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		<title>1000 Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2019 00:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is the 1000th day since my second hip operation. I know this because Brian Williams starts his MSNBC show, The 11th Hour by saying which day it is of Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency, and my surgery was four days after his inauguration. Other than peeking my head up from time to time, I&#8217;ve been mostly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been absent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been absent from my life as well as this blog. If you&#8217;ve read this before, you may know that I only post occasionally, when I have something to share, rather than keeping to a set schedule. And it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve shared anything. Here&#8217;s why— I&#8217;ve been really sick this year. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>De&#8217;VIA Elders Reunion Conference • May 2016</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2016 01:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Note: I originally wrote this in June, but didn&#8217;t have all the info and links that I wanted. Then work and life intervened, so I&#8217;m posting it now (11/14/2016). —Nancy C. The Beginnings of De’VIA Just before Memorial Day weekend, I was in Chicago for the De’VIA Elder’s Reunion and Conference/Exhibit. We elders (signed as “wise [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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			<media:title type="html">That&#039;s me in Chicago. We were walking from the gallery to our dorms and Sandi took this photo.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The 1989 De&#039;VIA Visual Manifesto.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sandi (right) and I were laughing about something during the first two days of the conference.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">This is the document we worked on the final day of the conference. The first part is from the elders, the second part is from attendees of the conference.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Taken during the closing reception, this shows the De&#039;VIA elders with Jim Van Manen, his assistants, and the 2016 De&#039;VIA Mural. L-R: Mark, Sandi Inches, Paul Johnston, Tony McGregor, Ann Silver, Jim Van Manan, Guy Wonder, Alex Wilhite, Nancy Creighton, Megan Powers, Ethan.</media:title>
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		<title>Arrrgh! Writer&#8217;s Block!</title>
		<link>https://purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/arrrgh-writers-block/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2016 02:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A lot of bloggers keep to a schedule&#8211; once a week or once a day. I&#8217;ve never been able to do that. I only write when I have something I really want to share with my readers. I&#8217;ve been trying now for a couple of weeks to write about the fantastic week I had in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>2015 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to the annual report below, I only posted three times this past year, and three times the year before that. I&#8217;ve been busy, just haven&#8217;t been writing about my busyness. While recovering from a broken hip has taken up a lot of my physical and emotional time, I&#8217;ve also: Planned and produced a memorial for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Looking at Deaf art: online is informative but real is powerful</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve seen this image before, haven&#8217;t you? It&#8217;s on page 129 of Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America by Jack R. Gannon. That&#8217;s the first page of the entry on Betty G. Miller, and it&#8217;s one of the most well-known paintings she&#8217;s created. But if all you&#8217;ve seen is a photo like this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My new TV thinks I&#8217;m hearing</title>
		<link>https://purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/my-new-tv-thinks-im-hearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2015 23:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Nancy Creighton My new TV is not bad, it&#8217;s perfectly serviceable. But it&#8217;s got a built-in assumption&#8211; that television viewers are hearing people. In these days of diversity, respecting the disabled, and universal design principles, such an assumption is indefensible. The old RCA TV I&#8217;ve been using gave up the ghost recently. It was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One year anniversary of&#8230; my fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2015 01:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just came in from walking my dog, Tucker. A year ago, I took him out, drove to one of our places to walk, and just after letting him out of the car, I fell. It was just before 8 pm, and getting dark. I was very lucky that a kind stranger driving by noticed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s back on! You&#8217;re invited to help celebrate Betty&#8217;s life</title>
		<link>https://purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/its-back-on-youre-invited-to-help-celebrate-bettys-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2014 08:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Memorial for Deaf artist Betty G. Miller (Bettigee) is scheduled for Sunday, December 7, 2014.]]></description>
		
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			<media:title type="html">12/7/2014 is the date for Betty&#039;s memorial</media:title>
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		<title>Postponed! Betty G. Miller&#8217;s Memorial</title>
		<link>https://purpleswirlarts.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/postponed-betty-g-millers-memorial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is with great reluctance that I am canceling the memorial program celebrating Betty G. Miller’s life on Saturday, April 12, 2014.]]></description>
		
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