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		<title>Making Light&#8217;s Commonplaces</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2009/12/04/making-lights-commonplaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commonplaces from Making Light. Please read them all. &#8220;We are prophets of a future not our own.&#8221; (Oscar Romero) &#8220;Peace means something different from &#8216;not fighting&#8217;. Those aren&#8217;t peace advocates, they&#8217;re &#8216;stop fighting&#8217; advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it.&#8221; (Jo Walton) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jill and Kevin&#8217;s Wedding Entrance Dance</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2009/07/30/jill-and-kevins-wedding-entrance-dance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jill and Kevin&#8217;s Wedding Entrance Dance. Certainly blogged by half the web, more than 12 million views, I&#8217;m behind the curve, blah blah. I felt terrific watching this. I&#8217;m this happy being married to Ellen!]]></description>
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		<title>Beatiful California</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2009/07/02/beatiful-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent most of the morning photographing flowers and other plants here in Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge west of Pasadena. Lovely; I&#8217;m grateful for this beauty, for the opportunity to see it and make photographs of it. A small snap below, with the promise of a gallery of more to come:]]></description>
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		<title>Atlanta Schola  Cantorum</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2009/05/03/atlanta-schola-cantorum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 03:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In concert at St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church. Renaissance and modern choral works, sung with beauty and real appreciation. A lovely concert.]]></description>
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		<title>Profile: Ruth Schmitt, war protester &#124; Fresh Loaf</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2009/02/18/profile-ruth-schmitt-war-protester-fresh-loaf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ruth Schmitt gets well-deserved recognition at Creative Loafing&#8217;s Fresh Loaf blog. Profile: Ruth Schmitt, war protester briefly explains her background and her participation in six and a half years of anti-war protest at Colony Square. She&#8217;s a friend and fellow parishioner at North Decatur Presbyterian Church. Go, Ruth! Thanks to CL for the pic.]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Proud to Be an American</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2009/01/20/proud-to-be-an-american/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<title>Obama Pre-Inauguration Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2009/01/20/obama-pre-inauguration-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at these pictures, I&#8217;m choking up. So much joy, so much possibility, so much at stake.]]></description>
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		<title>Heard today on NPR</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2008/10/28/heard-today-on-npr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosa sat so Martin could walk Martin walked so Obama could run Obama ran so our children could fly. Wow.]]></description>
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		<title>SinkMan</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2008/04/30/sinkman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 04:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got more to tell, and show, about the trip I took to New Orleans last month with some folks from my church. We worked on a house, mudding and sanding drywall, painting the porch, and more. We stayed at Olive Tree Village, formerly a church and now a center for housing volunteer work crews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim and TMI</title>
		<link>http://www.timmerritt.net/2007/11/03/tim-and-tmi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sent Stefan &#8220;a link to David Foster Wallace&#8217;s introduction to the 2007 edition of Best American Essays. I have enjoyed his magazine pieces, and own two of his books, so I sent the link unread with a promise to him to come back to it later. Stef sent back a grumpy rant about the [...]]]></description>
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