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	<title>Monkey Mind</title>
	
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		<title>I Accept the Universe! Marking Margaret Fuller’s Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on this day in 1810. She was an author, editor, journalist and literary critic, an educator, a first-wave feminist, and, critically for us one of the leading lights of the Transcendentalist movement. Her accomplishments included a litany of firsts, Fuller was the first woman, who while not allowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Forget to Lift a Toast to Harvey Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Harvey Milk&#8216;s birthday. Harvey was the first openly gay person to be elected to office in California, and possibly in the country. He would have been eighty-three if he had not been assassinated by fellow San Francsico city supervisor, well technically ex-supervisor, Dan White. His birthday is an official state holiday in California. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday, Fats!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 &#8211; December 15, 1943)]]></description>
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		<title>A DISCOURSE ON THE TRANSIENT &amp; PERMANENT IN CHRISTIANITY: A Meditation on Theodore Parker &amp; the Call of Liberal Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2013/05/a-discourse-on-the-transient-permanent-in-christianity-a-meditation-on-theodore-parker-the-call-of-liberal-religion.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 17:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A DISCOURSE ON THE TRANSIENT &#038; PERMANENT IN CHRISTIANITY A Meditation on Theodore Parker and the Call of Liberal Religion James Ishmael Ford 19 May 2013 First Unitarian Church Providence, Rhode Island Text There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolutions, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AWAKENING &amp; SAMADHI IN ZEN A Review of Gregory Shepherd’s Memoir “A Straight Road With 99 Curves”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AWAKENING &#038; SAMADHI IN ZEN A Review of Gregory Shepherd’s A Straight Road With 99 Cures: Coming of Age on the Zen Path James Ishmael Ford When I was asked if I would be willing to review a new book by a Diamond Sangha member who had once been groomed to be Robert Aitken Roshi’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Shall Be Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1373 Julian of Norwich began writing down an account of a series of visions that occurred during an illness. I have to admit she seems crazy as a bedbug to me. And&#8230; There&#8217;s something Hakuin like in her, as well, another bedbug crazy wise person. And, her &#8220;all shall be well&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruth’s Words to Naomi as Koan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 21:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago on Facebook, someone, as I recall, a fellow Unitarian Universalist minister mentioned visiting a new city and seeing announcements for worship services for the two most liberal congregations. The UU church advertised the sermon title as &#8220;On Consciousness,&#8221; while the progressive Christian congregation had a sermon advertised as &#8220;Bad Girls of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the good folk at Wikipedia, this is the day in the year 70 that Titus attacked Jerusalem&#8217;s third wall in an all out assault on the city. From that point things go badly for the Israelites&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>My Goodness, Gary Snyder!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 10:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beat Zen Buddhist poet and eco-activist icon, Gary Snyder turns eighty three today!]]></description>
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		<title>Marking William Ellery Channing’s Birth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 12:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Ellery Channing was born on this day in 1780, Newport, Rhode Island. If I were to create a calendar of saints (which would mark birthdays rather than the day someone died, as I want to celebrate what they did not some hypothetical reward in the sweet by and bye), the Reverend Channing would have [...]]]></description>
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