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		<title>Poetry Reading At Martinstow Town Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malinslow, a name hard to say correctly after more than three beers, was famous for its annual poetry festivals and used to gather a decent supply of the well to do and a number of dishevelled brillianteens to listen to readings of original verse &#8230; <a href="http://countingducks.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/poetry-reading-at-martinstow-town-hall/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=countingducks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22855746&#038;post=5719&#038;subd=countingducks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Solitary Drink</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in the way he drank.  Time was not in short supply for this gentleman who sipped at his glass and studied the wall ahead for things to contemplate. A solitary figure in a near empty bar. An afternoon drinker, but not &#8230; <a href="http://countingducks.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/a-solitary-drink/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=countingducks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22855746&#038;post=5648&#038;subd=countingducks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Blessèd Crèche</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard talk of a world where the old were revered and respected: living in the homes of their children and grandchildren, and enjoying the attention years of hard work and accumulated wisdom had earned them. Where smoke rose in lazy whisps from houses &#8230; <a href="http://countingducks.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/the-blessed-creche/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=countingducks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22855746&#038;post=5605&#038;subd=countingducks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Meeting at the &#8216;Gloating Butler&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigel was feeling pretty good about life. Bloody invincible frankly. Lets take the brakes off and just admit he felt like a newly discovered god. At forty-six he felt more than pleased to be himself and sitting opposite the twenty two year old Russian vision &#8230; <a href="http://countingducks.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/a-meeting-at-the-gloating-butler/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=countingducks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22855746&#038;post=5557&#038;subd=countingducks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing with Immortality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There you are: living it large, high strutting your way through the &#8216;also-ran&#8217;s', knocking it out of the park, devouring the future, ruling the universe; grinning with abandon, ready to shape  the day, bend it to your will and make it &#8230; <a href="http://countingducks.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/dancing-with-immortality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=countingducks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22855746&#038;post=5517&#038;subd=countingducks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Engagement. A Dawning Truth.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 10:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later that day in an evening marked out by routine: a self constructed prison made of ritual she laid the food out on the table.  Two pork chops with some vegetables neatly displayed  on the plate . Her husband smiling,  and pretending to ignore her turmoil, poked the cooked meat &#8230; <a href="http://countingducks.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/the-wrong-engagement-a-dawning-truth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=countingducks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22855746&#038;post=5490&#038;subd=countingducks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Navigating  A Moral Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 05:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, no more introductions, or weak displays of verbal gymnastics, let&#8217;s get to the heart of the matter. The root of the question, the final conundrum.  The causeless cause. The unvarnished, unsung, impersonal truth. &#8220;Morals&#8221;. Do they matter? I must pause &#8230; <a href="http://countingducks.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/navigating-a-moral-universe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=countingducks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22855746&#038;post=5388&#038;subd=countingducks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parallel Worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 10:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember  I was thinking, was it yesterday or twenty years ago, about the existence of parallel worlds. Of other places in distant galaxies where someone could drive his Ford Brillo, or whatever the name of it is, into a MacDonalds and &#8230; <a href="http://countingducks.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/parallel-worlds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=countingducks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22855746&#038;post=5362&#038;subd=countingducks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Email</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honed in solitude, and far from any track, at a time when lifeless legs kept him exiled from the throng, his mind had moved where his limbs could not, through distant concepts and  landscapes travelled by imagination. Books, he reflected,  might inform you, but &#8230; <a href="http://countingducks.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/the-email/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=countingducks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22855746&#038;post=5321&#038;subd=countingducks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Years after The Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 12:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She raised her eyes to view her reflection in the mirror and studied the face before her. Still young and clean of line, but knowledge now marked her eyes. Experience, effort, putting on a brave face: they were present too.  A face of &#8230; <a href="http://countingducks.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/some-years-after-the-engagement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=countingducks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22855746&#038;post=5294&#038;subd=countingducks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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