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		<title>The Buds Are Coming! The Buds Are Coming!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well&#8230; I guess five months is long enough for my unplanned, unannounced, more-or-less unintentional blogging break of indeterminate length, so I thought I would jump back in with evidence of early spring making its way into my gardens. It seems like it’s been a long winter – more for others than those of us living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bit of Fall Color&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From upstate New York, in the Lake Champlain and Plattsburgh area:





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		<title>&#8220;Opportunity cannot thrive where individuals are oppressed&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; From President Obama&#8217;s September 23 speech at the United Nations. Here&#8217;s the whole thing:
Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to address you for the first time as the 44th President of the United States.  (Applause.)  I come before you humbled by the responsibility that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Morning Beethoven: Sinfonia Eroica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate the memory of a great man in my life and the heroes in your lives….

See Beethoven’s Eroica: Historical Overview for some background on the symphony and its genesis, from the web site Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony.
Also, the San Francisco Symphony has a web site called Keeping Score, featuring multimedia presentations about several composers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2009/09/13/sunday-morning-beethoven-sinfonia-eroica/</link>
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		<title>Bye, Dad&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



Mr. Robert R. &#8220;Bob&#8221; Ducatte, 80, of Park Row, Cadyville, N.Y., passed away Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, at the CVPH Medical Center in Plattsburgh with his family by his side. He was born in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on April 27, 1929, the youngest child of Michael and Maude (Simmons) Ducatte.
Bob was a line foreman for New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sunday Morning Look to the Heavens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We pointed the most powerful telescope ever built by human beings at absolutely nothing, just because we were curious, and discovered that we occupy a very tiny place in the heavens.&#8221;
    
Just because we were curious&#8230;.
You&#8217;ll often hear people say that the size and complexity of the world and the universe around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2009/08/16/a-sunday-morning-look-to-the-heavens/</link>
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		<title>David Satter on Natalya Estemirova</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From this interview with the International Affairs Forum:
IA-Forum: [Would] you please comment on the recent murder of Natalia Estemirova?
Mr. Satter: This is part of a whole string: Stanislav Markelov, Anna Politkovskaya&#8230; One of the signs of the cruelty or the lack of morality of the Putin regime is the fact that their prot&#233;g&#233;, Kadyrov, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP: &#8220;3-year countdown begins for Atlanta&#8217;s water future&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Georgia faces the dire prospect of losing metropolitan Atlanta&#8217;s main water source if political leaders can&#8217;t broker a solution with Alabama and Florida over rights to a major reservoir within three years.&#160;&#160;That doomsday scenario would cut off water from Lake Lanier for more than 3 million residents, driving a stake through the heart of Atlanta&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2009/07/22/ap-3-year-countdown-begins-for-atlantas-water-future/</link>
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		<title>Frank McCourt: &#8220;They thought I was teaching &#8230; I was learning.&#8221;</title>
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As he put it in “Teacher Man,” his third volume of autobiography:
Instead of teaching, I told stories.
Anything to keep them quiet and in their seats.
They thought I was teaching.
I thought I was teaching.
I was learning. 

Good words to live by: teaching is learning.
Full story here on Frank McCourt&#8217;s teaching (and learning and writing) methods from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2009/07/20/frank-mccourt-they-thought-i-was-teaching-i-was-learning/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Raise our voices in more pleasing and more joyful sounds&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Beethoven&#8217;s Symphony No. 9, Fourth Movement.
In a world that sometimes seems to have gone mad, it&#8217;s reminder of what human beings can accomplish when they are free to live, create, work together &#8230; and sing.
Part One:

Part Two:

Here&#8217;s the English translation of Friedrich Schiller&#8217;s Ode to Joy (written in 1785), which Beethoven adapted and used [...]]]></description>
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