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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category>
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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>Acid-Trip Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[birth control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa caucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LSD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading this morning about Rick Santorum&#8217;s success in the Iowa caucus vote made me wonder whether someone slipped LSD into my coffee. How else to explain a presidential candidate of a major political party doing so well while opposing birth control and advocating that states can make it illegal. Santorum is essentially saying that a [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assassination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JFK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moon landing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neil Armstrong]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=4694</guid>
		<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>New Natural History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Stein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coyote]]></category>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[destiny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Sandusky]]></category>
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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>Miracle Odds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Ali Binazir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[existence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[probability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post, inspired by Steve Jobs&#8217; last words, explored what happens when we die. But what about the here and now and the unknowable number of days ahead of us? Jobs himself used the certainty of death as a motivator and guide for how to live every day. In his much-praised commencement speech at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death and the Triple Wow</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/death-and-the-triple-wow/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/death-and-the-triple-wow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endorphins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mona Simpson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=4552</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/stubborn-illusion-of-time/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/stubborn-illusion-of-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[physicists]]></category>
		<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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