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		<title>For the anniversary of my life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in college, I read and wrote a lot of poetry. It was both luxurious and exhausting, like mapping a geography that constantly changed. That was when I first encountered the work of W.S. Merwin. I don’t remember &#8230; <a href="http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/for-the-anniversary-of-my-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyhowie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12685621&amp;post=2572&amp;subd=joyhowie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures on the Island of Misfit Toys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, PW and a local rabbi presided over the wedding of a Romanian Orthodox Christian woman and a Russian Orthodox Jewish man. The wedding ceremony included a chuppa, a three crowns ceremony, and a eucharist, with &#8230; <a href="http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/adventures-on-the-island-of-misfit-toys/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyhowie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12685621&amp;post=2543&amp;subd=joyhowie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another day in the seed-shattering factory of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today has been one of those days where I feel like my body is neither big enough nor strong enough to contain my life. I started the day with an early meeting at the hospital, talking with a scientist who &#8230; <a href="http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/another-day-in-the-seed-shattering-factory-of-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyhowie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12685621&amp;post=2530&amp;subd=joyhowie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come out, come out, whoever you are</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estimates for how much of my childhood was spent in the car on long road trips range from 30-80%, depending on which trip I’m remembering. Every summer of my childhood, my dad – or both my parents – got invited &#8230; <a href="http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/come-out-come-out-whoever-you-are/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyhowie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12685621&amp;post=2514&amp;subd=joyhowie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beginning the Days of Awe &#8211; edited and reposted from last year</title>
		<link>http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/beginning-the-days-of-awe-edited-and-reposted-from-last-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer, I was in a local Jewish bookstore looking for some of Rabbi Lawrence Kushner&#8217;s books to give to a friend as a present. I found both the Kushner books I was looking for, as well as a copy &#8230; <a href="http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/beginning-the-days-of-awe-edited-and-reposted-from-last-year/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyhowie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12685621&amp;post=2505&amp;subd=joyhowie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Instead remember the fruits we have bought because of this suffering&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/instead-remember-the-fruits-we-have-borne-because-of-this-suffering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will surely be a surge in praying today, even among those like me who aren&#8217;t quite sure whether what we&#8217;re doing could be considered as prayer. Here&#8217;s a prayer you might not have come across before that seems worth &#8230; <a href="http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/instead-remember-the-fruits-we-have-borne-because-of-this-suffering/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyhowie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12685621&amp;post=2473&amp;subd=joyhowie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Change Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That bright, clear, perfect late-summer morning, I was one of 15 people sitting around a conference room table. Several of our colleagues from other offices were dialed into the meeting, too. Change Management. Every Tuesday morning. 9-10 am. Months earlier, &#8230; <a href="http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/change-management/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyhowie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12685621&amp;post=2460&amp;subd=joyhowie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On balancing peaches and grief</title>
		<link>http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/on-balancing-peaches-and-grief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad and I enjoyed our customary hilarity by phone Monday night. Mom was hosting a bunch of women for a Dining for Women event, so my introverted, non-female dad retreated to the lower level of their house, where he &#8230; <a href="http://joyhowie.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/on-balancing-peaches-and-grief/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyhowie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12685621&amp;post=2431&amp;subd=joyhowie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surfing inside the library of possibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>On being a fish in the School of Love</title>
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