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		<title>A New Miss Read for Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas at Thrush Green by Miss Read
Or, more accurately, by Miss Read (Dora Saint) and her long-time editor, Jenny Dereham.  But it is a Thrush Green story, with all of our favourite characters and the daily village dramas that Miss Read fans love.
If you&#8217;ve never read a Miss Read book before, this is a good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=276&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Peace (1957)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 08:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From World Peace, by Swami Sivananda, publ. 1957:
Only removal of ignorance can stop all future wars and dissensions. Spiritual culture, ethical education, measures that are best calculated to instill love and a sense of unity in men and women can prevent nations from resorting to war.  If all people begin to practice kindness and mercy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=238&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Peace Laureate (2003) Shirin Ebadi has written a riveting account of her life in Iran, from her childhood (when the Shah was installed by the CIA), to the revolution that brought the Ayatollah to power, and onward to current circumstances in her country.  As a judge, then a lawyer, Ebadi&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=173&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Women&#8217;s Insitutute (WI) published a small book in 2007, Practical Know-how at Christmas. Along with the hints, they included some timeless quotations about the holiday. Here are some of them:
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  (Anonymous)
Life is much like Christmas &#8212; you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=155&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Village Life: Miss Read&#8217;s People and Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 09:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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Summer is less than a month away, so I go to my book shelves and check that Miss Read is where I think she is, ready for my annual visits to Fairacre and Thrush Green. I re-visit Caxley as well, but not quite as often. 
I love these books and cannot recommend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=103&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Dog, Carl &#8211; A Canine Babysitter with Lots of Stories to Tell</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/a-babysitting-rottweiler-named-carl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 15:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008,Ramona K Silipo. All rights reserved.
Good Dog Carl is the first in the series of Carl books by Alexadra Day, based on her own experiences with her dog. In this story, we meet The Mother who is seen only fleetingly, because the protagonist of these books is a cuddly, paternal Rottweiler, and his sidekick is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=108&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David and the Phoenix &#8211; Great Summer Read for Pre-teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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At age ten I read a book about a beautiful, multi-coloured, giant bird and a boy named David. They talked together a lot, and they went on adventures. That story stayed with me for fifty years. 
So I decided to try to find the book, just to have it in my library [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=102&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forgiveness &#8211; A Skill That Can Be Learned</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/forgiveness-a-skill-that-can-be-learned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 10:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008 Ramona K. Silipo. All rights reserved.
FORGIVE FOR GOOD, by Fred Luskin, subtitled, ‘A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness,’ is a striking combination research report, case study and handbook. The material is groundbreaking, fascinating and instantly accessible.
In the courses he teaches,  Fred Luskin, Ph.D., Director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project, is absolutely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=92&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What is REAL?&#8221; asked the Rabbit one day.</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/the-velveteen-rabbit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 10:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams, with gorgeous illustrations by William Nicholson, can truly wear the designation, A Modern Classic. First published in 1922, the original edition is now available again from Doubleday, in their &#8220;A Book for Young Readers&#8221; series. It&#8217;s also available in paperback and in various editions with more contemporary art. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=90&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Violent Anger: Is it &#8220;in a Normal Range of Emotions?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, RK Silipo. All rights reserved.
Recently I happened to meet a psychiatrist who believes that violent anger and violent behaviour are  “in a normal range of emotions.” Her view was that people who do not lash out violently are actually somehow lacking in their range of emotional responses; that the absence of violence is abnormal. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=83&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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