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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>
		<dc:creator>paulalanjones</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>paulalanjones</dc:creator>
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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>Don&#8217;t believe the hype&#8230; brother.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I just have to vent a little&#8211; today just happens to be one of those times. Over the last several thousand years, the Christian church has been through hundreds of different phases. In America those phases seem to occur at a faster rate, especially in the last 50 years or so. It may be [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>paulalanjones</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>paulalanjones</dc:creator>
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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>daydreams and mental drifting&#8211; maybe story is a sickness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulalanjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it only took two days before I tripped and missed a day yesterday . I thought I could make up the loss, but today, I spent the whole day outside due to the awesome weather we were experiencing. Now I&#8217;m here, with an hour left on day 4 and I&#8217;ve got nothing. Well, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Story: who needs it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulalanjones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[30 day challenge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what is story?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What It Is]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens&#8211;second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from [...]]]></description>
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