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	<title>Pamela Stead Jones</title>
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	<description>Welcome to my own little corner of the internet -- a place to post my thoughts, my writing, and whatever other creativity makes up the days of my life.</description>
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		<title>The Bear Went Over the Mountain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Go as far as you can see; when you get there you&#8217;ll be able to see farther.&#8221;
 &#8212; Thomas Carlyle
When I was a child, there were no portable DVD players or iPads or internet phones to entertain us on trips in the car.  Instead, we would play games like I Spy or making a list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasteadjones.com/2012/02/05/the-bear-went-over-the-mountain/</link>
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		<title>Follow Your Bliss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When you follow your bliss&#8230;doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn&#8217;t be a door for anyone else.&#8221;
 &#8212; Joseph Campbell
Are you ready to rise above the ordinary and listen to the music of your soul?
I am thinking this morning about the times when I waited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasteadjones.com/2012/02/04/follow-your-bliss/</link>
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		<title>Unwrap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.&#8221;
 &#8212; Henry Van Dyke
From the moment we are born, we begin unwrapping a huge gift, and each day we pull back a bit more of the paper and discover another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasteadjones.com/2012/02/03/unwrap/</link>
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		<title>Dance of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.&#8221;
 &#8212; St. Teresa of Avila


The Dance
Before the sun rises
I open my eyes
To the wonder
The splendor
Of another new day.
My feet touch the floor
And I dance.
♥
Bright, faithful sun
Brings hope to the skies
The beauty
The grandeur
Of another new day.
I breathe in the Light
And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasteadjones.com/2012/02/02/dance-of-love/</link>
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		<title>Spread  Your Wings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.&#8221;
 &#8212; Langston Hughes
As we walk through life, there will always be circumstances and events that weigh us down and make us feel heavy and slow and discouraged.  The only way to get through these times is to fly. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasteadjones.com/2012/02/01/spread-your-wings/</link>
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		<title>Compassion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.&#8221;
 &#8212; Thomas Merton
Compassion, &#8220;feeling with,&#8221; is a rare commodity in our world.  It recognizes the oneness and equality of all and wraps itself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasteadjones.com/2012/01/31/compassion-2/</link>
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		<title>Move, Shake, Sing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams:  Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever it seems.&#8221;
 &#8212;  Arthur William Edgar O&#8217;Shaughnessy
What kind of music do you hear when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasteadjones.com/2012/01/30/move-shake-sing/</link>
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		<title>It Goes On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In three words I can sum up everything I&#8217;ve learned about life.  It goes on.&#8221;
 &#8212; Robert Frost
Life goes on.  I love those three little words.  Yesterday, when I wrote about standing and waiting, I omitted the part about how actively we must stand and wait.  In spite of the demand to wait quietly that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasteadjones.com/2012/01/29/it-goes-on/</link>
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		<title>Stand and Wait</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They also serve who only stand and wait.&#8221;
 &#8212; John Milton
There is a great sort of strength in waiting.
There are times in our lives when we are called upon to work; and when those times stretch on for days and weeks and months, we might find ourselves complaining about all the things we have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasteadjones.com/2012/01/28/stand-and-wait/</link>
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		<title>Under No Conditions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Most people ask for happiness on condition.  Happiness can only be felt if you don&#8217;t set any condition.&#8221;
 &#8212; Arthur Rubinstein
It is only human to formulate definitions for ourselves about what will bring us happiness.  We fantasize about a time in the future when some good dream will come true and fill us with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasteadjones.com/2012/01/27/under-no-conditions/</link>
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