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	<title>Reaching Sunward</title>
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	<description>Turning Lemons into Lemonade</description>
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		<title>Story time with B.B. King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday night, Karen F. and I went to see B.B. King
at the Mountain Winery and here&#8217;s a little tale&#8230; Now, B.B. is 83 years old and still touring, which means the guys from Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones have something to emulate! B.B. is a happy old man from Mississippi, and he sits in his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=308&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/story-time-with-b-b-king/</link>
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		<title>My Easter Meditation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Père Henri: Do I want to speak of the miracle of our Lord’s divine transformation? Not really, no. I don’t want to talk about his divinity. I’d rather talk about his humanity. I mean, you know, how he lived his life, here on Earth. His *kindness,* his *tolerance.* Listen, here’s what I think. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=302&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/my-easter-meditation/</link>
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		<title>The Golden Rule &#8211; Versions from many religions &amp; philosophies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve encountered several articles, websites and conversations discussing the universality of The Golden Rule, also referred to as the &#8220;ethics of reciprocity.&#8221;  Whenever I get that kind of synchronicity I feel that it&#8217;s a prompt to pay attention and share the wisdom&#8230;. so here you go.   Talk amongst yourselves.
&#8220;Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=299&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-golden-rule-versions-from-many-religions-philosophies/</link>
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		<title>What you can give for Christmas this year that will REALLY matter!</title>
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		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/what-you-can-five-for-christmas-this-year-that-will-really-matter/</link>
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		<title>New Christmas Wishes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year at Christmastime I write a little inspirational piece about love, understanding and such things&#8230; and I&#8217;ll get to that in a minute. First, I want to take a peep under the Christmas tree as it were, and have a look at the shadow side of the season ~ so eloquently stated below by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=281&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/new-christmas-wishes/</link>
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		<title>The House that Glowed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story is one of my childhood favorites. It was published in Uncle Arthur&#8217;s Bedtime Stories, 1950. Let it warm your heart.
It was Christmas Eve, and poor little Johann, driven out of his home by an angry and brutal stepfather, was trudging wearily through the snow. His coat was ragged and sodden with melted snow. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=269&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/the-house-that-glowed/</link>
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		<title>Things to be Thankful for</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.&#8221; ~ Thornton Wilder
I&#8217;ve just watched the Paul Newman production of Our Town, and it reminded me of the many precious essentials in life. Coming up on Thanksgiving, it&#8217;s a good time to reflect on them&#8230;from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=262&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/things-to-be-thankful-for/</link>
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		<title>Making a Difference ~ A list of helpful organizations and their websites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nice folks at Credo put together this list of organizations that you may be interested in checking out, participating in or giving time and resources to. Pass this list along! More people, more power, more change.
There are so many ways we can all make a difference!!
Peace &#38; International Freedom
Acción International
Provides microloans, business training and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=260&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/making-a-difference-a-list-of-helpful-organizations-and-their-websites/</link>
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		<title>Marianne Williamson &#8211; Yes we did!</title>
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This article was written by Marianne Williamson &#8211; I&#8217;m posting because I can&#8217;t say it any better!
America has had a non-violent revolution.
As long as there are historians writing about the United States, this moment of fundamental re-alignment of our national purpose will be remembered, poured over and analyzed. It will be seen as one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=252&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/marianne-williamson-yes-we-did/</link>
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		<title>Welling up with joy &#8211; The Obama Presidency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am just beginning to let myself feel what it will mean to have Obama as our President.  I am just beginning to allow the feelings of hope, excitement and joy fill me up.  Until today, I&#8217;ve been too afraid that somehow, the election would go the other way.   But every pundit and poll shows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=240&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/welling-up-with-joy-the-obama-presidency/</link>
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		<title>Guess Who&#8217;s Coming to the White House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guess Who&#8217;s Coming to Dinner was on TCM today.  I watched again and remembered that the first time I saw it, sometime in the 80&#8217;s, interracial marriage was still shocking; something that made you look twice and perhaps judge negatively.  Watching it again now, 20 years later and 41 years after its release, it seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=227&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/guess-whos-coming-to-the-white-house/</link>
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		<title>Yes We Can</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, yes we can people!

Robert F. Kennedy said, &#8220;Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills — against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence… Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=210&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/yes-we-can/</link>
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		<title>Wasillans for Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
A friend of mine said &#8220;it pisses me off to hear our hometown mentioned on NPR in relation to the frikkin Republican ticket.&#8221;  I couldn&#8217;t agree more.  So I thought I&#8217;d pitch in my two cents about Sarah Palin, her beliefs, and why she is not a representative of all Wasillans, or Alaskans, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=153&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/wasillans-for-obama/</link>
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		<title>I Am a Constitution Voter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I Am a Constitution Voter

I believe that no one &#8212; including the President &#8212; is above the law.
I oppose all forms of torture, and I support both closing the Guantánamo Bay prison and ending indefinite detention.
I oppose warrantless spying.
I believe that government officials, no matter how high-ranking, should be held accountable for breaking the law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=149&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/i-am-a-constitution-voter/</link>
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		<title>The Important Moments in Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings,  not the great goals achieved.  The real milestones are less prepossessing.  They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ellemay.wordpress.com&blog=483078&post=143&subd=ellemay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ellemay.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/the-important-moments-in-life/</link>
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