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		<title>Sky-Blessed</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/09/sky-blessed/</link>
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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>What You&#8217;ll Never Know</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/what-youll-never-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This utterly breaks with the whiskey river Fridays tradition here. But the most recent post there seems to demand passing around among ourselves. From whiskey river: I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue (Awkward Moments Edition)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/real-life-dialogue-awkward-moments-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The scene opens in the waiting room of Super Mega Giant medical center in a mid-sized city in northern Florida, USA. He is a middle-aged male, and has been for some time. This report includes two Shes: A, a medical assistant; and J, a nurse practitioner.] A: Mr. He? He: Right here. A: Very good, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get to Know What Real Is</title>
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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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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Right Looking</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/right-looking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image of Fay Ray, by William Wegman (1988), found here, as well as elsewhere on the Web (e.g., Style Me to the Moon)] From whiskey river: My Hand See how the past is not finished here in the present it is awake the whole time never waiting it is my hand now but not what [...]]]></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>Real-Life Dialogue (Midday Meal Edition)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/real-life-dialogue-midday-meal-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/real-life-dialogue-midday-meal-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Setting: a small automobile in a mid-sized city in northern Florida, USA. It is early morning. She is driving today; He occupies the passenger seat. The car pulls up to a curb. He opens his door and prepares to exit; in the midst of the usual love-yous, good-byes, and have-a-good-days, He suddenly remembers a specific [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<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>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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