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	<title>The Morning Porch</title>
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	<description>The view from my front porch first thing in the morning, in 140 or fewer characters.</description>
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		<title>The soft trills of a screech owl...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The soft trills of a screech owl an hour before dawn. I sip my coffee as quietly as I can.
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		<title>It’s one of those perfect...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of those perfect winter mornings from my childhood: bright sun on deep snow and even the shadows sparkling as I shake my head.
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		<title>The crescent moon behind the trees...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The crescent moon behind the trees gives the newfallen snow an antique cast. It&#8217;s very cold. A distant train is the only other moving thing.
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		<title>A spotlight from the other house...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A spotlight from the other house gives me my first good look at the new landscape: soft focus and unlikely curves like a Playboy centerfold.
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		<title>Sound is out of the east, and...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sound is out of the east, and the sun&#8217;s a dimple in the gray. The feeder birds squabble. Would I guess a storm is coming if I didn&#8217;t know?
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		<title>A cloudless morning. The squeaky...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A cloudless morning. The squeaky chatter of winter finches, so forlorn on an overcast day, now seems like the sound of happiness itself.
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		<title>A new half-inch of snow. The wind...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new half-inch of snow. The wind brings traffic noise from over the ridge and the nasal calls of a chickadee. A tree cracks its knuckles.
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		<title>My meditative sit is spoiled by...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My meditative sit is spoiled by the incessant scolding of a squirrel, set off by a feral tabby. Now I know why Nanzen killed the cat.
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		<title>Wind and water, scattered chirps...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wind and water, scattered chirps of winter finches, the sound of two freight trains going through the gap: exactly the music I needed.
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		<link>http://morningporch.com/2010/02/01/159120231</link>
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		<title>Walking naked through the cold...</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walking naked through the cold house at dawn, I&#8217;m startled by a bright light among the trees on the western ridge: the moon, big as a banjo.
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