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		<title>Living art</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living. &#8212; Samuel Johnson
Lately we&#8217;ve had some wonderful conversations here about the arts &#8212; writing and the visual arts, in particular. But in my view, just as essential to &#8220;the great art of living&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recipe for balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Fulghum
 This year I&#8217;m trying to strike a healthy balance between living creatively and being consumed by creative work. All too often, when I&#8217;m immersed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the flame</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer.&#8221; &#8212; Zora Neale Hurston
For several years I&#8217;ve kept a small garden statue of a woman by our side entrance. I named her Hestia after the ancient goddess of home and family. In Greek mythology, Hestia&#8217;s role was to keep the flame of the hearth burning. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/11/rethinking-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide, not a jailer &#8212; W. Somerset Maugham
Over dinner with my husband&#8217;s brother and his wife last year, my husband and I broached the delicate subject of &#8230; The Holidays. I appreciated the chance to have this discussion with my in-laws. Celebrating the winter holidays, after all, is an emotionally loaded topic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding our way home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 13:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.&#8221; &#8212; Maya Angelou
Home. It&#8217;s my favorite word in the English language. As much as I love to travel, after a long trip there&#8217;s nothing that warms my heart more than the sight of the path leading to our front door. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I could do it over&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/05/imperfect-parenthood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 13:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.&#8221; &#8212; Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions

If you could go back and relive your early years of motherhood, what would you do differently? Do you wish you&#8217;d used cloth diapers instead of disposables? Made your own baby food? Or stayed home from work a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of motherhood</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/05/the-art-of-motherhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 12:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The mother&#8217;s heart is the child&#8217;s schoolroom.&#8221; &#8212; Henry Ward Beecher
With Mother&#8217;s Day approaching, I&#8217;ve been thinking about how my mother shaped my views on career, homemaking, and motherhood.
Like most children in the 1950s and &#8217;60s, I took for granted that Mom would be waiting at home each afternoon when I returned from school. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday, spring cleaning</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/05/saturday-spring-cleaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 15:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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&#8220;May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year&#8230;.The discussion of philosophy is over; it is time for work to begin.&#8221; &#8212; Peter Loewer
It&#8217;s the first weekend in May &#8212; and the climate is ripe for &#8220;de-wintering&#8221; my closets. I love the feeling I get when I unload [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change is messy</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/04/change-is-messy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;There&#8217;s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that&#8217;s your own self.&#8221; &#8212; Aldous Huxley
Every time our walls give way to a sledgehammer, I&#8217;m reminded that change of any kind is never easy. Whether you&#8217;re updating a vintage kitchen or trying to lose a few pounds before hitting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A pink hyacinth?</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/04/a-pink-hyacinth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another &#8230;. we find comfort somewhere.&#8221; &#8211; Jane Austen
Spring takes its own sweet time getting to Michigan. Azaleas and roses were in bloom during our visit [...]]]></description>
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