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		<title>Notes on my stay at NIMH</title>
		<link>http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/notes-on-my-stay-at-nimh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a good four weeks since I plopped myself down here at this research institute in DC.  Aware of the restrictions of not being let off the unit unless accompanied by staff I had originally hoped to (in addition &#8230; <a href="http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/notes-on-my-stay-at-nimh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flintnsteel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6715902&amp;post=648&amp;subd=flintnsteel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impermanence as giving</title>
		<link>http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/impermanence-as-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The acceptance of impermanence.  One of the greatest tasks I struggle with.  As a writer I deal with it constantly, having to cut out whole sections of a story, even though they are often my favorite part, just because they &#8230; <a href="http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/impermanence-as-giving/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flintnsteel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6715902&amp;post=643&amp;subd=flintnsteel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unusual Areas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sat the other day on the raised wood porch of my relatives house, watching the curling gray ribbons of smoke climb their way up out of my pipe&#8217;s bowl of burning embers.  The deck leans out of the back &#8230; <a href="http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/unusual-areas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flintnsteel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6715902&amp;post=638&amp;subd=flintnsteel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Big Mouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once an elephant who was uncomfortable with his size began to tell himself he was a mouse.  He told himself this so frequently and passionately he convinced himself that he really was one.  To the point that one day when &#8230; <a href="http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/a-big-mouse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flintnsteel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6715902&amp;post=634&amp;subd=flintnsteel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intersting Article on Writing spaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Ideas on ideas</title>
		<link>http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/ideas-on-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 17:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a writer part of ones job is to learn to master the constant flow of thoughts and emotions running through us for long enough to be able to clearly see and describe them for what they are.  Writing is &#8230; <a href="http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/ideas-on-ideas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flintnsteel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6715902&amp;post=618&amp;subd=flintnsteel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates to FlintnSteel</title>
		<link>http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/updates-to-flintnsteel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 19:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having long been in need of an update &#8211; I&#8217;ve reworked some of the visual affects and now am using a template version that allows for translations.  Also I&#8217;ve cleaned out the archives of all the &#8220;old flintnsteel&#8221; content.  Hopefully &#8230; <a href="http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/updates-to-flintnsteel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flintnsteel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6715902&amp;post=606&amp;subd=flintnsteel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The e-mail</title>
		<link>http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/the-e-mail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a re-edited version of the e-mail I sent out on April 22nd relating the issues of my current position and the upcoming events that will be unfolding this summer.  Though the content of this e-mail does not &#8230; <a href="http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/the-e-mail/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flintnsteel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6715902&amp;post=520&amp;subd=flintnsteel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts and Sponges &#8211; a micro fiction</title>
		<link>http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/thoughts-and-sponges-a-micro-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sat with the kitchen sponge on top of my head for an hour, counting the minutes buy the Mickey-mouse clock on the wall.  The thought remains.  I double check the sponge to see if it has lofted any, but &#8230; <a href="http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/thoughts-and-sponges-a-micro-fiction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flintnsteel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6715902&amp;post=518&amp;subd=flintnsteel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emptiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A micro fiction that came along to me after pondering the concept of imperminance: He felt empty; and in truth he was.  It had been the longest and most serious relationship he had ever been in; and though he knew &#8230; <a href="http://flintnsteel.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/emptiness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flintnsteel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6715902&amp;post=510&amp;subd=flintnsteel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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