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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>
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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.
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		<title>Quakerly Christmas</title>
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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>&#8220;What is REAL?&#8221; asked the Rabbit one day.</title>
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		<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>Bridging In and Out</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ramona Silipo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©2008, RK Silipo. All rights reserved.
Note to a friend:
Self sufficiency is selfish, in that it denies friends the opportunity to care for you. Independence is good, especially for women. But when we try to do everything for ourselves, we get too self-focused. Not only do we become preoccupied with our needs that are not being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lightwithspirit.wordpress.com&blog=1926227&post=76&subd=lightwithspirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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