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	<title>William J. Everett&#039;s Blog &#187; Red Clay Blood River</title>
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	<description>Reflections on Writing, Woodworking, and Ethics</description>
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		<title>Contradictions in Cherokee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trail of Tears]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we went over to Cherokee for the 16th Annual Trail of Tears Association Conference at the Cherokee Casino-Hotel. Cherokee is now effectively two towns – the traditional tribal offices, museum, fairgrounds, and craft shops; and the casino-dominated buildings and motels to the east. What echoes in my memory is the cacophony of contradictions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing a House, Losing a World</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2011/06/losing-a-house-losing-a-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our life has been a little disrupted this past ten days because climate change has become more personal than ever. Our son Eric, who has lived in the New York area for some 25 years, lost his house near Danbury, Connecticut, to a large oak tree that split it in half during a violent tornadic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have witnessed the courage of people trying to cross over into another era in the Arab world, a few lines coalesced and emerged as the following poem, which I share for your own reflection. It speaks not only to these momentous political crossings, but to the thousands of crossings we dare in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Late Valentine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Absorbed by the political revolutions of the past weeks, I neglected to share a poem about the revolution of the heart that we celebrate each February. Here, for your enjoyment, is one that birthed a few days ago. If I could stand outside our love and choose her once again, my feet afloat on air, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlands Book Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/08/highlands-book-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Songs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, September 11, I will be at the &#8220;Celebration of Books&#8221; in the Highlands Civic Center, Highlands, NC, from 9 am to 3 pm. Around 12:20 I will be doing a reading from Red Clay, Blood River, and perhaps a bit of poetry. This event is sponsored by the Cashiers/Highlands Writers group. It looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirt and Life</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/07/dirt-and-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barry Lopez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kay Byer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Rasmussen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Bryant Logan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to recommendations from two friends, I have been enjoying the writings of Barry Lopez and William Bryant Logan. North Carolina poet Kay Byer, after hearing about the ecological framework of Red Clay, Blood River, suggested I read Lopez’s collection, Vintage Lopez. I then went on to his About This Life, a collection of essays. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plugged In!</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/06/plugged-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am finally and hopefully able to send out announcements of recent postings after a two-month hiatus due to a malfunctioning “plug-in” that wouldn’t work in my new server.  I can now invite you to check out recent poems and other posts. “On the Trail,” a poem prompted by the constant need to understand the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking in his moccasins I felt a pain shoot up my leg. I tried to shift terrain, find smoother ground, a grassy place rolled flat. I shook my foot and curled my toes. The pain insistent made me stop, sit down, remove the pebble buried in the hide, the stone that made him cry in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating FRESH</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/06/celebrating-fresh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fred Chappell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Rain Crowe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate the second issue of Fresh, the new literary magazine edited by J. C. Walkup, Buffy Queen, and Penny Morse, I will join former NC Poet Laureate Fred Chappell and  others to read from our poems and writings. We will be hosted by Accent on Books, 854 Merrimon Avenue, North Asheville, at 6 pm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collegiate Peaks Forum Event</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/05/collegiate-peaks-forum-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[n May 13 and 14 I gave two presentations on “Pathways in Reconciliation” for the Collegiate Peaks Forum in Buena Vista, Colorado. Located in the valley east of the Collegiate Peaks (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia), the Forum brings people together to reflect on a wide range of issues in philosophy, science and religion. You can [...]]]></description>
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