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		<title>Book of Blackbirds: Faeries and Elves, Revisited</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chloé Thorne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We can find real magic in these connections with others, and in our connections with something greater than ourselves. We are able to remain individuals and yet still be a part of a whole that is greater than the sum of it’s participants and that’s a positive.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book of Blackbirds: The Choice</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2017/12/book-of-blackbirds-the-choice/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chloé Thorne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2017 19:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The feeling that our god has chosen us might well be a valid one, but it is also true that in any relationship it is always our own choice whether to accept being chosen or not.
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		<title>Book of Blackbirds: Pumpkins, Squashes, and Witchettys</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2017/11/book-of-blackbirds/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chloé Thorne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 01:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some gourds are good for decorating up and making rattles and drums out of, too. They have so many uses; there’s just something about squashes and pumpkins and gourds that I find magical and always have.
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		<title>Book of Blackbirds: Principles of Solitary Spellwork</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2017/03/principles-solitary-spellwork/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chloé Thorne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The sort of magic I know and am most familiar with is a kind of natural, unscripted, everyday magic, resulting from a lifetime of living and coping with it.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book of Blackbirds: Fluffy Bunny Thoughts</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2017/01/fluffy-bunny-thoughts/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chloé Thorne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I'll admit to having a few fluffy bunny tendencies.  But, as a rule I don't claim to be magical to everyone I meet to impressing them with my witchy-ness.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book of Blackbirds: Grace</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2016/12/book-blackbirds-grace/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chloé Thorne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Human beings have created a world of artificial divisions and dichotomies, but this is merely one perception of the world, and a somewhat faulty one for all that.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book of Blackbirds: The Politics of Kindness</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2016/10/book-of-blackbirds-the-politics-of-kindness/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chloé Thorne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2016 12:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I believe that showing simple kindness, while not exclusive to Paganism by any means, rightfully belongs as one of our most basic core tenets, right up there with revering our Mother Earth as sacred and taking a stand against hatred, bigotry, and greed wherever it shows its ugly head.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book of Blackbirds: The Difference Between Faeries and Elves</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2016/10/book-of-blackbirds-the-difference-between-faeries-and-elves/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chloé Thorne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some think of faeries and elves as two closely related species; some may even use the words interchangeably.  Faeries and elves are in fact probably at least more closely related than horses and donkeys, though in human terms (which terms the elves seem to enjoy using more than do the faeries, who don't really care what you think), the elves would say it is the faeries who are the donkeys.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book of Blackbirds:  Honouring Sacred Spaces, Part Three &#8211; Saving Space</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2016/09/book-of-blackbirds-honouring-sacred-spaces-part-three-saving-space/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chloé Thorne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many sacred spaces are seriously threatened and under attack right now, and I don't just mean by a few well meaning though perhaps overzealous pagans with western, first-world ideas of borrowed spirituality.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book of Blackbirds: Honouring Sacred Spaces, Part Two: Personal Space</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chloé Thorne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The truth for me personally is that I do not feel any overwhelming desire or spiritual calling to visit some of the better known indigenous or aboriginal sacred sites. This is most likely because the other sites are simply not my gods nor my places.]]></description>
		
		
		
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