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	<title>Cracked Window &#187; Aging</title>
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		<title>Spit Points the Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were kids, my brothers and I spit a lot. Our spitting styles varied in volume, range, and sound but had the same goal: create tough-guy facades. In those days of grappling with budding masculinity, I could not have foreseen that the spit I sent flying so often would mean so much now. Saliva [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dream World Reunion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[high school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thankfully no one can see our dreams. In these impenetrable realms we have no choice but to watch bizarre and disjointed narratives starring ourselves in roles not of our choosing. Like everyone I suppose, I want to attach meaning to my dreams. But aren&#8217;t they random shards of memory reassembled into stories that never were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awaiting Destiny&#8217;s Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades a thought arrived often and too pushy to ignore: I had a purpose in life not of my choosing. Without warning I would have an instant to save a stranger&#8217;s life. The chance was destiny. Imagined scenarios would flash past, chief among them rescuing a drowning child. Maybe the idea emerged from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death and the Triple Wow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to Steve Jobs to depart this world with words of wonder. In another context his last utterance would have been overused slang, a reflexive expression lacking meaning. Oh wow. Not so with Jobs as he slipped slowly toward death. Immediately after gazing at his family and then staring past them, he said: OH [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stubborn Illusion Of Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[time]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two recent stories of love and death feel connected. This is absurd considering that 1,500 years and 5,000 miles separate them. But why let facts get in the way of a feeling, a yearning? Last month an Iowa couple married for 72 years died an hour apart while holding hands. The wife died first but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected Journey</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/unexpected-journeyk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classmates.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memory Lane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter Park High School]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The serendipity of discovery on the web is old news, though it remains a hallmark. I was reminded of this recently when, as a longtime subscriber to Classmates.com, I received an email about the site getting a new look and name, Memory Lane. I clicked the link and immediately saw links to yearbooks from my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accidental Vestige</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joanie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nashua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some photos haunt me. None more than this one. It was taken behind our house in Nashua, New Hampshire, circa August 1958, seven months before our family moved to Florida. My two brothers and I posed for our mother, and judging from our expressions, we hadn&#8217;t yet reached the stage of reflexive smart-ass resistance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No One Chooses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Bales]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Sybelia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria lily]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a decade ago, a sudden medical problem made me afraid I was going to die on the spot. What had I done to deserve the infamy of croaking in Costco? ]]></description>
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		<title>A Son&#8217;s Goodbye</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/a-sons-goodbye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eulogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=3330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of your opinion of Ted Kennedy, this eulogy by his oldest son is something you won&#8217;t soon forget. I heard it today, on my father&#8217;s 81st birthday, while driving home from Seattle. Hard to see the road through tears.]]></description>
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		<title>Employees of the Heart</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/employees-of-the-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw my heart beating today from behind its walls. In darkened chambers easily mistaken for underground rooms, a handful of workers labored without pause. The workers are valve gates, flanges of flesh regulating blood flow with relentless precision. It&#8217;s easy to see why one day they might quit from fatigue or boredom. But one [...]]]></description>
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