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		<title>A woman like me.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the Social Good Summit, a Mashable/UN Foundation conference. The speakers were unreal, ranging from Desmond Tutu to Christy Turlington to Ted Turner to (my favorite) Elie Wiesel. It was a transformative experience, spending four hours a day mesmerized by the power of the intersection of technology and humanity. One night, after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10645214&amp;post=249&amp;subd=midorimeansgreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday is not allowance day.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 15:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had deadlines for allowance when I was a kid. Growing up, on Mondays, when I had forgot to ask for my allowance by the Sunday deadline, my prototypical Irish cum Midwestern America father would say, &#8220;Oh, sorry, you know you have to ask before the new week begins.&#8221; No matter how many noisy, 5-year-old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10645214&amp;post=240&amp;subd=midorimeansgreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;s being abused.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 05:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reeling tonight. Foreign feelings of anger, disgust, agony, frustration &#8211; having bizarre visions of holding a gun to a man&#8217;s head. I just found out that a friend I love very much is being beaten by someone in my family. He is beating her beautiful body with his fists, methodically placing the blows in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10645214&amp;post=230&amp;subd=midorimeansgreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saying grace.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 14:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever say grace when you were a kid? Or, maybe you still do. I loved that ritual…I wonder why I ever stopped. See, when I was little, ever night before we ate dinner, we would start off making the sign of the cross (Holy Trinity and all that lot). We’d then say, “Thank [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10645214&amp;post=215&amp;subd=midorimeansgreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A day in the life of my joy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 05:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I don&#8217;t even know how to share the fullness of my heart. How do I begin to convey the sheer pleasure of a sunshiney, springtime day spent with friends in New York? Yes, I was working. I spent FOUR hours reviewing a presentation on audio systems for events. And yes, this review of audio [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10645214&amp;post=205&amp;subd=midorimeansgreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A wary heart.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, I was hiking with Dash down one of my favorite trails. A couple of miles in, ahead of me on a knoll, I saw a man sitting on a blanket. His bike leaned on a rock behind him, piles of empty beer cans surrounded him as he rocked back and forth, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10645214&amp;post=192&amp;subd=midorimeansgreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wealth redefined.</title>
		<link>http://midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/wealth-redefined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Midori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I followed an ancient Chevy pickup truck down the road. I observed its rusty, chipped paint; wide, side-wing windows; an old green recliner roped down in the back; license plate frame reflecting something about the happy life in one of our local, rural communities. Two happy-looking men had elbows cocked out the windows, smiling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10645214&amp;post=173&amp;subd=midorimeansgreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My soul fuel. Alone-ness.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I did one of those personality tests that tell you what you already knew about yourself (I honestly love taking those tests, they&#8217;re always fun). Do you know what I found out? I&#8217;m an introvert! Even though I think I did know that about myself, every time I stand in front of an audience [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10645214&amp;post=143&amp;subd=midorimeansgreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scars. (A very personal sharing.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know my favorite part of the banner picture on my blog? Yes, I love the two brown dots on my left iris&#8230;but that&#8217;s not it. If you look closely, you&#8217;ll see the scar above my left eyelid (it&#8217;s right on the picture, a mirror image). I earned this scar jumping off the couch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10645214&amp;post=78&amp;subd=midorimeansgreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to be mom.</title>
		<link>http://midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/learning-to-be-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a natural mom. I mean, motherhood was never apparent to me. I looked at kids with fondness and as fun little people to play with&#8230;but never had any deep instincts that made me want to grab a washcloth &#38; clean their chubby little hands. As a matter of fact, the toddler sitting at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midorimeansgreen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10645214&amp;post=159&amp;subd=midorimeansgreen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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