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	<description>Mindful Writing in a Busy World &#124; Brenda Miller and Holly Hughes</description>
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		<title>Your Brain on the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, I just had to share this video that I came across while (you guessed it) mindlessly surfing the internet. It&#8217;s a hilarious and wickedly insightful view into what happens to our brains in this distracted world. It&#8217;s based &#8230; <a href="http://www.penandbell.com/your-brain-on-the-internet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Anniversary! (and a gift for you&#8230;.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, It&#8217;s been a little over a year since The Pen and the Bell arrived in the world. We&#8217;ve been so happy to share this book with you, both virtually and in person! As a thank you to our &#8230; <a href="http://www.penandbell.com/happy-anniversary-and-a-gift-for-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Weed By Any Other Name&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 19:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, Summer weather arrived in the Northwest this weekend and my husband John and I finally made it out into our too-long neglected garden. In the meantime, the weeds had grown like, well, weeds, and we spent hours pulling, &#8230; <a href="http://www.penandbell.com/a-weed-by-any-other-name/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Clean Your Writing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, Today I attended a &#8220;spring cleanse&#8221; workshop that combined yoga and ayruvedic medicine; I went immediately to the groovy store afterward and stocked up on all kinds of greens: bok choy, fennel, cilantro, tatsoi, chard. I bought organic &#8230; <a href="http://www.penandbell.com/spring-clean-your-writing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Calling the Choir to Sing&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, This week, I find myself at a one-day conference on Whidbey Island: Calling the Choir to Sing: An Invitational Gathering of  Northwest Climate Leaders. I’m here to read a few poems and talk about the role of the arts in &#8230; <a href="http://www.penandbell.com/calling-the-choir-to-sing-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten-Minute Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; “I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate—or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my ‘ten minutes’. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for &#8230; <a href="http://www.penandbell.com/the-ten-minute-rule/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Dispatches from the Garden&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, Today dawned clear—the third sunny day in a row in the Pacific Northwest—and we’ve spent the last two days in the yard: cutting back plants that didn’t survive the winter, turning mulch into the soil, spading compost into &#8230; <a href="http://www.penandbell.com/dispatches-from-the-garden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let My People Go!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, This week we celebrate Pesach, or Passover: a time of liberation. Though it&#8217;s really a joyful holiday, because we&#8217;re Jewish we have to bring a little deprivation and suffering into it. We&#8217;re not allowed to eat leavened bread, a reminder &#8230; <a href="http://www.penandbell.com/let-my-people-go/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pen and the Bell comes home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, The sun made a rare appearance on March 9 in Seattle—how could P &#38; B possibly spend the day inside?  But P &#38; B did, along with the 2500 participants who turned out for the Search for Meaning &#8230; <a href="http://www.penandbell.com/pen-and-the-bell-comes-home/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Pen and the Bell Goes On the Road!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Dear Friends, Usually,The Pen and The Bell likes to stay put. The Pen and the Bell is a homebody, likes puttering around and being quiet. You might say The Pen and the Bell is an introvert. But occasionally, The &#8230; <a href="http://www.penandbell.com/the-pen-and-the-bell-goes-on-the-road/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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