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	<description>Merit  --  Wisdom  --  Harmony</description>
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		<title>Restoring Balance &#8211; Natural Altruism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		The working title for the next book I am working on is called Restoring Balance.  My first book, Systems out of Balance, was a referential guide for how our social systems work and how misinformation affects that.  Restoring Balance will be more of an inspirational guide and much shorter in length.  I will post chapters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serena&#8217;s Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		This is the day of the week that I usually post one of Pop&#8217;s letters.  Today I&#8217;ve got to give it up to my daughter Serena, who was awarded first place by the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association for their poetry contest.  Here is the sonnet she submitted.
That look is clear and cold my dearest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; Before Zoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		I grew up with this long garage in my backyard.  You probably can&#8217;t see the property marker, but it reveals that the garage goes right up to the property boundary on two sides.  For that matter, so does the neighbor&#8217;s garage that you see in white.  Neither practice would be allowed today with zoning requiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commuter Lanes and Public Transportation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		I just returned from a vacation to Florida, driving both ways.  As we drove through cities, particularly Washington and New York, I reflected on the presence of expanded lanes and dedicated commuter lanes.  Knowing what we know now, these solutions to commuter traffic are inferior to developing better public transportation.  I would suggest further that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop&#8217;s Letters &#8211; February 21, 1962</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[20 Pop's Letters]]></category>
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		I&#8217;m back from vacationing in Florida where two of my brothers have homes in Venice.  It was a good week to get away from stormy Norfolk, but I was basically sick the whole time.  Oh, well.  Here&#8217;s the next installment of Pop&#8217;s letters.  This will be in two parts; the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hans out of Luck Music Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[V. Restoring Balance]]></category>
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		I&#8217;ll be away on vacation until the beginning of March.  In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this music video from The Bards of Balance.

You can keep an eye out for other videos on our YouTube site.
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		<title>Pop&#8217;s Letters &#8211; August 1, 1961</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		Pop tells of his varied experiences as a sailor and of his first jobs as a youth in Maine.  He also worries near the end of the letter that circumstances may prevent any of his sons from getting college degrees.  For the record, this proved to be one of many instances of needless worry for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sense of Place &#8211; East Side of Emerson Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[22 Sense of Place]]></category>
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		Emerson Street is a short street with a 90 degree turn in the middle.  My block is the east side of Emerson Street below the turn.  Last week&#8217;s Sense of Place featured the brown house that belonged to Bill Hurst when I grew up.  When he died a few years ago that left me the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haitian Foreign Aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		Last week I made a couple entries regarding the conditions of Haiti and the influence of our government on the western hemisphere.  This would seem to be leading up to a big plea for giving generously to Haiti.  Well, yes and no.
Despite some entrenched misconceptions to the contrary, the United States is not all that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop&#8217;s Letters &#8211; February 15, 1961</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		Pop shares a story about my kind-hearted brother Pete and about his days in New York City during Prohibition.
Springfield College,    Springfield,  Mass.
Mr. Harold Lufkin, V.P.                               Feb. 15, 1961
Newton Mfg. Co.
Newton, Iowa.
Dear Mr. Lufkin:
Thanks a lot for enlightening me on the subject of Colfax! I wish that like so many nice things you say about [...]]]></description>
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