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		<title>It&#8217;s a brand new day!</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2009/01/we-have-a-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are the ones we&#8217;ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.&#8221; &#8211; Barack Obama Every TV in my house is turned on and tuned to the inauguration coverage. I don&#8217;t want to miss any of it. This morning, I listened to CNN&#8217;s special broadcast of Dr. Martin Luther King&#8217;s historic &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The year in rear view</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/12/the-year-in-rear-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each year find you a better person.&#8221; &#8212; Benjamin Franklin I stopped making New Year&#8217;s resolutions a long time ago. They rarely stick &#8212; and only serve to throw me into a vicious cycle of guilt, remorse, and self-contempt for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YES WE DID!</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/11/yes-we-did/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.&#8221; &#8212; Raymond Lindquist Obama won last night &#8212; and it&#8217;s a gorgeous morning in my suburban Detroit neighborhood. The autumn sun shimmers through the maples in my front yard, and it looks like we&#8217;ll hit an unseasonal 70 degrees again today. Meanwhile, the city is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting unstuck</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/10/getting-unstuck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American anxiety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear of change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We will not solve the problems of the world by staying at the same level of thinking that created them.&#8221; &#8212; Albert Einstein Driven by fear and uncertainty, some of us cling to the past or seek shelter in the safety of our old comfort zones. Worse yet, when we&#8217;re really scared, we hurl proverbial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My side of the fence</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/10/the-view-from-my-side-of-the-fence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2008/10/the-view-from-my-side-of-the-fence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in the 1960s, I was fed the idea that &#8220;nice people&#8221; didn&#8217;t discuss religion or politics in public. Ever. At the family dinner table, I once asked my parents to reveal their candidates for an upcoming election. I was told in no uncertain terms that it was none of my business &#8212; though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adams: passion &amp; politics</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/09/passion-political-turmoil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.&#8221; &#8212; Benjamin Franklin If you think today&#8217;s political climate is worrisome, stressful, and tumultuous, then run to your nearest DVD rental store and pick up HBO&#8217;s John Adams series. Based on David McCullough&#8217;s Pulitzer-prize winning historical biography, this outstanding seven-part series chronicles the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerson&#8217;s wisdom</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/09/emersons-wisdom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2008/09/emersons-wisdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.&#8221; &#8211; Ralph Waldo Emerson This inspiring quote from Emerson &#8212; one of my favorite American writers &#8212; has resonated in my heart and home for ages. So I couldn&#8217;t have been more proud when my son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political fervor</title>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/07/political-fervor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.laferle.com/2008/07/political-fervor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.&#8221;Â  ~Thomas Jefferson &#8220;Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.&#8221; ~Richard Armour &#8220;All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason [...]]]></description>
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