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		<title>The Greatest Gift of All</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/the-greatest-gift-of-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is, again, from Steve Goodier, the Methodist minister with the newsletter I have been receiving by far the longest of the many things I get daily, these are no longer daily, but are always treasured.  This one is most appropriate for my blog too.  You&#8217;ll see why.  :^) gene
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		<title>The Blue Bird of Happiness</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/the-blue-bird-of-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is all Steve Goodier, a wonderful story, and a little spin at the end, that would be me.  :^)
BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS
A sign in a pet store read, &#8220;If anybody has seen the Bluebird of Happiness, would you please notify this pet store?&#8221;
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		<title>The Last Mimzy</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/the-last-mimzy-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t new, but rather a repeat, that will for reasons of your own become obvious as to why.  Not the best thing I&#8217;ve written, but it makes me feel so much better about life.  And today I need that.  :^) gene
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		<title>Man&#8217;s best friend, My bff, My Cisco</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/mans-best-friend-my-bff-my-cisco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I lost the best friend I have ever had in this life.  Cisco, born 11/14/1995, died 08/07/2009.
I want to just talk a little about this furry wonder who came into my life when he was 7 weeks old weighing 7 pounds, 7 ounces and full of spunk already.  He was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=204&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An update and a few words</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/an-update-and-a-few-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you following my son&#8217;s story on CaringBridge, you&#8217;ll know that is where I&#8217;ve done most of my writing the past, nearly three months now.  His accident and his slow recovery, now beginning a long and painful rehabilitation process, has consumed my time and attention pretty much completely since April 23.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=202&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dark night turned into a bright new day</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/dark-night-turned-into-a-bright-new-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 23:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not been here for a bit and while doing some housecleaning thought to check back in here and noticed my last post.  I thought I&#8217;d best update things!
Evan spent a month in the Critical Care Unit of the ICU but last Thursday was moved to the &#8220;normal&#8221; ICU.  He had us all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=200&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What dark night is this?</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/what-dark-night-is-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 02:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, my third post of the year.  Why?  Well, the year has been taken with concern for and dealing with my only remaining child.  He has been dark and depressed for most of the past three years as he separated from his wife, I will not go into why here, that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=198&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beautiful You</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/the-beautiful-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Steve Goodier&#8217;s wonderful newsletter:
We place great emphasis on a narrow idea of physical beauty.
In an American history discussion group, the professor was trying to explain how, throughout history, the concept of &#8220;beauty&#8221; changes with time. &#8220;For example,&#8221; he said, &#8220;take the 1921 Miss America. She stood
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		<title>A God Too Small</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/a-god-too-small/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Steve Goodier:
A GOD TOO SMALL
I enjoy a story about baseball great Joe Garagiola. He once stepped to the plate when his turn came to bat. Before assuming his stance, however, fervent Roman Catholic Joe took his bat and made the sign of the cross in the dirt in front of home plate. Catcher Yogi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=194&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Silence</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/breaking-the-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which will be welcome news to some.  I think.  I&#8217;m still not sure how much I will be writing, but I will again be writing.  While on my hiatus from this blog, I&#8217;ve been fully engaged in life, struggles, issues, day to day things that have, and continue, to consume my time. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=192&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A goodbye</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/186/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am shutting down writing for a while.  This blog was never the main point of my buying a website name in the first place.  My main site One People &#8211; One World  was, and is, the reason.  I&#8217;ve been told this should be about the light, well, there is very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=186&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boogie</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/184/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My youngest son&#8217;s nickname among his friends was Boogie, so this made me mist up a little, but it is a wonderful site, be sure to scroll down, there are wonderfully wise words that fit life perfectly and a nice little tune too.  :^)
Boogie
Merry X&#8217;s to you my son.  love, :^) dad
I&#8217;m not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=184&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I think I have it</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/i-think-i-have-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally have it, my purpose, why I came here, gawd, is this a relief!
I am here to teach the world how not to be.  Not of the scale of a Hitler, but of a more personal nature.  Hitler taught us how not to be on a global scale, I teach how not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=181&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We need each other</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/we-need-each-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this starts with a Steve Goodier piece.  Please read it.  Then read me, sorry I took most all of that out, too dark.  So it turns out I don&#8217;t have a lot to say about it.  Though I don&#8217;t understand why, well, I do, but I don&#8217;t get why I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=177&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A complicated life</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/a-complicated-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people wish their lives were less complicated. They remember a carefree time and dream of returning to a simpler day. They yearn for more freedom. Less worry and more laughter. If only they could trade some of today&#8217;s complexity for yesterday&#8217;s simplicity.
