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		<title>Serenity &#8211; Believing in yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times in life when it is easy to believe in yourself everything seems to be going your way. Home life is good, finances are solid, job is good, children/spouse/extended family all sailing smoothly through life. Of course, one &#8230; <a href="http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/serenity-believing-in-yourself/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=occasionallyserene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657171&amp;post=338&amp;subd=occasionallyserene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you could create anything, anytime, and have it be real?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What could you do&#8230;If you could create anything, anytime and have it be real? Often times we spend a great deal of time and energy and wishing, imagining and fantasizing about what it would be like if we could have &#8230; <a href="http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/if-you-could-create-anything-anytime-and-have-it-be-real/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=occasionallyserene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657171&amp;post=274&amp;subd=occasionallyserene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new year, a new start, a new career</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s been months since I&#8217;ve been able to sit and write. Many reasons, two seasons and big changes. As 2010 winds down I find myself in that place that so many others have in the past two years. Unemployment &#8230; <a href="http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/a-new-year-a-new-start-a-new-career/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=occasionallyserene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657171&amp;post=317&amp;subd=occasionallyserene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living Life in America or Why I choose not to complain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living life in America, is one of the greatest blessings there is. Someone once said, &#8220;Being born in America is like winning the lottery.&#8221; Sorry that I cannot properly attribute this quote, but these words ring true. There are few &#8230; <a href="http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/living-life-in-america-or-why-i-choose-not-to-complain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=occasionallyserene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657171&amp;post=296&amp;subd=occasionallyserene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What could you do if&#8230; you could accept praise?</title>
		<link>http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/what-could-you-do-if-you-could-accept-praise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>occasionallyserene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that accepting praise is so often difficult? What is it about our society and culture that makes it a challenge for us to simply say &#8220;thank you&#8221; when another offers us some positive feedback? Watch a young &#8230; <a href="http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/what-could-you-do-if-you-could-accept-praise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=occasionallyserene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657171&amp;post=276&amp;subd=occasionallyserene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Work of art or art work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. – Eleanor Roosevelt As a culture we place so much emphasis on appearances. And in some way that is important. You only have once chance &#8230; <a href="http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/work-of-art-or-art-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=occasionallyserene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657171&amp;post=164&amp;subd=occasionallyserene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What could you?  If you could forgive yourself, your partner, your children, your parents, your friends, your siblings, your enemy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>occasionallyserene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forgiveness, so simple and yet so complex, so elusive. When we forgive, we heal. Forgiveness after all is about the pain and/or anger of being hurt and our desire to hold on to that or let go of it. Thinking &#8230; <a href="http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/what-could-you-if-you-could-forgive-yourself-your-partner-your-children-your-parents-your-friends-your-siblings-your-enemy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=occasionallyserene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657171&amp;post=169&amp;subd=occasionallyserene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Change</title>
		<link>http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I decided to leave my last job three years ago, I had no idea how my life would change. The economy had not officially gone into a tailspin. That would occur over the next 13 months as I was &#8230; <a href="http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=occasionallyserene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657171&amp;post=161&amp;subd=occasionallyserene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What could you do?  If you could retake the words said in anger?</title>
		<link>http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/what-could-you-do-if-you-could-retake-the-words-said-in-anger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anger. We all experience it. Anger can be subtle and seductive in its ability to hijack your present mind. It has the ability to cause us to fly into a rage. That rage if unchecked will damage not only ourselves, &#8230; <a href="http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/what-could-you-do-if-you-could-retake-the-words-said-in-anger/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=occasionallyserene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657171&amp;post=130&amp;subd=occasionallyserene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Repeat after me, in the shade of the Repeat Tree</title>
		<link>http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/repeat-after-me-in-the-shade-of-the-repeat-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know one of those people who has the annoying habit of repeating themselves? I don&#8217;t mean that friend who tells you the same story every other time you see him. I mean the guy who says the same &#8230; <a href="http://occasionallyserene.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/repeat-after-me-in-the-shade-of-the-repeat-tree/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=occasionallyserene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657171&amp;post=127&amp;subd=occasionallyserene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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