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		<title>the unseen forces of inequality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What determines who is normal and who is not? How do we as a society determine that this person or that person deviates from “the norm”? And how does this inevitable “deviation” from the norm end up having value assigned to it by society? For example, if a person is highly coordinated and can run [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5568650&amp;post=1762&amp;subd=ronirvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>graveside</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I stood graveside watching and listening to shovels of dirt being thown over the urn, the urn containing the ashes of my brother in law and friend, I came to a point, understanding the finality of this act, where I was compelled to look up into the skies. I could no longer look down. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5568650&amp;post=1735&amp;subd=ronirvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>beauty and blessing, wisdom and hurt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above all, may silence make you strong. (Chief Dan George) Death is a natural part of the human experience (none of us gets out of this thing alive). So also, hurt is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5568650&amp;post=1702&amp;subd=ronirvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>living in peace</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/living_in_peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over and over I ask myself, what does it mean to live in peace? I know there is no other thoughtful and heartful way of living. And yet… what does this really mean? Nationally, what do I believe about peace? Do I really believe that we can solve our problems with the violence of war? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5568650&amp;post=1686&amp;subd=ronirvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>fighting the rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went for my daily one-hour meditative walk today… it was raining. Oh well. I really wanted to walk. I really needed to walk today. Then I started noticing my countanence. I was habitually resisting the rain. My eyes were squinting, tightening up my cheeks, my nose muscles, my forehead. When I tried to relax, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5568650&amp;post=1674&amp;subd=ronirvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>soft</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/soft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discovered a new song. New to me, at least. I sit here listening to its message, listening from a place of depth, from my heart; the song plays over and over&#8230; as I allow it to overwhelm me to tears&#8230; I realize how often we miss the whole point of life and living. Love is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5568650&amp;post=1648&amp;subd=ronirvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>absolute equality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our nation was established on the absolute belief in the equality of all people. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5568650&amp;post=1617&amp;subd=ronirvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>in praise of trees</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/in-praise-of-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stand in wonder and awe of trees. If only I could live out the many life lessons that trees are speaking to me. Am I listening? 1.  Trees are… trees Trees stand tall with limbs reaching to the Light. They are what they are. They are what they were created to be. Nothing more… [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5568650&amp;post=1602&amp;subd=ronirvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>integrity</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/integrity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‎&#8221;Appear As You Are, Be As You Appear&#8221; -JaLaL-UD-Din Rumi- Who am I? Am I who I say I am? Am I who they say I am? Am I who I think I am? Each of us have an inner life and an outer life. Visible and invisible. To what extent do they match? To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5568650&amp;post=1590&amp;subd=ronirvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>what is meaning?</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/what-is-meaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who spent the years 1942-45 in four different Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz.  By the end of the war his pregnant wife, his parents and his brother had been murdered; among his immediate family, only he and his sister survived.  After the war he published Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5568650&amp;post=1586&amp;subd=ronirvine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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