American essayist and novelist Charles Dudley Warner said, &#8220;Simplicity is making the journey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=172&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What message does the 11/4 election send to the world?</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/what-message-does-the-114-election-send-to-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to think that what America did last night was not only unique but momentous, one of those moments that changes history forever.  I know the world was paying close attention to this election.  I hope that the message the world &#8220;gets&#8221; from it, is the same one I see.
Yes, in America, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=170&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What role is racism playing in the 2008 election?</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/what-role-is-racism-playing-in-the-2008-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with the completely non-political theme of my blog, giggle, I submit today an email I got this week.  Just read it.  You&#8217;ll get the point.  :^)
Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders.
It is average people with the wisdom to select the best prepared.
Facts are powerful!!
Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=168&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Ol&#8217; Jet Airliner</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/that-ol-jet-airliner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to the radio the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve been hearing a song from my younger days that has had me turned inward a bit.  It&#8217;s an old Steve Miller band song called Jet Airliner.  The part that keeps running through my head is the first verse, &#8220;Leavin&#8217; home, out on the road, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=166&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So, let’s talk a bit about politics.</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/so-let%e2%80%99s-talk-a-bit-about-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re right, this isn&#8217;t normally a political blog, nor is it my intent to turn it into one now.  But it is not possible to be alive in this world now and be unaware of the connections between our spiritual and political lives.  I suppose one might also need economic lives at this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=164&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People, Ideas and evolution.</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/people-ideas-and-evolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow!  I bet you are wondering where the H this is going, huh?  :^)  So do I.  As I&#8217;ve mentioned, my own personal life has been in turmoil and change for the past couple months as my son has moved back home.  After living alone for almost 12 years it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=162&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moments to Remember</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/moments-to-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Goodier has a nice piece in his newsletter this week.  He&#8217;s talking about the way we remember things.  We don&#8217;t remember whole days or weeks or years, we remember moments in time.  At least, I do.  Fleeting moments, that never really leave, that are evoked from time to time through a memory trigger of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=160&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Law of Successful Living</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/a-law-of-successful-living/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not so sure I&#8217;d call this a law, it is more a recipe, I think.  I am not a believer in Karma, but I am a believer in doing unto others what we would have done unto us.
A LAW OF SUCCESSFUL LIVING
I am impressed by an incident that happened during Ignacy Paderewski&#8217;s (November 18, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=158&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/preparing-for-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from Steve is a piece I can identify with and can endorse wholeheartedly.  What else is tomorrow for?
GETTING READY FOR TOMORROW
You heard about the sign posted on a rancher&#8217;s fence? On the other side of the fence resides the biggest, meanest looking bull you can imagine. The sign is intended to strike fear into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=156&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Life Were Not So Bitter</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/if-life-were-not-so-bitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve barely written at all this month, I know.  And it isn&#8217;t because I&#8217;ve been reading, I&#8217;ve not been doing that either.  It is that life itself has intervened.  Many things, many of those momentous, have gone on this month, I&#8217;ll not be airing dirty laundry, or laundry of any kind, here, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=154&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Way We See it and Getting it Right</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/the-way-we-see-it-and-getting-it-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two wonderful little essays, with a touch of my own thoughts on them.  :^)
THE WAY WE SEE IT
The eye doctor instructed her patient to read a chart on the wall. He  looked at it and read, &#8220;A, B, F, N, L and G.&#8221;
The doctor turned the light back on and wrote in her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=152&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something to pray for</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/something-to-pray-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this piece, Steve shares a wisdom deeper even than he knows I think.  
WHAT I PRAY FOR
Many years ago I found a short story about Mahatma Gandhi that I have gone back to several times. It has given me hope and courage. Even if you are not one to pray, I think you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=150&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Counts</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/everything-counts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EVERYTHING COUNTS
Early 20th Century African-American poet Countee Cullen spent the summer of his eighth year in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly after he arrived he noticed a little white boy staring at him. Countee smiled,
but the little boy did not smile back. Instead, he stuck out his tongue and called him a hurtful, racial slur.
Cullen later wrote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=148&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Real You &#8211; Let Yourself Shine</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/the-real-you-let-yourself-shine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another of Steve&#8217;s masterpieces, about the truth of us, our essence, and the light we all are within.
