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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[A New Theology of Poetry by Sheila Bender]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 12:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Morning" by Mary Oliver]]></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>
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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>&#8220;You, Reader&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/04/you-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever anyone reads his words the writer is there. He lives in his readers.&#8221; &#8212; William S. Burroughs Creative writing teachers often preach: &#8220;Write for yourself&#8221; and &#8220;Write what you know.&#8221; Good advice, yes. Still, most of us hope to build a readership. We write to make a connection with others. Working as a weekly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circus of life</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/03/circus-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damn everything that won&#8217;t get into the circle.&#8221; &#8212; e.e. cummings I&#8217;ve been a fan of the big top as far back as I can remember. It was the highlight of every spring when I was child. Later, as a local freelance reporter, I was thrilled when I was assigned to interview the lion tamer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What Came to Me&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/03/what-came-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Jane Kenyon Collected Poems"]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jane Kenyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memories and keepsakes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.&#8221; ~Carl Sandburg Amazing, isn&#8217;t it &#8212; how small things can hold so much? With the precision of a haiku poet, Jane Kenyon delivers a heart-load of emotion in this short but powerful poem. Anyone who loves the domestic arts will fall in love with Kenyon&#8217;s poetry. She had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Calling the Owl&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/03/calling-the-owl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us hear your faint vibrato and absorb what is invisible, wild and nearly gone.&#8221; &#8212; Terry Blackhawk Every time I read &#8220;Calling the Owl,&#8221; I can picture the poet standing still in a snowy meadow just before dawn, listening for that which is &#8220;wild and nearly gone.&#8221; Terry Blackhawk is an acclaimed Michigan poet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Now I Become Myself&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/03/now-i-become-myself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been dissolved and shaken / Worn other people&#8217;s faces&#8221; &#8212; May Sarton My early introduction to May Sarton&#8216;s work was through her diary, Journal of a Solitude. I was new to personal writing at the time, and I admired how Sarton gracefully shared her private and public worlds &#8212; her beloved garden; domestic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Against Hesitation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/against-hesitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make music of what you can.&#8221; &#8212; Charles Rafferty I always knew I wanted to be a writer. When I was a kid, I perched in the gnarly apple tree in my backyard and scribbled my own adventures in a ruled notebook. In college I majored in English and journalism, but it took years before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Unending Love&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2010/02/unending-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs&#8221; &#8212; Rabindranath Tagore Valentine&#8217;s Day is coming, and I&#8217;ll be the first to admit it can be a guilt-inducing Hallmark holiday. As hard as I try to avoid playing the sentimental fool, lately I&#8217;ve been jumping at any chance to celebrate the people I [...]]]></description>
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