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	<title>Thinking OutLoud ...personal thoughts in an ever changing world.</title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[being loved]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kindness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesson in love]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[loving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To discover love is to give love. Your words define you, your thoughts shape you. What we say about others are who we are in their lives&#8230;if you want to love and be loved by someone, then use the kind of words &#38; thoughts that offer and bring love to that person. (Especially when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[differentness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl&#8217;d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.” ~William Shakespeare When a wave hits, it consumes, washing up on shore with force that only wind and water and nature can, Smothering, Shifting, Enveloping. Everything is altered, shifted, moved.  Everything changes. There is no better or worse, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warriors of Transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[damselfly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dragonflies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dragonfly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strength]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any one who knows me knows I love dragonflies. I don&#8217;t love them just for the way they look, there are many other reasons, but the most powerful reason is because in Japanese symbolism, they are warriors. A big tough,  burly North American man may smile when they see the dragonfly I have placed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ushered</title>
		<link>http://pattiblackstaffe.com/ushered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[caring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Handsome, appealing and welcoming as with tuxedo and boutonniere, shiny black leather shoes, hair trimmed to perfection, this is the usher of spring! This is the time of year that I long for the ground to be soft and pliable, workable that my hands may dig deep in soil feeling the energy of earth and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industry</title>
		<link>http://pattiblackstaffe.com/industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[differentness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gifted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talented]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unique you]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YOU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You are not a robot, a widget, a conformity. Be busy, yes, but find your own flower, your space your activities as defined by these things: Your talent Your gifts Your dreams Your unique, remarkable, delicious differentness. Be you, break free and believe that industrious does not mean conformity.  Do not try to be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tick Tock</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no time but that which we choose to impose upon ourselves&#8230;and others. Tick tock, tick tock the sound gets louder and louder as we watch the clock anxious and worried that the minute hand will win in our race against the monster Time&#8230; No time to eat right, no time to exercise, no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silhouette</title>
		<link>http://pattiblackstaffe.com/silhouette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All of us are biased, drawn toward conclusion like an addict to cocaine as we wrap our view around circumstance and call it so. We are what we perceive, we create what we can imagine and we devour that for which we hold disdain.   Each perception, unique, but drawn to be the same in that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Companion Love</title>
		<link>http://pattiblackstaffe.com/companion-lov/</link>
		<comments>http://pattiblackstaffe.com/companion-lov/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God's Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no greeting like the crazy, tail-wagging, panting, &#8216;I think you&#8217;re perfect&#8217; welcome given by a dog. I read somewhere that we should all be so lucky as to be greeted like a dog.  I don&#8217;t believe I have earned the kind of trust and love that our Sadie bestows on me every time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space</title>
		<link>http://pattiblackstaffe.com/197/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intrusion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Your space is your space.  Someone may enter without right or permission, but in the end you must claim it back as yours. There is not much to say about this night, for what can one say when left in shock and surprise.  We were less affected by the intrusion than by the comments from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>F is for Forgiveness</title>
		<link>http://pattiblackstaffe.com/forgiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 18:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human faults]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have learned a little something about forgiveness lately and, although I knew it logically, until I truly ‘felt’ it I did not have a real understanding of the lesson. &#160; All of us experience times when we feel hurt or upset by someone, some folks suffer serious hurts which make it difficult to forgive [...]]]></description>
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