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      <title>Affirmation 5-6-08</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;I am Love&#xD;
I am a loving mother who cares deeply for her children&#xD;
I attract people into my life who's values are filled with integrity.&#xD;
I am a beautiful healthy woman with a positive happy outlook&#xD;
I create my life.&#xD;
I believe in my self!&#xD;
I love myself.&#xD;
I am open and free !&#xD;
I love!&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:54:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-05-06T13:54:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Violet Flame Invocation</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;*gifted from Feather*&#xD;
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Through the beloved presence of God, I AM now blazing in my heart, I invoke all of the Legions of Light throughout all infinity who are associated with the 5th dimensional frequencies of the Violet Flame and the 12 solar aspects of Deity. As I invoke this Divine Light for myself, I simultaneously invoke it for my loved ones, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, the Middle East and ALL HUMANITY! &#xD;
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BLAZE, bLaZE, BlAze the full momentum of this sacred Violet Fire in through and around every electron of precious life energy I have ever mis-qualified in any time frame or dimension both known and unknown. Transmute these patterns of imperfection cause, core, effect, record and memory into God's LIMITLESS PERFECTION! &#xD;
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I AM now blazing the various 5th dimensional frequencies of the Violet Flame associated with the 12 solar aspects of Deity through every word, action or feeling I have ever expressed that reflects anything less than the immaculate concept of my Full Divine Potential. &#xD;
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Beloved I Am look into my life and see what yet remains to be balanced by me to any person, place, condition, or thing I may have wronged at any time in any way for any reason whatsoever. Reach Your great Loving Hands of Light into all the positively qualified energy I may have released through out my Earthly sojourn, and draw forth A THOUSAND TIMES as much perfection as I have ever done wrong. Fashion from this substance of perfection a gift of Love, whatever is necessary, to balance every debt I have ever created which still remains unpaid to any part of life. &#xD;
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Beloved I AM, I ask you to forgive every person, place, condition or thing, which ever may have wronged me in any way and balance all debts owed to me. &#xD;
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I accept this as done through the power of God I AM and it is done. So it is. And it is so. &#xD;
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Exercises: &#xD;
Take a moment each day to see yourself for who you really are. Deliver this statement to your beingness as you look into the mirror at any time during the day that you choose. Doing this at the same time each day is extra supportive and effective, however if that is not possible according to your circumstances, then anytime you find is fine. [see, feel, smell, hear and know that your are while doing this] &#xD;
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"I AM the absolute perfection of the I AM That I AM. I stand in unison with all of existance, and together we create perfection in our lives and in the universe." &#xD;
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[from www.TreeofTheGoldenLight.com] &#xD;
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Please feel free to share this with your friends and network. The more people who invoke and work with the Violet Flame of Transmutation, the more potent and powerful it becomes. This is time of great change. What we are seeding and creating is a direct result of that which we focus our energy on. Dream and Seed well my friends. &#xD;
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Thank you dear Sista!&#xD;
love you!&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:47:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-02-21T14:47:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Next on the agenda.........IMPORTANT.......Please Feel THIS!!!</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/36fb1d16-33d0-420b-84a5-8e6161d25169</link>
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										&lt;div&gt;I see the war in Iraq ending.&#xD;
I see all war ending and peace prevailing!&#xD;
I see the people who have suffered there and from any war healing.&#xD;
I see the people of our Universe loving each other and sharing what they have.&#xD;
I see the children in Irag and in all war torn countries including our own Oakland having everything they need from love and nurturing to clothes food and shelter and all else they may need in their beutiful minds, body and souls to heal!&#xD;
I see our war leaders changing!I see new bodies entering into our white house who want to love people and help people!!!Keep people LIVING!!!&#xD;
I see us voting for this change.&#xD;
I see myself forgiving those who have harmed others and me.&#xD;
As i want to be forgiven, too!&#xD;
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&#xD;
