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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 17:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This reaches me on several levels because, for one, it shows a man giving his body, his will, his time to the military. On some levels, this fact alone is upsetting to me. I&#8217;m not anti-military or unappreciative of the hearts of those who mean well when they join the military but I do struggle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&#038;blog=6595405&#038;post=2879&#038;subd=jruthkelly&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>While All Else Clamors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What was that I just felt, smelled fleeting, heard whispering? What was that wash of release from tension tension life never asked me to know? What was that pleasure seeping in? What if…? What if life is perfect right now? What if the dust bunnies in the corner two days after cleansweep are a reminder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&#038;blog=6595405&#038;post=2318&#038;subd=jruthkelly&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Downside of Up&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Though honing my gratitude muscles here lately, I&#8217;m still not much for perpetual positive pounding drowning out the sound of anything realistic, anything begging acknowledgement beyond conspiracies of love and beauty (say the Troy Davis dilemma, Occupy Wall Street, media whitewash of corporate corruption etc.). This 10 minute jaunt is worth the perspective. My only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&#038;blog=6595405&#038;post=2285&#038;subd=jruthkelly&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Parody of Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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&#038;blog=6595405&#038;post=2258&#038;subd=jruthkelly&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must Know Life&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mumford and Sons&#8217; song &#8220;After the Storm&#8221; has held my hand for a while now. It seems appropriate today given the grief and confusion the world experienced on 9/11/01 and since then, on such cataclysmic levels worldwide. It&#8217;s an idealistic song of sorts but I believe we cannot evoke change in the world without clinging [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&#038;blog=6595405&#038;post=2238&#038;subd=jruthkelly&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What A Ride&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.&#8221; -Emily Dickinson Rob Brezsny&#8217;s Free Will Astrology posted the above quote on Facebook today. And I have to say this resonates more deeply for me than anything going on in this rather roiling world. News of riots in the streets of London and surrounding cities, hurricanes hurling category 3 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&#038;blog=6595405&#038;post=2184&#038;subd=jruthkelly&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Poet on Sorrow and Destiny&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://jruthkelly.com/2011/05/17/a-poet-on-sorrow-and-destiny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 17:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Because we are alone with the alien thing that has entered into our self; because everything intimate and accustomed is for an instant taken away; because we stand in the middle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&#038;blog=6595405&#038;post=2055&#038;subd=jruthkelly&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May your lands be filled to overflowing with the greatest human tide of compassion&#8230;healing&#8230;restoration&#8230; Filed under: Life, Love, Music, Nature Tagged: Coping, Life, Love, Music, Nature<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&#038;blog=6595405&#038;post=1976&#038;subd=jruthkelly&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snow and Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather-guessers say more snow&#8217;s on the way and I&#8217;m not alone with mixed feelings. The sight of soundless white falling to a ground deadened by autumn&#8217;s work, covering up loss in a cold caressing grace overlays the longing for a warming light, guiding me out of a long, sighing night-time filling up days and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&#038;blog=6595405&#038;post=1914&#038;subd=jruthkelly&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fill &#8216;Er Up&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life fills us up when we quit believing we must be the compensation for fear-driven loss. And it fills up those we think we&#8217;re responsible for. Guess what? It does it even when we&#8217;ve left, when we&#8217;ve given up, when we&#8217;ve tossed it all at the feet of &#8220;fate&#8221; and said: &#8220;I have to live&#8230;&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&#038;blog=6595405&#038;post=1876&#038;subd=jruthkelly&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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