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		<title>Fall News 2020 &#8211;  Voices and Chaos</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Fall 2020 – where it seems both imperative and often impossible to find our voices amid this catastrophic time. But voices do matter – and I am grateful that on this 6th anniversary of the publication of my memoir, I recently spoke my story into a new kind of life: The Coconut Latitudes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Spring News 2017</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[2017 began with a tsunami of events, some potentially cataclysmic and others more in sync with seasonal cycles. Someone forgot to turn off the faucets of ill-will that have been spewing forth in our nation, and Mother Nature forgot to shut off water spigots here at home. As rainstorms shudder against my windows and alternate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Solstice and new beginnings</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Solstice. A perfect metaphor for our dual selves, darkness and light. Celebrated since ancient times, it’s the occasion when the sun appears to stand still just for a moment before an inevitable seasonal change begins. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is the longest day – a time to fling oneself outside, to inhabit the long [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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