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		<title>On Death &amp; Dying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#1093;&#1091;&#1076;&#1086;&#1078;&#1085;&#1080;&#1094;&#1080; &#1085;&#1072; &#1080;&#1082;&#1086;&#1085;&#1080;&#160; Sometimes&#8230;&#8230;rather make that most of the time, the world doesn’t make much sense to me.  Why does it seem that the men and women who do the most good to change our world and make it a better place, a kinder more gentler place; or those who move us forward on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Moments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ikoniWhat are the moments that define our lives those moments that mark the distances between time; our wedding day, the birth of a child, the death of a loved one,  the loses and the cherished happy times; all of these and so many more make us who we are.  Is it destiny or chance or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OLD AGE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[??????????????? ????????? ?????It’s funny how no one ever tells the younger generation what it’s like to be old or aging and maybe it’s because we never thought to ask.  As my birthday approaches if find I have been pondering the wisdom of growing old. If I had stopped to ask my parents or grandparents or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Question Of Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#1090;&#1088;&#1072;&#1087;&#1077;&#1079;&#1085;&#1080; &#1084;&#1072;&#1089;&#1080;Recently someone said to me, “you are a real Christian women.”  I can’t imagine myself as that especially in view of the events in my life during the past year and a half  that have caused me to question my faith. Recently I was watching an episode of Numbers and one of the characters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See America First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 9, 2009 A little over two weeks ago I returned home to Philadelphia from an eight month stint in San Diego.  A beautiful place, for those of you who have never been there, but a place I’m not sure I want to live permanently. I guess I’m just a dyed in the wool Easterner. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roadside Memorials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 29, 2009 Highways and Byways I have just returned home after a 3000 mile cross country trip and here is something I just don’t get&#8230;..Roadside Memorials. Flowers and crosses on the side of the road. In fact, long before this trip these memorials have cropped up all over the place. Many states, in fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA 233 years old and still going strong! The events of the past two weeks remind us just how precious life is.  On this forth of July celebration we have much to be grateful for; not just the tangible things but the intangible one too.  Those things that are felt in the heart: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Is Good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    Sunday June 28, 2009   Here I am at the Hotel Del again, as you know, one of my favorite spots here in San Diego.  When I arrived in San Diego it was December and the lawn had been transformed into an ice skating rink and there was a huge Christmas tree in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHONE HOME</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought that sometimes the real criminals are not all incarcerated?  Well this blog is for any of you who have ever entertained that thought and for those of us have more than a passing acquaintance with the prison system in this country.  More than that, anyone who has had the misfortune to have encountered MCI and its monopoly on the telephones in the California prison system and in other prisons across the country.]]></description>
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