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		<title>I&#8217;m So Glad God Loves F*ck Ups</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been privy to a very fascinating process over the past few weeks&#8211;the beginning steps of training a puppy to become an autism service dog.  Sometimes I feel like the most ignorant person on the planet.  There are so many interesting things a person can do with their time, and training a dog to become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrivingisthegoal.com&amp;blog=9960033&amp;post=757&amp;subd=thrivingisthegoal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birds of A Feather&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2012/01/26/birds-of-a-feather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find life to be strangely comforting in its consistency sometimes.  No matter how frustrated I am by own inner turmoil, life goes on.  It doesn&#8217;t wait for me to figure anything out.  I still have to get up tomorrow and put one foot in front of the other even if I don&#8217;t have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrivingisthegoal.com&amp;blog=9960033&amp;post=740&amp;subd=thrivingisthegoal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sadists, Puppy Love, and Our Shimmering Hearts</title>
		<link>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2012/01/11/sadists-puppy-love-and-our-shimmering-hearts/</link>
		<comments>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2012/01/11/sadists-puppy-love-and-our-shimmering-hearts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is &#8220;surreal&#8221; an emotion? May I take apart this word&#8211;sur réalité or sur réalisme? Taken from the French, it literally means &#8216;on reality&#8217; or &#8216;on top of realism&#8217;.  The sense is that one is floating above the weightiness of the solid world.  One has drifted into the abstract.  Of course, you might be reminded of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrivingisthegoal.com&amp;blog=9960033&amp;post=730&amp;subd=thrivingisthegoal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water, Water Everywhere, But Not A Drop to Drink</title>
		<link>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2012/01/09/water-water-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-to-drink/</link>
		<comments>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2012/01/09/water-water-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-to-drink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thrivingisthegoal.com/?p=693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing in its myriad forms, to me, is often like trying to catch a butterfly without a net.  You have this wispy, gossamer notion fluttering about in your head, and finding words to aptly describe it&#8211;to flesh it out&#8211;feels nearly impossible.  Sometimes it lands on your finger, and you can catch a better glimpse of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrivingisthegoal.com&amp;blog=9960033&amp;post=693&amp;subd=thrivingisthegoal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Shall Not Pass</title>
		<link>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2011/12/23/you-shall-not-pass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where do I begin? At the beginning? I can&#8217;t even find the beginning.  The beginning of this day? It was snowing.  We finally got a bit of snow.  It started to feel seasonal.  Christmas is approaching.  My girls were frolicking in the flurries.  We were off to my dear friend&#8217;s home to assemble and decorate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrivingisthegoal.com&amp;blog=9960033&amp;post=685&amp;subd=thrivingisthegoal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Tonight There Is Pain</title>
		<link>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2011/12/20/and-tonight-there-is-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2011/12/20/and-tonight-there-is-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother was adopted when she was about 6 months-old.  The story goes like this: My grandparents were walking through the orphanage when they came upon my mother.  She was sitting in a crib.  She looked up at my grandfather with big, blue eyes, and he said, &#8220;There&#8217;s our girl.&#8221;  That was it.  They brought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrivingisthegoal.com&amp;blog=9960033&amp;post=666&amp;subd=thrivingisthegoal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Least of These&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2011/12/10/the-least-of-these/</link>
		<comments>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2011/12/10/the-least-of-these/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are giving your gifts this year, please consider these women and children: An estimated 2 million children are enslaved and abused in the global commercial sex trade — most of them girls. Many children are sold into prostitution to pay off family debts or forcibly recruited from the street to work in brothels. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrivingisthegoal.com&amp;blog=9960033&amp;post=652&amp;subd=thrivingisthegoal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is This You?</title>
		<link>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2011/12/09/is-this-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you read any of the following statements, do you see yourself? Do they resonate? You are a parent who listens to everyone else’s life at dinner but no one asks about your day, and you don’t feel free to intrude your emotions into the discussion. You are at a restaurant with a glass of tea.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrivingisthegoal.com&amp;blog=9960033&amp;post=622&amp;subd=thrivingisthegoal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That The Immovable Would Be Moved</title>
		<link>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2011/12/07/that-the-immovable-would-be-moved/</link>
		<comments>http://thrivingisthegoal.com/2011/12/07/that-the-immovable-would-be-moved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little over six years ago, I found myself in a reasonably happy and fulfilling place in my life.  My four daughters were healthy.  My husband was happy in his job.  I felt well in my life.  I was volunteering at the Salvation Army Recovery Center, working with ex-convicts, drug addicts, and alcoholics&#8211;all men.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrivingisthegoal.com&amp;blog=9960033&amp;post=584&amp;subd=thrivingisthegoal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living with The Tides</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BH</dc:creator>
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