Please!!!&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:03:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-02-15T16:03:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>O Blessed Creator</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/b72664bf-829d-41a5-a9f9-35620b8015ca</link>
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										&lt;div&gt;Thank You oh kind one who looks upon us&#xD;
Bestowing us with YOUR grace!&#xD;
For your mysteries are our gifts!!!&#xD;
May we look deeply into ourselves so we may know you, O great Source!!!&#xD;
On bended knees i humbly Thank You for my beautiful life!!!!&#xD;
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Amen&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:41:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-02-14T17:41:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Affirmation 1-15-08</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;I am Strong&#xD;
I am Happy&#xD;
I listen to my feelings&#xD;
I  accomplish all my goals&#xD;
I am a wonderful Mother&#xD;
I am a Beautiful Friend&#xD;
I let My creative Juices flow&#xD;
I take only what I need and share what i have&#xD;
I am happy to share what i have &#xD;
I love the universe, and the universe loves me.&#xD;
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uh huh!!!!&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:26:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-01-15T21:26:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Affirmation 1-1-2008</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;I like being here.I recognize the value and power of this time.I feel very good to be here.&#xD;
I see myself in a sort of total package, one that i know is of my own creating, and certainly a package of my choosing. I am full of energy in this picture of myself-tireless, and really moving through life experience without resistance. As i see myself gliding about , moving in and out of conversations, and in and out of life experiences, i see myself as flowing effortlessly, comfortably, and happily.&#xD;
I see myself attracting only those who are in harmony with my current intent. And I am clearer and clearer in every moment about what it is i want.When i get into my automobile and i am moving to a place, i see myself arriving healthy and refreshed and on time, and prepared for whatever it is that i am about to do there. I see myself dressed to perfection in just the manner that i choose for myself.And it is nice to know that it matters not what others are choosing, or what other are even THINKING about what i am choosing.&#xD;
What is important is tha i am pleased with me, and as i see myself, i certainly am!&#xD;
I recognize that i am unlimited in all facets of my life.....I have a bank account balance that is unlimited, and as i see myself moving through life experiences, it is exhilarating to know that there is nothing that i am choosing that is limited by money. I am making all of my decisions based upon whther i want the experience bad enough or not - not based upon whether or not i can afford the experience.For I know I am a magnet who attracts, at any point, whatever prosperity, health, and relationships i choose.&#xD;
I choose absolute and continuing abundance, for i understand that there is no limit to the abundance in the universe, and that by my attracting abundance to myself i am not limiting another......There is enough for everyone. The key is for each of us to see it and want it -and then we will each attract it. &#xD;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:33:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-01-01T15:33:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Autism</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/49b9ade4-a95e-462f-96bf-b5a30839c025</link>
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										&lt;div&gt;Facts and figures about autism: &#xD;
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1 in 150 children are diagnosed with autism &#xD;
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A new case of autism is diagnosed nearly every 20 minute &#xD;
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Autism receives less than 5% of the public funding contributed each year to fight all major childhood diseases &#xD;
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There will be more cases of Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosed each year than all major childhood diseases combined.  &#xD;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-12-18T05:21:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>'CUZ MY LOVE IS STRONG</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;Though they say youre not my friend&#xD;
Youve been here through thick and thin&#xD;
And for that little girl I love ya&#xD;
And all I want to do is talk about ya.&#xD;
&#xD;
Im here to say&#xD;
I love you more each day&#xD;
And I just want to tell the world&#xD;
That I love you so.&#xD;
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Though they put me down because&#xD;
I love you as much as I do&#xD;
But they dont know what youve done for me&#xD;
Youve made such a happy man out of me.&#xD;
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And Im here to say&#xD;
Love you everyday, yea&#xD;
And I just want to tell the world&#xD;
That I love you so.&#xD;
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Baby, I love, I love, I love, I love every little thing&#xD;
