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		<title>The ethics of eating dog.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My older brother has a yappy little dachshund named Mary Jane. Recently my niece Celia had this exchange with her mom. &#8220;Mom, I am going to eat Mary Jane &#8217;cause she won&#8217;t leave me alone so I can eat my peanut butter and jelly sandwich!!!&#8221; &#8220;Uhh, Celia you can&#8217;t eat dogs, its not right.&#8221; &#8220;Uh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Breathing Fortress!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent a few hours this morning reassembling one of my favorite lego sets, Fire Breathing Fortress. Several years ago, closer to a decade than I&#8217;d like to admit, this wondrous castle fell into disrepair and, having lost the manual, I lacked the instructions to put it back together. So it sat in a garbage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving the Pennsylvanian Wild Fever.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent last week sick. Four days with a fever around 102-104 and two days at the less frightening 99-100 range. My thoughts were caught in a positive feedback loop&#8230; Maddening, I hate what fevers do to my brain&#8230;but I have to admit that they are a handy function for the immune system. Anyway, my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crystalkai.net/speak/?p=895</link>
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		<title>Finally a moment of peace.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been home for two and a half weeks but I only just got the space to do some reflection. I think I did more processing in the five hours I was at the Seoul airport than I did in the first two weeks I was home. It was crazy. There has been so much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crystalkai.net/speak/?p=893</link>
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		<title>Dinner with PVIO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My last Tuesday afternoon in Prey Veng Sakhoeun called me on the phone and asked me to go out to dinner with him. He sounded a bit nervous which is normal, he almost always sounds either nervous or frustrated when talking to me over the phone – often enough in person too. I admit that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to one World, still waiting for the next.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whelp&#8230; My farewell party is over, the guests have scattered back to their busy lives, and I&#8217;m sitting here feeling caught between two worlds. People I know around town have started exclaiming in surprise when they see me – &#8216;Are you still here, I thought you went home?&#8217; It&#8217;s jarring to hear this as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is finished.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a line that&#8217;s been drawn through the ages, On that line stands an old rugged cross; On that cross a battle is raging, For the gain of man&#8217;s soul or his loss. The earth shakes with the force of the conflict, And the sun refuses to shine; For there hangs God&#8217;s Son in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crystalkai.net/speak/?p=878</link>
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		<title>The Lord Provides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking back on the last month I wonder what happened? When did that mountain of paperwork begin to shrink? When did all those things I had on my to do list begin to get checked off? It seemed to happen snip by snip, so little that I didn&#8217;t even realize that I was progressing. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crystalkai.net/speak/?p=874</link>
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		<title>For hate&#8217;s sake, I spit my last breath in Cambodia at thee.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, over the course of an hour of beginning to pack my bags, I developed a deep hatred for mouse-kind. Suffice to say that I do not have as much to bring home as I had believed. Indeed, even my suitcases had been gnawed into and their contents befouled. My wonderful Ghibli calendar, a gift [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crystalkai.net/speak/?p=870</link>
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		<title>September 2009 Global Family School Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twice a year I have to write&#8230; Well, in the past I&#8217;ve had to write reports on the Global Family School for its supporters to read. These are not the technical reports that I write quarterly but rather more informal letters catching them up on progress at the school and letting them know what&#8217;s happening. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crystalkai.net/speak/?p=866</link>
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