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		<title>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The son of a former husband called yesterday.  Now 62, he said he was taking the time to call all of his mothers. I saw him through graduation and marriage.  Since he lived quite far away, once divorced from his father, I didn&#8217;t keep up with the growing up of his 3 sons (one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 16:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am remembering Mom today.  Of all of the ways she modeled &#8220;living&#8221;, perhaps the most important is the way she planned for &#8220;dying.&#8221;  At 72, recently and happily esconced in a senior independent living apartment, I find I am one of the youngest of the residents in this community.  I have a new window [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is &#8220;home?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I am going “back home” To finish the cleaning, To make a run to the dump, To pay my helpers To bless my land. &#160; This evening I am going “back home” To have dinner with my new neighbor To collapse mindlessly in front of the TV To put a few items in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m choosing change!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my professional life, I loved teaching people about the process of life change, of change in general, of changes you plan, of unanticipated changes, of changes you choose knowing that some elements of the process are out of your control. Despite all this intellectual fire power and even wisdom, I personally never did much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The next chapter in the book of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer (2011) I spoke about the good feelings I had about putting the 10-year journey prompted by my life as a person with an unwelcome illness into print.  There was a wonderful feeling of closure at the publication of my two small books of musings .  I was celebrating that closure, and enjoying what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serendipitous affirmation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unexpected affirmation feels warm and fuzzy and is sooo encouraging.  I received one today. When leaving the post office this morning,  I noticed the owner of a small local gift shop standing in the line.  She carries a few of my books and sends me a small check each month for books sold.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Muse arrives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, the muse arrived as a result of a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, now quite a few years ago.  And it propelled me to react, contemplate, choose, feel myself along the way in poetry, or musings as I called them in two books of that title.  Recently I had a different kind of chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affirmation and anger in the MS world</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, for a moment in time, I was both feeling very, very, affirmed, and very,very angry.  It felt strange to have both feeling co-existing in my body.  I went for the first time to an MS (multiple sclerosis) holiday event.  Given that I had been slow to share my books of Musings, prompted by my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The harmonica initiative III</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, my nephew, the musician, came to visit.  I asked him if he would open the package. He allowed as he didn&#8217;t know how to play a harmonica. But he tested it out and I did test it out. Discovered that it plays both on the exhale and on the inhale and that I could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The harmonica initiative at the meta level</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;m back at it.  Progress in the right direction albeit slowly.  Since I last posted, I listened to the CD audio portion, just enough to get the teacher&#8217;s recommendations for what harmonica to buy.  Went to a harmonica website to see if I recognized anything like what he proposed for this beginner.  There are [...]]]></description>
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