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		<title>family</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s becoming real. Up to now it was this thing that would happen, way off in the distance. I hoped for it sometimes. I wanted it to arrive so I could be freed of the perpetual Sword of Damocles and finally get going with my own life. (No one forced me to press pause for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colsblog.com&blog=1045753&post=2997&subd=colsblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Tierney &#8220;The Science of Concentration&#8221; The New York Times 5/9/09
&#8220;You can lead a miserable life by obsessing on problems. You can drive yourself crazy trying to multi-task and answer every e-mail message instantly&#8230;Or you can recognize your brain’s finite capacity for processing information, accentuate the positive and achieve the satisfactions of the focused life.&#8221;





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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping a journal is a lonely man&#8217;s habit, it betrays the vices of introspection and social withdrawal, even a kind of Narcissism, &#8230; It has certain things to recommend it, it keeps a recorded continuity between his past and present selves, it gives him the comforting reassurance that shocks, defeats, disappointments are all snowed under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colsblog.com&blog=1045753&post=2989&subd=colsblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>my latest creation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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A &#8220;trailer&#8221; for my friend Mary Jane&#8217;s newest novel, DYING FOR MERCY. I have dones these for the past 8 or so years. It entails reading the book, writing the script and finding someone to design and produce it on a shoestring budget. I am pleased with the end product, tho it took a wee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colsblog.com&blog=1045753&post=2987&subd=colsblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>july 4 weekend in monroe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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july 4th 2009 in monroe



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		<title>Then as it was, then again it will be</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independence, like honour, is a rocky island without a beach.
&#8211; Napoleon Bonaparte
I was reading a missive from Bob Lefsetz that really hit home. It was about independence. There were a few lines, specifically, that penetrated to my noggin:

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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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i grabbed this excerpt from the victor bokris biography of keith richards. love the book and its subject. it was gifted to me by a crazy stoner hippie dude when i was an intern at The Nation. a guy i dated in the late 90&#8217;s made fun of me for having the book in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colsblog.com&blog=1045753&post=2969&subd=colsblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new book by the long tail guy that everyone is talking about. And by everyone I mean Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin and pretty soon I&#8217;m sure, Bob Lefsetz. These guys are a few of my chosen filters. At least when it comes to the topic of marketing. I read their stuff online. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colsblog.com&blog=1045753&post=2957&subd=colsblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>romance and reality &#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel&#8217;s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. &#8212; George Eliot
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bethany 2009


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