THE REAL YOU
One woman describes herself as &#8220;Five feet, three inches tall and pleasingly plump.&#8221; After she had a minor accident, her mother accompanied her to the hospital emergency room. The admitting nurse asked for her height and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=146&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I know it has been awhile. :^)</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/i-know-it-has-been-awhile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And I can&#8217;t exactly promise that it will be better soon, or more frequent I should say.  I AM still reading but that isn&#8217;t the reason I&#8217;ve not been writing.  I&#8217;m putting two or three of Steve Goodier&#8217;s newsletters in here today, for a reason.  Each speaks to something that has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=144&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Against the Wind</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/against-the-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still reading.  But, at least, at last, I know why.  I&#8217;m building something, creating something in a way, jen&#8217;s shown me what and why and eventually I&#8217;ll talk here about all that.  That is for then, for now, I&#8217;m still just running against the wind, but loving it completely.  So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=142&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bette Davis Eyes</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/bette-davis-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay so someone out there needs to tell me what the hell this means. I am going to tell you a slightly weird story and I know someone out there has the answer, just not who.  All day today, I have had this phrase, I didn&#8217;t know it was a song, running through my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=139&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Limbo</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/limbo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little crabby about this.  That might show through.  First though, some context, Michael Moore&#8217;s, Sicko.  That is where I start.  The rest of the world can do this, why can&#8217;t we?
This is intensely personal.  I might even use bad language.  So watch yourselves.  :^).  If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=136&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Okay then</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/okay-then/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve gotten those out of me, or out of my way, though that doesn&#8217;t sound quite right, Steve Goodier is never someone to get out of your way, he is someone to cherish, I do have a couple things to rant about tonight.  
There is an old saying, &#8220;there is something rotten [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=134&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOOKING FOR BEAUTY
Many people like me feel slightly passed over in a world that seems to place a high value on beauty. But a short poem by Anthony Ewell reminds us that physical attractiveness can be over-rated. He writes:
&#8220;As a beauty I am not a great star,
There are others more handsome by far.
But my face, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=132&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little more Steve</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/a-little-more-steve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[REAL LIBERATION
I had a remarkable conversation with a woman about physical limitations. Nancy was a sufferer of M.S. She could no longer walk and spent her waking hours in a wheelchair.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not &#8216;confined&#8217; to the wheelchair,&#8221; she insisted one day. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t confine me. It sets me free.&#8221;
I had never thought of it that way. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=130&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, its been a while</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/hello-its-been-a-while/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while and I have a lot to say.  Not sure I&#8217;ll say it all tonight but over the next few days, a few things are going to come out.  :^)  So, as I sat down, jen started singing me a song.  This is not how I&#8217;d planned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=128&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dog, The Cat and The Rat</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/the-dog-the-cat-and-the-rat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;ve been quiet.  I&#8217;ve been, I am, both within and reading, for me one goes with the other and it isn&#8217;t possible to do one without the other, not really.  So I&#8217;ll be bursting out here one of these days soon, but I got something in the mail today that really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=127&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Father&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/fathers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your Horoscope for JUNE 15, 2008
You have a spiritual side that you don&#8217;t often get to express, GENE. But today you could find yourself moved to pray or give thanks for something. The energy of the day is gentle and sweet, encouraging you to open your heart and feel your emotions fully. In doing so, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=126&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Russert</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/tim-russert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I grieve.  I didn&#8217;t know Tim Russert, we share the same age, and in some ways I would gladly change places with him, because I think he had a lot left to say.  And I don&#8217;t.  Not of the import and meaning with which he conducted every interview, imbued into every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=125&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do you dream of?</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/what-do-you-dream-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This comes from Steve Goodier, as so often, one of my posts seems to begin, lol.  I so admire him though one might think we would have little in common, he being a minister of the Christian faith, and me, well, something, someone, outside of that tradition at this point in my life though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=124&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Owns The Backyard?</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/who-owns-the-backyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, just a little piece from Steve Goodier.  It takes a moment to think through what he is saying here, but the time is worth it.  I&#8217;ll be back after it, for a moment.  
