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		<title>Getting To Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 02:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I dug ditches for a living, every day I&#8217;d show up to work.&#160; And whether I felt like it or not, I&#8217;d pick up a shovel and start digging.&#160; But because I think and write for a living, it&#8217;s not that simple.&#160; At this moment, even this post is a way for me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 Random Things About Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;m cheating on this post, as it comes off my Facebook account. But hey, I still wrote it. I imagine some of these items will become topics for future posts. 1. I am absolutely terrible at small talk. 2. I think I&#8217;m already out of ideas. 3. If I had nothing else to do, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meta Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed something tonight that is bugging me. I noticed that I rarely see people. They are all around me, and I am looking, but I don&#8217;t see them. What I see is them seeing me. I think maybe I have read this before, or heard of something like it, but I can&#8217;t remember where. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loving what makes us miserable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re really attached to what makes us miserable. We&#8217;re into it. It gets us through our day. Why am I so afraid to let go of what violates and compromises my heart&#8217;s desire? &#8212;James Finley]]></description>
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		<title>Was Mellencamp Right?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his song, &#8220;Jack and Diane,&#8221; John (Cougar) Mellencamp wrote, &#8220;Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone.&#8221; If I am honest, sometimes I feel that way. I&#8217;m 43, and there aren&#8217;t very many firsts left anymore. In fact, I think my next &#8220;first&#8221; to look forward to is my first grandchild. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things we lost (and found) in the fire, prt. 4</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/03/lost-in-fire-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plan was to send Anna to an in-patient treatment facility after she was discharged from the hospital. The hospital had plans to send Anna to a place that her mom was not comfortable with. I shared Christy&#8217;s opinion, but there&#8217;s only one mama bear. Thankfully she stood her ground and insisted on doing research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things we lost (and found) in the fire, prt. 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The open house on Saturday came off without a hitch. Other than Christy and I having to make up a reason that our youngest daughter was not at our oldest daughter&#8217;s open house, of course. We told everyone she was spending a few days being monitored at the hospital for a reaction she had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things we lost (and found) in the fire, prt. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Anna woke up I quickly pulled myself together. I didn&#8217;t know what to say or how to say it. I was still scared and angry. I approached her bed and said, &#8220;You know that more than anything in the world right now I want to put on my counselor hat and figure out why and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things we lost (and found) in the fire, prt. 1</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/03/in-the-fire-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is the true story of the darkest few months of my life. I hope and believe others can learn from it. It revolves around my daughter Anna, and Anna has reviewed and given her consent for me to post each of the parts in this series. It is her desire for others to learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To my childhood self</title>
		<link>http://thefallencleric.com/2012/03/to-my-childhood-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thefallencleric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were to write a letter to your childhood self, what would you say? Here&#8217;s mine&#8230; Dear Little Dave: You is smart, you is kind, and you is important. Okay, that&#8217;s from a movie that&#8217;s popular now, but it&#8217;s true. You&#8217;ll need to carry this with you for a lifetime. So what&#8217;s up, little [...]]]></description>
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