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		<title>Post-Christmas Meltdowns and Embracing Anxiety (yeah, right)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh, this has been one of my better Decembers &#8230;and that included chopping off part of my finger.&#8221; was my summation of the holiday season to a friend of mine last night. Kinda sums up what I think about Christmases in general. I boycotted the whole thing this year; vastly improved my quality of life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musings in Corduroy Pants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I miss that zip-zip sound corduroy pants used to make when I was a kid. Cords seem to have lost something from the ribbed pants of my stripey-shirted, yes-avacado-is-a-colour-and-it-goes-great-with-pumpkin, 70&#8242;s childhood. So, I&#8217;ve been wondering as I walk around, my pants more of a stuttered whisper than that zip-zip I used to love, what&#8217;s changed? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resiliency and Gratitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s one hell of a wind out there today. As I watch the trees outside my window I marvel at their flexibility. The spruce branches are waving like undersea fronds and a poplar branch as big as my thigh still has the give to sway broadly as the wind gusts. As I sit cozy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waking up to Winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how much a snowfall can change everything. All Fall I&#8217;ve been slowly grieving the end of summer. As the days got shorter, the nights cooler, the landscape shifting into sepias, you could almost hear the wailing nooooo! coming from deep inside me. So you&#8217;d think when I woke up to snow this morning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adapt or Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I broke my brain a few weeks ago, a remarkably frightening experience. Now, I&#8217;ve had cognitive burnout before, it&#8217;s pulled me out of school on many occasions: an inability to study or take the ideas in my head and find words for them. This was nothing like that. My brain suddenly seemed incapable of any [...]]]></description>
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