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		<title>&#8220;Monday&#8221; / cinquain</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/monday-cinquain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday
Foggy morning.
Mesmerized, she’s alone
Nihilistically. Subway
Lurches.
photo: Sion Fullana
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		<title>Rosa offered me camarones</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/rosa-offered-me-camarones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosa offered me camarones, but I didn’t know what camarones were. She says she wants to bring me one of her favorite ceviches that she eats in her native Ecuador. I speak broken Spanish and she speaks broken English every day when I pick up my towels at the gym before I go into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&blog=1460494&post=1300&subd=meadonmanhattan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 First-Graders on a street corner</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/2-first-graders-on-a-street-corner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper West Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My 6-year-old son, Teak, was walking with my wife and came across a school friend, Ella, on the corner of 84th and Amsterdam. Ella is in front of him and turns around with a smile.
Ella: “Teak, you are so weird!” She faced ahead once more.
My wife Karen’s thought-cloud: Uh, oh. What did he do now?
Ella, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&blog=1460494&post=1293&subd=meadonmanhattan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bennett&#8217;s First Birthday [Conclusion]</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/bennetts-first-birthday-conclusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper West Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The raindrops pattered onto the clear plastic cupcake containers and sounded like tiny timpani.
Though partially protected at the bottom of the two bags, the rhythmic drumbeat augmented my steps, moving up Columbus Avenue and around 83rd Street, heading west. Fifty feet to my left, the red painted façade of Engine Company 74 glistened with silver [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&blog=1460494&post=1277&subd=meadonmanhattan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[Interlude] Deep Joy, Sorrow and Hope</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/interlude-deep-joy-sorrow-and-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christian will express deep joy, deep sorrow, and deep hope.
Deep joy is laughter in the face of imminent death.  Each of us will die, either in a moment from now or in decades, but die we will.  And because the Christian knows that this transition leads only to a new and unending [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&blog=1460494&post=1267&subd=meadonmanhattan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bennett&#8217;s First Birthday [Part 2]</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/bennetts-first-birthday-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After floating in the Guadalupe River near Hunt, Texas, looking for arrowheads at the bottom of the shallow water, and while eating burgers at Fuddrucker’s in Kerrville, my three sons were to return to their city of eight million in less than a week.
We live on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where in our zip code [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&blog=1460494&post=1256&subd=meadonmanhattan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bennett&#8217;s First Birthday [Part 1]</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/bennetts-first-birthday-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cowboy Store in Kerrville is gone.
Karen had agreed to accompany me on my search for a pearl snap shirt, a semi-annual ritual during our summer and Christmas vacations to Kerrville, her hometown, from New York City, mine, and where we live now.
I became somewhat taken with this style of shirt upon seeing it worn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&blog=1460494&post=1249&subd=meadonmanhattan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep well, my little dolphin</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/sleep-well-my-little-dolphin/</link>
		<comments>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/sleep-well-my-little-dolphin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Upper West Side]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quarter past three in the morning, and the lightning and thunder were becoming more pronounced.
The front was moving through quickly. Though thunderstorms in Manhattan had always lulled me to sleep because of the comforting dissonance of fierce natural conditions unsuccessfully buffeting against whatever concrete bunker of an apartment I’d lived in, I had been awake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com&blog=1460494&post=1221&subd=meadonmanhattan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chesed / cinquain</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/chesed-cinquain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chesed:
Primordial love.
Trinity&#8217;s rescue plan—
Gloriously scandalizing—
Jesus.
photo: Tod Polson
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		<title>David&#8217;s hope / Ps 40 &amp; 28 haiku</title>
		<link>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/davids-hope-ps-40-28-haiku/</link>
		<comments>http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/davids-hope-ps-40-28-haiku/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hfreeman17</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new song in my
Mouth, a praise-hymn to our God.
Many will trust him.
Blessed is the man
Who makes the Lord his trust, who
Avoids pride, false gods.
The Lord is my strength
And my shield; my heart trusts in
Him, and I am helped.
photo: CK
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