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	<description>Joseph Duemer&#039;s blog about reading, writing, politics, birds, food, &#38; weather</description>
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		<title>Breaking the Ice</title>
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I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve gone this long without posting something since I started blogging almost nine years ago. It&#8217;s been a busy semester &#8212; I&#8217;ve been serving on a search committee and a planning committee, both of which have had to navigate certain controversial issues. And I&#8217;m teaching a survey course &#8212; American Lit I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2010/03/10/breaking-the-ic/</link>
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		<title>Song: On Hearing That the Obama Administration Intends to Cut the Budget for the National Endowment for the Humanities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Song
The fuck you say?
Two hundred million
(or whatever it is)
won&#8217;t keep the Marines
in bullets for a day.
The fuck you say?
The Pentagon won&#8217;t
deign to wipe its ass
with anything less
than a couple billion.
The fuck you say?
An ancient master
noted: All things
are empty, true, but
differences still count.
The fuck you say?
One does not use
the emptiness
of a shit scoop
to ladle out the soup.
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		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2010/02/12/song-on-hearing-that-the-obama-administration-intends-to-cut-the-budget-for-the-national-endowment-for-the-humanities/</link>
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		<title>Finches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw the year&#8217;s first finches at the feeder this morning, so even though it was below zero overnight I know that spring will come. Bright sun and cold air today. This morning, early dawn, the sky in the south was a color I&#8217;ve never seen before.
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		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2010/02/11/finches/</link>
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		<title>Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The old Buddhist masters I&#8217;ve been reading &#8212; Dogen and Foyan in particular &#8212; must have been crusty old bastards. They certainly did some hard traveling in the Woody Guthrie way, traveling back and forth from Japan to China, which is where the greatest Zen teachers lived. (Maybe that should be Way.) When a junior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2010/02/09/happiness/</link>
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		<title>Winter Birds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are at least four wild turkeys hanging out on our property this winter &#8212; when I went out with one of the terriers this morning they clattered up through the spruce trees by the creek. We see their huge tracks in the snow and they dig around under the bird feeders to pick up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2010/02/01/winter-birds-3/</link>
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		<title>The Poet as Buddhist Computer Geek</title>
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		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2010/01/31/the-poet-as-buddhist-computer-geek/</link>
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		<title>Meditation Note</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My head is a house
With a hundred billion hipsters
Snapping their fingers
To bad jazz
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		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2010/01/31/meditation-note/</link>
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		<title>Teaching as Seeing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m teaching a five-week Saturday morning class for local high school students on &#8220;creativity and imagination.&#8221; I&#8217;ve got a great group of thirteen teenagers who have self-selected or been encouraged by a guidance counselor to take this class in &#8220;creativity and imagination&#8221; and they seem engaged and happy to take part, though many are shy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2010/01/24/teaching-as-seeing/</link>
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		<title>Vietnam Seems Far Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vietnam seems very far away at the moment. It&#8217;s below zero here and I&#8217;ve been running for ten days to catch up from . . . being in Vietnam. In a few days&#8217; time I&#8217;ve gone from the leisurely life of a poet in a tropical clime to being a professor of literature living beside a frozen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2010/01/24/vietnam-seems-far-away/</link>
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		<title>Observation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in LAX waiting for the redeye to JFK. I haven&#8217;t experienced any delays because of increased security. Hanoi&#8217;s Noibai Airport was not crowded today and everything worked smoothly; Taipei was no problem, either, though they were doing random searches after clearing the gate and before getting on the plane. And LAX was all right, too, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpsand.net/2010/01/11/observation-2/</link>
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