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		<title>Poetry Break: Mother of the Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to my Beautiful SistAr, Rekha, for granting me permission to share her poem. Oh Mother of the Earth! I stand upon you with my sisters &#8211; hand in hand, Surrendered, Strong and Sensitive! Flow through me your wisdom, your compassion and Love For I with my sisters may represent your voice and spirit. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;surrender&#8221; is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hittingsend.com/non-sequitur/surrender-2/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Break: The Journey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Journey by Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice&#8211; though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. &#8220;Mend my life!&#8221; each voice cried. But you didn&#8217;t stop. You knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was only away for the weekend, but while I was gone the Beautiful grandmother tree in my yard burst forth in new life, canopying the sky with bright Spring green. After a week of intense rains, bouts of hail and some dramatic thunder and lightening storms, I awakened to the new season making its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authentic April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a late Saturday morning, and I was enjoying catching up with a friend in a Northern California wine country coffee shop when an interesting plan was hatched. We agreed to engage in an ‘Authentic April’ on Twitter, casting fears aside to tweet a more full version of ourselves. It seems only right that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season&#8217;s Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stark tree branches reach skyward through thick white clouds floating down from mountaintops, hints of sunlight dancing with the shadows below during a brief break in the rains. I, like many others of you here in the northern hemisphere, have been getting quite spring feverly, and chose to indulge in a study break in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pongala: The Largest Gathering of Women in the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Music plays, a blending of karnatic music and Sanskrit chanting, the mood is both one of festivity and solemn reverence as the crowd of women gather near the Attukal Temple in Kerala, South India, for what will be the largest gathering of women on the planet. For days the atmosphere builds as women gather for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hittingsend.com/non-sequitur/pongala-the-largest-gathering-of-women-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Break: The Wisdom Blessing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following poem was written by Shiloh McCloud. The picture above is one of her Amazing paintings. I have been Blessed to work with this gifted Artist, and am Grateful for her kindness and generosity in allowing me to share her Beautiful Art with you, Dear Reader. EnJoy! The Wisdom Blessing May you choose outrageous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hittingsend.com/poetry-break/poetry-break-the-wisdom-blessing/</link>
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		<title>Living with Courage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day. ~Melody Beattie~ It takes such courage to fully be ourselves, doesn&#8217;t it? We each have unique gifts which we bring to this World, but their manifestation can only happen when we are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hittingsend.com/daily-practices/living-with-courage/</link>
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		<title>Making Friends with Hard Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau~ “I just don’t have your discipline,” my girlfriend told me. She does have it within her, I suspect she’s just lost the drive. Her passionate fire [...]]]></description>
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