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		<title>What She Left Behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my novel A Woman in the Wild, the main character is Thea who goes to the mountains for a long retreat. The following passage is from one of her many hikes: Photograph by Mykola Swarnyk,&#160;CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons She stopped in a small clearing to sip from her water flask. Above her,<a class="more-link" href="https://tadcrawford.com/2025/04/10/what-she-left-behind/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Ghost of Christmas Present</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In A Christmas Carol,  Charles Dickens uses the Christmas spirits to offer a profound change to Scrooge.  Scrooge finds in the age-old tension between the human and spirit worlds a drama of sacrifice and exchange. The renewing abundance of nature is symbolized by the Ghost of Christmas Present.&#160; But, as we well know, such a fertility god is caught up in<a class="more-link" href="https://tadcrawford.com/2022/01/06/a-holiday-tale-of-money-and-illusions/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beware of Man’s Best Friend</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tad Crawford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“You’re not going?” I called after the dachshund, but he had turned his rear toward me and continued away to the spot where I had first seen him. There the tiny figure paused and pointed his long nose like a compass needle in my direction. “I’ve brought the lawsuit against you,” he said, “for your<a class="more-link" href="https://tadcrawford.com/2022/01/05/beware-of-mans-best-friend/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Creating From Within</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tad Crawford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[C. G. Jung, in undertaking his autobiography&#160;Memories, Dreams, Reflections, said he would not begin such a project unless it was imposed on him from within. That is a high standard that I believe is met by anyone who works for the primary reward of experiencing the creative process and what that process brings forth. But<a class="more-link" href="https://tadcrawford.com/2022/01/04/creating-from-within/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beauty of the Dreaming World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tad Crawford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A short story I rouse myself, still lethargic, from my light slumber in the warmth of the sun.&#160; My father and I sit side by side in zero gravity beach chairs that recline to support our legs as well as our backs. In front of us is the blue-green pool and beyond that a pedestal<a class="more-link" href="https://tadcrawford.com/2022/01/03/the-beauty-of-the-dreaming-world/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Murakami, Baseball, and Fiction</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tad Crawford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a blog post on Shelf Awareness, I suggested that Haruki Murakami’s “mesmerizing fantasies offer a tonic to a culture overly enmeshed in the realities of the day to day.” A curious facet of Murakami’s life story is how he came to his breakthrough realization that he could be a novelist. One day in April, 1978,<a class="more-link" href="https://tadcrawford.com/2022/01/02/murakami-baseball-and-fiction/">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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