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		<title>Hot water from the well</title>
		<link>http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/hot-water-from-the-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Precious</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Precious, defined conventionally according to Urban Dictionary, in part, as follows:
Something that means more to you than anyone could understand. It&#8217;s value and worth can&#8217;t be defined and you&#8217;d do anything to keep it. Beautiful and delicate.
Now, I understand.  Something, someone worth more than can be defined.  And that is the courageous young [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surfaceearth.wordpress.com&blog=494563&post=1561&subd=surfaceearth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shattered Glass</title>
		<link>http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/shattered-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/?p=1546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am the glass shattered
On a clear
Winter day
Appearing as ice
On an otherwise
Unbroken surface
I am the dove
Holding her sound
Against
The weight
Of the gray sky

I am the mountain
Beneath the sun
Holding the tendrils
Of winter
To not unleash
My power
Upon the plains
I am the air
You breath
Whether or not
You call me
She

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		<title>Reads&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/reads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SurfaceEarth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Clooney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girl Mary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Mortenson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Half the Sky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Petru Popescu]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/?p=1543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are two recommended &#8220;reads&#8221;.
Obviously, the world is chockful of books recommend  to read, but today, I want to share two:
1.  Half the Sky
Why?  Because the book &#8220;is&#8221;.
How many times do you spend a moment asking what can I do?  This book is replete with organizations we can help.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surfaceearth.wordpress.com&blog=494563&post=1543&subd=surfaceearth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Choking the Matrix</title>
		<link>http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/choking-the-matrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/?p=1528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s time for a bit of a rambling post.
Let&#8217;s take two different and yet somehow related issues:
1.  Streaks of misfortune; and
2.  Decision to maybe stop reading/watching any mainstream media.
You may ask, as I did, what could these two things possibly have in common?  Well, it&#8217;s a long meandering discussion, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surfaceearth.wordpress.com&blog=494563&post=1528&subd=surfaceearth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zathura &amp; Me</title>
		<link>http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/1518/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a particular scene in the movie, Zathura, that came as close as anything has to my mental wanderings of what it would be like if my soul and my human self were to meet each other in the same moment.
At the end of the film, the &#8220;older&#8221;, (I say that gently, older compared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surfaceearth.wordpress.com&blog=494563&post=1518&subd=surfaceearth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting all that cash in perspective</title>
		<link>http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/putting-all-that-cash-in-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/?p=1383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the chatter in the media about Congress spending $500 Billion for this and $500 billion for that, we thought it worthwhile to put all that cash in perspective.  I have held a few $20 bills in my hand, so I can imagine what a few hundred dollars would look like, or perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surfaceearth.wordpress.com&blog=494563&post=1383&subd=surfaceearth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do No Harm</title>
		<link>http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/do-no-harm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reflected today on that simple phrase:  Do No Harm.
I realized it would be a lottery ticket for the human race.
If we were to all adopt that mantra, breath and live it, we could re-balance the world.
I had been driving home from a meeting and was thinking of the state of the world.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surfaceearth.wordpress.com&blog=494563&post=1461&subd=surfaceearth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Pinky and Rubicon</title>
		<link>http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/on-pinky-and-rubicon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you choose your color today, or must others still do that for you? Can anyone of us with mixed heritage be predominantly called by just one name? What does that say about the heritage you choose (or is chosen for you), and the heritage not chosen? It appears to me that regardless of your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surfaceearth.wordpress.com&blog=494563&post=1326&subd=surfaceearth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Pinky</media:title>
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		<title>A Lion Passes</title>
		<link>http://surfaceearth.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/a-lion-passes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Edward Kennedy (1932-2009)
[Photo Credit: AP]
In regards to civil rights, health, and the economic well-being of the average American, few elected officials anywhere have accomplished as much. 
No real life is flawless, and his was no exception. The difference in Ted Kennedy was that he did not drown himself in self-pity, would not quit when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surfaceearth.wordpress.com&blog=494563&post=1356&subd=surfaceearth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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