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		<title>A shining afternoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I had such a lovely afternoon today chatting with another mother. Our children played together while we talked,over delicious iced water, about our families, migrant issues, refugees and childhood memories . L is two years younger than I am, and earned simultaneous degrees in law and chemistry ,  did education work with Aboriginal peoples, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disagreeing with K</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a bone to pick with Kierkegaard.   It has to do with the kind of risk that K ascribed to Abraham, as he stood with his knife over his son on Mount Moriah.   K sees Abraham&#8217;s choice as a &#8220;leap of faith&#8221;- a leap that transcends ethics, which to K was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U-turns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; June marks the the end of our first homeschooling term. We&#8217;ve been taking plennnty of breaks in between; mostly because of fields trips, extra classes  and playdates. Those have been good interruptions, depending on whether you see them as punctuations in the whole composition that is homeschooling, or as part of the script. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On writing behind walls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, a writer came up to me and fervently said that experience was necessary in order to write well.  By experience, she meant traveling  and seeing places, interviewing people and spending days among communities whose lives are different from ours.  I look at the homeliness of my existence and wonder if this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asliceofsky.com/on-writing-behind-walls/</link>
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		<title>New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, our family had our first family &#8216;queit time&#8217;  for the new year.  We talked about the good things that happened in the year that just went by, and the not-so-good things that took place.  In between trying to get our 5 year old to contribute instead of taking off to do her own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I get ready for my weekly housecleaning routine, my heart is filled with thanks for good friends .  Lately, I&#8217;ve come to realize an obvious truth: the company of a  real friend floods an entire room with treasures, adventures and words of life. Who needs a crowd of hangers-on when you&#8217;ve got these gems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom and SALT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s going to be October next week and I am panicking! Actually, I should be thankful. The surgery went well and my overcrowded mouth is freed of two monstrous wisdom teeth. What I feared would happen didn&#8217;t : numbness of the tongue, paralysis of the face, hallucinations,etc.  None at all.  Instead, there has been this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even song II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mother longs to soak in the seaweed sea, to get her toes in tangles in its jelly-soft arms . If not for the stove, warm with warming muffined pans, stewing pots, treacled puddings, she&#8217;d  be there, among the periwinkles , starfished sands. Yet she sings of the future. She sings for she sees her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Writing at the end of a long, long day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a question. How does one go about writing Christianly? Should one go about writing Christianly and what does that mean? I did a review lately on Gene Veith’s “Reading Between the Lines”.  He wrote that good Christian writing should reflect high aesthetic standards as well as sound biblical moral truths.  That sounds simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asliceofsky.com/reflections-on-writing-at-the-end-of-a-long-long-day/</link>
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		<title>Farming and Malaysia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my dreams is to  live on a farm : extensive grounds to ramble through, hosts of animals- goats, ponies, dogs, chickens- and a 40 minute radius away from everyone else. Now, this might some both idyllic and unfriendly. But it really is not. We live in the thick of suburbia, packed with houses, [...]]]></description>
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