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		<title>10/25/07: Into autumn</title>
		<link>http://midwesthome.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/102507-into-autumn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we meet again. 
Back Home.
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		<title>6/4/07: Showers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More on this day. 
click me!

Back home.
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		<title>4/13/07: Anew</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Po,
So, here you are. Somewhere west of me, somewhere south. Experiencing night, darkness, the moon&#8217;s light unhindered by an ever-insistent sun. Purchasing, perhaps, twinkies (While I know this is not true, I have, instantly upon writing the words, conjured up a fable &#8211; a tale of the secret Po that slinks off in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midwesthome.wordpress.com&blog=553216&post=43&subd=midwesthome&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interval 2/24/07</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuff to look forward to in a (someday) upcoming letter: I&#8217;ve been accepted into the UofWisconsin-Milwaukee Library+Info science graduate program. I&#8217;ve been offered and accepted a part-time, low, low, low level spot at the Northeast Branch of the Ann Arbor District Library. My dear friend Po is no longer an Antarctic dweller (although I still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midwesthome.wordpress.com&blog=553216&post=39&subd=midwesthome&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1/3/07: On our new flight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Loula,
It may be that the reason I’m so inclined to prefer this whole correspondence-by-post (rather than those other, faster, more demanding new forms of communiqué) is the convenience of slowness. I mean, yes, besides my stupendous (but exclusive) ability to hold long conversations with myself. To be entirely honest &#8211; which is roughly 15% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midwesthome.wordpress.com&blog=553216&post=35&subd=midwesthome&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>12/24/06: Home for the holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 03:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Po,
I’m looking out on Woodland Rd. from the little chilly jut-out window of my boyhood room. The grass is green, the sky clear and blue. The trees reaching like capillaries into the cold air, ready to bear the weight of whatever winter precipitation is to come.
I’m somewhat disturbed that the solstice came up from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midwesthome.wordpress.com&blog=553216&post=34&subd=midwesthome&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>12/6/06(B): words from the ether</title>
		<link>http://midwesthome.wordpress.com/2006/12/15/12606b-words-from-the-ether/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Permission has been given to post a reply I received to previous correspondence. Thanks Po, for aiding in continuance!
Tim,
 
Okay, you’re right – I deserved that one.  That “appalling” slap in the face.  And you’re right – you did comment on it.  It just gave me more work to do.  And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midwesthome.wordpress.com&blog=553216&post=32&subd=midwesthome&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>12/13/06: ghost of holiday friends (rough)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Sal,
A few things have happened in the past week that demand I stay up late, computer diagonally spread across my left knee and Slate’s right arm, to put these things down before I’m left alone with the daylight tomorrow.
Here’s the first thing: the decorating of a Christmas tree. Not here in the apartment; Slate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midwesthome.wordpress.com&blog=553216&post=30&subd=midwesthome&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>12/6/06: questions from the pen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy D</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Po,
I’m writing you out of pure&#8230; surely there must be a German word for the inbreeding between hope and hopelessness. I’m fairly sure the overall result is positive, but it’s quite close.
I bring you a portion of the “Writer’s Almanac” from yesterday, December 5, 2006.
The novelist James Lee Burke, born Houston 1936, best known [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midwesthome.wordpress.com&blog=553216&post=26&subd=midwesthome&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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