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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s this incorrigible black kitten in my life now. Over the holidays, he pissed under the Christmas tree right on the tree skirt not once but twice and both times with me staring right at him. I. Dare. You. To. Freak. Out. Woman. I did, in fact, freak out, having no tolerance for turf wars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2616&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or two? So many I know and cherish are living on the fine line between loss and hope, smiling, laughing and crying as they refuse a few demons scrambling to take even just an ounce of what&#8217;s precious. They refuse and sometimes precious things are taken anyway. They, and me. We can say we have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2485&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[nothing compares. no purchase, no gifting, nothing permeates, sates so fully as these daily hourly moments eternal filling soul with color, with every reason to breathe, to be given in love, to receive every ounce this life bestows. to the seer goes the spoils, to the one who tastes a richness nothing can destroy&#8230; This was originally posted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2464&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving In the Tides&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So so many layers, cycles, seasons and reasons to feel completely totally overwhelmed while the leaves flame their songs, filling me all the way up as I spill the last bit of resistance to this, to all that is this life. A life that might break me open more, might ask for more vulnerability. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2386&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Naked</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;our clothes, our skins, our personalities, our virtues and our vices are as transparent as space. We cannot lay claim to them, and there is no one to lay the claim, since the self is as transparent as its garments. Empty and nihilistic as it may sound, this recognition of total nakedness and transparency is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2308&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In this present world-order God does not normally intrude the full light of his glory upon our minds, but rather reveals himself as the mysterious Void whose content wholly transcends normal thinking and feeling, and can only be known to the intellect by analogy. We may transcend images, ideas and symbols but we are then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2267&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have precious little else to contribute after the miscarriage of justice yesterday in Georgia. Alan Watts reminds me why I feel so alienated from this culture. Filed under: Advocacy, Alan Watts, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Tao Tagged: Alan Watts, Coping, Personal Growth, Tao<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2258&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is something that is overt and hidden, That exists beyond heaven and earth. Formless, motionless, It stands alone, forever, it does not change, It exists in every place, it never tires. It can be called &#8216;Mother of the universe,&#8217; Because I don&#8217;t know its name. If I am compelled to call it by a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=710&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Tao</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   &#8220;The great Tao is everything, both on the left and on the right.      Through it, all things come into being, and it does not abandon them.      When its work is completed, it does not possess them.      It loves and nurtures all things,      But does not rule them.      It never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=682&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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