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		<title>Doing the Work: Just One Step</title>
		<link>http://lyricalfool.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/doing-the-work-just-one-step/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend with degenerative disk disease.  We fell in friend-love because we have a lot in common: we&#8217;re both intelligent, snarky, music-loving folks who adore the sublimely silly.  For a long, long time, we talked every day.  When his pain became too bad, we&#8217;d hang up, he&#8217;d pop a pill or three, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyricalfool.wordpress.com&amp;blog=752096&amp;post=1104&amp;subd=lyricalfool&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Need Not Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 13:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four of the most powerful words I&#8217;ve ever encountered, shamelessly taken, incidentally, from A Course in Miracles. I look to the side where it says &#8220;What I&#8217;m Reading.&#8221; I haven&#8217;t updated it in, well, forever, since it&#8217;s been well over a year since I&#8217;ve read Heinlein.  On one hand, I think of the things that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyricalfool.wordpress.com&amp;blog=752096&amp;post=1098&amp;subd=lyricalfool&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Things that Change Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been an interesting month; I suppose I should have expected no less from living with a goddess. We&#8217;ve survived ankle biting, running through the house with underwear, ears all a-flapping, hole-digging, and poo-eating.  She&#8217;s a Mike Tyson with the grooming brush, and if the brush had an ear, it&#8217;d be gone, gone, gone, Vincent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyricalfool.wordpress.com&amp;blog=752096&amp;post=1091&amp;subd=lyricalfool&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goddesses, Goodness, and Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have met the goddess, and her name is Durga. I do things ass-backwards according to everyone else&#8217;s standards, I think.  In this case, I named the dog before I even met her, hoping the right one would come to me.  An experiment in faith, I suppose. I was at wits&#8217; end.  Terrified and terrorized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyricalfool.wordpress.com&amp;blog=752096&amp;post=1077&amp;subd=lyricalfool&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turning on the Lights</title>
		<link>http://lyricalfool.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/turning-on-the-lights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I thought 2011 would greet a new me, a new, healthier, happier, more optimistic me, I couldn&#8217;t have been more wrong. The break-in, and the subsequent acts of vandalism have left me fearful, afraid. Jumping at noises and silent company.    Friends acting decidedly unfriendly:  the crossing of boundaries in such a way that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyricalfool.wordpress.com&amp;blog=752096&amp;post=1065&amp;subd=lyricalfool&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No One and Nothing is Against Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Make your path about proving this truth, and you will discover what wholeness really is.&#8221;  I of the Storm by Gary Simmons The past two, three months have been chaotic. Chaotic is too kind a word, but it&#8217;s somewhat fitting.  My first grad school class, a condensed, 5-hour a day class, two days a week [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyricalfool.wordpress.com&amp;blog=752096&amp;post=1059&amp;subd=lyricalfool&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little Firebird</title>
		<link>http://lyricalfool.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/little-firebird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must be willing to get rid of the life we&#8217;ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. &#8212; Joseph Campbell There is a woman I know only peripherally, someone I&#8217;ve bumped into over the course of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyricalfool.wordpress.com&amp;blog=752096&amp;post=1052&amp;subd=lyricalfool&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back in the Academic Bubble</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first graduate class is almost half over, and I&#8217;m both a little sad and a whole lotta grateful. It&#8217;s a concentrated, one month course, and it&#8217;s definitely not a traditional English class.  It&#8217;s on oral narrative, and we start our interviews today.   I think I know why it took so long to get into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyricalfool.wordpress.com&amp;blog=752096&amp;post=1048&amp;subd=lyricalfool&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lavender Scented Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 16:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memorial Day weekend is here: a time when the roar of V-twin engines invades the Coast much to my delight.  It&#8217;s the party before the silence, the dionysian party before the appollonian remembrance.   Every year, I&#8217;d see more leather than Texas produces in a year, more mixing of different kinds of folks, more of &#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyricalfool.wordpress.com&amp;blog=752096&amp;post=1035&amp;subd=lyricalfool&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Officially Official</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 11:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s officially official. I am a grad student, and I begin classes next Tuesday. I&#8217;ve been vacillating between hyperventilating and breathing many sighs of relief. So things are nearly normal. I&#8217;ve also started working on my resentment list for OA. I&#8217;ve noticed strange things happening. I&#8217;ve hemmed and hawed, putting it off and putting it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lyricalfool.wordpress.com&amp;blog=752096&amp;post=1029&amp;subd=lyricalfool&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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