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	<title>veritas numquam perit</title>
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		<title>cigarette smoke</title>
		<link>http://christenpatterson.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/cigarette-smoke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cigarette smoke clung to him lazily as he leaned against the brick wall on his break; we worked at the same coffee shop and he was the quintessential bad boy, as night as I was day, but I adored him.
He was a flaming liberal; I was super conservative. He had to get gas at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christenpatterson.wordpress.com&blog=1415847&post=80&subd=christenpatterson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moriah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He passed away unexpectedly a little over a month ago and I am forced to reexamine as the grief mucks around the crevices of my heart. Sometimes the pain is too deep for words and so one remains silent.
I am at a place where I cannot give birth to what is churning within; I cannot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christenpatterson.wordpress.com&blog=1415847&post=78&subd=christenpatterson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>redefinition: letting go</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moriah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, I’m learning them again
One’s self-awareness is a concept that fascinates me. Six years ago, had you told me I was a feminist, I would have glared at you or given you a quizzical eye, depending upon my determination of the needed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christenpatterson.wordpress.com&blog=1415847&post=72&subd=christenpatterson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>misplaced priorities</title>
		<link>http://christenpatterson.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/misplaced-priorities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moriah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard one of the most disgusting displays of vanity/materialism from my gender on the radio this morning on my way into the office.
Catching a morning talk show with three hosts, one male and two female, the subject of today’s musings was a question posed by a listener. The man, who desired to propose to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christenpatterson.wordpress.com&blog=1415847&post=71&subd=christenpatterson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>expanding dreams</title>
		<link>http://christenpatterson.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/expanding-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moriah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.
Or stated another way, &#8220;You may make your plans, but God directs your actions.&#8221;
&#8211;
Life continually surprises me.
Last week I had the pleasure of talking with my childhood best friend – she lives in Montana and we see each other once every few years. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christenpatterson.wordpress.com&blog=1415847&post=70&subd=christenpatterson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>question to ask ourselves</title>
		<link>http://christenpatterson.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/question-to-ask-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moriah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Is what I’m living for worth dying for?”
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		<title>to my sister, with love</title>
		<link>http://christenpatterson.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/to-my-sister-with-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moriah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Tessa,
I may not be especially wise and I certainly don’t have all the answers, but I was also fifteen once, and every time I look at you, I am reminded that we were cut from the same fabric. So if you will indulge me, the following is an open letter that I wish I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christenpatterson.wordpress.com&blog=1415847&post=66&subd=christenpatterson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>legacy</title>
		<link>http://christenpatterson.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moriah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sat there shivering in a hospital robe, waiting to be seen by my father’s friend, I fought back the tears. For some reason, the emotions and memories came flooding back with more acuity, and the grief, which never fully subsides, made its presence more fully known than it had in past months.
When the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christenpatterson.wordpress.com&blog=1415847&post=61&subd=christenpatterson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>thought</title>
		<link>http://christenpatterson.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moriah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.”
      [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christenpatterson.wordpress.com&blog=1415847&post=56&subd=christenpatterson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>quest</title>
		<link>http://christenpatterson.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/you-have-got-to-be-kidding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moriah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When all else fails, laugh
It&#8217;s cooled down to a stifling 84 degrees, the central air working overtime.  However, walking into the Inferno, otherwise affectionately known as my apartment, was the least of my adventures this evening.
The night all started off innocently enough. After putting in a full day at work, both pushing through an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christenpatterson.wordpress.com&blog=1415847&post=49&subd=christenpatterson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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