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	<description>Exploring a Hermit&#039;s Life in the Modern World.</description>
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		<title>We Shall Overcome</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 28, 2010 marked the the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington for African American Civil Rights and the I Have A Dream Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have included a portion of the speech below.  The source of the speech is the website &#8220;American Rhetoric.&#8221;    My country &#8217;tis of thee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you tell your friends you&#8217;ve become a hermit?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lammas has come and gone and as I noted in another post, there was a nice gathering here at Red Dragon House to celebrate.  I generally don&#8217;t celebrate Lammas in a big way because I usually reserve that for Mabon.  That is when I try and get everyone together for a big harvest feast with roast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hestia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ἑστία  &#8211; Hestia (Roman Vesta), seems to be one of the forgotten or little mentioned Goddesses.  Who is She?  What does She do?  She &#8220;is the virgin goddess of the hearth and of the right ordering of domesticity and the family. She received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household. In the public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isaac Bonewits 1949-2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits, founder and Archdruid Emeritus of of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship, one of North America&#8217;s leading experts on ancient and modern Druidism, Witchcraft, magic and the occult, and the rapidly growing Earth Religions movement, died today after a short struggle with cancer. Mr. Bonewits first came into the public eye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saying Goodbye</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Life is life—whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man&#8217;s own advantage.”—Sri Aurobindo Saying goodbye is never easy.  Making a decision to end the life of one that you dearly love is a pain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer for the Gulf/Mother by T. Thorn Coyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 17:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have carried us, these long millions of years, We beasts, we leafy fronds, we crouching walkers. The ice has come, the ice has gone again. Your crust has softened, hardened, cooled, and warmed… Oh! Unsurpassed in beauty are you, lover! I seek each day to look upon your face. Your gentle wind, your raging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holocaust Rememberance Day 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Holocaust Rememberance Day.  It is a day, a time, set aside for us to remember the victims of the Nazis.  I choose to remember all victims of the Nazis.   The Nazis murdered millions of people &#8211; Jews as well as Homosexual men, Gypsies, Slavs, Mentally Ill, Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, and Political dissidents to name a few.  They were murdered simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memory &#8211; 25 Miners in West Virginia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 7, 2010 Op-Ed Contributor The New York Times Mourning in the Mountains By Denise Giardina Charleston, W.Va. PEOPLE in West Virginia had hoped that on Monday night we would gather around televisions with family and friends to watch our beloved Mountaineers face Butler in our first chance at the men’s N.C.A.A. basketball title since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle of Blair Mountain Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blair Mountain, West Virginia &#8211; the site of the largest civil uprising since the civil war.  This uprising is also the only time that the Government of the United States turned its armed forces (they planned to drop bombs on the miners) on its citizens.  That incident occured in 1921.  Today, the battle continues.  The following is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apologies to St. Patrick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always one to admit when I&#8217;m wrong (or at least I try), I share this post from the blog Ocean&#8217;s Ways, which corrects misinformation about St. Patrick and his driving pagans from Ireland.  I have long believed his driving the &#8220;snakes&#8221; from Ireland to mean the pagans &#8211; i.e., druids, etc.  This however is not [...]]]></description>
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