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	<title>Lavender Luz</title>
	
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	<description>Open adoption parenting and mindful living</description>
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		<title>Fall From Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a phenomenon I&#8217;ve observed in first-borns like myself, people who gain siblings around the age of 1 or 2 or 3.* We experience a fall from grace. For a time, we are at the center of the universe, as evidenced by the fact that our parents&#8217; lives revolve around us. They delight in taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned About Openness in Adoption By Writing a Book on Open Adoption</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Open Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy blogoversary to me! Six years ago today I popped my blogging cherry with a short post about my intent to join the Barren Bi+ches Book Brigade. We were soon to discuss Peggy Orenstein&#8217;s fabulous Waiting for Daisy, and that book tour turned out to be my entrée into the ALI (Adoption/natal Loss/Infertility) community. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Quickie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 21:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing my book]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not a full post, just two alerts &#8212; one an invitation and the other an announcement: 1. Melissa at Stirrup Queens is graciously hosting a virtual book club tour of my book today. It feels a bit voyeuristic to listen in on conversations about my creation, but I&#8217;m enjoying myself immensely as I hop around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Adopted Reality, where adoption and mental illness meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoptee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;bipolar&#8221; has called my attention twice in recent years. The first was during the time Roger and I  were waiting to adopt our second child (&#8220;Meaghan&#8217;s Baby&#8220;), and the second was this past winter when I read Laura Dennis&#8217; memoir, Adopted Reality. Knowing her story makes me wonder how accurate were the ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moment Monday: Meltdowns and Mirrors</title>
		<link>http://lavenderluz.com/2013/04/perfectmomentmonday-meltdown-mirrors.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perfect Moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human condition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d had some bad news. I hadn&#8217;t slept much the night before, worrying about all the changes that would ensue as a result of a conversation I&#8217;d  dreaded having. Though I know that somehow, things will be all right again time-wise, money-wise, family-wise, I allowed myself the luxury of feeling defeated, just for one day. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Real” in Adoption and how it Splits our Babies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoptee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adoptive parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared on CreatingAFamily.org. Remember that Sesame Street segment, &#8220;One of these Things is Not Like the Other&#8221;? Can you pick which one of the four questions is out of place? And more importantly, why it is the misfit of the bunch? Which ice cream do you love most, Casey &#8212; strawberry or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston’s darkest day: a thousand points of light</title>
		<link>http://lavenderluz.com/2013/04/boston-darkness-points-of-light.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human condition]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lavenderluz.com/?p=25598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the endless looping of limited video during yesterday&#8217;s Boston Marathon tragedy, I first fixated on the 78 year-old runner who dropped to his knees at the moment of the explosion. Hours later I was relieved to know he was OK. In the dozen or so times I saw his inevitable crumble, he had become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out and about</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s spring here in the northern hemisphere, things are warming up and people are getting out and reacquainted with their neighbors. Howdy! I&#8217;ve been out and about, too. Here are a few places I&#8217;ve visited. Wanna come? Stroll with me. 1. Melissa Ford &#8212; of the just-released novel Measure of Love (which I&#8217;ve already loaded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Quest to raise awareness about adoptee rights</title>
		<link>http://lavenderluz.com/2013/04/raise-awareness-about-adoptee-rights.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoptee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Club]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[closed adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open birth records]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her memoir&#8217;s subtitle is An Adoptee&#8217;s Quest for her Origins, but in talking with Anne Bauer, I know that the another reason she wrote The Sound of Hope was to &#8220;get people to realize how damaging it is to make adoptees feel guilty when they want to know about their origins,&#8221; as she said to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to me (even if I’m not your mother)</title>
		<link>http://lavenderluz.com/2013/04/listen-to-me.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elsewhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speaking gigs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging may not pay the bills (unless you count the occasional quarters I can afford to throw at my kids to buy trinkets from gumball machines) but some really cool things come from it. Case in point: I am going to be in a show. Like, up on a stage in which people have paid [...]]]></description>
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