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		<title>Healthcare Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Australia! I&#8217;m here teaching Qigong and visiting friends and having fun establishing my WujiTech software here in this beautiful country.  It&#8217;s a country, like Canada and many others that have a national health care plan.  People pay taxes and they get decent health care as part of the package.  They laugh when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trippin’</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/trippin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awaken dreaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kauai]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.francescogarripoli.com/?p=61</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;getting ready for a long journey&#8230; four months on the road, teaching Qigong, sharing my WujiTech software, and meeting with people in 7 different countries&#8230; more than 30,000 miles of travel&#8230; what drives our soul?  what drives our dreaming, our wide awake dreaming to move us to do the things we do?  we are each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Settling into Australia…</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/settling-into-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.francescogarripoli.com/?p=59</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings! This is my first post for a while&#8230; so much of my time has been building www.WujiTech.com, my exciting software venture that I hope will create new options to building and empowering communities by &#8220;listening&#8221; to Members and building growth and progress based on shared values.  Applying this to companies/corporations is a trip as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanamua, Master of Acting on Instinct</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/nanamua-master-of-acting-on-instinct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awaken dreaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nanamua]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we know, the animal world teaches us a lot&#8230; I remember when the Discovery Channel was a rough idea before it went on-air and the founder KNEW that his key program had to be about animals.  PBS always capitalized this and makes sure something about curious creatures shows up on its fund drives&#8230; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing Fearsome Foes</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/facing-fearsome-foes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[welcome to peaceful kaua&#8217;i&#8230; it&#8217;s almost 11:00 pm and my heart is still beating fast&#8230; around 10:30 pm I hear a loud sound over the music I&#8217;m listening to as I work away on my computer&#8230; it&#8217;s a creepy sound and I put Pandora Radio on pause&#8230; outside the window is the unmistakable sound of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waking, dreaming, Punakha, Bhutan – Part 2.</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/waking-dreaming-punakha-bhutan-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not nearly as royal as the purple Jacarandas in full bloom and on guard around the majestic Punakha Dzong, the tree outside my window has its own grace and job to do. Swaying in the gentle wind, this cross between a weeping willow, a tree fern, and bamboo provides shade for the hundred or so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waking, dreaming, Punakha, Bhutan Part 1.</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/waking-dreaming-punakha-bhutan-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the only thing that even suggested that I was in Bhutan was the bank of windows that had that tell tale woodwork design one sees on every farm house and hotel throughout this amazing country. My room is a stark yellow plaster cube, but comfortingly quiet, with none of the barking dogs of Thimphu that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breathe Deep eNewsletter – March – April 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/breathe-deep-enewsletter-march-april-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[breathe deep newsletter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bhutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chi gong]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Personal Message from Francesco * Qigong Study Trip to China in September &#8211; Magical Sichuan&#8230; * Qigong For Women (and Men) &#8211; Daisy&#8217;s Radiant Lotus April, May &#38; June workshops in Kaua&#8217;i, Metro D.C., Honolulu, San Diego, Boulder, Palo Alto &#38; East Bay * Qigong Workshop with Francesco &#38; Daisy in Michigan and Maryland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreaming awake in Dharamsala, India…</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/dreaming-awake-in-dharamsala-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awaken dreaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[qigong energy healing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dalai lama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Dharamsala, India! It�s 10 pm at the foot of the Himalaya Mountains, a majestic snow capped peak of the Dola Dar range looms over this still warm valley teeming with evening life� several families and laughing friends enjoying alfresco dinner in the open-air restaurant, shops lit by single fluorescent bulbs still attracting customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breathe Deep e-Newsletter #43 – Jan – Feb 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/breathe-deep-qigong-enewsletter43/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bhutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china trips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daisy lee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Breathe Deep e-Newsletter is over 10 years old, offering inspiration and ideas for people interested in Qigong, tai chi, meditation study trips to China, India or Bhutan, or learning more about DVDs and books on the subject.  Schedules of events lead and taught by Francesco Garri Garripoli and Daisy Lee are also included.]]></description>
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		<title>Wrapping Around My Heart</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/wrapping-around-my-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people ask me about my songwriting&#8230; and that&#8217;s always been a private part of my life&#8230; Songs are like coded personal journals; they reveal the depths of our soul, with the details sometimes shrouded in metaphor and diversion&#8230; I&#8217;ve been writing songs for 35 years and they&#8217;ve always been a place of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qigong Documentary for PBS TV</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/qigong-documentary-for-pbs-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Hour TV Documentary for Television Ten years ago when I had the idea to create a professional, journalistic television documentary on the subject of Qigong (pronounced &#8220;chee gong&#8221;) it was just another crazy idea &#8211; underfunded and from my heart. After a couple of years of living in China and studying with Masters of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First Blog Post – Welcome!</title>
		<link>http://www.francescogarripoli.com/my-first-blog-post-welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francesco Garripoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings! &#8230;and welcome to my first blog post here at Blog-i-poli! I&#8217;m so grateful to my friend and tech wiz Kirk VandenBerghe (HealthyNewAge.com) for his help to make this possible&#8230; If you&#8217;re a person like me who has way too many things going, you need to be really efficient lest the whole enchilada comes crashing [...]]]></description>
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