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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Music</title>
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		<title>Sky-Blessed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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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>Get to Know What Real Is</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/get-to-know-what-real-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river (italicized portion): People don&#8217;t realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature... I think a person finally emerges from all this nonsense when he becomes aware that his life has a much larger meaning he has been ignoring &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Object of My Affectation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Alfalfa, of the Our Gang comedies, sings of his love for sweet little round-faced, soft-focus Darla. And yes, I know: the song title doesn't have that extra syllable in it. :)] Whom, exactly, do you try to impress? Note that I&#8217;m not asking about classes or groups of people. Most of us would like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Bounce</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/monday-bounce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=7878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty sure I posted a link to this on Facebook and/or Twitter a couple months ago, when I first encountered it. For some reason it&#8217;s found its way back into my head today, and has been positively ringing there for the last several hours. When a song will simply not leave me alone, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprised by What You Want</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/surprised-by-what-you-want/</link>
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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>The Steam Drill Only Made Nine (Lord, Lord)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/the-steam-drill-only-made-nine-lord-lord/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/the-steam-drill-only-made-nine-lord-lord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[folk music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my siblings and I were kids, at some point Mom and Dad bought us a huge collection of LPs of music of all sorts &#8212; a passive music-appreciation course, of sorts, for kids in a small town. The entire set arrived in a cardboard box which none of us (but Dad) could lift. Each [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Think You Know What&#8217;s Coming?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/think-you-know-whats-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/think-you-know-whats-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next &#8212; if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions &#8212; you&#8217;d be doomed. You&#8217;d be as ruined as God. You&#8217;d be a stone. You&#8217;d never eat or drink or laugh or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Interlude: Chin Up</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/musical-interlude-chin-up/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/musical-interlude-chin-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week&#8217;s been one of needing (re)encouragement &#8212; always a popular subject with writers, who can never get (or imagine they can&#8217;t get) enough of it &#8212; and of finding new reasons why maybe we don&#8217;t need as much encouragement as we thought. Coincidentally, in the last 24 hours I&#8217;ve tripped across a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hits and Misses</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/hits-and-misses/</link>
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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>You Spoke from Midnight</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/outlasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: Moonrise And who has seen the moon, who has not seen Her rise from out the chamber of the deep, Flushed and grand and naked, as from the chamber Of finished bridegroom, seen her rise and throw Confession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscription Of bliss, [...]]]></description>
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