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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Hate Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitchell Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t hate Valentine’s Day. I really don’t. Though, it would be pretty easy to muster up some negative feelings about it. Especially considering that its modern face is complete bullshit. It’s not the weapons-of-mass-destruction, hope-and-change, give-me-your-bank-account-number-and-my-uncle-who-is-the-Prime-Minister-of-Nigeria-will-send-you-$712-million kind of bullshit, &#8230; <a href="http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/i-dont-hate-valentines-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16865009&amp;post=634&amp;subd=thoughtfulpop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Pretty &#8211; Be You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitchell Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is part of The Write On Project Topic: Communication The blast of color and light causes her to let go of my hand as we walk through the glass doors that magically open when we near them. Inside &#8230; <a href="http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/dont-be-pretty-be-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16865009&amp;post=626&amp;subd=thoughtfulpop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the Fairy Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitchell Brown</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The fairy tale is over” she says to me with that smile that shifts just to the left, the one that tells me how much she loves me, the one where she is funny and beautiful and playful and clever &#8230; <a href="http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/after-the-fairy-tale/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16865009&amp;post=615&amp;subd=thoughtfulpop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of TWOP is Back, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitchell Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like so many things, it began inspired. We were going to pen our names on the wall of history. We were going to Pied Piper the masses to the next evolution of blogging. We were going usher in a new &#8230; <a href="http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/the-return-of-twop-is-back-part-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16865009&amp;post=605&amp;subd=thoughtfulpop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Pretend My Brain Isn&#8217;t Tapioca Pudding</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/lets-pretend-my-brain-isnt-tapioca-pudding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitchell Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It starts so simply with four little words that conjure up big images of idealized family life like in a Rockwell painting or an ad for Lipitor. “Play with us, daddy.” I have burned through many a sentence fragment whining &#8230; <a href="http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/lets-pretend-my-brain-isnt-tapioca-pudding/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16865009&amp;post=596&amp;subd=thoughtfulpop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tao of the Undateable 24 Year Old Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitchell Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was probably twenty four years old and a class-A directionless goof. I had gone to some sort of reception with my dad at a local museum and saw her serving hot dogs, if my meaningless detail cortex is firing. &#8230; <a href="http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/the-tao-of-the-undateable-24-year-old-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16865009&amp;post=588&amp;subd=thoughtfulpop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Feel Like An Enemy Combatant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitchell Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting times, these. There is a lot going on. As the ‘we’ part of this planet is about to count 7 billion members, there seems to be a lot to pay attention to, a lot of energy and vibration and &#8230; <a href="http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-feel-like-an-enemy-combatant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16865009&amp;post=573&amp;subd=thoughtfulpop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Without Expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitchell Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I told her that it doesn’t have to be so hard. I told her that it can just be easy, that she can just be easy. That life is good. That she has a lot to be happy about. But &#8230; <a href="http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/without-expectations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16865009&amp;post=568&amp;subd=thoughtfulpop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Surprising Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitchell Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the surprise of it all, really, that makes it so astounding. It wasn’t so long ago that she was a little cherub happily dozing in her daddy’s arms as I rocked in the big brown chair. My head &#8230; <a href="http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/the-surprising-journey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16865009&amp;post=562&amp;subd=thoughtfulpop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things Happen</title>
		<link>http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/things-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitchell Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” Alan Watts “To a dog, there are no good or bad smells, &#8230; <a href="http://thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/things-happen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtfulpop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16865009&amp;post=555&amp;subd=thoughtfulpop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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