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	<title>This Day As-Is</title>
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	<description>Go on about your business; don't mind me.</description>
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		<title>46 Years Ago Today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/4-years-ago-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-six years ago today was a Friday. Not a rainy day in Beverly &#8211; but I was indoors. In Mrs. Knowlton&#8217;s room, I think. Fourth grade, at Shore&#8217;s Lower School. It was afternoon. Not all the usual people were present. We weren&#8217;t in class, but we were doing something &#8220;schoolish&#8221; and organized, just not the usual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisdayasis.wordpress.com&blog=3724731&post=246&subd=thisdayasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One times 10 to the 9th power</title>
		<link>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/one-times-10-to-the-9th-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The collective effect verged on the oppressive; how could we not watch these synchronized thousands in lockstep, or the goose-stepping color guard, and not think of the sinister power of anonymous crowds. And yet, the image that kept recurring to my mind was not the crush of tanks in Tienanmin Square, but that of the human heart: its tens of thousands of cells, in synchrony pulsing, pumping, producing something worthwhile that is <i>only</i> within the power of collective action.
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		<title>Meanwhile, on the same planet</title>
		<link>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/meanwhile-on-the-same-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, watch this:

Peter Schumann is the founder of the Bread &#38; Puppet theater&#8230;at home for nearly 40 years now on a farm right next door in Glover, Vermont. Unfortunately the Radical Jesters&#8217; video interview of him has been taken down.

Bread &#38; Puppet&#8217;s Cheap Art Manifesto reads, in part: &#8220;Because art is food…&#8221;
Cheap Art Philosophy
The Cheap [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisdayasis.wordpress.com&blog=3724731&post=183&subd=thisdayasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LHC Rap!</title>
		<link>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/lhc-rap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How it works]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, look:

Thanks, Dave&#8230;And ALPINEKAT at USLHC, who made this.
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		<title>OneTwoThreeGO!</title>
		<link>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/onetwothreego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vermonter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forget your stupid little Wii games and your World of Warcraft and your boogie boards and your iPods and all that what-have-you. You want excitement? Be 8 or under &#8230;in the woods, by water, with two new friends&#8230; pull a twig off a cedar and, on the count of OneTwoThree, scream GO!! &#8230;and fling it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisdayasis.wordpress.com&blog=3724731&post=160&subd=thisdayasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">These work.</media:title>
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		<title>Orange Blossom Special</title>
		<link>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/orange-blossom-special/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
My friend Mary Rowell turns 50 this year. We celebrated last night in her yard/garage/barn in Craftsbury, Vermont where we all live some of the time. It poured down rain outside, and the light was terrible &#8212; too poor for video. But this didn&#8217;t hinder the audio a bit, as you will hear if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisdayasis.wordpress.com&blog=3724731&post=89&subd=thisdayasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the giardino degli aranci</title>
		<link>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/giardinodegliaranci/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the giardino degli aranci.&#8221; Zo&#235; pronounced it slowly and deliberately, her gaze inward, her head bobbing to count off each syllable. Then she looked up and smiled. Our chorus erupted around her.  Oh! Oh! we cried. So perfect! So romantic!
She extended her left hand; the ring is a black pearl, set in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisdayasis.wordpress.com&blog=3724731&post=83&subd=thisdayasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generalizations Decay</title>
		<link>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/generalizations-decay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[My life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commonplace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I am reading Haruki Murakami. Reading is perhaps not the word for it. If I could melt his collected works, I would dunk myself and drown there. No, I wouldn&#8217;t: I would grow gills and rejigger my metabolism so I could breathe below the surface. I am besotted.  His writing is spare and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisdayasis.wordpress.com&blog=3724731&post=79&subd=thisdayasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Life</title>
		<link>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/wild-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vermonter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Last Thursday night I was visiting my folks up the hill as I often do when I am home. We were having a bit of a glass-o&#8217; and waiting around for the 8 o&#8217;clock re-run of Jon Stewart when I remarked to my dad that he sounded a little whistly and was he all right?
 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisdayasis.wordpress.com&blog=3724731&post=60&subd=thisdayasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">People drive SO FAST along this stretch of road...</media:title>
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		<title>People ask me why I don&#8217;t marry</title>
		<link>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/people-ask-me-why-i-dont-marry/</link>
		<comments>http://thisdayasis.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/people-ask-me-why-i-dont-marry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Explain yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ I tell them, &#8220;I am holding out for a deaf &#38; dumb orphan.&#8221;
&#160;
Actually, it&#8217;s more like this.
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			<media:title type="html">It's OK to look.</media:title>
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