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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Poetry</title>
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		<title>Answers in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: xkcd #936, on password strength. Click image to enlarge; see xkcd itself for the full six panels and the punchline.] From whiskey river: This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. (Dag Hammarskjöld [source]) &#8230;and: Ch&#8217;ui the draftsman Could draw more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kindness of Every Split-Second</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: display window of "mini-prints" taken with the Fujifilm Instax camera (originally from the Photojojo store). See note at bottom of post for more.] From whiskey river: You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class, this really great math class taught by this tiny old woman. She was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Loreena McKennitt, &#8220;Down by the Sally Gardens&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loreena McKennitt seems to love anything which hitches the adjective Celtic to the noun music. She&#8217;s traveled the world to record music both Celtic and Celtic-like, often (even on brand-new songs) using instruments which might have been recognized 2,000 years ago across the whole range of the Celts&#8217; distribution. She&#8217;s certainly traveled farther afield than many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unquiet Large, Quiet Small</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Absorbing and the Absorbed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: a Menger sponge overgrown with vines, found here. Wikipedia explains how to construct a real Menger sponge, noting -- without elaboration -- that the resulting object "simultaneously exhibits an infinite surface area and encloses zero volume."*] From whiskey river: You know when you see something like a marvelous mountain against the blue sky, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Right in Front of You</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: unretouched photograph of an anamorphically-painted building interior, by French artist George Rousse; I found it here. As suggested at that site, be sure to see the video about Rousse's "Durham (NC) project." And while you're at it, check out the similar but sometimes entire city-sized work of Swiss artist Felice Varini. I couldn't decide which artist's work to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seasonal Prospects</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/12/seasonal-prospects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image found accompanying the "Christmas Snow" (December 25, 2010) post at John Bedell's bensozia blog] From whiskey river: Snow Walking through a field with my little brother Seth I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow. For some reason, I told him that a troop of angels had been shot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Old Is New Again</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/12/everything-old-is-new-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Extrange shoes," by user pepel at stock.xchng] From whiskey river: They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, &#8220;Who are you really, wanderer?&#8221; and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: &#8220;Maybe I&#8217;m a king.&#8221; (William Stafford) &#8230;and: The people in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chime of the Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: night view of House Attack, a 2006 installation by artist Erwin Wurm -- a real house, turned upside down and embedded in the roof at Vienna's Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK). See the daytime look here.] From whiskey river (which, I think, offered an especially rich selection this week): Everything That Acts Is Actual From the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liquid Assets, Compounded</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Butterfly Splash," by Alex Koloskov. For more information, including an "e-videobook" tutorial on creating this sort of effect, see the photographer's site, which is where I found it.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): Poem Holding Its Heart In One Fist Each pebble in this world keeps its own counsel. Certain words &#8212; these, for [...]]]></description>
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