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		<title>On Plumber’s Block and the Birth Process, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2013/06/on-plumbers-block-and-the-birth-process-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post Recently, I watched a documentary that featured famous Irish writers giving advice about writing. When asked about writer’s block, one famous Irish writer scoffed, “Writer’s block? There’s no such thing. I mean you don’t hear plumber’s talking about plumber’s block. You just have to get over yourself, take up a pen, and write.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Putter: My Kind of Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradford Winters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mr putter and tabby write the book]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A favorite anecdote that I’ve often shared with other writers dates back to college when my good friend Andy staggered into my room equally exhausted and exhilarated to announce a breakthrough on his senior thesis about Thomas Hardy. He plopped onto my futon, then followed a big sigh with the most telling question: “Wanna go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for a Father</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2013/06/looking-for-a-father/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Huffman Polson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last Father’s Day card I sent to my father came back to me, returned with the other personal effects recovered from the campsite he and my stepmother shared along an Arctic river. I’d talked to them on Father’s Day that year on a satellite phone when they called after dinner. I’d been sitting on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practicing Forgiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vic Sizemore</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3510</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago an old friend of mine emailed and asked me to forgive him for any harm he had done me in the past. It seemed odd to me. I told him he hadn’t done me any harm but if it would give him any peace then sure, I forgive him. The very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family, Friends, Honored Guests</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A. G. Harmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graduation season has come to a close now, and the above-said words have welcomed the last audience to the final pomp and circumstance. I went through the yearly routine, yet again, both on the bestowing end, at my school, and on the spectating end, watching one of my nieces. I saw and heard mostly what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystery Inside Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Backous Troy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past nine months, I feel like I’ve been at a standstill. A place in which I have no words, nothing to describe what is happening to me, and in me. In six weeks, I am due to give birth to my first child, a son, and although I have had flashes of deep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiman and Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peggy Rosenthal</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At “Good Letters,” words are what we work with. Of course, this is true of all blogs, all writing. Yet consciousness of the craft of writing is key to our posts. No matter what our declared subject, our undeclared subject—our subtext—is always what are my words doing here? What can words do—anywhere? Words Made Flesh: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nebuchadnezzar, Nevermore</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2013/06/nebuchadnezzar-nevermore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 06:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Thomas Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like the ox. His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. —Daniel 4:33 In the summer of 1999, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Shall I Answer If God Calls My Name?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Chess</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here I am. Out of place. The computer terminal asks for my borrower&#8217;s card ID. I don&#8217;t have a borrower&#8217;s card for this library: Cherry Hill Public Library. Once, I did. But it&#8217;s gone now, burned in a fire at my parents&#8217; house decades ago, or packed in some unlabeled box on a shelf in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cathedrals of Consumption</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2013/06/cathedrals-of-consumption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Langston</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[consumption]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/?p=3476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago now, not long after I had been received into the Orthodox Church, I had a dream that has remained vivid: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, our chief celebration of the Eucharist and main Sunday service, is being celebrated right next to the escalators in a Neiman Marcus store. In the [...]]]></description>
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