About you baby&#xD;
Oh yea, I love, I love, I love, I love every little thing&#xD;
About you baby, mmm yea&#xD;
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Though they say that I am wrong&#xD;
Cause my love is strong&#xD;
Theres only one that I place above you.&#xD;
Its God that I place above you.&#xD;
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Girl I just want to say&#xD;
Love you more each day, yea&#xD;
I just want to tell the world&#xD;
That I love you so, yea.&#xD;
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Some folks say that its strange&#xD;
But my whole life you have changed&#xD;
Youve saved all the pain the worlds put on me&#xD;
All I want to do is talk about you and Im here to say&#xD;
Love you everyday, yea yea&#xD;
Telling everybody that,&#xD;
I love you so, yea yea&#xD;
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I love, I love, I love, I love every little thing about you baby, yea yea yea&#xD;
I love, I love, I love, I love every little thing about you baby.&#xD;
Oh yea, I love, I love, I love, I love every little thing about you baby.&#xD;
You know I love, I love ever lit thing, about you babe,&#xD;
I love it&#xD;
I love, I love, I love, I love every little thing about you baby.&#xD;
I love, I love, I love, I love every little thing about you baby.&#xD;
-every damn thing about you baby&#xD;
I love, I love, I love, I love every little thing about you baby. oo&#xD;
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Ooh, mmm, sugar, all right, cookie, puddin, oh yea&#xD;
Mmm, candy, all right,&#xD;
An big ol piece of cake&#xD;
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(your baby loves you&#xD;
He loves every little thing about you.)&#xD;
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       I love every little thing about you&#xD;
      Stevie Wonder lyrics&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:24:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-12-13T18:24:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Don Juan's Reckless Daughter</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter&#xD;
I came out two days on your tail&#xD;
Those two bald-headed days in November&#xD;
Before the first snowflakes sail&#xD;
Out on the vast and subtle plains of mystery&#xD;
A split tongue spirit talks&#xD;
Noble as a nickel chief&#xD;
Striking up an old juke box&#xD;
And he says:&#xD;
"Snakes along the railroad tracks."&#xD;
He says, "Eagles in jet trails ..."&#xD;
He says, "Coils around feathers and talons on scales ...&#xD;
Gravel under the belly plates ..."&#xD;
He says, "Wind in the Wings ..."&#xD;
He says, "Big bird dragging its tail in the dust ...&#xD;
Snake kite flying on a string."&#xD;
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I come from open prairie&#xD;
Given some wisdom and a lot of jive!&#xD;
Last night the ghosts of my old ideas&#xD;
Reran on channel five&#xD;
And it howled so spooky for its eagle soul&#xD;
I nearly broke down and cried&#xD;
But the split tongue spirit laughed at me&#xD;
He says, "Your serpent cannot be denied."&#xD;
Our serpents love the whisky bars&#xD;
They love the romance of the crime&#xD;
But didn't I see a neon sign&#xD;
Fester on your hotel blind&#xD;
And a country road come off the wall&#xD;
And swoop down at the crowd at the bar&#xD;
And put me at the top of your danger list&#xD;
Just for being so much like you are!&#xD;
&#xD;
You're a coward against the altitude--&#xD;
You're a coward against the flesh--&#xD;
Coward--caught between yes and no&#xD;
Reckless this time on the line for yes, yes, yes!&#xD;
Reckless brazen in the play&#xD;
Of your changing traffic lights&#xD;
Coward--slinking down the hall&#xD;
to another restless night&#xD;
As we center behind the eight ball&#xD;
As we rock between the sheets&#xD;
As we siphon the colored language&#xD;
Off the farms and the streets&#xD;
Here in Good-Old-God-Save-America&#xD;
the home of the brave and the free&#xD;
We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards&#xD;
Of some duality&#xD;
Of restless multiplicity&#xD;
(Oh say can you see)&#xD;
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Restless for streets and honky tonks&#xD;
Restless for home and routine&#xD;
Restless for country-safety-and her&#xD;
Restless for the likes of reckless me&#xD;
Restless sweeps like fire and rain&#xD;
Over virgin wilderness&#xD;
It prowls like hookers and thieves&#xD;
Through bolt locked tenements&#xD;
Behind my bolt locked door&#xD;
The eagle and the serpent are at war in me&#xD;
The serpent fighting for blind desire&#xD;
The eagle for clarity&#xD;
What strange prizes these battles bring&#xD;
These hectic joys-these weary blues&#xD;
Puffed up and strutting when I think I win&#xD;
Down and shaken when I think I lose&#xD;
There are rivets up here in this eagle&#xD;
There are box cars down there on your snake&#xD;
And we are twins of spirit&#xD;
No matter which route home we take&#xD;
Or what we forsake&#xD;
We're going to come up to the eyes of clarity&#xD;
And we'll go down to the beads of guile&#xD;
There is danger and education&#xD;
In living out such a reckless life style&#xD;
I touched you on the central plains&#xD;
It was plane to train my twin&#xD;
It was just plane shadow to train shadow&#xD;
But to me it was skin to skin&#xD;
The spirit talks in spectrums&#xD;
He talks to mother earth to father sky&#xD;
Self indulgence to self denial&#xD;
Man to woman&#xD;
Scales to feathers&#xD;
