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		<title>a breath in the cold</title>
		<link>http://discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/a-breath-in-the-cold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen to the snow falling on spruce boughs and eyelashes Feel the cold&#8217;s icy fingers reach into my chest like death looking for a soul and coming up empty . life a breath in the cold gone, and forgotten but beautiful . isn&#8217;t that enough?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1570449&amp;post=152&amp;subd=discontinuouspermafrost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humpty dumpty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humpty dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty dumpty had a great fall. In all my time growing up and hearing that rhyme, I&#8217;ve always considered Humpty to be male. All the kings horses, And all the king&#8217;s men, Couldn&#8217;t put humpty together again. Over the past few weeks, watching my 8 months plus pregnant wife, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1570449&amp;post=149&amp;subd=discontinuouspermafrost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>gone fishing&#8230;&#8230;.. or maybe not&#8230;&#8230;.  then again, maybe so.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 09:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My summer officially starts today.  Work for the season is done, and my summer schedule, if not completely wide open, is at least the next thing to it. Perhaps a fishing trip with my two girls. The ice has just began to go out around the edge of the local lakes, and the winter starved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1570449&amp;post=144&amp;subd=discontinuouspermafrost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mudflats Exposed (Updated)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ll comment more on this later.  For those who don&#8217;t follow this blog, it is one of the best in Alaska.&#8221; OK, its later. First, Alaska Mudflats, an anonymous blogger from here in Alaska that writes the wonderful progressive blog  The Mudflats, has been outed by a state legislator.  A Democratic legislator no less.  Mike [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1570449&amp;post=138&amp;subd=discontinuouspermafrost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>alaska wisdom learned the hard way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;ve just retrieved your retainers from the -50 car, where they have been all day, don&#8217;t put them in your mouth until you have warmed them up.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1570449&amp;post=134&amp;subd=discontinuouspermafrost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the glorious cold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are on the front side of a cold snap, up here in the interior of Alaska. It’s just starting to get cold, with temperatures this morning in downtown Fairbanks hovering right around 30 below Fahrenheit. The weather forecasters are threatening us with an extended cold spell, indicating temperatures should drop into the negative 40’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1570449&amp;post=132&amp;subd=discontinuouspermafrost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>where spirituality is not welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And a great silence was heard by all.&#8221; A few years ago a fellow came to our Fellowship and gave a sermon lecture on spirituality, its plurality in both source and substance, and how the natural world provides that sustenance for some people. It was an outstanding talk, well prepared and thoughtfully presented.  I sought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1570449&amp;post=129&amp;subd=discontinuouspermafrost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the virgin mary, snow, and plastic flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been walking to and from work downtown recently, depending on when I go relative to kids going to school or my wife going to work. Today I rolled out of bed while everybody else was sleeping in, taking off to work in one of those beautiful mid-winter mornings in Fairbanks. New snow had blanketed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1570449&amp;post=124&amp;subd=discontinuouspermafrost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>excavating Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several moves in the past year or two, we have ended up with a couple of unheated storage units haphazardly packed with everything from caribou antlers to furniture, drafting tables to fishing nets, sewing fabric to tarps (brown, not the classic Alaska blue variety). Of course, mixed in with the above, is box after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1570449&amp;post=120&amp;subd=discontinuouspermafrost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>for a friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following your thoughts over the past couple of days, And am myself swinging between thoughts and feelings of reconciliation and outrage. Your sensitivity to the needs of the spirit move me, The morning darkness, The candles, The songs, And prayers. And make me envious, Of your skills and knowledge, and wisdom. Don&#8217;t doubt you have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discontinuouspermafrost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1570449&amp;post=118&amp;subd=discontinuouspermafrost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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