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		<title>Day One.  Reading, Writing and Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life]]></category>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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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>
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				<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicallytwisted.wordpress.com/?p=1046</guid>
		<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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		<category><![CDATA[New Year's Resolutions]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ellora Caves]]></category>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Goal setting]]></category>
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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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		<title>Eknath Easwaren&#8217;s Passage Meditation</title>
		<link>http://practicallytwisted.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/eknath-easwarens-passage-meditation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mimm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first I was put off by Eknath Easwaran’s Passage Meditation.  The prose was too anecdotal, the advice too simple.  The book was for beginners.  Didn’t I already know all of this?  I wanted the answers to my deeper questions, not a parable on the hectic pace of life. But because I promised my meditation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=957&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Present Moment:  Adventures in Meditation and the Arrival of a Mantra</title>
		<link>http://practicallytwisted.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/this-present-moment-adventures-in-meditation-and-the-arrival-of-a-mantra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It began with the purchase of my iPhone, this new bad habit.  The cold weather, this cold apartment and my laptop encouraged me.  I began to love curling up under the blanket and surfing in the hour before sleep.  And if I woke in the night, which I do sometimes, I’d pick up the phone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicallytwisted.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698029&amp;post=947&amp;subd=practicallytwisted&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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