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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; house and garden</title>
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		<title>Trowel and Error</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/07/trowel-and-error-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.&#8221; &#8212; John Erskine My favorite summer pastime is working outside in my garden &#8212; a pastime that inevitably leads me back to the keyboard in my home office. The following gardening essay was published in 2009 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden treasures</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2011/05/15642/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 18:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.  ~Mirabel Osler Like most people who love to garden, I&#8217;ve been by frustrated by spring&#8217;s slow arrival in Michigan. Finally, the sun rose in a cloudless sky this morning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Home</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/08/summer-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven.&#8221; &#8212; Ralph Waldo Emerson Riding my bike on a beautiful day last week, I noticed very few kids playing outside. Made me a little sad. The following piece from my memoir, Writing Home, chronicles a late-summer memory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard exhibition</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/07/backyard-exhibition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it&#8217;s classical urns or pink plastic flamingos, limestone saints or impish ceramic elves, Ionic Styrofoam pedestals or poured concrete birdbaths, you are the curator of your own backyard exhibition.&#8221; &#8212; Mary Randolph Carter I believe a garden should be more than rows of groomed beds and well-tended flowers. Just as the interior of a [...]]]></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>
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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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		<title>Botanica</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/botanica-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.&#8221;  ~Henry David Thoreau When I was a student at Michigan State University in the 1970s, three natural science courses were required of all liberal arts students. An artsy kid, I&#8217;d nearly flunked math and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter garden tour</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/01/winter-garden-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nature has undoubtedly mastered the art of winter gardening and even the most experienced gardener can learn from the unrestrained beauty around them.&#8221; &#8212; Vincent A. Simeone Of course, I&#8217;d rather be gardening on my knees &#8212; on the soft green lawns of May and June.  But being an optimist, I try to look for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>River of reinvention</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/07/river-of-reinvention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No one really knows how you must change. Not even you. Not until you start.&#8221; &#8212; David Viscott, Risking Working on our new/old house in St. Joseph last week, I spent a lot of time thinking about change, restoration, and reinvention. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957 &#8212; just a few years after I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding our way home</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/05/finding-our-way-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 13:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#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 [...]]]></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>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#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 [...]]]></description>
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