You and I&#xD;
Eagles in the sky&#xD;
You and I&#xD;
Snakes in the grass&#xD;
You and I&#xD;
Crawl and fly&#xD;
You and I&#xD;
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Joni Mitchell&#xD;
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:06:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-12-03T15:06:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Green Jobs, Not Jails</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;Just as there are no throw  away resources and species, there are no throw away people and communities.Solutions that restore the environment can also bridge social divides and restore our social fabric.&#xD;
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- Van Jones&#xD;
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights&#xD;
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http://ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=1&#xD;
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The connection between social inequality and environmental destruction isn’t one made easily by most environmentalists. Sure, they may see a connection between a perceived lack of concern among politicians and corporations about both people and the planet. But that’s usually about it.&#xD;
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Van Jones tells another story. For him, the two are inextricably linked. “Both problems are reaching crisis points,” he writes in the Summer 2005 issue of Yes! magazine. “We act as if they are separate. But they are linked -- economically, politically, and morally. The solutions and strategies for each must, therefore, be one.”&#xD;
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Last week, during the World Environment Day festivities in San Francisco, the Ella Baker Center, the Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit Jones heads, launched an initiative that attempts to link the two: Reclaim the Future. RTF is envisioned as a think tank and advocacy group representing and empowering ecologically sound, urban entrepreneurs and their local communities. According to the Ella Baker site:&#xD;
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Our goal is to push for public-private-community partnerships endorsing clean, healthy, and economically developed urban environments. The project is devoted to fostering the creation of dignified, clean-energy job opportunities for de-incarcerated individuals and those at risk of encountering the punishment industry.&#xD;
Or, as Jones puts it: “Green Jobs, Not Jails.”&#xD;
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RTF builds on the work Jones has been doing since the early 1990s. While working as a freshly minted lawyer on an environmental case involving a Chevron refinery located in a poor section of Richmond, Calif., Jones found himself propelled into the worlds of police misconduct and juvenile justice. For him, the links between the worlds of poverty and pollution were clear.&#xD;
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“The way that the world works, these are interlocking problems, and we need a more holistic solution,” he told me recently. “I got tired of just running from outrage to outrage -- trying to get this cop fired, trying to get this jail from being built. We needed to be promoting a positive vision for urban America that deals with both social inequality and environmental degradation.”&#xD;
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The connection between environmentalism and civil rights hasn’t been made by most activists, with good reason, he says: “Right now, our movements are divided from each other. It’s not that the people who engage in the green business wave hate people who are in prison -- they just don’t know anybody who’s in prison. And it’s not that people who are working in urban America who are concerned about kids being unjustly arrested hate clean air and water. It just hasn’t been put forward as an issue that speaks directly to them often enough or powerfully enough.&#xD;
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“The reality is that there’s a big common ground between the folks who are concerned about environmental causes and social causes. It has to do with having a gut sense that we shouldn’t have any throwaway children, throwaway neighborhoods, throwaway species, throwaway nations, or throwaway continents.”&#xD;
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I reminded Van that the day after the November election last year, I heard him talk about the progressive movement’s emerging “four-wheeled vehicle,” comprising labor unions, civil rights activists, environmentalists, and progressive business owners and investors. Together, he said in November, a partnership among those four could reverse political trends and catalyze a progressive agenda. Why, I asked, haven’t we heard much about that since?&#xD;
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“One problem is that everyone speaks a different language, so it’s literally a house of Babel whenever you put progressives in the same room from those four worlds,” he responded. “Labor has it’s own way of doing things, the business world is entirely different, the environmental activists have their own language. When [environmentalists] say ‘organizing’ they mean totally something completely different from the civil rights people. When we talk about organizing, we talk about going door to door in our own neighborhoods. When environmentalists talk about organizing, they’re talking about sending in 100 canvassers to cover the state. So, even that one word doesn’t mean the same thing. And it takes you three meetings to even figure that out.”&#xD;
