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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; Poems to inspire</title>
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		<title>Feeling the fall</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/10/feeling-the-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[autumn in Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Collins poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midlife meditations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathaniel Hawthorne quote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[October]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.&#8221; &#8211;Nathaniel Hawthorne  Maybe it&#8217;s a symptom of middle age, or maybe it&#8217;s just my old Celtic soul stirring up a seasonal memory. Either way, late October always tugs on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Margo LaGattuta</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns & essays]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[creative writing mentors and teachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inventing the Invisible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margo LaGattuta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan poets and authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dream Givers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My eyes like old glass windows, dusted with lost days, are ready to hold the new light.&#8221; &#8212; Margo LaGattuta, from &#8220;Pretending to Be a Barn&#8221; I found the e-mail from another writer-friend early this morning. It wasn&#8217;t unexpected, though I&#8217;d learned only two days ago that Margo LaGattuta was suddenly terminally ill. &#8220;Margo died [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art and soul</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/04/art-and-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My artwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poems to inspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed media collage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rumi poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Soul of Rumi by Coleman Barks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy.&#8221; &#8211;Rumi For collectors of inspirational quotes, the ecstatic poems of the Persian mystic Rumi are pure gold. I find most of my favorites in one of the finest anthologies of Rumi&#8217;s work, The Soul of Rumi, translated by the incredible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A favorite love poem</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/02/a-favorite-love-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poems to inspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Picnic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lightning"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love poem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage and relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valentine's Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Then all the moments of the past began to line up behind that moment.&#8221; &#8212; Billy Collins One of the things I admire most about poet Billy Collins is the way he mines the ordinary for beauty, then renders a work of art. In &#8220;This Much I Do Remember,&#8221; he recalls a tender moment that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Forgetfulness&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/11/forgetfulness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poems to inspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Forgetfulness" by Billy Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salining Alone Around the Room]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No wonder you rise in the middle of the night to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.&#8221; &#8212; Billy Collins I&#8217;m often amazed at how a particular poem (or a memoir or a novel) can shimmer with new meaning when you reread it years later. I first read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New ground</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/new-beginnings-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poems to inspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic blessings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspirational words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish blessings and poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John O'Donohue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new beginnings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning.&#8221; &#8212; John O&#8217;Donohue It started off as a horrific week. My Web site was attacked by a malicious virus, requiring several days of tedious repairs (and I&#8217;m still not finished with the archives yet).  Later that same day, my dermatologist removed five pre-cancerous patches from my skin. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wild Geese&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/wild-geese-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 21:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poems to inspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Wild Geese"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breaking free of old beliefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freeing the creative soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspirational thoughts and poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry for creative people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shedding harmful religious indoctrination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.&#8221; &#8212; Mary Oliver &#8220;Wild Geese&#8221; is another favorite by our old friend Mary Oliver, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry we&#8217;ve explored in previous posts. Listening to Anne Lamott&#8217;s Word by Word, an audio CD on creative writing, I learned that Lamott posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How poetry heals</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/how-poetry-heals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 12:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poems to inspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A New Theology of Poetry by Sheila Bender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Being True to Life by David Rico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Peninsula by Madge McKeithen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief and loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetic Medicine by John Fox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheila Bender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing as healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing It Real]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Poetry is such good company when no other form of human communication can touch the deepest parts of us.&#8221; &#8212; Sheila Bender I was lucky enough to meet Sheila Bender early in my writing career. In two days I devoured her writing guide, Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down, then wrote to tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild words</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/morning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2010/05/morning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 12:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just for writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poems to inspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Morning" by Mary Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty in the ordinary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cat lovers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry appreciation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What more could I do with wild words?&#8221; &#8212; Mary Oliver I&#8217;m a cat lover and a morning person, so Mary Oliver&#8216;s &#8220;Morning&#8221; spoke to me the first time I read it. And each time I revisit the poem, something else strikes me. Last week, for instance, a student in one of my workshops told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In Perpetual Spring&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/04/in-perpetual-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poems to inspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["In Perpetual Spring"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Gerstler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arrival of spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house and garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring planting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the garden as a place of hope and renewal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.&#8221;  ~Hanna Rion Spring reminds us that we humans were not designed to hunker down in front of a computer monitor for days on end. At some point, we must wake up and engage all of our senses. We need to feel the [...]]]></description>
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