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	<title>Yips and Howls &#187; Seasons and Rituals</title>
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		<title>View From the Yurt, June 21</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Surprised by Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a busy day of dealing with car repairs and shopping for Thanksgiving food, I didn't want to walk the dog in our nearby park. I really didn't. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Wren Independence Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The house wrens nesting on our yurt porch chose this morning, the 4th of July, to shoo their young ones out of the nest.]]></description>
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		<title>My Gaelic Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I revised my St. Patrick's Day post from last year and posted it at Fictionaut.   A commenter there bestowed on me the Gaelic version of Elizabeth....]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons From Dr. King on Haiti</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/lessons-from-dr-king-on-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard enough to comprehend the scale of disaster in Haiti. What's harder is this: to stand by and watch hate, ignorance and greed breed on human suffering like maggots....]]></description>
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		<title>Grumpy Bears Unite</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like a grumpy, old bear this holiday season.  I don't want to put my energy into decking halls.  I avoid shopping as much as possible.  I have no idea what to get anybody, and the muzak playing everywhere makes me want to poke holes in my ear drums....]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate the Solstice with Laughter</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/celebrate-the-solstice-with-laughter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began blogging a year ago by reflecting on the challenges of Balancing Work and Play. I still haven't figured that out, but I know what helps with that and with surviving this dark season: humor....]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Patterns</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/ice-patterns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing experts tell us to never, ever open a story with the weather. And while a brief comment on the weather can sometimes be an ice breaker, extended conversations about it more likely signal that both parties have run out of interesting things to say. That's all changing now....]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Light</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/winter-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Explorations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A photograph of winter light on water through an almost leafless willow tree.]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Turkey: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/wild-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike my stepfather and his clan, numerous cousins, the son I spawned, and many friends; I don't usually look at wild animals and think: meat.  Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo), indigenous to North America, have become a recent exception....]]></description>
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