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	<title>shokufeh is...home</title>
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	<description>in New Orleans</description>
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		<title>Five years later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent so much of this past week thinking about this city I love, and the approach of the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting land, but now that August 29 is coming to a close, my thoughts and feelings are still in a muddle. It&#8217;s too much to put into words. The sadness is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lay-c.com/shokufeh/?p=1113</link>
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		<title>How can we be here already?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was MrMan&#8217;s first official day of school. Big kid school. He&#8217;s in Pre-K, as his birthday is too late in the year for kindergarten, but I think we&#8217;re entering a whole new (and awesome) world. I was thinking about how, like everything else with kids and development, even starting school has been gradual. Friday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lay-c.com/shokufeh/?p=1112</link>
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		<title>The evils of caffeine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For months, MrMan, at random moments will share, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be a man.&#8221;
We try to reassure him that manhood is in the distant future and that he should focus on the present. He does seem to enjoy being a boy, but I can&#8217;t figure out what seems so unappealing about being a man.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lay-c.com/shokufeh/?p=1109</link>
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		<title>Meandering thoughts on a summer&#8217;s-in-the-air lunchtime walk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bullets are better than nothing, right?

I love a seersucker suit. Seeing three men walking on a downtown street in varying hues of this summer classic almost make me cry in love for this city and the south.
I am on the verge of buying a fanny hip pack. The appeal of hands-free-carrying of essentials, even on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lay-c.com/shokufeh/?p=1107</link>
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		<title>I love this quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[O ye beloved of God! When the winds blow severely, rains fall fiercely, the lightning flashes, the thunder roars, the bolt descends and storms of trial become severe, grieve not; for after this storm, verily, the divine spring will arrive, the hills and fields will become verdant, the expanses of grain will joyfully wave, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lay-c.com/shokufeh/?p=1105</link>
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		<title>Pool type</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few months away from the pool, we&#8217;ve resumed swimming lessons. With the last session, I had the start date wrong in my head and neglected to sign MrMan up. Which turned out to be okay, as both Sam and I were not in positions to be getting him there in timely fashion.  Had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lay-c.com/shokufeh/?p=1103</link>
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		<title>Streaming thoughts at the end of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For real, Shokufeh? Almost two months? That would explain so much about so much &#8211; my mental state, my fatigue, my aches and pains. I should have written it out of me. The last two months have been filled with grant-writing, MrMan-school-applying, future-pondering. But it hasn&#8217;t all been bad. There&#8217;s also been Super-Bowl-ing, Mardi-Gras-ing, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lay-c.com/shokufeh/?p=1099</link>
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		<title>Foiled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was psyched to go the gym this morning. It&#8217;s not a regular part of my routine, but I&#8217;d like it to be.  So I really believed it was going to happen. Went to bed on the early side, set my alarm for early (but not super early, as that would be setting myself up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lay-c.com/shokufeh/?p=1093</link>
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		<title>So powerful is the light of unity&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It really says something about the universality of Bahá&#8217;u'lláh&#8217;s words that they&#8217;re being used in a United Way public service announcement of season&#8217;s greetings.  And let&#8217;s face it, at this time of year, set to this music, Season&#8217;s Greetings = Merry Christmas. It does make sense, though, to use the words of one Manifestation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lay-c.com/shokufeh/?p=1088</link>
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		<title>Breathing easier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, I&#8217;ve been in a tizzy for the past two-plus months.  I knew I was stressed, but didn&#8217;t realize how much so until the weight of it was lifted.  In the past few days, Sam&#8217;s been offered  and accepted a job. Which led to us being able to say we&#8217;re going to stay in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lay-c.com/shokufeh/?p=1084</link>
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