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		<title>Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sit in a rocking chair facing my fireplace wearing blue jeans and a hooded sweatshirt. A chunk of burning wood separates from a log and falls. With a poker, I shove it into the coals so it will continue burning. I scoot the chair forward and extend my legs onto the hearth, crossing them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Writings Everyone Should Read Before The Age Of Twenty</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education rewards its possessors with freedom of the mind as well as success in the marketplace. Nothing adds to a life like opening the doors of the brain and allowing ideas to enter and state their cases. The personal benefits of education are multiple. Learning brings self-satisfaction as well as respect in the community, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Healthful Dinner Ideas For A Week Of Evening Meals</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you’re getting eight hours of sleep each night, meditating in the morning, writing in your journal, downing a protein drink for breakfast, eating a turkey-on-whole-wheat sandwich for lunch, taking a fruit drink in the afternoon, drinking plenty of water, and exercising an hour a day. Your system is clean, and you feel great. Only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Wonderful Things To Give Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Eikermann</dc:creator>
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		<title>Espíritu</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Eikermann</dc:creator>
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		<title>La Cueva</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Eikermann</dc:creator>
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		<title>Pretty Sentences</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doug Eikermann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time thinking about the creative process and what it takes to produce writing that is both pleasurable and meaningful. In addition, I ponder my own writing goals. Surely, something that I spend so much time doing deserves substantial contemplation. With the exception of my interaction with the wonderful people whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a dream, I see myself walking through a magnificent garden toward a flowing fountain, or perhaps I am sitting beside the fountain watching a man approach along a flower-lined path. The quiet of the sanctum fills me and affords an opportunity for reflection. Peace sweeps over me, and my anxiety is gone. The garden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Woman In My Journal – The Memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Eikermann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the woman’s story develops in my journal, she comes across as mostly feminine. Not terribly so now as an older woman, but still, something female flows from her&#8212;a glow, a hue, a trait that has become more subtle with age. She seems feminine and, at the same time, frustrated at her inability to hold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corazones y Culebras</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Eikermann</dc:creator>
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