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		<title>Protecting our children</title>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2012/05/protecting-our-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[______________________________________________________________________________________________________ &#160; “The water is so clear today. The scattered surfers are protected by their full-length wet suits.  I so admire the surfers out there in the frigid waters bobbing up and down void of fear. I can swim in my mind back stroke to a time when each of my children played on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Climb</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can almost see it That dream I am dreaming But there&#8217;s a voice inside my head saying &#8220;You&#8217;ll never reach it&#8221; Every step I&#8217;m taking Every move I make feels Lost with no direction My faith is shaking But I gotta keep trying Gotta keep my head held high There&#8217;s always gonna be another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes I wish</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i carry your heart here is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that&#8217;s keeping the stars apart i [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where do we go from here: a look at The Grammy&#8217;s and the music collaboration between Rihanna and Chris Brown</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Many people are focused on the collaboration between Chris Brown and Rihanna—but for a moment I would like to step back in time and redirect our attention to the underlying message which was sent when the decision was made to spotlight Chris Brown at The Grammy’s. Ken Ehrlich—the Executive producer of The Grammy’s said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What we choose to forget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we American’s have the shortest memories on the planet? February 8, 2009 may not ring a bell for you&#8230; but I’d like to share a story and maybe after you finish reading it, you will understand what I mean about what we choose to forget. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Her fists slammed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming fear and denial: teen dating violence and parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[________________________________________________________________________________________ It&#8217;s National Teen Dating Violence Prevention and Awareness Month so what&#8217;s a parent to do? I speak with parents all the time and the number one thing I hear from them is this: &#8220;I really don&#8217;t worry about my kids being in an abusive relationship, they haven&#8217;t been raised with abuse in the home.&#8221; &#8211;And from there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom of thought</title>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2012/01/freedom-of-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/?p=2158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[___________________________________________________________________________________________________ The old saying goes &#8220;you are what you eat&#8221; yet lately I have been pondering another aspect of what I am. My soul is fed on the thoughts which roll through my mind and most days they serve me well, yet there are days when what I think becomes noise, a noise which reaches a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stake a claim on your life</title>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2012/01/stake-a-claim-on-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/?p=2134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The day I saw myself as a victor of my own life I ended my victimhood: there is life after domestic violence&#8230;claim it and make it your own.&#8221; -Elin Stebbins Waldal Staking a claim on my own life, for me, took some doing. What so many people don&#8217;t know is leaving an abusive relationship is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love changes the world</title>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2012/01/love-changes-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world, how am I changing the world? This question has coursed through my veins; it has arrested me somehow with the enormity of the global population. Tumbling through my mind as if they were unattended clothes belonging to anyone other than me—round and round—are the myriad feelings I have experienced in my contemplation about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC sidewalk story</title>
		<link>http://www.elinstebbinswaldal.com/2011/12/nyc-sidewalk-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an eighth-story window I could see them as they made their way down the city sidewalk. A boy and his mother, she with his scooter wedged under her arm toy in hand, walked a few steps behind him. The boy, who seconds earlier had been running, slowed then stood as if towed to a stop by his curiosity. [...]]]></description>
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