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Jones believes Reclaim the Future can be a positive force for supplanting confusion with cohesion. For example, he explains, “You have a lot of people who are doing research on urban economic development. They don’t necessarily have a deep green perspective. You have people who have a deep green perspective, but don’t know much about the reality of urban life.”&#xD;
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To begin, RTF’s goal is to catalyze a success story, partnering with one or more groups that work to employ urban youth, or formerly homeless or incarcerated people, and to connect them with progressive green businesses -- clean-technology companies, recycling operations, and the like. In other words, moving people from jail cells to solar cells.&#xD;
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The larger goal is to build on those successes -- “evangelize the hell out of them,” says Jones -- in other cities and statehouses, and to forge a larger network of allied initiatives around the country. “We want to create a demonstration project that gives us the opportunity to go out and build the political constituency that can multiply that by a thousand-fold,” he says.&#xD;
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For Jones, the essence of RTF can be found in its slogan, Green Jobs, Not Jail. “In those four words you’re talking about the environment, the economy, and the criminal justice system,” he says. “Those are the three main sources of stress for people of color. And you’re saying what you are for and not just what you’re against. That, for us, is a real breakthrough. And it will take a while before our capacity and even our understanding will catch up with that vision.”&#xD;
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Having a vision of a positive future will no doubt be a potent force in helping Reclaim the Future transform minds and forge powerful partnerships. That compelling vision of what's possible has been missing from much of the discourse and platforms of both the environmental and civil rights communities.&#xD;
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Says Jones: “One thing I’ve been saying a lot lately is that Dr. King didn’t get famous with a speech called ‘I Have a Complaint.’ At some point, we have to say what we’re for.”&#xD;
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Van Jones is working to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction.&#xD;
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HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPION: In 1996, Van and Diana Frappier co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which is now headquartered in Oakland, California. Named for an unsung civil rights heroine, Ella Baker Center promotes positive alternatives to violence and incarceration.&#xD;
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Joel Makower&#xD;
June 5, 2005 10:44 AM&#xD;
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Joel Makower is a widely respected writer and consultant on issues of sustainable business, clean technology and green markets. His essays on environmental business and technology are a regular feature of Sustainability Sundays. &#xD;
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-11-20T17:40:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Free Iraq</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/f91c4b3c-99a5-4ec8-b922-a3219d44c85b</link>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-11-14T15:31:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Tree Planting Ceremony in Alameda Honoring Disability Awareness Month</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;Please join me, October 6, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. , in celebrating Disability Awareness Month and  people who are living with disabilities.&#xD;
On this day we will be planting and dedicating  a tree to symbolize their strength and beauty in our lives and on this planet.&#xD;
I ask that you all come and help celebrate community and support, tolerance and change, TOGETHERNESS, together!!!!&#xD;
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Where: &#xD;
Lincoln Park(Fernside Entrance)&#xD;
1450 High St, Alameda, CA 94501&#xD;
(510) 523-6222&#xD;
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I really need you to be there............&#xD;
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Love&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:00:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-10-02T18:00:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>splendor</title>
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    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;rapture&#xD;
transport&#xD;
paradise&#xD;
earth&#xD;
bliss&#xD;
love&#xD;
sensitivity&#xD;
music&#xD;
life&#xD;
air&#xD;
together&#xD;
ecstasy&#xD;
sex&#xD;
breath&#xD;
water&#xD;
fulfill&#xD;
planets&#xD;
undulate&#xD;
guide&#xD;
birth&#xD;
heaven&#xD;
bathe&#xD;
light&#xD;
fire&#xD;
stars&#xD;
people&#xD;
animals&#xD;
entity&#xD;
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us&#xD;
