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		<title>Next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon returning from that haven of the wintered elderly, I had running through my brain an exchange that might amuse those of us in the Medicare crowd. And for those who have yet to bite into that apple of wisdom in the sunset years, this might provoke a chuckle as you anticipate being Next. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Oak</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a certain age numberless Americans and Canadians turn into snowbirds as the icy winds pour down from arctic climes, bringing with them snow. The snowbirds come to Florida and walk the beach, putter in the shops, and eat too much. This January we joined the flock to go to Melbourne, forty miles south of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I walked down a sandy path the other day, stepping on crushed leaves and unseen pulverized insect bodies, not to mention ashes and decomposed paper, I realized how we are constantly surrounded by dust. Indeed, the whole earth is constantly tending toward dust and emerging from it. Or so it seemed to me at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gone</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2011/12/gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Songs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's Disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that most of us know someone who is suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease or some form of dementia that robs them of their mental capacities even as their bodies continue on. Sometimes the disease alters their personality. Other times it simply brings out features that may have been buried while they bustled about with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beginning Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past year my wife Sylvia has pulled back from her big artistic projects and gone back to the piano, which took a back seat to her other pursuits in music and the arts for many decades. We recently found a picture of her at age seventeen standing next to her family’s piano in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2011/11/thanksgiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Worship and Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[THanksgiving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Day has always been my favorite holiday, with its simple focus on a gathering of family, friends, and sometimes strangers for a feast to celebrate God’s abundance. Like the good deed that goes not unpunished it is now engulfed in violent gridiron sports, an obscene scramble for merchandise gnawing at its shrinking stage. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raisin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At our recent poets&#8217; gathering at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC, a quip passed around the room evoking painful laughter. It grew into a little poem to share with you. I raised ‘em best I could, Did my best to hold ‘em to their promises, Let ‘em play but kept ‘em at their chores. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsunami Wings</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2011/10/tsunami-wings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roundtable Ministries Project]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tsunami]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The earthquake and tsunami that devastated Sendai, Japan, last March continues to reverberate in our minds and hearts, just as the painful task of recovery continues for the Japanese people. On World Communion Day this October, we remembered this suffering and struggle for restoration in solidarity with the people of Japan. My wife Sylvia created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kin(g)</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2011/09/king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Songs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m afraid this poem needs some explanation. In the inspiring uprisings against autocrats, kings, and despots in the Arab world we have seen the renewal of the modern revolutionary effort to replace monarchical rule with popular constitutional government. (See my earlier ethics blog “The Father and the People” of February 7.) Traditional kingship, we often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stepping</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2011/09/stepping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Songs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taking on the role of being a stepparent, as we have, or all the other step-relations that happen to us, is a long, slow journey, each one different, each one filled with its own unique challenges and surprises. After thirty years, we see both, along with unexpected joys. So this poem emerges in retrospection and [...]]]></description>
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