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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>Highlands Book Fair</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Songs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Restorative Justice]]></category>

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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>
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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>
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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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		<title>Easter Morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Easter morning we gathered with some friends in a nearby wildflower garden founded by the mother of one of our group. We read poems, shared our reflections, and munched on breakfast goodies. Then we took a vial of spikenard, which we had purchased two years ago in Bethlehem, and sprayed some drops on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elephants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red Clay, Blood River is a story about memory &#8212; how we remember, what our memories do to us, and how we share our memory with the memory of earth. As I have been working on these questions lately I am reminded of the memory of elephants, thoughts which issued in this poem. Elephants return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trail of Tears Association</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/03/the-trail-of-tears-association/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Red Clay Blood River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restorative Justice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2003 Sylvia and I retraced, by car, the main overland route of the Trail of Tears, starting northeast of Chattanooga and proceeding across Tennessee, western Kentucky, into southern Illinois, across the Mississippi into Missouri, the northwestern tip of Arkansas and into Oklahoma. We drove in the comfort of a car and stayed in pleasant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like a Russian Doll</title>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/03/like-a-russian-doll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Everett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Red Clay Blood River]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like a Russian doll she wears each passage of her life in polymorphous coats. She is the wise companion, etched by years of circling suns, the woman burnished silver with accomplishment, the mate with auburn hair and radiant eyes, the holder of the household lamp, the mother of the squirming baby nestling at her breast, [...]]]></description>
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