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:29:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-09-22T17:29:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Whats Your Sign?</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/0c86e186-508f-49fa-a4a9-9ba563b34f3b"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/6a1/e47/6a1e4737-1f0e-4738-898f-5249737b68d2.thumb" width="65" height="64" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;me = capricorn , pisces moon, gemini rising&#xD;
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your turn?&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:51:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-09-10T16:51:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Poem by: Lotus, Niyeli, Kristen,Pink, Aaron and Love</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/e5208299-4b5d-481f-b28c-f6c29a648708"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/a1e/b8b/a1eb8b2c-3ae7-4f5d-8e71-4442155c6cda.thumb" width="63" height="78" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;Earth, Air, Fire and Water&#xD;
through out the seasons still I caught her&#xD;
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Even though she flew so fast&#xD;
we found a way to make it last&#xD;
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In the winds we held on tight&#xD;
Through the fire we burst in flight&#xD;
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Earth that's bound beneath my feet&#xD;
my wings are torn&#xD;
ive been longing for the street&#xD;
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I am feeling the mother's beat&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:13:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-09-06T16:13:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Oshun</title>
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    &lt;/a&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:19:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-09-05T15:19:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>"You who have power, please bring it forth now!"</title>
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    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;My mind is white, whiter than the white snow mountains;&#xD;
it will turn dark, darker than rust,&#xD;
contaminated by the minds of these alien demons.&#xD;
Please look upon me with a little compassion!...&#xD;
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My intention is good, like a precious jewel;&#xD;
it will become bad, worthless as stone,&#xD;
contaminated by the intentions of these alien demons.&#xD;
You who have power, please bring it forth now!&#xD;
&#xD;
In one lifetime, in one body,&#xD;
I can realize the highest Dharma.&#xD;
But these alien demons will envelop me in the mire of samsara.&#xD;
You who have compassion, return me quickly to the Path.   &lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:34:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-07-30T16:34:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Yeshe Tsogyel Awareness-spell</title>
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OM A'A HUNG BENDZRA GURU JNANA SAGARA&#xD;
BAM HA RI NI SA SIDDHI HUNG&#xD;
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The Practice of the Yeshe Tsogyel Awareness-spell encourages the&#xD;
Strong Laughter of the Dakinis as an aspect of one's existence.  This&#xD;
means that one's circumstances become vivid with opportunities for&#xD;
Practices, and electric with the immanent possibilities of Liberation.&#xD;
With this practice there is the innate encouragement to be vital and&#xD;
alive in each moment, to experience a nakedness of perception and the&#xD;
dynamic continuity of 'the inescapeability of *what is*'.  The&#xD;
Completion Phase Practice of Khandro Chenmo Yeshe Tsogyel is to&#xD;
realize Transference of consciousness at the time of Death to the&#xD;
Realised Sphere of her own mind, known as 'o-kar Kang-ri - the Mountain&#xD;
of White Light.'&#xD;
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Waning Moon and Yeshe Tsogyel Tsog-khorlo Envisionment&#xD;
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From within the Lucid Shining Emptiness of my own Being,&#xD;
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I instantly arise in the Iridescent Form of the Great Enlightened Dakini;&#xD;
Khandro Chenmo Yeshe Tsogyel.  My Gaze is at once Soft and Penetrating;&#xD;
Compassionate yet Playfully Wrathful, in token of my ability [to]&#xD;
infuse all circumstances with vivid opportunities for Realization.&#xD;
My Wide Open Eyes Sparkle with the Electricity of Existence&#xD;
and Non-existence and communicate the immanence of Liberation&#xD;
for all Yogis and Yoginis.&#xD;
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My mouth is open and my tongue is flickering.&#xD;
My Strong Laughter overpowers all dualistic conceptions.&#xD;
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My hair is wound up in a Yogini's bun on top of my head&#xD;
and ornamented with a golden takdrol topped with a flaming skull.&#xD;
I am naked in token of utter lack of pretension and complete fearlessness.&#xD;
I am open to the entire universe and the inescapability of what is.&#xD;
&#xD;
I wear the six human bone cemetery ornaments&#xD;
to show that I have accomplished the six Tantric Vehicles;&#xD;
