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		<title>Ode to my head</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had a dream in which I could take my head off my body. I could open it up at its “seams” and fix various things. At one point I wanted to turn it over to see what it looked like where it was normally fastened onto my neck. I felt my head’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1460494&amp;post=1925&amp;subd=meadonmanhattan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Byōbu: block the wind</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/byobu-block-the-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday morning. A light breeze from the east allowed for only a zippered fleece. It was about ten degrees warmer than most late November days should be in New York City. As I reached the corner of Broadway and 86th Street on my way to CVS to get the prescription, I noticed a woman of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1460494&amp;post=1919&amp;subd=meadonmanhattan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Flight [abstract]</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/urban-flight-abstract/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My American friends told me that Hong Kong was ‘like New York on steroids.’ Having grown up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, I was skeptical about the Asian city’s intensity or impressiveness. Yet, I must admit I was astounded by China’s ‘Special Administrative Region.’ After 23 meetings in 13 days— all meetings but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1460494&amp;post=1909&amp;subd=meadonmanhattan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daddy’s not angry</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/daddy%e2%80%99s-not-angry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suicide has visited our family several times. Specifically, I’ve known four people who have decided in their depression to murder themselves. Three of these were family members; one was my father. All were men. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder 16 years ago, I can’t say that the thought never crossed my mind during times when I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1460494&amp;post=1890&amp;subd=meadonmanhattan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So far&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/so-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generosity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My first of three weeks in Texas (with Karen&#8217;s family) was largely devoted to researching generosity in large cities (online and in texts), and some of the next two will be as well. That is, when we&#8217;re not swimming, eating fried catfish, napping, or looking for deer bones in the woods behind Memaw and Granddaddy&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1460494&amp;post=1879&amp;subd=meadonmanhattan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not so much human</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/not-so-much-human/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents tend to say things about their kids like, ‘She made me so angry, I just wanted to wring her neck!’ Yet when we see them sleeping at night—when we stoop over them in the dark and gaze: their relaxed facial muscles, their eyelashes and, yes, their closed mouths—our children look not so much human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1460494&amp;post=1871&amp;subd=meadonmanhattan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Isosceles triangles</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/isosceles-triangles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[He had silver-gray hair that must have been braided, twisted into a bun under a hunter’s ballcap. Faded brown scene of deer and thicket. A pencil was shoved point first into his nest under the cap on the left. Occasionally he turned his head to reveal a soft Santa Claus beard, about 18 inches long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1460494&amp;post=1861&amp;subd=meadonmanhattan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With a nod to Lewis Lapham</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/with-a-nod-to-lewis-lapham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[skateboarding]]></category>
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		<title>Correction</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/correction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, a classmate told my son Teak (8) not to run in the hallway of their elementary school. Then, a teacher did. Teak looked at her. ‘I’m not running. I’m donkey-kicking my butt cheeks.’<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1460494&amp;post=1827&amp;subd=meadonmanhattan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gone Skating</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/gone-skating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[by Bennett Freeman, age 10, concerning his father. On Mother's Day.] When I went skating I broke my bone So now I’m lying here All alone<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1460494&amp;post=1822&amp;subd=meadonmanhattan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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