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		<title>Rain Parade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dionne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That rainy day, they marched, looked for your footsteps, your blurred shadow, shining in what was left of the storm. Everyday they watch, listen, place their tiny footprints in the weight of your every step. Happy Father&#8217;s Day&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeandwrite.com&#038;blog=11872750&#038;post=10699&#038;subd=lifeandwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I would hurl words into this darkness &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeandwrite.com/2013/06/13/i-would-hurl-words-into-this-darkness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dionne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. —Richard Wright<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeandwrite.com&#038;blog=11872750&#038;post=10632&#038;subd=lifeandwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Though our own story had its own vexing shadows&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeandwrite.com/2013/06/07/though-our-own-story-had-its-own-vexing-shadows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dionne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;they were as nothing to the fearsome darkness in the lives of the city and its dwellers that we glimpsed while walking these streets. The city was teaching us to see the ordinariness of our lives, teaching us, too, a humility that banished guilt. -Orhan Pamuk<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeandwrite.com&#038;blog=11872750&#038;post=10675&#038;subd=lifeandwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friendship, Only a World Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dionne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is not solely about the resistance movement erupting in Turkey right now. This is also about how we are connected as humans and how the world seems so small through solidarity and friendship. As I walked the streets in my Midwest neighborhood this past weekend, I passed the Turkish gift shop midtown. In [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeandwrite.com&#038;blog=11872750&#038;post=10648&#038;subd=lifeandwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mix + Match Palette</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dionne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh summer color&#8230; What is your favorite color of the season?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeandwrite.com&#038;blog=11872750&#038;post=10635&#038;subd=lifeandwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simple, handwritten, &#8216;thank you&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dionne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t mind the mess on my desk, what matters more is the thank you card I received in the mail the other day from a young lady, a high school freshman, after we spoke recently about her career interests, education, and post high school options. One might think that in a time of instant messaging [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeandwrite.com&#038;blog=11872750&#038;post=10613&#038;subd=lifeandwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recipe Poetry: Platanos Maduros</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dionne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two plantains, like love, lie spooned, pale yellow, ripening. Peeled and sliced like coins before they soften and bruise. Slivers in spoon-sized drops of oil, glisten, brown as warm earth. Recipe plantains olive oil sea salt Adobo seasoning Peel and slice semi-ripe plantains and lightly brown in a tablespoon of olive oil. For more crisp [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeandwrite.com&#038;blog=11872750&#038;post=10598&#038;subd=lifeandwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Re)Write Weekend Remix</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dionne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?” ― S. Kelley Harrell It&#8217;s Sunday, the beginning and end of the week. What are you reading these days? Have you had a chance to write this weekend? This post is about writing as a process where revision allows a writer opportunities to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeandwrite.com&#038;blog=11872750&#038;post=10583&#038;subd=lifeandwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Book: Creativity is a rigorous process</title>
		<link>http://lifeandwrite.com/2013/05/31/open-book-creativity-is-a-rigorous-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 18:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled on a page in my journal, a reminder that the artist practice is a rigorous one, a deliberate one, filled with process, craft, and choices. Words do not simply fall on writers&#8217; pages; writers seek out those words through reading, through conversations, in lived or imagined experiences. The artist practice is one with [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeandwrite.com&#038;blog=11872750&#038;post=10573&#038;subd=lifeandwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coastal Retreat</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could sit out here all day; think about how high the sun sits in this open sky. Summer does not shine this bright, humidity this dry, up north. The trees do not dance as freely; the grass does not pull to the sky with such reach and stretch. Even in wilt, the petals rich [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifeandwrite.com&#038;blog=11872750&#038;post=10565&#038;subd=lifeandwrite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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