and, as the sign that I have passed beyond all relative constraints.&#xD;
I wear the Conch Yogini earrings, and Sit on a Tiger skin&#xD;
in display of my mastery of all Siddhis.&#xD;
&#xD;
In my left hand I hold the skull bowl;&#xD;
symbol of the Transformed emotions, and of Wisdom.&#xD;
The white bone of the skull is the Male Quality of Spacious Passion.&#xD;
The red frothing oceans of menstrual blood within the skull bowl&#xD;
is the Female Quality of Passionate Space.&#xD;
&#xD;
I cradle the Khatvangha trident in the crook of my left arm.&#xD;
The three points of the khatvanga&#xD;
pierce the fabric of attraction, aversion and indifference.&#xD;
The secret Nature of the Khatvangha is Padhmasambhava&#xD;
who is my Secret Inner Method nature.&#xD;
In my right hand I hold the golden Five Pronged Wrathful Vajra,&#xD;
with which I overpower all apparent phenomena in Bliss-Emptiness.&#xD;
&#xD;
I sit in the Dzogchen Yogini's posture: in Display of the natural condition,&#xD;
in which everything relaxes into its own condition of Primal Purity.&#xD;
My right foot is extended in token of my ability&#xD;
to enter swiftly into Activity for the benefit&#xD;
of Everyone and Everything Everywhere.&#xD;
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-07-18T02:44:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Vajradakini</title>
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    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;To the hungry I was heaps of food and all good things, and thus I brought them joy.   &#xD;
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To the cold and freezing I was fire and sun-warmth, thus their joy.&#xD;
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To the poor and needy I was wealth and riches, thus their joy.&#xD;
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To the naked I was every kind of raiment, thus their joy.&#xD;
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To the childless I was sons and daughters, thus their joy.&#xD;
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To those who craved a woman, I became a lovely girl and thus their joy.&#xD;
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To those who sought a lover, I was a handsome youth and thus their joy.&#xD;
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To those who wanted magic powers, I gave prowess in the eight great siddhis, and thus I brought them joy.&#xD;
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To the sick I was their remedy and thus their joy.&#xD;
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To the anguished I was all their mind desired, and thus I was their joy.&#xD;
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To those hard pressed by punishments of kings, I was the loving friend to lead them to the land of peace, and I was thus their joy.&#xD;
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To those in fear of savage beasts, I was a haven, thus their joy.&#xD;
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To those who fell into the depths, I was their drawing out and thus their joy.&#xD;
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To those tormented in the fire, I was a quenching stream and thus their joy.&#xD;
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To those in prey to any of the elements, I was their medicine and thus their joy.&#xD;
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For those who could not see, I was their eyes and brought them joy.&#xD;
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And for the halt and crippled I was feet and thus their joy.&#xD;
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I was a tongue for those who could not speak, and thus I brought them joy.&#xD;
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To those in fear of death I granted immortality, and thus I was their joy.&#xD;
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I led the dying on the path of transference and brought them joy.&#xD;
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To those who wandered in the bardo state, I was their yidam, bringing them to joy.&#xD;
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I cooled the burning heat and warmed the cold of those lost in the realms of hell.&#xD;
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Howsoever they were tortured, I changed myself to shield them, being thus their joy.&#xD;
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To those who lingered in the land of hungry ghosts, I was their food and drink and thus their joy.&#xD;
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I was freedom from stupidity and servitude for those caught in the wordless state of beasts -- and thus I brought them joy.&#xD;
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Those beings born in savage lands -- I turned them from barbarity and brought them joy.&#xD;
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I was a truce from war and strife for the asuras and was thus their joy.&#xD;
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The gods I guarded from their bitter fall and I was thus their joy.&#xD;
&#xD;
I shielded all from everything that tortured them and was their every joy.&#xD;
&#xD;
Wherever there is space, five elements pervade,&#xD;
Wherever the five elements, the homes of living beings,&#xD;
Wherever living beings, karma and defilements,&#xD;
