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		<title>&#8220;The mistake is to look for explanations where we should just watch the slow fuse burning. Nerve of confession. What we let go we let go.” ~ Rosemarie Waldrop, from Lawn of Excluded Middle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[                    Two for Tuesday: It&#8217;s All Relative The Relativity of Sorrow Mercy is the combing of tangled hair the sewing up of a split lip the staying of an execution. So the prisoner remains alive until he or she dies a natural death and the priest returns to say the last rites one more time [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poietes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2980650&#038;post=18450&#038;subd=poietes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.” ~ Stephen Fry, from Moab Is My Washpot</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[                    “All morning I was at my notes, ferreting through my life records, wondering where to begin, how to make a start.” ~ Henry Miller, in a letter to Anaïs Nin Monday, early afternoon. Partly cloudy, 80 degrees. Well, I made it through another Father&#8217;s Day. The hardest part of this particular holiday is seeing [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poietes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2980650&#038;post=18373&#038;subd=poietes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Father&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cherish them while you can . . .                     My father&#8217;s hands are gnarled and time worn Atrophy has eaten away at the muscles, leaving his hands weak and small. They remind me of a monkey’s hands— brown and leathery. These hands that have tended to so many machines— fixed so many moving parts These [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poietes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2980650&#038;post=18414&#038;subd=poietes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Silliness . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to get Corey ready for his trip to Ohio. Chaos as usual . . . Filed under: All In The Family, Being Brutally Honest, Being Here, blogsurfer.us, I Just Hurt All Over, Just Keep Breathing, Poietes, Post-a-Week or Post-a-Day 2013, There Has to Be Humor or We'd All Be Dead, wordpress.com, You're Kidding, Right? [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poietes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2980650&#038;post=18420&#038;subd=poietes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Leftovers: 36 Reasons Why We Will Miss Bookstores</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Buzz Feed. So worthy of a reblog: 1. They are hilariously passive-aggressive.   Via: consumerist.com 2. A sign from the Red Emma’s bookstore &#38; coffee shop in Baltimore. Via: apriapri 3. “If you are struggling and have no idea what to buy those loved ones, do like so many other fine and upstanding women [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poietes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2980650&#038;post=18405&#038;subd=poietes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He-larious . . . Carolyn Hax, 6 May 2013: Dear Carolyn, My wife is an avid reader and enjoys a lot of different types of books. Among them are series usually geared toward teenagers, like “The Hunger Games” or “Twilight.” Before the premiere of the latest movie, she rereads the series and then goes to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poietes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2980650&#038;post=18371&#038;subd=poietes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky” ~ Haruki Murakami, from Sputnik Sweetheart</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Who will wake up at the end of my dream?&#8221; ~ Jacques Roubad</title>
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		<title>“The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.” ~ Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 21 April 1918</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[                    “Who will you be tonight in your dreamfall into the dark, on the other side of the wall?” ~ Jorge Luis Borges, from Dream, trans. Alastair Reid Monday, early evening. Intermittent thunderstorms, high humidity, high 70&#8242;s. It was nice to sleep later today after having Olivia for two days, but it was nice to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poietes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2980650&#038;post=18241&#038;subd=poietes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The wind was off shore, and only broke the sea&#8217;s surface into long, silvery ripples, and sent sheeny shadows flying across it . . . like transparent wings.&#8221; ~ L. M. Montgomery, from Anne&#8217;s House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables)</title>
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