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		<title>Summer in Switzerland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to Europe&#8211;vicariously. Our son and his wife (who married, as you may remember, last October) are flying off for their belated honeymoon in France and Italy. I&#8217;ve packed myself in Christopher&#8217;s suitcase&#8211;never you mind that his suitcase is &#8230; <a href="http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/summer-in-switzerland/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=upwoods.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11200147&#038;post=11317&#038;subd=upwoods&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want to talk about you, you, you or listen to me, me, me?</title>
		<link>http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/do-you-want-to-talk-about-you-you-you-or-listen-to-me-me-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[May 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[listener]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[listening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Toby Keith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I meandered over to Carol&#8217;s blogging back step where she revealed she just visited Cee&#8217;s back step.  Some of  you may know that Cee invites us to answer blogging questions. These help our readers know us better. Perhaps they &#8230; <a href="http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/do-you-want-to-talk-about-you-you-you-or-listen-to-me-me-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=upwoods.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11200147&#038;post=11306&#038;subd=upwoods&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to all you women &amp; men who&#8217;ve never given birth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 19:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother's Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother&#8217;s Day wishes are swirling all over the &#8216;Net.  Happy Mother&#8217;s Day, Mom.  Happy Mother&#8217;s Day in honor of my precious babies who are now grown up.  Happy Mother&#8217;s Day, dear Mama Earth who helped birth all of us, big &#8230; <a href="http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/happy-mothers-day-to-all-you-women-men-whove-never-given-birth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=upwoods.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11200147&#038;post=11298&#038;subd=upwoods&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">For all the times you&#039;ve mothered...</media:title>
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		<title>pain, adjustment, stream of consciousness, coffee&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/pain-adjustment-stream-of-consciousness-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 20:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[May 2013]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[so here i am at another coffee shop, another cup of steaming java, late friday afternoon, barry at a high school track meet taking pictures for his newspaper job.  me writing before he retrieves me just because it&#8217;s fun, playin&#8217; &#8230; <a href="http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/pain-adjustment-stream-of-consciousness-coffee/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=upwoods.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11200147&#038;post=11292&#038;subd=upwoods&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">perfect symmetry</media:title>
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		<title>The myth of 1,000 blog followers</title>
		<link>http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/the-myth-of-1000-blog-followers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 18:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[May 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[followers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spammers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subscribers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, dear readers, it&#8217;s been an auspicious day.  This very blog&#8211;Lake Superior Spirit&#8211;hath reached the lofty goal of 1,000 followers!  Why, this  happened just after lunch.  I&#8217;ve been watching with one lazy eye as the numbers soared during recent weeks. &#8230; <a href="http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/the-myth-of-1000-blog-followers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=upwoods.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11200147&#038;post=11277&#038;subd=upwoods&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Your blog followers weren&#039;t built in a day.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sometimes smaller is just as efficient as bigger.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Blogger, just don&#039;t think you&#039;re on a pedestal!</media:title>
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		<title>Breaking up is *not so* very hard to do</title>
		<link>http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/breaking-up-is-not-so-very-hard-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[May 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breaking ice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Keweenaw Bay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning in town&#8211;in between errands a&#8217;plenty&#8211;I noticed that the last of the ice on the bay was breaking up into jagged concentric circles and other patterned ice floes. It was warm, about 60 degrees (16 C) in the early &#8230; <a href="http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/breaking-up-is-not-so-very-hard-to-do/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=upwoods.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11200147&#038;post=11264&#038;subd=upwoods&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">One can stare mesmerized for a long time at the patterned ice shapes</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Some of the ice floes look like modern art, don&#039;t they?</media:title>
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		<title>Storms never last do they baby?</title>
		<link>http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/storms-never-last-do-they-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 19:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[May 2013]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Storms never pass]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yellow Rose of Texas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Storms never last do they baby? Bad times all pass with the winds Your hand in mine stills the thunder And you make the sun want to shine&#8230; Seriously, folks, you can be enjoying a *somewhat* warm Sunday afternoon with &#8230; <a href="http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/storms-never-last-do-they-baby/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=upwoods.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11200147&#038;post=11251&#038;subd=upwoods&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Storms never pass do they baby?</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">OK, maybe a yellow buttercup, same difference, doncha think?</media:title>
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		<title>When a stranger returns your purse</title>
		<link>http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/when-a-stranger-returns-your-purse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 21:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[May 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[5th and Elm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I drove north to a coffee shop in Houghton&#8211;5th and Elm (may it forever be immortalized in song and dance, as you will soon discover why) and ordered a coffee and cranberry biscotti. Then set my big clunky &#8230; <a href="http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/when-a-stranger-returns-your-purse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=upwoods.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11200147&#038;post=11242&#038;subd=upwoods&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Spiderweb of life</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Not my coffee cup.  But close enough for you to imagine...</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Ahhh, Life at its Best...</media:title>
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		<title>Blogging to illuminate, to reconcile</title>
		<link>http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/blogging-to-illuminate-to-reconcile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 12:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[May 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acceptance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been enjoying writing blogs that seem to reconcile stuck, limited, or judging viewpoints within. Something arises.  Some judgment, some feeling, some sorrow, something that&#8217;s not yet integrated. Perhaps it has to do with a friendship.  A sense &#8230; <a href="http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/blogging-to-illuminate-to-reconcile/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=upwoods.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11200147&#038;post=11214&#038;subd=upwoods&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Made of dreams and dandelion fuzz</title>
		<link>http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/made-of-dreams-and-dandelion-fuzz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many lives are made of dreams, of wishes, of wants, of blow-the-dandelion-fuzz across the back yard so the Forest Owls hoot your deepest desires back to you just before midnight. I once dreamed of traveling to Switzerland, to Italy, &#8230; <a href="http://upwoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/made-of-dreams-and-dandelion-fuzz/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=upwoods.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11200147&#038;post=11196&#038;subd=upwoods&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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