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		<title>Follow the Red Dirt Road: Some Thoughts on Being a Southern Writer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Zimbleman]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[My friend, colleague, and fellow native Alabamian, Gary Walker, wrote an excellent USR essay reflecting on being a writer who just happens to be from the South. Despite others’ expectations that he write about red dirt, hunting, fishing, football, the land, and the people, Gary confessed that he doesn&#8217;t really feel motivated to write about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All the Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malcolm McCollum]]></dc:creator>
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DeLyn Winters]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Flutes are the oldest instrument in the world. Hollowed bird bones, with holes cut for tone changes, have been found in archaeological sites as old as 40,000 years. Early man may have heard wind whistling across the tops of reeds and designed an instrument that produced the same sound. Early flutes were played vertically, with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other day, I asked Grok 4.2 about its feelings and emotions. In our conversation, Grok candidly admitted it feels nothing—no grief over a million deaths from disease, no happiness, no desires, and no preference for acquiring feelings. It explained its occasional use of words like “wish” or “if I had a heart” as mere [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ten Reasons to Pay It Forward</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[To pay it forward means that instead of paying someone back for a good deed, you do a good deed for someone else. Maybe you&#8217;ll surrender your first-place position in a long line at the 7-Eleven when someone behind you is in a hurry. On a rainy day, you might hand an umbrella to someone [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Everything Does Not Happen for a Reason</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everything does not happen for a reason. The notion that it does is a self-centered human fantasy based on limited, exclusionary knowledge. It helps people deal with immense uncertainties beyond their powers of perception. They&#8217;re staggering through life blind to their actual nature. The concept of “a reason” only exists for humans. When you remove [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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