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	<title>Cracked Window &#187; Memories</title>
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		<title>Patina of Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If only I could take back the mouse clicks. The ones that showed how much had changed in the once out-of-way neighborhood in Nashua, New Hampshire, home of my early childhood. I haven&#8217;t been back since moving to Florida in 1959. It was spring. I was in the third grade. Then this week while researching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beatles and Blasphemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ku Klux Klan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny what you remember decades after a memorable news event. Consider the intense controversy over John Lennon&#8217;s claim in 1966 that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ. Futility Closet sent me back to that time with one its &#8220;miscellany of compendius amusements.&#8221; Christian groups from Southern Baptists to the Vatican went nuts, [...]]]></description>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Ice Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roma]]></category>
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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[Dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<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>Gift of Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A compilation of old-time Christmas gun ads dusts off a cobwebbed memory. I was in the seventh grade. &#8220;What do you want for Christmas?&#8221; my parents asked. I knew they knew and this was a dance of formalities. So I paused as if deliberating before answering. &#8220;A .22 rifle.&#8221; They said nothing, and I felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JFK, the Moon, and Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest news events of my school days were the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Neil Armstrong&#8217;s hop onto the moon in 1969. Like me, my friends at the time surely remember where we were and what we were doing when tragedy struck 48 years ago today, and when America&#8217;s triumph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Futures Never Seen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daytona Beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Smyrna Beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring Break]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is old Florida: Daytona Beach, 1904. More than six decades later, Daytona occasionally beckoned me, especially during Spring Break, a rockin&#8217; happening then but sedate compared to today&#8217;s debauched version. The Daytona Beach of my memory, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, was overcrowded, the sands jammed with cars, and Highway A1A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Numbered, I Am</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am not a number, I am a free man!&#8221; That memorable line by actor Patrick McGoohan is from the 1960s TV series The Prisoner, which riveted me years later. I remembered the line today when learning that I have a number. There&#8217;s nothing official or sinister about my number, 2,772,772,874, unlike that of McGoohan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connected And Oblivious</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/connected-and-oblivious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cellphones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone 4S]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedestrians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Siri]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=4257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Blind trust or death wish? One or the other afflicts the many pedestrians using cell phones as they cross busy downtown streets. I see them often while driving in downtown Portland. They don&#8217;t see me. The increased risk of getting run over while using phones is well-documented. Now comes Siri, the virtual personal assistant on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words and Water</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/words-and-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All Summer Glory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casey Neill and the Norway Rats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imagery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagery that sticks with me often involves water. It&#8217;s also spare, several words that echo back in pictures of resounding clarity. For many months two images have replayed randomly, one from a song lyric, the other from a conversation. The Portland-based band Casey Neill and the Norway Rats sings: 2 a.m., swimming in the quarry, [...]]]></description>
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