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		<title>Sky-Blessed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: 'Untitled, Hateruma-jima, Okinawa, 1971,' by Shomei Tomatsu] From whiskey river: How to Grow Clouds It takes a lot of work: it is necessary to weed very carefully, to toss out muck and small stones by hand, to kneel on the earth, bend over, dig about in the soil, water profusely, collect caterpillars, exterminate aphids, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprised by What You Want</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video above: "Rio," by Hey Marseilles. Lyrics at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hits and Misses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complicated here, during the last week. Not bad, just&#8230; complicated. Thought I&#8217;d sort of summarize a couple of points of potential interest, but first, a question for regular visitors: Have you had problems accessing RAMH recently? One of your number has reported getting repeated &#8220;the connection was reset by the server&#8221; errors. It&#8217;s prevented her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Water</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/in-the-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[For information about this photo, called "Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida," see the Note at the bottom of this post.] From whiskey river: Adrift Let my dreams while I&#8217;m wide-awake loose. Let me be drowned, bap­tized, in the light given me. Day comes around, night, fall, win­ter, spring, sum­mer. Leaves over­head, under­foot. Waves arrive, buf­fets from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things vs. Other Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Internet, Sorry I&#8217;ve been so&#8230; so&#8230; casual about our relationship over the last few days. No, the dog hasn&#8217;t eaten my posts here and my comments elsewhere. The dog &#8212; specifically, The Pooch &#8212; has in fact eaten damned little of anything at all. She&#8217;s recovering from surgery on both back knees, to correct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head Waters</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/head-waters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: Have you been to the source of a river? It&#8217;s a very mystic place. You get dizzy when you stay for a while. An especially big river has several sources, and the real source, the farthest point which turns to the major stream, is moist and misty, with some kind of ancient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canine Savagery</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/canine-savagery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say we shouldn&#8217;t anthropomorphize animals. We shouldn&#8217;t project onto their behaviors human motivations, so goes the advice; maybe we could develop a Maslow&#8217;s pyramid for them without stretching too much, but it&#8217;d be a mistake to give them them an upper level labeled &#8220;self-actualization.&#8221; Still, you know, it&#8217;s hard &#8212; almost impossible &#8212; not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confuse-a-Dog</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/09/confuse-a-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old Monty Python skit posits a service called &#8220;Confuse-a-Cat.&#8221; (Veterinarian to anxious elderly couple: &#8220;I think I can definitely say that your cat badly needs to be confused.&#8221;) I started to explain the whole thing but was laughing too hard to type properly; I&#8217;ll include the seven-minute routine in its entirety at the foot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Department of Unintended Consequences (Animals &amp; Technology Division)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/06/department-of-unintended-consequences-animals-technology-division/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Missus and I are not alone in having a dog who barks rabidly during thunderstorms. But alone or not, we do. She may be little, and her bark may be a mere yip! compared to the more conventional woof! of full-size hounds, but she is determined to scare the storm away. (And you know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damned Radiograph</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 11:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the start of a recently deleted sp*m comment here at RAMH: Whereas feelings are not viewed as ethical(that is, not judged to be good or bad), behaviors are . The radiograph will show you how many puppies she is having . Value your partner as your sexual friend and be an intimate team. The [...]]]></description>
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