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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“John Henry was a steel-driven’ man.” When I was young, there was a song about an African-American folk hero who worked as a steel-driver, hammering six-foot-long steel rods into solid stone so explosives could be placed, obstacles blown away, and the railroad built through mountains. Songs have been written about him, and that is where [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Gift You Cannot Buy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2016 14:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I turned 70 this year. That’s a milestone. It was also a birthday problem for my son, Josh. It really shouldn’t have been – after all, he’s done it maybe 65 times already. But that is exactly why it had to be difficult for him. We have a tendency to think of presents in material [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Smacked to Activism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 12:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The sub-title of my much-neglected blog is, &#8220;I have some things to say before I die.&#8221; I seem to have found new inspiration to write from an unlikely source &#8211; the U.S. government. No, they are not paying me. I am not, after all, involved in defense products or eavesdropping. I am not related to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Love the Lottery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows the odds of winning a mega-millions lottery jackpot – virtually non-existent. If you take a 56,000 acre cornfield, one stalk gets the prize. I took the time to research that and figure it out.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Television</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I stopped watching television over two years ago. I didn’t set out to stop, there was no intellectual imperative to raise my consciousness or make me somehow better than everyone else. I wasn’t worried about my brain turning to yogurt like in the Hulu ads. (By the way – Alec Baldwin being an alien explains [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am an avid reader. Surprise. I added it all up once and estimate I’ve read maybe 5,000 books in my life, going all the way back to The Little Train That Could. Now that was a well-crafted book. A good story, strongly plotted, with a very sympathetic character living a clear story arc. Anyway, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; “I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me, they were delicious; so sweet and so cold.” Two sentences that could have come from some generic romance novel or a post-it note on the refrigerator. And yet when a famous author/poet fragments them, seemingly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Change One Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One thing that I have worked very hard at in my life is to have no regrets. So, maybe I have a few, but they are not really regrets because I wouldn’t change them even if I could. I believe firmly that if you change one thing, you change everything. For example, my sister applied [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Upside of Dying</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I used to think about dying young. I don’t anymore, mostly because it&#8217;s too late for that. At best, I can die before my time, and there are some who would argue that. I am actually quite at peace with death, and with life. I have always lived life beyond my means – economically, emotionally, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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