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	<title>Merry Christmas &#187; Christmas</title>
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		<title>Christmas Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colonial Christmas, Barry Phillips &#38; Friends
Barry Phillips is a cellist, composer arranger and recording engineer whose CDs have included a series of collections of early American music.  In 2008, Barry released Colonial Christmas, (Gourd Music) a CD of instrumental carols and dances from the American colonial period. Barry&#8217;s CDs always have thoroughly researched and beautifully [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=282&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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>Christmas Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/christmas-thoughts/</link>
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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>Christmas Handmade Decorations for Little Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, Ramona K. Silipo. All rights reserved.
One of the simplest handmade tree ornaments is a spiral. You can make them in different sizes by tracing different round objects&#8211; for instance, jar lids of several different sizes; or a teacup, a mug, and a saucer. The larger the circle, the longer the dangle from the tree [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=150&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quakerly Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, Ramona K. Silipo. All rights reserved.
Friends (Quakers) have a testimony against holding special days (holidays), presumably based on the concept that each day is a blessing and that we should have one standard of behaviour for every day of the year. This means that many Friends do not celebrate holidays such as Easter, Christmas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=147&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crafty Fun for Children as Summer Rolls into Autumn</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/crafty-fun-for-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, RKSilipo. All rights reserved.
Hardly seems possible, but over the weekend, I heard the first TV commercial this year to give the countdown to Christmas&#8230; even before Labor Day. It gets earlier every year.
I don&#8217;t mind much, since I love Christmas and I read about it, buy gifts for friends and make plans for holiday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=129&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>Christmas Stories (2)</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/christmas-stories-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Oxford Book of Christmas Stories includes both traditional and modern tales, and the illustrations are evocative and lush. These are stories for grown ups to enjoy and to read with children.
Some of the titles will give you an idea: &#8220;Burper and the Magic Lamp,&#8221; by Robert Leeson. &#8220;Ghost Alarm,&#8221; by Nicholas Fisk. &#8220;The Anarchist&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=21&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas &#8211; Homemade Fun with Children</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/christmas-homemade-fun-with-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When I was growing up, we took tremendous delight in decorating the Christmas tree. We had some beautiful old glass ornaments, and my dad one year went out and bought these bubble lights. The were shaped like candles in a holder, and the colored water in them boiled when they had been on for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=13&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas stories</title>
		<link>http://lightwithspirit.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/christmas-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best Christmas stories I&#8217;ve ever read is No Holly for Miss Quinn, by Miss Read. She wrote two series of novels about English village life, and three novels about life in a small English market town from the turn of the 20th century through the post-WWII period.
I love this book especially for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=12&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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