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		<description>Musings from Carl Thress</description>
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			<title>This One&#8217;s Personal</title>
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			<title>Inspiration, Effort, and Art</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:21:09 EST</pubDate>
						<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m fortunate to have known and worked alongside some amazingly talented people over the years &#151; musicians, songwriters, programmers, photographers, actors, thinkers, visionaries, and visual artists of every stripe who possess more skill in one pinky finger than I could ever hope to attain.]]></description>
			
			
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			<title>Abiding and Deep</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:22:24 EST</pubDate>
						<description><![CDATA[In the days leading up to my father&#8217;s death, he was haunted by vivid, terrifying hallucinations that left him shaken to the core. As I stood by watching, I witnessed my mother&#8217;s deep and abiding love bring solace and peace to him &#151; and me &#151; during a stressful and uncertain time.]]></description>
			
			
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			<title>Last</title>
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						<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I want to be last.&#8221; It&#8217;s a familiar refrain in our house. Whether it&#8217;s serving up supper, walking out to the car, picking out candy at the dollar store, or placing an order for one of Dad&#8217;s dessert runs, whatever the activity, our six-year-old wants to be last.]]></description>
			
			
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			<title>Others</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 09:27:49 EST</pubDate>
						<description><![CDATA[The older I get, the more I realize just how much fear and hatred we have in our world. Much of that loathing is set aside for people we deem &#8216;others&#8217; &#151; those who don&#8217;t fit neatly into our comfortable molds of what a person should look like, believe in, think, feel, or love.]]></description>
			
			
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			<title>My Father&#8217;s Son</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:03:06 EST</pubDate>
						<description><![CDATA[When my father died, I was heartbroken, but I was also 43 years old. I had had many years to enjoy my Dad&#8217;s company before he died. At the time, that seemed like cold comfort, but as time passes, I realize more and more just how fortunate I truly am.]]></description>
			
			
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			<title>My Big Sister</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:49:41 EST</pubDate>
						<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share a memory I have involving my sister, Julie. It&#8217;s something she probably doesn&#8217;t even recall, but it&#8217;s stuck with me over the years, and it illustrates the amazing person she is and how lucky I am to be her brother.]]></description>
			
			
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			<title>Father&#8217;s Day</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:59:59 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Introducing NickOS 2.0</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:31:03 EDT</pubDate>
						<description><![CDATA[A fun tribute to our second-born son in honor of his second birthday. Happy birthday, Nicolas!]]></description>
			
			
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			<title>Filters and Perception</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:34:16 EDT</pubDate>
						<description><![CDATA[No two people ever experience the same event identically. Internal filters, built up over time, color our perceptions and play a major role in how we see the world.]]></description>
			
			
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