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		<title>Things We Can&#8217;t Live Without</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[...let's go down to the east river and throw something in something we can't live without and then let's start again... -Ani Difranco (Names, Dates, and Times) It&#8217;s moving time again. This time, it&#8217;s all the way to the Pacific Northwest. Without a lot of effort, I have accumulated an enormous trove of earthly goods. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingontheguesswork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10048561&amp;post=201&amp;subd=takingontheguesswork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Old Commitment, Another Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s happening again. I am rearranging my life. Another city. Another timezone. Another tying together of the binding on one chapter, throwing out all of the scratch paper notes, and marking this as complete. One thing that happens when I start this type of undertaking is that I start to journal again. Usually I begin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingontheguesswork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10048561&amp;post=189&amp;subd=takingontheguesswork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHO&#8217;s who of Antibiotics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization is making great strides in keeping antibiotics effective by helping to limit commercial applications. Click the picture and learn more!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingontheguesswork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10048561&amp;post=184&amp;subd=takingontheguesswork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facing God</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen! I have forgotten the face of God. There is a world waiting for justice. There are multitudes waiting for Peace. There is the kingdom to build. But how do you know justice, if you haven’t seen it? How do you taste peace if you have not held the cup? How do you we build [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingontheguesswork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10048561&amp;post=133&amp;subd=takingontheguesswork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflection for Mimi’s Funeral</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food and Guests It’s Christmas time. There’s a lot to do. There’s a lot of people coming over, boy. Gotta make the sugar cookies, the peanut butter cookies with chocolate kisses on them, raspberry bars, and I can’t decide if we should have a ham or roast a bird. I think I’ll pick up a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingontheguesswork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10048561&amp;post=157&amp;subd=takingontheguesswork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Fifteen (Sunday): A Halfway Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I left Michigan I sat up this blog to be able to give a daily chronicle of my time in New York, what I would see, do, eat, read, meet, think, ride, change, fall victim to, triumph over, and anything else a body might do while living in a major metropolis for 28 days. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingontheguesswork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10048561&amp;post=156&amp;subd=takingontheguesswork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feast Day of Martin de Porres</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the homily that I wrote for the the feast day of Martin de Porres. First Reading: Isaiah 58: 6-11 Responsorial Psalm: The Cry of the Poor Gospel Reading: Luke 10: 25-37 Today is the feast day of our Dominican Brother, Martin de Porres. Born in the 16th century, Martin was not canonized a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingontheguesswork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10048561&amp;post=50&amp;subd=takingontheguesswork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Maids a Milkin&#039; and Living with the Dying</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m nine days out from departure. Nine&#8230; Nine&#8230; Nine&#8230; &#8220;Nine maids a milkin&#8217;!&#8221; sing uncle Pete and aunt Denise at the Zilke Christmas. They are standing up, milking invisible teats in the air, and bouncing from foot to foot; all part of the great family Christmas sing-along. I&#8217;ll be home for Christmas, and not &#8220;only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingontheguesswork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10048561&amp;post=155&amp;subd=takingontheguesswork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Apple, Book Worm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was never as ravenous of a reader as when I lived in Boston. The combination of hours a day on public transportation and erudite cosmopolitan quick-witted conversations made for an ideal environment to devour words. As the time grows closer to replicating those conditions, I also look forward to adding the ingredient of welcomed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingontheguesswork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10048561&amp;post=154&amp;subd=takingontheguesswork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simplicity, Saints, and Placesettings for Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 10 days from take off. Everything is preparation right now. Over the weekend I began my home life reset. I moved all of my possessions, which are fewer and fewer, and cleaned under and around them. I brought each thing back into place, trying to discard all that I possibly could. An itinerant life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingontheguesswork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10048561&amp;post=153&amp;subd=takingontheguesswork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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