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		<title>The World It Seems So Very Small</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lauryn Hill is back. Sort of. One of my favorite songs ever. From Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill &#8220;Nothing Even Matters&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=906&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Words Left To Speak</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before Lauryn Hill&#8230; Diana Ross &#38; The Supremes &#8220;Can&#8217;t Take My Eyes Off You.&#8221; No subtext; I just like the song<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=900&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6,870 Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are 6,713 words after this. Words that may one day resemble a book. The piano girl on 114th loved to play her black and ivory. Ivory keys on black bought by her father. Her father who’s never there. Everyday, she practiced. Repeated. She practiced, the piano girl Kendra from 114th. Long, thick black braids [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=894&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sure Look Like A Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just keep trying and trying It&#8217;s just a matter of timing Though the grinding is tiring Don&#8217;t let &#8216;em stop you from smiling Just keep trying and trying Sooner or later you&#8217;ll find it It&#8217;s surprising how inspiring It is to see you shining Cause in the dark of the night you&#8217;re all i can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=889&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>short story about waiting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I’ll have coffee. And I’ll sit on a bench in the morning, a green one, and wait for the pigeons to come. Because they come every morning. The coffee will be black with sugar, lots of sugar. Sugar to keep me up, in the park, as the pigeons keep me waiting. I won’t feed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=886&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our President, the Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least from early adulthood if not before, Barack Obama was clearly driven to write; to trace that continuing compulsion, from the days when he penned fiction and then memoir to his present speechcraft, is to recognize that writing is anything but a small part of Obama’s life. It’s basic to who he is. “I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=880&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blocked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I said, “I want to write a novel. But I don’t know what to write.” Mom told me try to put myself in it and maybe that’d make it easier. I told her she didn’t know what she was talking about. This isn’t Adaptation. “It’s not that easy,” I said. I screamed it, actually. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=830&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why News Still Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the middle of all this gossip and speculation that permeates peoples&#8217; lives, I still think they know the difference between real news and bullshit. And they&#8217;re glad that someone cares enough to get things on the record and print the truth.&#8221; -Russell Crowe&#8217;s character in State of Play<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=873&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When We Exhale</title>
		<link>http://dopepenmanship.com/2009/09/07/when-we-exhale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I shed a lot of stuff, a lot of unnecessary weight in the last three or four years. I left a lot of old luggage behind, and when I did, the blessings just started pouring on me, and the light in my spirit started to lift again.” -Whitney, Ebony, October 2009 With a voice that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=836&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer</title>
		<link>http://dopepenmanship.com/2009/08/29/826/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it rains, it feels like a million mini plastic army men marching on my face. The grass, prickly and soft. And when the clouds part, they’re gone. Though I wanted them there. Gone too soon.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=826&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. -Maya Angelou<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=584&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Good Health</title>
		<link>http://dopepenmanship.com/2009/08/21/to-good-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this the whole way through, or at least half, and you&#8217;ll be grateful. Also, probably angry and skeptical of the U.S. health care system if you&#8217;re not already How American Health Care Killed My Father by David Goldhill After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dopepenmanship.com&blog=5476806&post=819&subd=dopepenmanship&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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