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		<title>Upon the dawning of the month of May</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For someone not necessarily attuned with nature, I feel very aware of the turning of the year and the timing of the ancient celebrations makes a lot of sense to me.  I am always very ready to celebrate life and wellness when May comes, and so I understand why this time of year was set [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitivecontemplative.com&#038;blog=33173026&#038;post=594&#038;subd=competitivecontemplative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is it over?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long week here.  It has felt like a nightmare, like the end of the world, like madness.  On Monday there was blood and smoke in the streets of Boston, nails and metal in the skin of children, limbs and lives lost.  Texts and Facebook messages asking where I was and if I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitivecontemplative.com&#038;blog=33173026&#038;post=591&#038;subd=competitivecontemplative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easter/Ostara/Equinox Musings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t blog for Lent this year.  I didn&#8217;t really even acknowledge that Lent was happening.  Didn&#8217;t look for a church to go to on Easter &#8211; didn&#8217;t really do anything Easter related.  In fact, I spent Easter at home, having cancelled all of my work and social plans for that day to rest.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitivecontemplative.com&#038;blog=33173026&#038;post=571&#038;subd=competitivecontemplative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Someone else&#8217;s sorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend lost her baby today. Another friend lost a baby last week. When these stories are told, more and more women speak up and say &#8216;that happened to me too&#8217;. But why can&#8217;t we talk about it? I couldn&#8217;t help but cry today. I saw my friend yesterday, and things had been looking okay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitivecontemplative.com&#038;blog=33173026&#038;post=569&#038;subd=competitivecontemplative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evil. Insane. Mentally Ill. Autistic.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Living My Social Work: Every time I read or hear about another violent multi-victim crime, I hold my breath, and I wait. How is this crime going to be described? Who are the victims? How are they painted? Do we hold up the most seemingly innocent first, as a way to make the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitivecontemplative.com&#038;blog=33173026&#038;post=567&#038;subd=competitivecontemplative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking community</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like the signals are all pointing me back to church.  I had a conversation with someone the other day and it brought up again how much I miss it.  Maybe part of my self-care in the new year will be to find my way back to a community of faith.  I can have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitivecontemplative.com&#038;blog=33173026&#038;post=566&#038;subd=competitivecontemplative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past I have tried to blog daily during advent.  Given the time crunch that the end of this semester holds, I don&#8217;t know if I can commit to that.  But I will at least try to blog on each of the Sundays. During Advent, I read a daily online devotional called Following the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitivecontemplative.com&#038;blog=33173026&#038;post=564&#038;subd=competitivecontemplative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Ann Coulter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from The World of Special Olympics: The following is a guest post in the form of an open letter from Special Olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens to Ann Coulter after this tweet during last night's Presidential debate. Dear Ann Coulter, Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitivecontemplative.com&#038;blog=33173026&#038;post=563&#038;subd=competitivecontemplative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother&#8217;s Song One of the many beautiful versions of the possibilities of creation and the cycle of the seasons&#8230; Filed under: identity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitivecontemplative.com&#038;blog=33173026&#038;post=562&#038;subd=competitivecontemplative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do Mormons believe about African-Americans? Election year update.</title>
		<link>http://competitivecontemplative.com/2012/10/15/561/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Ask Mormon Girl: Dear readers: I was tooling around behind the scenes at the Ask Mormon Girl site this week, and I learned something that surprised me.  What are the top five Google queries that lead people to this site? what do mormons believe about black people mormons and blacks            mormon beliefs about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitivecontemplative.com&#038;blog=33173026&#038;post=561&#038;subd=competitivecontemplative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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