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		<title>Simple Woman&#8217;s Daybook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time again &#8230;
Outside my window&#8230;. still snow on the ground, abundant sunshine, a little red squirrel running  around the backyard&#8230;
I am thinking&#8230; that I really need a hair cut and so have to go out and find a new stylist. Sigh. Or I could drive 3 hours each way to my former stylist, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=3192&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comfort</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While my dad was dying, and since he died on Wednesday, I heard some phrases and sentiments repeated, including

Everything happens for a reason
He&#8217;s in a better place
He fought a good fight / I&#8217;m sorry he lost his battle
It&#8217;s never easy to lose a parent / It&#8217;s only going to get worse / You&#8217;re going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=3173&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(idea, and cool pic: Metamorphosis)

 Tagged: banana spider, jekyll island, photo, predator, spider, wordless wednesday      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=3166&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Woman&#8217;s Daybook</title>
		<link>http://beyondrivalry.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/simple-womans-daybook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m copying this format from Domestic Bliss; might be nice to do this reflection exercise once a week, or it might get boring.
Outside my window&#8230;.there&#8217;s snow and it&#8217;s cold (26F but &#8220;feels like&#8221; 18F) but not as cold or windy as last week. The mail carrier just went by in her maroon station wagon without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=3161&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything that can be lost, will be lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a poem that&#8217;s helped me many a time, with many a loss.  Maybe it will speak to you, too.
THE DAKINI SPEAKS
by Jennifer Welwood
My friends, let&#8217;s grow up.
Let&#8217;s stop pretending we don&#8217;t know the deal here.
Or if we truly haven&#8217;t noticed, let&#8217;s wake up and notice.
Look: everything that can be lost, will be lost.
It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=3145&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some prayers I particularly like:
My most common prayer:
I pray for your grace and strength, dear God, to be well within my soul and part of the world&#8217;s healing today.  (adapted from Celtic Morning Prayer)

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Others:
May all find happiness through my actions,
and let no one suffer because of me. (from the Metta Karuna)
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Keep watch, dear Lord, with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=3138&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmwm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[( Idea from Notes of an Anesthesioboist )
1. What did you do in 2009 that you&#8217;ve never done before? Owned two houses at once, involuntarily. I don&#8217;t recommend it.
2. Did you keep your new year&#8217;s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Didn&#8217;t make any. As T. (the anesthesioboist) says, one day at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=3109&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Fatal Grace &#8211; Excerpts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few excerpts from Louise Penny&#8217;s cozy/police procedural hybrid, A Fatal Grace (2006), second in the Three Pines series:
***
&#8220;&#8216;The first grey hair. Now there&#8217;s a bad hair day,&#8217; said Myrna, ignoring the guys.
&#8220;&#8216;How about when that first one appears on your chin,&#8217; said Ruth. &#8216;That&#8217;s a bad hair day.&#8217;
&#8220;&#8216;God, it&#8217;s true.&#8217; Mother laughed, joining them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=3119&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books Reads 2009 &#8211; Summary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shamelessly copying Jessamyn, I&#8217;ve compiled stats for my 2009 reading:
number of books read 2009: 74
average read per month:  6
average read per week:  1.4
number read in worst month: 2 (January)
number read in best month:  11 (May)
percentage by male authors:  41%
percentage by female authors: 58%
(one was a compilation written by men and women)
fiction as percentage of total: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=3100&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death and Dying &#8211; Repost</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted this exactly a year ago and am posting it again, as it echoes (or really, crystallises) so many of my thoughts now.
Father Richard John Neuhaus is apparently near death (again) himself [he died on 8 Jan. 2009], and as he lies in hospital, it seems well worth reading his wise and often amusing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=3093&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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