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		<title>Halloween &#8220;Secrets&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows&#8217; Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.&#8221; ~John Kendrick Bangs Anyone who&#8217;s known me for a while knows that I&#8217;m crazy about Halloween. Like many Baby Boomers, I harbor a ridiculously fierce nostalgia for the holiday. What else would you expect from someone who counts watching The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the holidays</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being still</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waiting is the yeasting of the human soul. &#8212; Sue Monk Kidd One of my favorite traditions at our local church is the silent meditation service held during the Lenten season. The midweek candlelit service is organized by church members, and sometimes an organist provides soulful background music. The service is offered during Lent because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate &#8220;ordinary&#8221; days</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s a funny thing about life.Â  If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.&#8221; â Somerset Maugham âOh look, you&#8217;re using your good china,â my mom said as we gathered at my table for dinner.Â  The winter holidays were long past and there were no anniversaries or birthdays to [...]]]></description>
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