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		<title>Guarding Empathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Empathy is a good thing. Empathy is necessary. There&#8217;s not enough of empathy in this world. The fighting in the world would probably cease to exist if everyone had empathy. Right? 
Well, I have a problem controlling my empathy. Yes, this is a bad problem. 
I&#8217;ve never known empathy to ever be a problem. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Life is the New Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I deactivated my Facebook account yesterday. What a freeing (near-year) venture! I&#8217;ve been pondering getting rid of Facebook for almost a year but I have always delayed because I, so desperately, want to shine a light for people. I&#8217;ve always felt that human and tangible light has been so absent in my own life. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel I&#8217;ve ran this train into the ground with speaking to humans so I&#8217;m gonna toss all of these thoughts into the web of the world and keep walking.
I&#8217;ve shared my love of, and issues with, singing &#8211; for years. More recently, the latter has been more of a conversational piece and it&#8217;s becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unsettled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a stirring in me for quite some time. A restlessness unable to be transcribed. A rerooting of sorts. A split-second glimpse of part of the finished puzzle comprised of pieces of my life, finally fitting together after years of rolling them around in my hands.
I&#8217;ve become unsettled and it is good.
Attending the We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Skin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m learning so much about me. You know how people say you go off to college to really, finally, learn who you are? Well, I feel I&#8217;ve been doing the same for the past several years. I mean, I dropped out of college after the first semester so it makes sense that (as with Life®) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>F*#% Fear and Shame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My prayer is that this will help at least one person and that person may not be you&#8230; so look away, hide me, delete me, or ignore me if this makes you feel uncomfortable. 
I was raised in San Diego. My family (immediate and generational) had some very strong convictions with the Baptist and Evangelical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends, Mentors and Margaritas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on a blog-surfing kick lately. Partly to do with researching all I can on the clinical side about Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome as well as reading stuff from parents of children with Asperger&#8217;s. But I&#8217;ve also been popping around on sites of Mommy + Motivational-Speaker sites. I need as much encouragement in my life and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paradoxofme.com/718/friends-mentors-and-margaritas/</link>
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		<title>Vulnerable Passion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a lovely thing to be comforted in a time of confusion and heartache.
Lately, I&#8217;ve been contemplating my #1 passion, my singing. For the first time since beginning singing in 1991, I&#8217;m considering stopping for good. Which terrifies me. Not so much as it would strip an identity in me since I&#8217;ve made sure to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paradoxofme.com/710/vulnerable-passion/</link>
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		<title>Now what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than just a cry for mercy, this title is also an update on the latest happenings in my life and the lives of my family. And boy is it a DOOZY!
It seems the roller coaster of life just keep on rolling, keeps on spinning and sending us on death-defying loops and surges. Life has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Besides my life path change in 1996, 2010 was the most defining year of my life. I&#8217;ve learned so much about myself in the last year, things that I never would have believed were true. I learned that I&#8217;m judgmental. I learned that I am codependent. I learned that I cared more about trying to [...]]]></description>
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