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		<title>How A Thought Thinks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A mole is in the garden. I am at the nursery buying flowers. It is Spring. Here are three poems to tickle the mind this...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Top Ten and A Tiny Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 11:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A bee in winter travels into the new year finds open flower * * * Happy New Year, friends! I took an online haiku class...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Christmas Greetings and Bacon Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rorate Celi Desuper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Magi Yeats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Oxen Hardy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My friend Mary Jo gave me a beautiful book of Christmas poems, and I’d love to share three of them this morning. Whatever else the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>When, Near the End of Day&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jenniferpuryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[For the Interim Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John O’Donohue]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[For my friend who has suffered a profound loss, and for anyone lost&#8230; For the Interim Time by John O’Donohue When near the end of...]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Day in February</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 11:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we leave February behind, here are a few thoughts and photos from a chilly day at the beach. Also &#8211; just so you know...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Him, Imagined</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jenniferpuryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent last weekend in my hometown. On the plane and in bed I read “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood, which I didn’t expect to...]]></description>
		
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		<title>October Special: The Trees</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jenniferpuryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The grass in my yard crunches underfoot, yellow as straw in some places. Pepper rouses small tornadoes of dust as she chases the squirrels. Yet...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wintergreen</title>
		<link>https://www.bacononthebookshelf.com/2019/01/27/wintergreen/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jenniferpuryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2019 11:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[velveteen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter's rest]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On my best days I feel more gratitude and less worry. Often those are the days I&#8217;ve puttered around my yard, a good dog not...]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Death Comes (for Mary Oliver)</title>
		<link>https://www.bacononthebookshelf.com/2019/01/17/when-death-comes/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jenniferpuryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you heard? Mary Oliver has died. The best beloved poet of our time? Yes. Maybe. But I&#8217;m sure &#8211; not only in my mind....]]></description>
		
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