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		<title>Was She Married to a Stranger?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Belle Burden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three people mentioned Belle Burden’s Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage to me in the last few weeks. That seemed like the universe whispering. I read...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Art of Living in an Impermanent World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ann Tashi Slater]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flurys tea room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To Philsophize is To Learn How to Die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traveling Through Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ann Tashi Slater has written an unusual and effective hybrid of memoir and self-help called Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent...]]></description>
		
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		<title>What’s an interruption, anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meditations for Mortals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nader Sculpture Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Burkeman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter Storm Fern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wyndham Walls]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Winter Storm Fern has disrupted life for approximately 230 million people in the United States. C.S. Lewis and Oliver Burkeman have a few things...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sadness: Not Just a Malfunction of the Joy Machine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dolorblindness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[falesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Koenig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nighthawk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Last week’s foray into German words for post-Christmas feelings made me go hunting for a book I had half-forgotten, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows....]]></description>
		
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		<title>What if this were easy?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[I choose to live in Easy World]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Burkeman]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m starting the new year with this question in mind. Oliver Burkeman, in Meditations for Mortals, suggests it as an approach to just about everything....]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Stories That Define Us</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here’s a terrific non-traditional holiday read for you or someone on your gift list: The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories...]]></description>
		
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		<title>It’s Worse Than You Think</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ian McEwan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditations for Mortals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Burkeman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What We Can Know]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We don’t really know anyone else’s heart or mind. Or what they might be capable of. We know this &#8211; right? &#8211; if we’ve lived...]]></description>
		
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		<title>An Angel Came to Earth with a Torch and a Pail</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jenniferpuryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pepper and Poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agastache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Action and Contemplation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyssop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Pye weed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[October cleome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revision 2025]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Rohr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wild Geese]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[His hand shook as he told the very short story of the angel who came to earth with a torch and pail. I wasn’t going...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Goodbye</title>
		<link>https://www.bacononthebookshelf.com/2025/10/25/goodbye/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jenniferpuryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pepper and Poems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fredrick Buechner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Poblanos Albuquerque]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This weekend I’m at a seminar hosted by the Center for Action and Contemplation, Richard Rohr’s spiritual think tank in Albuquerque. A stroke, a heart...]]></description>
		
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