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		<title>Meet me under this tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good place for a rendevous Check out the writing, hiking, paddling and gardening I am doing as the Charleston Nature Examiner. All of my posts are love letters, of a sort, which follows February&#8217;s theme.  And spring is coming, so the waterways, garden paths, swamp trails, and island shores are getting beautifully busy.   You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryinsight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9957740&amp;post=163&amp;subd=mercuryinsight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Children&#8217;s Literature and the Message of Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace and Children&#8217;s Literature The Wheel on the School: The call of the impossible impossibility Children&#8217;s literature is almost always a clear, subtle, and therefore compelling voice for the practices of peace and justice.  And because it sings the old sacred song in new ways for fresh ears (those who have ears to hear . . [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryinsight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9957740&amp;post=146&amp;subd=mercuryinsight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love Letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing exercises for the month of February are underway. The theme is love letters. But don&#8217;t think that means mushy and saccharine.  There&#8217;s still plenty for the cynic, the stoic and the silly. Here is a teaser:  February 4, 2010 &#8211; Rose-colored glasses Take a familiar scene. Maybe go back to the view out your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryinsight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9957740&amp;post=141&amp;subd=mercuryinsight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Page: Peace &amp; Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new discussion forum here on Mercury Insight needs your insight. Use this page to post links, images, questions, reflections, quotes, poems and stories related to issues of peace and social justice. Also, check out the continuing discussion on the moral responsibility of writing here. Posted in Peacework Tagged: Ethics, justice, peace, social justice<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryinsight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9957740&amp;post=116&amp;subd=mercuryinsight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Write a little everyday, without hope, without despair.&#8221; &#8211; Isak Dinesen Posted in Writing Tagged: Muse, quotes, Writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryinsight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9957740&amp;post=91&amp;subd=mercuryinsight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Exercises: A Challenge. An Invitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the Brave and the Foolish! Calling all muses! Need an excuse or an opportunity? Here are some writing exercises to get the ink flowing, to see what happens when the word gets pressed, pulled, posed, plundered, caressed for all it&#8217;s worth. . . I have decided to post a writing exercise every day, give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryinsight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9957740&amp;post=67&amp;subd=mercuryinsight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anna in the Temple (a brief sketch for the end of advent)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher.  She was of great age, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshipped there with fasting and prayer night and day.  At that moment she came, and began to praise God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.  (Luke 2: 36-39)

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		<title>Whistling in the Dark? Or Belly-button Gazing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit this site for a rousing discussion of art and morality, specifically the moral weight of writing. Is anything at stake when we pick up a pen, publish a short story, comment on a blog? Do we, as writers, readers, contributors, have a responsibility to truth? Beauty? Ethical significance? Or is it all just shits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryinsight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9957740&amp;post=56&amp;subd=mercuryinsight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Calculus of Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but who can describe the reality of a straight line?  There are no next numbers.  And points are not discrete points afterall – they are points of light, collections of happenings, the accumulation of experiences, mirrors that open into other worlds, private and shared, impossibly probable, defying complete analysis and circumscription, desiring only description.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryinsight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9957740&amp;post=33&amp;subd=mercuryinsight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Epistemology of the Sacred</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming: notes on an essay on how we know beauty when it is encountered. And how this could inform/reform our idea of ethics. Posted in Philosophical Dialectic Tagged: Beauty, Ethics, Truth<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mercuryinsight.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9957740&amp;post=16&amp;subd=mercuryinsight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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