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	<description>Reflections on Writing, Woodworking, and Ethics</description>
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		<title>Memory and Reconciliation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking a lot about memory and reconciliation lately. It&#8217;s nothing new, since Red Clay, Blood River is an exercise in memory that leads to new forms of reconciliation. Many other people have labored hard to show the many ways that reconciliation cannot occur without lively memory. We need to remember the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a poem about transitions in life. It may speak to you if you are facing transition, whether due to age, loss, or radical change in circumstance.

There is a space between chapters,
	a crack in the spine,
	an empty space
	where two pages meet
	and disappear
	into a hidden abyss
	where things are sewn invisibly together.

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		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/03/between/</link>
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		<title>A Single Thread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Blog is meant for occasional professional writings and events, but sometimes the boundaries between personal and public slip away and I feel compelled to write to you about the death of Steve DeGruchy, son of my dear friends John and Isobel DeGruchy. Steve was swept away in a river accident in South Africa and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/02/a-single-thread/</link>
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		<title>Body from Body</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These words showed up as I went through long-forgotten pictures from our younger years. A fine Ash Wednesday homily brought them to rest. I thought I&#8217;d share them with you.
This body from body
       erupting
       in water and blood,
      [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/02/body-from-body/</link>
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		<title>Peacejam Memories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I made some presentations on South Africa and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to 8th graders at the nearby Waynesville Middle School. Most of them are heavily involved in the Peacejam Program, which encourages them to find ways to advance peace in the world. This Saturday, through their initiative, groups in the county [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/02/peacejam-memories/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Parliament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In discussing our country’s Constitutional crisis last week I focused on the tension between our ideal of deliberative argument and conversation over against the realities of factional partisanship fueled by the desire for domination. Indeed, the ideal has always been a fragile, weak reed in the midst of the storms of human history. This Republic’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lie, lay, lain, laid, lied</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beset for years by the popular destruction of English grammar (&#8221;lie and lay&#8221; being the bete noire) and dumbfounded by the sorry saga of John Edwards&#8217; scandalous behavior, I wrote this little poem that speaks from my quirky wordplay side. I am not sure which is less susceptible to improvement &#8212; our grammar or our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/02/lie-lay-lain-laid-lied/</link>
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		<title>Earth Speaks in Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All our careful plans and fervent hopes are devastated by one brief shudder in earth’s crust. In the face of such appalling suffering and destruction, an offering of words seems an obscene gesture. Yet words must come, not only to spurn on our action, but to reconstruct the world of meaning which a cataclysm threatens. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/01/earth-speaks-in-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Our Constitutional Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The widely recognized dysfunction and paralysis of the US Senate is creating a Constitutional crisis in our country analogous to the fault-line that has created the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Like that quake, this one has been building for some two hundred years. Our Constitution envisioned the Senate as a deliberative body relatively insulated from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/01/our-constitutional-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Tiger Woods, Publicity, and the Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tiger Woods captured my loyalty when he emerged as a Wunderkind on the collegiate golf circuit. His steely concentration, discipline, and even-tempered calm soon vaulted him to the top of the golf world. Every victory only amplified the power of his characteristic persona. He became a celebrity, tasting the ambrosia of the gods without losing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.williameverett.com/2010/01/tiger-woods-publicity-and-the-earth/</link>
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