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	<title>Yips and Howls &#187; inspiration</title>
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		<title>Sweet Spot Up the Hill</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2011/06/sweet-spot-up-the-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several years, we&#8217;re still exploring our acreage in northeastern Oregon.  We&#8217;ve vaguely named some places through habitual reference: The Rocky Knoll,  The Frog Pond. But there are other special places we just call &#8220;sweet spots.&#8221; Somehow, from the context and with a gesture and description of the general location &#8212; &#8220;that sweet spot up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honorably Mentioned</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2011/04/honorably-mentioned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began writing poetry several years ago and still think of myself as a literary fiction writer, not a poet. Not really. Poetry is something I dabble in and play with. Even after publishing a few poems, I still hesitate to call myself a poet. Yesterday, I learned that I received second honorable mention in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of International Women&#8217;s Day in Nepal</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/03/memories-of-international-womens-day-in-nepal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four months after I gave birth to my son in Nepal, I celebrated my very first International Women's Day in 1988 in Gunjanagar, a village in western Chitwan District. It was also Gunjangar's first time to organize an event for that day.  I describe the scene in Sacred Threads, my ethnographic memoir-in-progress....]]></description>
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		<title>Song Inspires Nostalgia for Anthropology</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/02/song-inspires-nostalgia-for-anthropology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A contemporary song reminds me of all that inspired me to become an anthropologist eons ago....]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Conjunctions</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/strange-conjunctions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within 24 hours, Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger die, and Steve Jobs announces the iPad (which &#8212; menstrual jokes aside &#8212; may or may not revolutionize how we interact with the written word). I&#8217;m too busy trying to meet end-of-month writing deadlines to meditate on these odd conjunctions.  And perhaps writing is the best way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grumpy Bears Unite</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/grumpy-bears-unite/</link>
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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>Western Larch: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/western-larch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Northwest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was hard to leave our yurt in northeastern Oregon with Western larch (Larix occidentalis) in full copper-yellow glory.  But when the flanks of the mountains there blaze with what looks like a procession of candles, it's time to get ready for a harsh winter or move to lower elevations....]]></description>
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		<title>Chameleon Blogging: Changes to &#8220;Species of the Week&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/chameleon-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know.  This is a Carolina anole, not a chameleon. When I was a kid, I lusted after chameleons.  But anoles change color too, and they were cheaper and easier to find in local pet stores, so that's what I got....]]></description>
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		<title>Ama: My Greatest Teacher</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/ama-my-greatest-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/ama-my-greatest-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing food this summer in northeast Oregon, I relied on all that I've learned over the years from books, conversations, observations, and personal experience.  But I probably heard Ama's voice more than any other....]]></description>
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		<title>Canyon Mist</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/10/wordless-wednesday-canyon-mist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photograph of mist in a remote canyon in Northeast Oregon.]]></description>
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