Vicki Huffman, in PLUS LIVING (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1989),
tells about a man who loved to hunt and bought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=123&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/dreams-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will probably not be what you are expecting.  Then again, maybe so.  I have had this &#8220;dream&#8221; in my head for a very long time.  I&#8217;m not sure I wrote about it on my main site even, though I may have, it is how my site got its name really, though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=122&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 23:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will not be what you think it is.  Or may not be.  I am writing this post, this day, in support of the joint effort of Amnesty International and the BlogCatalog, the latter of which I am a happy member.  I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m not a member of Amnesty International [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=121&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It seems</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/it-seems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[that my real life keeps getting in the way of my &#8220;real&#8221; life.  And I do not like that much, which is not to say there is anything I can, or would if I could, do about that.  Those people who are in my real life matter to me.  A lot.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=120&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hold On Tight</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/hold-on-tight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 03:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[to your dream.  This song is a current advertisement for something, a Ford vehicle I think, I&#8217;ve been driving Fords since 1972.  Why its here now is that it keeps popping up just when I need it.  Just at the moment the dark threatens to envelope me, I hear this, either on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=119&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real Beauty and just real</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/real-beauty-and-just-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 01:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a very odd week.  I&#8217;ll come to that after this piece by Steve Goodier.  His is the real beauty, me, later, is the just real, and that won&#8217;t be as beautiful.  I have questions this week and wonderings, not beautiful, except that there is nothing here, no thing, no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=118&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joy along the way</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/joy-along-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my dear friend Steve Goodier&#8217;s newsletter.  Worth a look, I&#8217;ll be back after.
JOY ALONG THE WAY
A senator once took Will Rogers to the White House to meet President
Coolidge. He warned the humorist that Coolidge never smiled. Rogers
replied, &#8220;I&#8217;ll make him smile.&#8221; Inside the Oval Office, the senator
introduced the two men.
&#8220;Will Rogers,&#8221; he said, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=117&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Frank</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/anne-frank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was led, in the oddest way today, TWICE, to the same place, both times quite by accident, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  It is a place well worth looking at.  Especially since it seems a good portion of the world is involved in the creation of a new Holocaust, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=116&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk billions and sense</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/lets-talk-billions-and-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As opposed to dollars and cents.  Because I&#8217;ve been holding on to a couple of articles for a few days now, just thinking about them.  And they make no sense to me.  We all know the foreclosure rate across the country is just decimating the middle class of America.  Actually I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=115&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep the motor idling</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/keep-the-motor-idling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got another from Steve Goodier and it is just marvelous.  Had it stuck in draft and forgotten about until tonight.  Take a look at a neat story.  I&#8217;ll be back after.  :^)
KEEPING THE MOTOR IDLING
I relate well to the comment made by Barbara Johnson: &#8220;Patience
is the ability to idle your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=114&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All about choices.</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/all-about-choices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This comes from Steve Goodier&#8217;s Life Support newsletter and it has a telling point.  If you don&#8217;t make your choices sometimes they get made for you and you may not always be happy with the outcome.  Life&#8217;s like that, isn&#8217;t it?  I&#8217;ll be back after with a couple thoughts.  :^)
MAKING CHOICES
Joseph [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=113&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bi-Centennial Man, and others.</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/the-bi-centennial-man-and-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure where that &#8220;others&#8221; part will take us and at the moment I&#8217;m not too concerned about that either.  :^).  Though there is a destination, I know not what it is.  In my experience, in my mind&#8217;s eye, or through Jenna, I&#8217;ve been there, done that, seen that a thousand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=112&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be Still</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/be-still/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from Steve Goodier &#8211; all I have to say at the moment, life has its way of enveloping us and I need myself be still a bit longer, a little more of that after Steve.  :^)
BE STILL
I have noticed that the best way for me to get a few minutes of
solitude at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=111&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just a couple thoughts</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/just-a-couple-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not quite ready to cut loose.  It isn&#8217;t that I&#8217;m stuck so much as it is I&#8217;m waiting.  It is hard to explain but I know exactly what I mean so it is all okay.  I&#8217;ve got some random thoughts I thought I&#8217;d drop on the universe tonight while I wait. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=110&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Answer</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting turn of events today.  Jenna told me why she&#8217;s been singing answer to me, what it means.  Not prepared to shout it from the rooftops because it is decidedly personal, but she&#8217;s not done this in this way before.  So that I could understand I mean &#8211; I can be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=109&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two little things tonight</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/two-little-things-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been engaged in another project of sorts, I mean to say Jen&#8217;s kept me away from here, though I&#8217;m about ready to resume, I think.  So for tonight, I want to share a little piece from Steve Goodier, immediately below.  Below this post is one in which I cited a song, Sarah, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=108&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just not writing this week</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/just-not-writing-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always know when and when not, I have this little helper within me and she&#8217;s had me occupied with other things within for a bit.  I&#8217;ve got lots I want to, and will, say but not just yet.   Today, one of my little pieces of information said:
&#8220;Today I am free. I have accomplished my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=107&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Faith</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/a-little-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be brief tonight.  :^).  He says.  So is the plan.  I got a very nice little article today from Steve Goodier which I&#8217;ve reprinted below.  I&#8217;ll be back after that.
