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		<title>All the Time</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I like to stand outside in the winter night, a glass of gin in my hand, and watch the sky go by above me, half moon a white lemon with its companion star, the star two stars, then one if I concentrate while the clouds veil and unveil it all, and my focus shifts between [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vacant Lots: A Butterfly Hunter Considers the Sacred</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The simplest definition of “sacred” in the Oxford English Dictionary has always seemed to me to be “set apart,” and that’s probably why I’ve never felt very happy with the word. I’ve never much liked the idea of things being “set apart.” Somehow, in my staunchly Republican family, I acquired a stubborn egalitarianism. But I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; You know, that&#8217;s what my sockeyetrist told me. &#8220;Catherine,&#8221; he said, &#8220;you&#8217;ve got a person in you, another person besides you, and that person is all the time telling you, &#8216;Catherine, you&#8217;re no good, Catherine, you can&#8217;t do thus and that.&#8217; And you are trying to become yourself, but that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Has the Dusting Been Done Up in Heaven?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Has the dusting been done up in heaven? If it hasn&#8217;t, there&#8217;s one thing I know good and well: You&#8217;re clipping the wings of those damn lazy angels And telling them all about going to hell; Do they run a tight ship up in heaven? Do they keep to their word and not waste a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I Guess</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malcolm McCollum]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other day, I decided to take one of the numerous IQ tests offered on the internet. I chose a 100 question version. These are a few of the questions: &#8220;1. Unscramble the letters to form an English word: &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; D R O H H C R P I S A &#8220;2. The day after [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Conscience of a Conservative</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malcolm McCollum]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Of course, you&#8217;re very conservative&#8221; Both sides of my family were lifelong Republicans, and approached their lives conservatively. By that I mean that they valued the contributions of the past to their current happiness, they took care to preserve their tools and other possessions (rather than throwing them out and buying new ones), they paid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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