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		<title>My Way Back Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the moment I stepped foot in Dubai in Oct 2010, I wished I were home.  There had not been a day when I didn&#8217;t wish it was time.  I counted the days and nights with great yearning, hoping that the next time I’d open my eyes, they will be met with the same passion. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=590&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eternally Grateful&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://rapture1973.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/eternally-grateful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[           I know that words will never be enough to thank the people who did not just fail to remember, but people who made my 38th birthday memorable.           I know what I am and I know what I need from what I want.  My friend Shirley actually coined the term &#8220;pasahero&#8221; to describe me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=579&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fly the Coop&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Acrophobia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing still while hands tightly held on the bar post next to the driver&#8217;s seat, arm to arm with the great unwashed, my mind whisked aplenty images.  From discerning whether or not to spend this much for handouts and for whom, to whether I&#8217;d be able to find myself a seat while in transit.  My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=487&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the barriers&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://rapture1973.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/breaking-the-barriers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In love, not expecting anything in return is a taboo.  Hypocrisy. When you love someone, they say, you have to give your all and never expect anything in return.  We are human beings, we feel.  Oftentimes we may not be sensible individuals when it comes to love, but loving definitely means expecting to be loved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=535&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Delightful Respite&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had such a delightful experience today.  And it all happened during a  1-hour break from work. I went to a nearby office where I usually have my lunch when it&#8217;s impossible for me and elce to go to lunch together.  Let&#8217;s call her ate Belen.    Tapping softly at the door, I heard her voice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=503&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Endearing Expectation&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://rapture1973.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/an-endearing-expectation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[candle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friends are all asleep while I&#8217;m busy doing what I can do for my site.  &#8220;If I Ain&#8217;t Got You&#8221; is playing on the background &#8211; &#8221;&#8230;some people live for the fortune, some people live for the fame..for the power, live to play the game&#8230;&#8221; Yeah, poignant truth. Some people really do worship money and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=471&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All About Life&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  &#8220;I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.&#8221;                                             ~ Martha Washington &#8220;Dream as if you&#8217;ll live forever, live as if you&#8217;ll die [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=463&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pallid Life&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://rapture1973.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/pallid-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lyrics of the Heart...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frozen cold, aghast… Stolid limbs, insensitive.. Unfeeling… Unmoving… I am alive. Empty-handed, solitary.. Indecisive purpose, lost.. Breathing… Living… I am dead. My wholeness obscured by you, Limped, wasted, scorned, Motionless you’ve left me, Un-alive you’ve made me. End no more.. Life reclaimed.. Love redeemed.. Filed under: Lyrics of the Heart...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=397&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love Oh Love&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://rapture1973.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/love-oh-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;I hold it true. Whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; &#8216;Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.&#8221;           &#8211; Lord Alfred Tennyson &#8220;Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. &#8220;                           &#8211; Martin Luther King &#8220;What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=382&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow&#8211; You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=379&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=363&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life In A Love by Robert Browning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Escape me? Never— Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loth, While the one eludes, must the other pursue. My life is a fault at last, I fear— It seems too much like a fate, indeed! Though I do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=350&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Forgive is To Forget&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.&#8221;    -  William Arthur Ward &#8220;You can&#8217;t undo anything you&#8217;ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.”    -  Unknown &#8220;You will know that forgiveness has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=323&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unending end&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://rapture1973.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/everything-has-an-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world was confronted with the news of Steve Job&#8217;s death today and every street corner was busy.  You could hear people buzzing about how great he was and the legacy he&#8217;s left behind.  Yes, he is indeed a great loss to the industry he&#8217;s helped invigorate. But above that, he is a man loved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=131&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prepare for National Novel Writing Month with the Post a Day Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Thank God for birthdays&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflecting on the days to come, I realize that life is good to me.  I have played with it in so many outrageous ways, and yet it never abandoned me. I never imagined I would reach a point where I would really consider all the things essential. Looking back and forward, I am hopeful.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=58&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the clock struck 12:01&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the clock struck 12mn, I said a little prayer then rushed off to the beach area to get a scoop of what’s happening. I was able to capture the fireworks display of Burj Al Arab and The Atlantis.  It was spellbinding.  I was actually shaking while holding the cam on both hands. It was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=56&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Fleeting Glance&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often look back and think, “was it all worth it?”.  I think so.  Some wee regrets here and there, not that I shouldn’t have done them, but could have’s.   Oh  I never let any down-moments get the best of me.I have lived my life the way I want to live it. Well, for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=54&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tests of time&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[when you think you have to give up, don&#8217;t&#8230; when you think you&#8217;ve lost everything you got, you did not.. when you think that something is lost, you have found it&#8230; as time passes by, life gives you different things to deal with.. sometimes,you need to deal with two things at a time&#8230; sometimes, these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=51&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A grateful HEART&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people come into our lives&#8230;some unnoticed&#8230;some loved&#8230;some don&#8217;t even make the slightest marks.  I believe I have been blessed with the presence of people who&#8217;ve made deep impressions and whose presence certainly haven&#8217;t gone unnoticed. I treasure friendships, more so when they are formed when I am at a crossroad in my life.  They, to me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rapture1973.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28150583&amp;post=49&amp;subd=rapture1973&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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