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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I flew to Panama, there to be met by my son Chaz, who had come a week earlier. The reason for our travels? The dedication of the completed translation of the Bible in the Embera tongue, a project &#8230; <a href="http://lightenup-online.com/wp/?p=208">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning Kathy and I did a self-guided walk of one of the loveliest old parts of Charleston. Notable places include St. Michael&#8217;s Church and its adjoining burial ground. It is open for tourists to wander in and out, even &#8230; <a href="http://lightenup-online.com/wp/?p=201">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left town (Midland) just in time last Sunday. Two days later a big snowstorm brought 8 inches of the white stuff, closing schools and otherwise complicating life and mocking those of us who thought spring had come. Mind you, &#8230; <a href="http://lightenup-online.com/wp/?p=192">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy and I are fortunate to be in the vicinity of Washington, DC at cherry blossom time. The actual festivities are tomorrow, marking a relationship with Japan that began in 1910 when the Japanese presented a large number of cherry &#8230; <a href="http://lightenup-online.com/wp/?p=185">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of my afternoon on March 13 was spent standing and singing. Midland&#8217;s Music Society Chorale presented British composer David Fanshawe&#8217;s African Sanctus. The composer, who died last summer, explore much of Africa 50 to 60 years ago, recording indigenous &#8230; <a href="http://lightenup-online.com/wp/?p=159">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[My intent to write something each day in Lent has gone off the rails. Too much travel has crowded out my literary efforts. So I repent&#8230;again. Attention of late has been directed to the Beatitudes in Matthew 5, beginning with. &#8230; <a href="http://lightenup-online.com/wp/?p=175">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my meandering thoughts of yesterday I wondered what I would say upon my arrival in my brother-in-law&#8217;s room at the Mayo Clinic. As it turned out, it wasn&#8217;t so hard. After finding a spot in one of the parking &#8230; <a href="http://lightenup-online.com/wp/?p=172">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I made the first, long leg of the trip from home to Rochester, Minnesota to visit my brother-in-law, a patient at Mayo Clinic. By now he almost qualifies as a permanent resident. He and his wife have been there &#8230; <a href="http://lightenup-online.com/wp/?p=169">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Time to stop thinking about doing something</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My brother-in-law has spent the past six months or so at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to prepare for, undergo, and recover from a stem-cell transplant to deal with a blood platelet problem. His bone marrow hasn&#8217;t done its job. &#8230; <a href="http://lightenup-online.com/wp/?p=167">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In nomine Domini</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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