Wherever is defilement, my compassion also.&#xD;
Wherever is the need of beings, there I am to help them.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:03:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-07-14T16:03:06Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>A Vow of Friendship</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/2c567df2-3d10-4507-a4b9-c0507909f0f4</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/2c567df2-3d10-4507-a4b9-c0507909f0f4"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/087/334/087334d7-a504-47b7-81a9-9209ada95b1e.thumb" width="54" height="77" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:40:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-07-11T16:40:17Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>Love</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/cdcdc2f0-5e8d-4bb8-80c9-200688a95c33</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/cdcdc2f0-5e8d-4bb8-80c9-200688a95c33"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/95b/4bc/95b4bc06-4a11-4b2e-ae01-19bcadf8c233.thumb" width="65" height="48" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;Feels good to be alive&#xD;
sometimes i forget my blessings&#xD;
i worry about the wrong things&#xD;
and get caught up in the messes&#xD;
but when i remember my true self&#xD;
seems i let go of all the rest&#xD;
i begin to open up my heart&#xD;
and see what i am doing&#xD;
and realize that  theres nothing more&#xD;
than the loving and the giving!&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:53:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-06-23T14:53:57Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>The quality of mind enabling one to face danger or hardship resolutely: Mettle</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/d216ffd8-166f-4a6d-908d-d599e044803b</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/d216ffd8-166f-4a6d-908d-d599e044803b"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/94e/7b2/94e7b2eb-5555-40ce-956f-6e93233d7fa5.thumb" width="65" height="46" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt; braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness, dauntlessness, doughtiness, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, gameness, heart, intrepidity, intrepidness, nerve, pluck, pluckiness, spirit, stoutheartedness, undauntedness, valiance, valiancy, valiantness, valor. Informal spunk, spunkiness. Slang gut (used in plural), gutsiness, moxie. &#xD;
&#xD;
ME!&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:47:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-06-10T16:47:45Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>Love</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/1a85654c-15d8-4d7f-9a7a-3cfacdebb78b</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/1a85654c-15d8-4d7f-9a7a-3cfacdebb78b"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/136/eaa/136eaa02-fca9-40c2-b542-4c56899e5f5d.thumb" width="58" height="78" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt; Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me -- it can only be one word long.&#xD;
&#xD;
Then copy and paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you.&#xD;
&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:14:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-04-25T17:14:59Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>Little Wing</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/25531593-eed9-44b6-b78a-d688b601e805</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/25531593-eed9-44b6-b78a-d688b601e805"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/9ed/8b1/9ed8b11d-2920-47e3-bb06-09c74dea8479.thumb" width="65" height="61" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;Well shes walking through the clouds&#xD;
With a circus mind thats running round&#xD;
Butterflies and zebras&#xD;
And moonbeams and fairy tales&#xD;
Thats all she ever thinks about&#xD;
&#xD;
Riding with the wind.&#xD;
&#xD;
When Im sad, she comes to me&#xD;
With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free&#xD;
Its alright she says its alright&#xD;
Take anything you want from me, anything&#xD;
Anything.&#xD;
&#xD;
Fly on little wing,&#xD;
Yeah yeah, yeah, little wing&#xD;
&#xD;
Jimi Hendrix&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:34:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-04-20T14:34:38Z</dc:date>
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    <item>
      <title>Receiving</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/1cc8169a-28cd-402e-ad02-23342d9b6a3a</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://people.tribe.net/87958cee-475a-4d3c-b924-80a78c265a43/blog/1cc8169a-28cd-402e-ad02-23342d9b6a3a"&gt;  						          &lt;img class=" picThumb" src="http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/9cb/c33/9cbc3396-7ef9-4658-9082-61a488d4e456.thumb" width="65" height="65" alt="" /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;
										&lt;div&gt;I am a beautiful soul&#xD;
I am worthy of Love&#xD;
I create my happiness&#xD;
I am able to give&#xD;
I am able to receive.&#xD;
&#xD;
I manifest my destiny.&#xD;
&#xD;
&#xD;
So be it.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:17:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>~ ॐ ~</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-04-16T15:17:52Z</dc:date>
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