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		<title>plum wine and 45&#8242;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madelyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t this just the darlingest little video? The other evening we bought some red wine which turned out to be quite lackluster in taste to say the least, bitter almost actually. So we simply cut up a handful of ripe rosy plums and plunked them into a glass jar with the wine and some fresh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>girl and boyness</title>
		<link>http://www.persistingstars.com/2010/08/summer-theme-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[listening to 45&#8242;s on the porch chosen most perfectly by an enthusiastic dj ~ which is beyond magical and I am on a quest to buy some 45&#8242;s of my own now ~ and perhaps a sweet little box with a nifty handle to carry them ~ don&#8217;t you just love that adorable vintage toy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wanderings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madelyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[getting a few of my favorite things ready for my trip ~ a very special and wildly expired box of time zero film for my sx70 polaroid camera, my holga and some most fabulous film for that (fuji reala 120) a book, some pustifix bubbles because you just never know, and my alkaline booster water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>banana pancakes and the mint julep dress</title>
		<link>http://www.persistingstars.com/2010/07/banana-pancakes-and-the-mint-julep-dress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madelyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[a strange sort of poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conversations ~ interviews and illuminations with impassioned artists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the coffee shop this morning (one pound organic breakfast blend) the boy in the lineup behind me sang along with &#8216;banana pancakes&#8217; and it was so charming ~ his girlfriend wore a dress the color of mint julep and I could tell they hadn&#8217;t even brushed their hair yet which seemed to me the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>harvest moons and smiling in the middle of a sentence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madelyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“&#8230;to be led calmly down the stream of time to the ocean of futurity, which has no boundaries.” ~Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul &#038; Virginia, 1849 ~ This past week I felt a lot and wanted to share a lot with my friends, my children, the world around me. Eight evenings, three friends, two children (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>and the winner isssssssssssssssssss&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.persistingstars.com/2010/06/and-the-winner-isssssssssssssssssss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madelyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[hurrah for sneaking into neighbors yards and making films of myself on a trampoline looking like a total geek This weekend&#8230;well this weekend has been so perfect ~ not in the way that you might imagine a marching band strutting past with much pomp and fanfare but in it&#8217;s own way quite spectacular. I wore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>morning meditations and balletic seabirds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madelyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conversations ~ interviews and illuminations with impassioned artists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[this hill is so beautiful where I walk my dog by the sea, i love to sit here while she bounces around chasing bunnies, leaning into small meditations as balletic flecks of seabirds swoop about the sky one hundred percent dazzling my polaroid was taken with a vintage spectra camera ~ and the softtone film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I like you Edmonton ~ very much</title>
		<link>http://www.persistingstars.com/2010/05/i-like-you-edmonton-very-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 16:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madelyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I snapped this polaroid walking along Whyte Avenue after stopping for yam fries and fresh homemade lemondade ~ so sweet! Oh Edmonton how I love you! I have just returned from such a perfect week visiting my friend Darlene and all I can say is it was utter &#8216;bliss.&#8217; Now, what you may not know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>slipping into the dance of springtime</title>
		<link>http://www.persistingstars.com/2010/05/slipping-into-the-dance-of-springtime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madelyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend was spilling over with bountiful things as I slip into the dance of springtime &#8230;.washing windows and hanging windchimes, baking bread and attending evening gatherings, yoga and meditation on the beach at sunrise, wearing my emerald green fisherman pants (feeling quite beautiful), singing in the car with the windows down, reading under plum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the apple tree jazz party</title>
		<link>http://www.persistingstars.com/2010/05/jazz-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madelyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a little porch off of my studio upstairs that is really beautiful if only because it is built right into the branches of an apple tree. Until this afternoon I did not have anything on this porch with the exception of an old indian rug, and since the porch is partially covered with [...]]]></description>
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