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	<description>what passes as light</description>
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		<title>Message from the Grave</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking among the graves of strangers on a sunny spring afternoon made me neither sad nor worried about mortality. It did have another effect: the sparse information on tombstones left me imagining the lives of people from other times and other places. They came to life again, however briefly, as I pictured the families they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Natural History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our near-downtown neighborhood buzzed all summer about the coyote. Facebook and blogs noted its daily (and nightly) moves with awe and fear. TV stations joined the chorus. It was if an alien had landed in our midst. The sightings advanced closer to our house, and one night my wife and I heard unfamiliar sounds growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vicarious No More</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I live vicariously through someone, it usually involves imagining a pleasurable or adventurous event. Now I&#8217;m experiencing the opposite, imagining the terror of friends waking at night in their burning house. That&#8217;s terrifying enough, but add to the plot a baby and arson. The couple and their five-month-old son, asleep on the top floor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tragic Rerun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[TriMet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The flowers are gone. So are the candles, hand-scrawled notes, and other remembrances that for months crowded the sidewalk beneath a sign advertising passport photos. But the story they told is still with me, replayed every time I pass the intersection of NW Glisan and Broadway in Portland. It&#8217;s where a TriMet bus ran down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Hugging Allowed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, I was waiting in the hallway of a small Portland high school. I was there to interview students and a teacher for a story. As kids milled about in the din between classes, many hugged each other. Some embraces looked like reunions between dear friends who hadn&#8217;t seen each other for years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dressed for hire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe the unemployment picture is brightening. A very helpful sales clerk at Macy&#8217;s told me yesterday that there&#8217;s been a rush on men&#8217;s suits. Why? &#8220;Guys are suddenly getting job interviews, and they want to look good,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And they want the alterations immediately.&#8221; I was trying on a suit for a different reason. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tonsorial Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[barber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eyebrows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I&#8217;ve learned to let silence invite candor. So people sometimes tell me more than they should, or more than I want to hear. Today, the guy cutting my hair mentioned how fast my eyebrows grow. Then he volunteered that his eyebrows have always been too sparse. Except for two adjacent hairs off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dueling Gardens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m afflicted with vegetable garden envy. Sure, we have many things growing and gracing the dinner table. Way too much lettuce in fact. But our urban bounty has come to harvest slowly because no part of the yard has day-long sun. And there&#8217;s one raised bed in which everything seems frozen in time despite the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the bus stop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 04:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother: What are you so angry about, bitch? Daughter: I&#8217;m not angry. Mother: It&#8217;s all over your face, bitch. Daughter: What are you talking about? Mother: I see it, here and here (she rubs her hands along the sides of the teenager&#8217;s face). Daughter: (Stares straight ahead at the passing traffic.) Mother: They&#8217;re sexualized, your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slumming in the City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 18:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goldfish pond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Movement outside the bathroom window. Peering through the blinds, I see a heron atop the neighbor&#8217;s garage. It&#8217;s scoping out the goldfish in our small backyard pond. Some are so large they&#8217;re often mistaken for koi. All are oblivious to the harbinger of death gazing upon them. To my eye, herons are stately creatures when [...]]]></description>
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