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		<title>A Clean, Well Lighted Place for Yoga</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I prefer answers to questions about things we can only feel to have at least a toe-hold in science.  But that’s just me.  My geeky half has a cynical side. So when I attended Yiwen Chang’s Thai Massage Workshop at Prajna Yoga and Healing Arts Studio in Belmont, California and heard the human rights lawyer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=1115&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perfectionism:  The Voice of the Oppressor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know that I could have picked two better books to read simultaneously.  If Kelly McGonigal’s The Willpower Instinct is the brain of the operation, then Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird is the heart. I know everyone has already read Bird by Bird.   Most likely in 1994, when it was published. I was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=1091&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day One.  Reading, Writing and Meditation</title>
		<link>http://practicallytwisted.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/1083/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll be the first to admit that I lean a bit toward the odd.  In a good way I hope, but still.  I allowed myself one last moment with Jimmy Fallon (“I Gotta Have More Cowbell!”) and then broke the news to Hulu: “I think I need a break.” “Did I do something wrong?” “No, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=1083&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Buzzy Challenge (or how I plan to conquer my addiction to Hulu)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It pains me to confess the following:  Until I cancelled my Comcast cable bundle and handed over my television to Goodwill Industries I was guilty of watching, on average, twenty-one hours of television per week.  Three hours each day.  Every day. What on earth was I doing?  That’s an easy one to answer.  I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=1063&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Negative Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m captivated by negative space. The space that isn’t the thing:  the blue between the branches of a bare winter tree, the angles drawn by a box of pencils spilled atop a desk, the shapes that fall between the shadows of a picket fence on a summer sidewalk.  Negative space.  The space that isn’t the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=1053&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Care and Feeding of Your Spirit</title>
		<link>http://practicallytwisted.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/the-care-and-feeding-of-your-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet and Exercise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you do anything for yourself this year, let it be that you give yourself just one thing.  I’m not talking about a new car or a pair of shoes.  I don’t mean a night out. What I mean is this:  give yourself that one thing that feeds your spirit like nothing else can.  And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=1049&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
		<link>http://practicallytwisted.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/2011-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=1046&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rainbows and Light and the Absence of Free Will</title>
		<link>http://practicallytwisted.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/rainbows-and-light-and-the-absence-of-free-will/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to blame Pluto. Not Uncle Walt’s golden and gloriously floppy-eared animated canine of indeterminate breed.  Nope.  I mean the recently demoted former planet, now dwarf planet, Pluto. According to my favorite stargazing Texan Pluto teased its way into my sign back in 1995 a few weeks before I sold everything I owned and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=1029&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What About the Space Between &#8216;Here&#8217; and &#8216;There&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://practicallytwisted.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/what-about-the-moments-between-here-and-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In between Downward Dogs my client Bob told me that to celebrate his 70th birthday this autumn he and his wife were going to take a trip around the world. A trip around the entire world! I immediately thought of all the places I’d like to see:  the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Grand Viaduc [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the Signs:  Reconsidering the Resolution</title>
		<link>http://practicallytwisted.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/follow-the-signs-reconsidering-the-resolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time I was the Queen of Setting Goals.  I had rigid lists, sub-lists and categories:  goals for writing, goals for yoga, goals for saving money.  A five-year-plan and – always – the goal to lose ten pounds.  A complex map for my life.  A set of instructions to follow. That’s how this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=999&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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