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		<title>Chicken</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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&#160;
This is the sweet chicken we will adopt on Tuesday.  Note the blue tape&#8211;her wing was splinted in an attempt to rescue it after she was attacked by a raccoon.  Unfortunately, the infection spread to her bone and she is now a one-winged bird.
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		<title>Birds near me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She creates and federates
Without a syllable
 (Emily Dickinson)
All the little psittacines in my office sleep.  Like little balls, the cockatiels fluff their feathers  and tuck their heads while Wiggie, the blue-crowned conure, alternately watches me write and closes his eyes.  They are rimmed in white skin&#8211;the eye ring&#8211;with bright orange irises and, like all parrots, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdcalkins2001.wordpress.com&blog=2325130&post=772&subd=jdcalkins2001&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ashes</title>
		<link>http://jdcalkins2001.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/761/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ashes denote the Fire that was&#8211;
Redbird&#8217;s ashes wait.  I will pick them up when I take Wiggie in for the vet to recheck.  We will open the box and touch the ashes&#8211;, put them in the ground of the little cemetery we created for the critters when they die.  The children have placed logs and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdcalkins2001.wordpress.com&blog=2325130&post=761&subd=jdcalkins2001&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Wild Parrots&#8211;An Obituary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

I borrowed a tear from the water
And wept it again and again

Redbird or Reddie, our cherry crowned conure, our Aratinga erythrogenys died last week.
And the heart is all in shadow
And the heart has almost stopped
He was not a young bird.
I cannot see that you are not me
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		<title>Currently posting The Quail Diaries Cuarto</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Head over to The Quail Diaries for the next few days as I will be posting entries while I am trapping and observing the sweetly beautiful Callipepla californica.   
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		<title>Revision to my earlier naive secessionist stance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I no longer want to secede from the union&#8211;I am no longer a social anarchist.  I admit, that sentiment, voiced earlier on this blog, was very naive.  It also dismissed the hard won maintenance of a union of states&#8211;what was the civil war.  
I apologize&#8211;
I may be frustrated by the leviathan that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdcalkins2001.wordpress.com&blog=2325130&post=742&subd=jdcalkins2001&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Twitter Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing fiction on Twitter and if you are interested you may follow me at jdcalkins2001. Here is a sampling from the very beginning
I do not like this basement. It makes me uncomfortable. These are my hands, arms legs feet. But I won&#8217;t describe them to you. 
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		<title>Buzz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do say the bees will return,
And with them, seasons.

This bee was trembling.  Can you see it&#8211;it is all of a blur&#8230;

Admittedly, the camera (my iphone) is not the best equipment&#8230;but I tell you, it was truly trembling.  
Below and behind it, the tide was coming in on the lake, and little waves were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdcalkins2001.wordpress.com&blog=2325130&post=736&subd=jdcalkins2001&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Political Interlude</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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I am following Iranian Student @Change_for_Iran on Twitter.  The last post was:
“we have to leave, it’s not safe here anymore!  wish us luck!”
I am one of Iranian Student’s 24478 followers. 
Everything is superimposed upon everything else. 
my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass,
that the Guest leaves—
I really appreciate being able to read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jdcalkins2001.wordpress.com&blog=2325130&post=731&subd=jdcalkins2001&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you are annoyed by my overthinking yoga, then skip this</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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I have fifteen minutes to write this.  
Other things, dear, other things call.
The other day I was practicing yoga and all the voices of all the teachers I’ve had or read were inside my head.  I turned them into a river.
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