A LITTLE FAITH
The temporary church-school teacher was struggling to open a combination lock on the supply cupboard. She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=106&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The difficulty of Being</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/the-difficulty-of-being/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m skipping to the end of a chapter tonight, one that is really important, meaty important, but that I intend to come at from another angle, just not right now, I intend to summarize this one, in my own words, mostly, but for what I am publishing tonight.  She has her reasons, I just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=105&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now then onward with our discussion of government</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/now-then-onward-with-our-discussion-of-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We ended the previous installment from CWG Book 2, at the bottom of page 138, with God seeming a little put out that we called ourselves a &#8220;great society&#8221; when so many of us experience no such thing, when greatness is reserved for those well-born, or well-place, or exceptionally gifted, while the sick, the infirm, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=104&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A bit of an interruption to God&#8217;s continuing civics lesson :^)</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/a-bit-of-an-interruption-to-gods-continuing-civics-lesson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is going to continue but I have to do two other things first.  Jenna has had this song in my head all day long, I Want To Know What Love Is, a wonderful song from 1984, George Orwell&#8217;s year.  I like their vision of 1984 much better.
I gotta take a little time
A little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=103&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Continuing on :^)</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/continuing-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we stopped with God talking about the inability of we, the people, to see other than the extremes of government, the debate between those who would have government be all things to all people at all times and those who would prefer no government at all, essentially, other than roads.  They do want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=102&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About government</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/about-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so what I am going to do here is excerpt from Book 2 somethings God has to say about government.  Then, talk a bit about them from my own perspective.  Fair warning &#8211; this will be a little long.  :^)
To begin with this comes from chapter 10 in Book 2 of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=101&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now, government</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/now-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay this is the post I started writing two Fridays ago.  :^).  13 days ago.  Jen&#8217;s had me occupied with other things.  And I still am but I&#8217;m going to put this little bit out anyway.  And I will come back to the meat of it this weekend, Saturday morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=100&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on global citizenry</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/thoughts-on-global-citizenry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had occasion recently to have a discussion with a fellow who agrees with me on the idea that we can no longer consider ourselves, or should perhaps is a better word, residents of one country, but rather residents of one planet.  The idea has been in me quite a long time, hence the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=99&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve on forgiveness</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/steve-on-forgiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, honestly, I have a post in draft I began last Friday night, on government, got distracted, had a busy weekend and never got back to it and last night was taken up with other matters, life intruding on life, you know?  And, now, I am in the beginning stages of a cold I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=98&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today I want to talk about dogs</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/today-i-want-to-talk-about-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cisco]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I still intend coming back to the books.  In a way this is that.  It is, I think, no coincidence (and readers of the books will know that God says there is no such thing as a coincidence, that nothing, no thing, happens here without a reason known and approved by God [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=97&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk tennis</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/lets-talk-tennis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you are thinking, what?  Has he lost his mind?  No, not quite.  This comes about because of a conversation I overheard and an article I read and an event I witnessed.  The conversation was about how a young girl of 7, Maria Sharapova, comes to this country to study, tennis. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=96&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Steve today.</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/no-steve-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just me.  :^)  This will be brief, by my standards, lol.  I wanted to say that we are going back to my roots.  Something tremendous has happened within me over the last few weeks.  I am not sure entirely what it is.  Or what it will be.  But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=95&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A mountaintop view</title>
		<link>http://genej313.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/94/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t planning to write tonight at all.  But things happen in three&#8217;s and three unique little things this day lead me to share one other thing.  This is the 11th anniversary of my youngest son&#8217;s most tragic mistake, in my view, in his, well, I&#8217;ll never know if he saw it as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=genej313.wordpress.com&blog=2275820&post=94&subd=genej313&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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