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		<title>Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Letter to His Son&#8217;s Teacher.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 02:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just, all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish Politician, there is a dedicated leader… Teach him for every enemy there is a friend, Steer him away from envy, if [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deborahrosereeves.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22015773&#038;post=3140&#038;subd=deborahrosereeves&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birds let loose into darkness&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Rose Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<title>Breakfast silence broken when a bird hit the clear glass door. Quite the commotion.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>From all these trees –   in salads, soups, everywhere –   cherry blossoms fall</title>
		<link>http://deborahrosereeves.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/from-all-these-trees-in-salads-soups-everywhere-cherry-blossoms-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matsuo Basho. Filed under: Can I Get A Visual?, Poetry Tagged: Cherry Blossoms, Haiku, Poetry, Portland, Spring<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deborahrosereeves.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22015773&#038;post=3079&#038;subd=deborahrosereeves&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo&#8230;. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 01:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Rose Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John B Keane Filed under: Verbatim<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deborahrosereeves.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22015773&#038;post=3077&#038;subd=deborahrosereeves&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WB Yeats Filed under: Verbatim<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deborahrosereeves.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22015773&#038;post=3072&#038;subd=deborahrosereeves&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hullo!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Rose Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing a story, and now it&#8217;s finished. And, now it&#8217;s finished, I&#8217;ll be around a bit more. But I have another idea brewing, so maybe just a little bit more. (Thank you to those lovely people who noticed it had been a while.) Filed under: My Writing Life, The Short Story, Writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deborahrosereeves.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22015773&#038;post=3067&#038;subd=deborahrosereeves&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s In a Name?</title>
		<link>http://deborahrosereeves.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/whats-in-a-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Rose Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you feel like, and call yourself, a writer but you don&#8217;t make your living from it, how do you keep your writing-self tuned in and engaged during those hours when you&#8217;re necessarily focussed on your pays-the-bills-job? My job as a lowly processing assistant at a mortgage company keeps me busy busy &#8212; but with [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deborahrosereeves.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22015773&#038;post=3008&#038;subd=deborahrosereeves&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Rose Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say the word Love beneath your breath. Say it at those people you think need it the most. Vagrants and hustlers and young men sleeping under bridges and old men blowing on their hands and women in bus shelters at 6am. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. The man on a bench by the river [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deborahrosereeves.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22015773&#038;post=2990&#038;subd=deborahrosereeves&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Could Happen Anytime. It Could Happen to Anyone. Anywhere.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Rose Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. &#160; Filed under: Can I Get A Visual?, Reading, Verbatim Tagged: Murakami, Philosophy, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deborahrosereeves.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22015773&#038;post=2986&#038;subd=deborahrosereeves&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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