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		<title>Have an awesome, wonderful, enormous&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Van Buren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have an awesome, wonderful, enormous Day. YES, I said enormous. Whatever you do today, do it BIGGER than life. And make it count in ways you never have before. Give the one you love a kiss if they are near. If they aren&#8217;t, send them your love, a text message, or give them a call to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have an awesome, wonderful, enormous Day.</p>
<p>YES, I said enormous.</p>
<p>Whatever you do today, do it BIGGER than life.</p>
<p>And make it count in ways you never have before.</p>
<p>Give the one you love a kiss if they are near.</p>
<p>If they aren&#8217;t, send them your love, a text message, or give them a call</p>
<p>to let them know you were thinking of them.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t let THIS day go by without acknowledging someone you truly care for.</p>
<p>I mean, really folks?</p>
<p>Today is a VERY good day.</p>
<p>Just because.</p>
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		<title>Inner Peace Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Van Buren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was packing up somethings yesterday and I found 4 poems that I wrote on 2 napkins back on 9/8/94. The odd thing about finding them is that it&#8217;s probably the last time I&#8217;ve written anything. So I wanted to share them here with all of you. Inner Peace Part 1 Joy swept past me [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was packing up somethings yesterday and I found 4 poems that I wrote on 2 napkins back on 9/8/94. The odd thing about finding them is that it&#8217;s probably the last time I&#8217;ve written anything. So I wanted to share them here with all of you.</p>
<p>Inner Peace Part 1</p>
<p>Joy swept past me in a blink of an eye</p>
<p>And in its place slowly creeps in the darkness</p>
<p>To fill the void that has been in my soul</p>
<p>I desperately fight to regain the joy of yesterday</p>
<p>But the bitter cold sweetness if the dark is so inviting</p>
<p>As if this was the one true element in my life</p>
<p>I was truly missing.</p>
<p>But I must resist.  I shall find the glorious light of</p>
<p>joy once again.</p>
<p>However, where do I begin?</p>
<p>Now as I look out 2 the world it seems to be as baron</p>
<p>and isolated as the desert.</p>
<p>Though I&#8217;m surrounded by people they seem to not</p>
<p>have any faces.</p>
<p>All I can see are ghost, no people, no faces, no names</p>
<p>Where is the light?  I truly need to see once again</p>
<p>To embrace the shadows and to end the fear</p>
<p>In my minds eye I know I am love.</p>
<p>But it seems as if my soul is turning to ice</p>
<p>Has the weight of this life kill the joy I once knew?</p>
<p>Will my soul feel the sunshine and joy run thru me like the river Nile?</p>
<p>Or shall I become as the Dead Sea</p>
<p>Alive but yet not alive?</p>
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		<title>Inner Peace Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Van Buren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What shall be my fate in this short life? Do I continue to bring comfort to those around me, while my heart and soul seem to be dying day by day? I&#8217;m trapped in this world of confusion Fighting to stay far away from the rat race. But this fighting has put my essence in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What shall be my fate in this short life?</p>
<p>Do I continue to bring comfort to those around me,</p>
<p>while my heart and soul seem to be dying day by day?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m trapped in this world of confusion</p>
<p>Fighting to stay far away from the rat race.</p>
<p>But this fighting has put my essence in such a strange place.</p>
<p>A land of reality where pain and pleasure are one in the same.</p>
<p>For how does one know what pleases if he doesn&#8217;t know what displeases.</p>
<p>I want to shout, scream, cry, laugh but all at the same time.</p>
<p>So I do none and I continue to die.</p>
<p>I think love can be the answer.</p>
<p>But how do I?  Who do I? When do I?</p>
<p>When those I have looked to in the past nearly destroyed me,</p>
<p>stripped me of so many of my dreams and beliefs.</p>
<p>Program me to act as the silent cornerstone</p>
<p>Never taking time to ask if I was weary</p>
<p>Do you now need support  from those who you have supported all this time?</p>
<p>But such questions are never asked.</p>
<p>It is up to me and only me, as if has always been.</p>
<p>I shall set my heart and soul free!</p>
<p>I shall raise from the ashes as the Phoenix!</p>
<p>And soar to great heights</p>
<p>To proclaim these words: &#8220;This World Is Mines!&#8221;</p>
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