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		<title>thoughts on burning books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Florida church plans to burn copies of the Qur&#8217;an on the anniversary of 9/11 &#8211; to &#8220;raise awareness and warn&#8221; of the dangers of Islam.  If it were not for our global society, prevelance of media, and basically, the internet, nobody would know about what this tiny little congregation was doing.  Sadly, they&#8217;ve made international news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>teacher, teach thyself!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot has been happening in the past few weeks. I hesitate to say &#8220;to me&#8221; because that puts control of my life outside my grasp.  I&#8217;ve had the &#8220;opportunity&#8221; to gain some insight into other people&#8217;s thoughts and perceptions of me.  I say opportunity tongue in cheek because while I&#8217;m privvy to their opinion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cry baby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to think there aren&#8217;t many things that can make me cry. I work with children whose personal stories of trauma and tragedy can make strong people lose faith in humanity. I have personal experiences with multiple losses. I have held the hands of the dying without tears. I have been told I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>perspectives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT John Godfrey Saxe&#8217;s ( 1816-1887) version of the famous Indian legend, It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approach&#8217;d the Elephant, And happening to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i don&#8217;t like being angry (part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a realization this morning after my previous post&#8230; Why am I fighting against feeling an emotion? Resistance doesn&#8217;t work in my benefit. I&#8217;ve been resonating lately with some old familiar objects and ideas of power, and maybe this feeling that is being perceived as anger is really me trying to grapple with my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i don&#8217;t like being angry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems whenever I am going through a particularly reflective time in my life, a personal growth spurt if you will, I turn to journalling. This has never (and probably will never) be a true &#8220;blog&#8221; &#8211; a well written, topic or article based publication meant to entertain or inform &#8211; even when I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>take a deep breath</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, if you have bronchitis, wish for the moment you can.  i&#8217;m wishing right now, but also trying to take that breath in my heart.  i&#8217;ve found myself all caught back up in the stress of work and life.  i&#8217;ve gotten away from daily meditation, from contemplating all the peace i really do have in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mind dump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: stream of consciousness processing to follow. So I&#8217;m processing the concept that the Truth is Love &#38; everything else is constructs of our own design based on opinions &#38; judgements &#38; basically our own garbage. I keep coming up against the explanation that there is no good &#38; bad behavior, only behavior (ie: communication) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.brokenpurplecrayon.com/archives/726</link>
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		<title>you never truly know someone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[all we have are our perceptions. our very flawed, biased, opinionated, experiential based perceptions. and despite the fact that a person can be standing right in front of us, we may never move past our inner perceptions to ever really truly know someone. sometimes i wonder if it is even possible.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.brokenpurplecrayon.com/archives/724</link>
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		<title>Feeling Different</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I&#8217;m in a training to help local clinicians become more competent in the field of Adoption. While I don&#8217;t do therapy per se, my degree is clinical &#8211; and while my role is less clinical than a therapist&#8217;s, I do find myself considering clinical issues and the impact adoption has not only on the [...]]]></description>
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