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	<description>My Often Epic Musings on Art, Life and Faith by Paul Alan Jones</description>
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		<title>The practice of the presence of God&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I read a small book that had a real impact on me and changed how I viewed the Christian life, that book was &#8216;The Practice Of The Presence Of God&#8216; by Brother Lawrence, a 17th century monk. Before reading that book, and during many relapses since then, my relationship with God was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cynicism and Disenfranchisement &#8211; Could Ron Paul&#8217;s Libertarian world really work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I consider myself a Libertarian idealist. I have not always been so, but the older I get, the more I yearn for a world that is truly free. I don&#8217;t think that I am alone in having these feelings, many people that I talk to have them as well. When my brother introduced me to Ron Paul, five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yeah, I have some opinions&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may as well admit it, I have opinions... lots and lots of opinions. In the recent past, my opinions were both and asset and a liability. Professionally, people sought my opinions... they paid me good money for them. Personally, I was a person that many people came to for advice on relationships, issues of faith and life in general. I think I got that from my dad, who was a natural problem-solver.]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving things unfinished&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting in the Dallas/FW airport with Nashville, and a dozen unfinished projects, hundreds of miles behind me. Beginning this weekend I am on a two week unscripted road trip with my old buddy Avery which has no destination, for certain, other than as close as we can legally get to Area 51. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for my MacGuffin&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A MacGuffin is a plot element that catches the viewers&#8217; attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction. The MacGuffin is common in films, especially thrillers. Usually, though not always, the MacGuffin is the central focus of the film in the first act, and then declines in importance as the struggles and motivations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If my life were a movie, the trailer would be AWESOME&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I was to make a movie about my life, the trailer would contain all of the real good stuff. It would probably be a coming of age story about a child who didn&#8217;t fit in, who overcame challenges and had grand adventures. I would put in all the good parts. Even the bad parts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I resolve&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s 2011 and I don&#8217;t feel different at all. 2010 was a crazy year and full of many ups and downs as well as many new any interesting experiences. Early in December I started getting reflective and thinking back over the year, hoping to distill from it some healthy and productive direction for 2011. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 days of &#8220;Story&#8221;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A frequent theme on this blog is how long it has been since I have written anything. It seems that I can go a year without writing anything then I&#8217;ll post something about intending to do better, followed by the creation of five or ten different unfinished blogs&#8211; then I just lose interest. So, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Do That&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been a person who learned by doing. Being of such a constitution, it is difficult to think about much else when someone says, &#8220;don&#8217;t do that.&#8221; As a child, I did many things I was told not to do&#8211; I touched hot stoves, climbed tall trees, and even zapped myself by sticking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crooked vs. Straight Paths&#8230; (the first &#8220;post flush&#8221;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 15:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have many, many unfinished posts that I&#8217;ve started writing and never finished. I am going to go through many of them and just flush them out into the wild. I have tried to do this before, on several occasions, but started reading a post and began feeling like it really needed to be finished [...]]]></description>
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