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		<title>Ostriches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his <i>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> series, author Douglas Adams invented a beast called the Ravenous Bugblatter of Traal, a creature so stupid that it assumed that if it can't see you, you can't see it. ]]></description>
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		<title>Good deeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost by definition, a good deed is given away, with no expectation of getting anything back. ]]></description>
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		<title>Gran&#8217;paaaaa!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But to what age do we hold children responsible for their actions? If you drill a hole in the ocean floor, under a mile of seawater, shouldn't someone have thought through the potential consequences first?]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/07/07/837/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My generation was brought up with a different mindset. We were taught to make the best of what we had &#8211; cars, houses, jobs, partners.... Even if it wasn't the best, make the best of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Religious?</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/06/30/833/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So does the religious validity of my writing depend on the depth of my own faith? If so, how would anyone know how religious I am &#8211; aside from what I write in my columns?]]></description>
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		<title>Trusting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In spite of the fear constantly fomented by terrorists and security agencies &#8211; both of whom, it's worth noting, depend on fear for their employment &#8211; we still trust each other.]]></description>
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		<title>Baggage</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/06/16/825/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I feel that I have to pick up a weighty burden of religious baggage before I can walk the path he recommends.]]></description>
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		<title>Improvising</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life, Tim says, has no dress rehearsals. You are constantly improvising. You cannot practice life in private before you step into the public. Rather, you learn by performing. Without a safety net. Over and over...]]></description>
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		<title>Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[;I've often heard someone say, &#8220;It feels as if part of me died with him/her.&#8221; Indeed, part of them did. Not a physical part. But a part of their lives that can't be replaced.]]></description>
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		<title>Wrong words</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2010/05/26/813/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 07:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then, I hear my mouth saying words that I had no intention of saying, thoughts that had barely crossed my consciousness before they started coming out, words that a small voice in my skull never had a chance to tell me not to say.]]></description>
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