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	<description>A few words from an Irish transplant</description>
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		<title>Protected: Another heron</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>On hospitals&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patry wrote a provocative post about her recent hospital stay today. As usual, I read through it with admiration for her compassionate outlook on life and people, and the clear and focused way in which she tells a story. And, &#8230; <a href="http://tarakuanyin.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/on-hospitals/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tarakuanyin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=686732&amp;post=305&amp;subd=tarakuanyin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comfortably Numb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to love Pink Floyd&#8217;s The Wall. I haven&#8217;t listened to it in years, but the title of the book I&#8217;m reading, Comfortably Numb, jumped out at me when I was in a bookstore last week because it was &#8230; <a href="http://tarakuanyin.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/comfortably-numb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tarakuanyin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=686732&amp;post=302&amp;subd=tarakuanyin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of step with the millions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s got to get better, I thought. There&#8217;ll be a point where it all makes sense. A moment where I say, &#8220;Aaaah!&#8221; and join the 21 million people worldwide who love this book. If that many millions have read it, &#8230; <a href="http://tarakuanyin.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/out-of-step-with-the-millions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tarakuanyin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=686732&amp;post=298&amp;subd=tarakuanyin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School clothes shopping with Mutt and Jeff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use Firefox to browse, and right now multiple tabs are open. My email inbox. My work tab, which gives me one-click access to work email, the department site, WebCT, etc. My blog site (obviously). And Bloglines. Bloglines demands my &#8230; <a href="http://tarakuanyin.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/school-clothes-shopping-with-mutt-and-jeff/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tarakuanyin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=686732&amp;post=296&amp;subd=tarakuanyin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travels</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year&#8217;s vacation was the trip to the Azores; this year&#8217;s was a trip to a large city four or so hours away. Nada and I drove via Dad&#8217;s town, spending the night on the beach before heading into traffic &#8230; <a href="http://tarakuanyin.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/travels/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tarakuanyin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=686732&amp;post=294&amp;subd=tarakuanyin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canyon heron II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(For context, read the post before this one first.) So I need to start carrying a camera. No. I don&#8217;t. If the heron story has begun to seem unreasonable, too impossible, it is so only to non-believers. I am writing &#8230; <a href="http://tarakuanyin.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/canyon-heron-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tarakuanyin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=686732&amp;post=286&amp;subd=tarakuanyin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The day my car died</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last entry brought me back to the time of my mother&#8217;s death, for a moment. I can be so dispassionate these days. &#8220;My old car died the same day my mother did,&#8221; I said rather flippantly the other day &#8230; <a href="http://tarakuanyin.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/the-day-my-car-died/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tarakuanyin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=686732&amp;post=284&amp;subd=tarakuanyin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retrospective revisited continued</title>
		<link>http://tarakuanyin.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/retrospective-revisited-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from here: Bastards. &#8220;I&#8217;m illegitimate and I&#8217;m proud of it,&#8221; said Fran in history class one day, an unimaginably brave move in Ireland in the late 70&#8242;s. I worshipped her from then on, because she took knowledge that had &#8230; <a href="http://tarakuanyin.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/retrospective-revisited-continued/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tarakuanyin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=686732&amp;post=280&amp;subd=tarakuanyin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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