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		<title>Shoestrings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 04:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from hovercraftdoggy: Shoes on strings, House of Imagination by Heimat, Berlin House of Imagination by Heimat, Berlin / Source What to do when you discover you shoe collection no longer fits? Here is a solution!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6177&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>behave well &amp; badly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 06:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Fire and Hemlock Diana Wynn Jones says, For you , the only way to behave well was to behave badly.  For me, the only way to win was to lose.  You weren&#8217;t to know me, and I wasn&#8217;t to remember you. The paradox of this captured me, so I copied it down to ponder.   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6136&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the buzz?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 07:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this great family singing &#8220;What&#8217;s the Buzz?&#8221; from Jesus Christ Superstar. I hoped to have it playing at the beginning of my workshop at Word on the Lake, but of course, it refused to work. :-S  Instead, I will play it for you!  Enjoy this talented family, rocking out with enthusiasm!  FYI, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6163&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>smashing deal!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 07:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For part of my workshop on e-publishing yesterday, I thought I&#8217;d better experience what it&#8217;s like to work with smashwords.com.  At 11:30 p.m. last Thursday night I pulled together my haiku collection, figured that the poems theme either around the seasons or love, put them all other, made a book cover, and published them at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6146&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Year in Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 04:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have published an e-book of 22 haiku poems.  It is entitled A Year In Love.  You can purchase it here.  It&#8217;s 99c, but if you use coupon code QK59P, you can have it free, my gift to you.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6169&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 reasons to attend a writing conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just home from the Word on the Lake Festival for Readers and Writers, I am feeling exhausted and exhilarated.   Here&#8217;s why! 1. There is joy in the camaraderie of like-minded souls. 2. It&#8217;s fun meeting new authors with fascinating books and interesting journeys. 3. It&#8217;s rewarding to interact with readers who love your work, and to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6144&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>love is letting go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 04:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diana Wynne Jones writes, in Fire and Hemlock, To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much. That&#8217;s profound. Sad, too. But on second thought- what does &#8216;let them go forever&#8217; mean, really?  Release them to the universe?  Trust them?  Say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=5925&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>25c for noise isolating earbuds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 07:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made these, following these instructions.  They were fantastic on the planes and noisy museums in Europe.  So easy!  So cheap! http://lifehacker.com/5347245/make-comfortable-noise+isolating-earbuds-for-less-than-a-dollar<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6033&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>around the world</title>
		<link>http://shawnbird.com/2012/05/24/around-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the interesting features of  Wordpress is a list of countries from whence one&#8217;s blog visitors log in.  I find it quite fascinating that in the last 30 days, visitors have dropped by from 51 countries! So if you have come from Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, France, Finland, Greece, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6089&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writers Wanted!</title>
		<link>http://shawnbird.com/2012/05/23/writers-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rotary Club of Salmon Arm (Shuswap)  a.k.a. Shuswap Rotary Club has an awesome fund raiser that we&#8217;d love you to be part of! We are searching for writers of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction (plus photographers) to submit their work for an opportunity to be published in an anthology called On the Shores of Shuswap [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shawnbird.com&#038;blog=13467258&#038;post=6075&#038;subd=shawnbird&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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