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		<title>Maine high school senior publishes first book!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bangor, Maine senior Jessie Mae Hodson has just published her first book, called Issym.  After reading the article in the local newspaper and checking the book description on her website, I&#8217;m excited to order my own copy. A dragon named Smolden, shape shifters, mystical continents, teenagers engaged in epic struggles? I&#8217;m interested!  It just may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=encounteringmyself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9844612&amp;post=196&amp;subd=encounteringmyself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a home that is sacred space</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve struggled for a long time with clutter. Clutter is in my home, at work, and in my car.  When I can get myself started on a cleaning project, I can make some good progress. The hardest part is almost always getting my brain and my body convinced to get started. (Yes,  it&#8217;s frequently hard to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=encounteringmyself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9844612&amp;post=185&amp;subd=encounteringmyself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a quote kind of day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This quote sums it all up for me today. I just need to remember&#8230;.. I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal &#8211; and soon they&#8217;ll forget my number. ~Edith Armstrong Peace [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=encounteringmyself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9844612&amp;post=176&amp;subd=encounteringmyself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday&#8217;s words of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words of the day? Fear. Anxiety. Somehow I&#8217;ve let fear and anxiety grow and morph into something big and scary that makes my breathing shallow, my shoulders tight, and the middle of my chest feel permanently knotted. It&#8217;s affecting my concentration at home and at work, and it&#8217;s making life in general difficult. So that&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=encounteringmyself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9844612&amp;post=148&amp;subd=encounteringmyself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good morning, Brain Fog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday morning. Had breakfast and a large cup of coffee. Brain feels like it&#8217;s stuffed with cotton balls. So instead of remaining in this fog, it&#8217;s time to examine it, and maybe even talk to it. Time to suspend reality for a few moments&#8230;. Me: &#8220;Good morning, Brain Fog. I&#8217;m noticing that you&#8217;re back with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=encounteringmyself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9844612&amp;post=136&amp;subd=encounteringmyself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Squirrel!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://encounteringmyself.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/squirrel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever have one of those days where your mind just cannot seem to stay on one thing? Yesterday was one of those days. On the way to work I often pray in the car while I&#8217;m driving. Yesterday being no exception, I dropped off my daughter at school, got my coffee, turned off the radio, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=encounteringmyself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9844612&amp;post=113&amp;subd=encounteringmyself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doing what is possible</title>
		<link>http://encounteringmyself.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/doing-what-is-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I did not do the impossible, I just did all that was possible at the time.&#8221;  Miklos Nemeth, an economist who became the Prime Minister of Hungary in 1988, was instrumental in bringing down the Iron Curtain which divided Europe during the Cold War. (See BBC article &#8220;The man who pulled the Iron Curtain&#8221;.) Sometimes when I&#8217;m struggling with depression [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=encounteringmyself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9844612&amp;post=105&amp;subd=encounteringmyself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It was a full-to-overflowing day!</title>
		<link>http://encounteringmyself.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/it-was-a-full-to-overflowing-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a day full of blessings! An experience with a first-time visitor to my church blessed me probably more than it did her.  I had time to sit and chat with the Pastor and some other adult members of my church. My Dad shared half of his cup of coffee with me. The Lay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=encounteringmyself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9844612&amp;post=95&amp;subd=encounteringmyself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Depression is like a pumpkin!?</title>
		<link>http://encounteringmyself.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/depression-is-like-a-pumpkin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s blog post by Therese J Borchard of Beliefnet struck me as both funny and very true. In her post titled, &#8220;16 Ways Depression Is Like a Pumpkin&#8220;, she makes some good points. She writes, &#8220;After you dig out its guts and give it a light, it can be made into something beautiful (at least temporarily).&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=encounteringmyself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9844612&amp;post=66&amp;subd=encounteringmyself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self management</title>
		<link>http://encounteringmyself.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/self-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self management&#8230;. Looks like it&#8217;s that time of year again to change the desktop wallpaper to something a little more&#8230; meaningful.  Last year I found a website (wish I could remember the URL) called Street Sign Generator that lets you create your own street sign pictures and choose a background to match. For a little while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=encounteringmyself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9844612&amp;post=60&amp;subd=encounteringmyself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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