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		<title>a hundred springs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: I learned today of a friend&#8217;s sudden passing.  I feel shock and sadness and a heavy heart &#8211; noticing how loss hits hard and fast, then freezes, then seeps in very slowly, subtly shifting the landscape.  We&#8217;re traveling a &#8230; <a href="http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/christmas-poems/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3399318&amp;post=500&amp;subd=thebirdsings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>silence collecting.</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/silence-collecting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m glad blogs don&#8217;t need vacuuming. Instead of dust-bunny collecting it&#8217;s just been here silence-collecting, which actually feels like a cleaning. This spring and summer has been one big and unexpected (as these things are) journey of Lisa time &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/silence-collecting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3399318&amp;post=485&amp;subd=thebirdsings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving and Shaking</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/moving-and-shaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the bulk of this week feeling abundantly irritable but quietly happy and oddly brave- a weird combo I&#8217;m learning to associate with change. Life is feeling alternately fragile and full, earthy and elusive. A week of mindbodyspirit-opening yoga &#8230; <a href="http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/moving-and-shaking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3399318&amp;post=456&amp;subd=thebirdsings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the man and the crab</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man was walking across a desert- as he walked, he did not wonder how he found himself there or where he was going or how long it would take to arrive. He did not notice his thirst or peril, &#8230; <a href="http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/the-man-and-the-crab/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3399318&amp;post=454&amp;subd=thebirdsings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>testimony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A re-write of an old poem. I&#8217;ll probably re-write it forever. Sent with love- testimony you stand on my coast, lacing the air with your scent; until you are more scent than you your words a dummy trail – crumbs, &#8230; <a href="http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/testimony/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3399318&amp;post=437&amp;subd=thebirdsings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>in the future</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/in-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember what it feels like to be a man So I touch my face and lips now like one I speak many languages In my belly they remember poems I see pictures of yours that I recognize My dreams &#8230; <a href="http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/in-the-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3399318&amp;post=432&amp;subd=thebirdsings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You and I</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/you-and-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a ride so far for me this new year, full of magic and change, frought with detours and hiccups.  Thank you Santa, Universe, Full Moon for the countless opportunities to practice acceptance and compassion.  Even when they &#8230; <a href="http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/you-and-i/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3399318&amp;post=407&amp;subd=thebirdsings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the eyes before me</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/the-eyes-before-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Linda for The Gift of Hafiz. I read him again today and found my own poem inside- the eyes before me look into the eyes of every lover and say do not worry that your cutting word, your &#8230; <a href="http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/the-eyes-before-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3399318&amp;post=397&amp;subd=thebirdsings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>mind and heart talking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not understand my trust and that is its nature mind and faith cannot know each other fully and that which cannot be known cannot be trusted fully or, is it so? The mind says: Faith is another word &#8230; <a href="http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/mind-and-heart-talking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3399318&amp;post=378&amp;subd=thebirdsings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the stream</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/the-stream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[today I decided that tension is an about word as opposed to an alive word alive words come in a stream ink on the page. about words come from the left, chosen and chewed. I suppose it’s unfair to just &#8230; <a href="http://thebirdsings.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/the-stream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3399318&amp;post=373&amp;subd=thebirdsings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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