you plot those final months to include your most treasured destinations. Cramming in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Year of 50!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; And so begins the year of 50! Oh sure, you can also call it 2013 and even the year of the snake, if you love reading the table mats at Chinese restaurants. But this will be no ordinary 12 months. In July, God willing, I will celebrate—and I do mean CELEBRATE!!!!­—my 50th birthday and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bittersweet Goodbye</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been quite a ride. For eight months now, I’ve worked alongside tireless men and women who spend their waking hours (and quite a few dreaming ones, too) unraveling ways to help those impacted by natural disasters. Getting the job as communications manager was a dream come true. Ever since I felt compelled (truly, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Having Fun With Photography</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cheryl Lewis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trying out my mad skills just learned in the Kent Weakley Photography Adventure workshop in Vermont 🙂]]></description>
		
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		<title>Start Spreading the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just got back from NYC! What&#8217;s not to love? I&#8217;m grateful to Kent Weakley&#8217;s Photography Adventure Workshop in Vermont, because I learned some mad new skills! Check out the next one in Oregon!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy 4th of July :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[http://www.cheryllewis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/IMG_4703-300x199.jpg]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Greatest of These is Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ever noticed that brouhaha laughs at itself? It&#8217;s a social maelstrom, an uproar, a crisis of sorts. You could say that is what has happened since Andy Stanley, senior pastor of North Point Community Church, mentioned a gay couple at our church. Evidently, a man who was married to a woman decided he loved a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mob &#8216;Em With Hope</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cheryl Lewis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You never know when life is going to change — or end. Crisis is just that way, isn’t it? It’s not much for giving notice. But, for some, it seems that life never really starts. You know the people I mean. They trudge along, wishing they could figure out why they’re here, lost in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cheryl Lewis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Horton Heals a You</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Time flies, doesn’t it? We’re in volunteer-recruiting season in our middle-school student ministry. Soon, a host of brand-spankin-new 6th-grade students will arrive – some trembling, some celebrating, all clueless about what’s about to hit them – in our programming or life. But, as they spill into the room, I won’t see them through the lens [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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