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		<title>Words for Wednesday:  Love and Roses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very long time ago, I heard this poem sung by a sweet young tenor. It was beautiful and sad and made my heart sigh. It took a couple of hearings to understand all the words, but it still makes me smile whenever I hear or read it. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words for Wednesday:  Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children&#8217;s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.larkinart.com/?p=104</link>
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		<title>Words For Wednesday: Wholehearted Living</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve never heard of a musical group called the Rock Bottom Remainders, don&#8217;t despair. It&#8217;s made up of a group of authors (and the occasional ringer) who got together to sing some old rock and roll and have a good time. (You might recognize some of the names: Stephen King, Dave Barry, Amy Tan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.larkinart.com/?p=99</link>
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		<title>Words For Wednesday:  Vitality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long had a theory that everything is connected &#8211; that one thing inevitably leads to the next &#8211; that information travels from one person to another as naturally as water flows in a stream. Today&#8217;s words were originally written by Martha Graham to her friend Agnes DeMille, and were read by my friend Laura, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.larkinart.com/?p=96</link>
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		<title>Words For Wednesday &#8211; Fire and Ice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fire and Ice by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I&#8217;ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.larkinart.com/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Words For Wednesday &#8211; Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some Questions You Might Ask by Mary Oliver Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, like the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl? Who has it, and who doesn&#8217;t? I keep looking around me. The face of the moose is as sad as the face of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.larkinart.com/?p=90</link>
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		<title>Words For Wednesday &#8211; Soaring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, my little chickadees! I just spent a week in Santa Fe (which is why there was no entry last week), and have been immersed in southwestern style art, food, and literature. One of my purchases was a small volume entitled &#8220;Native American Wisdom&#8221; which contained this lovely piece by Chief Dan George. My Heart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.larkinart.com/?p=86</link>
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		<title>Words For Wednesday &#8211; The Sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attempting to select  a paragraph or two from Anne Morrow Lindbergh&#8217;s &#8220;Gift From The Sea&#8221; proved to be too daunting a task for me.  Therefore, I include here her introduction to the work, in hopes that it will encourage you to read (or re-read) this lovely little volume of her thoughts. I began these pages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.larkinart.com/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Words For Wednesday -More Metaphors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another wonderful run-on metaphor from Dave Barry&#8217;s great book, &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221;, a 100% fact free book. This time the subject is pornography, which he takes pains to explain that he is opposed to, claiming that it is directly related to increased drug abuse, unemployment, international terrorism, all-polyester clothing, and above all, violence. As I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.larkinart.com/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Words For Wednesday &#8211; Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Three Goals By David Budbill The first goal is to see the thing itself in and for itself, to see it simply and clearly for what it is. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; No symbolism, please. The second goal is to see each individual thing as unified, as one, with all the other ten thousand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.larkinart.com/?p=72</link>
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