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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down”: seen on a placard for the Eleanor Roosevelt Fruit & Vegetable Garden at the Obama Presidential Center.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My time as a dedicated Knicks fan was back in the Reed-Bradley-DeBusschere-Frazier-Barnett days. Watching last night made me remember how a game can turn in seconds.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My mom, Louise Leddy, died a year ago today.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In The Nation , David Futrelle writes about “Marc Andreessen’s Dangerously Unexamined Life.” Andreesen says that he is never or only rarely introspective, and that introspection is a fad, invented circa 1910: “If you go back, like, 400 years ago, it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective.”

The frightening thing is that people who don’t know better will believe Andreessen, or at least take his words as permission to do what they wanna. They have a role model in the current occupant, who would likely be unable even to explain what introspection is.]]></description>
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    <title>RFK Jr., running wild</title>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From a Lancet editorial :

“The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm. Calls for his resignation now number in the thousands. Congress must exercise its duty of oversight and hold Kennedy accountable for his record, or else accept responsibility for endorsing President Trump's decision to let him ‘run wild on health.’”]]></description>
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    <title>Dol</title>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Elaine has shared what’s been happening in our lives.]]></description>
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    <title>Dryer January (no Wi-Fi)</title>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When we shopped for a new dryer last week, I wondered why some machines have Wi-Fi. Wi? What for?]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Radley Balko writes about “the physical weight” of life under the current occupant:

That heaviness you feel, that drag on your mental health, that drain on your emotional energy and lethargy in the face of world events, like yesterday [Wednesday the 7th], is real. We are all carrying a lot of new weight in the era of Trumpism.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Elaine and I have been reading a book that showed us to ourselves with uncanny accuracy: The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners (Little, Brown Spark, 2025), by psychiatrist Rami Kaminski, who posits a personality type to place alongside those of the extrovert and introvert.]]></description>
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    <title>Stranger thing</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-31T16:29:54+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ I kinda sorta see one of those “wounds or ruptures in the fabric of space-time” that make life in Hawkins, Indiana, so exciting.]]></description>
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    <title>It’s a Little Compton life</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-26T15:53:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/its-little-compton-life.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The PBS NewsHour had a slightly startling story last night: “How a small town in Rhode Island is connected to It’s a Wonderful Life .”]]></description>
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    <title>Why hope?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-26T15:48:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-hope.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“What gives you hope when so much is so awful?”

[Pointing to a girl in the audience .] “That little girl right there. There is no way that you can look at that beautiful little girl and not understand that we do not have the right or the luxury to become hopeless.”]]></description>
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    <title>“Badly cast”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-19T15:13:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Oscar Wilde’s “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime.”]]></description>
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    <title>Thinking about the button</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-25T14:45:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/thinking-about-button.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Alan Alda, on living with Parkinson’s: “All I’m dealing with right now is getting the cuff of my shirt buttoned. I'm not dealing with what this can turn into, or what a sign it is that I’m not the way I used to be. I'm not thinking about the past or the future; I’m just thinking about the button right now.”]]></description>
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    <title>Lost and found</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-10T14:45:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/lost-and-found.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Scissors and a knife.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:16a42b2cf54d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/trash-and-asch.html">
    <title>Trash and Asch</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-04T14:15:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/trash-and-asch.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is it trash day? Do I conform?]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:660454146a43/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/looking-around.html">
    <title>Looking around</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-23T13:48:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/looking-around.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two ways of thinking about the world right now:

I can find moments of beauty and happiness every day. But I cannot ignore the news.

I cannot ignore the news. But I can find moments of beauty and happiness every day.]]></description>
<dc:subject>happiness life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:9b95d213bd2c/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/mel-brooks-on-john-candy.html">
    <title>Mel Brooks on John Candy</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-20T14:12:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/mel-brooks-on-john-candy.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“He was a great actor who stuck acting in his back pocket and behaved like a human being.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:464ce3a999fd/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-like-this-advice.html">
    <title>I like this advice</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-20T14:11:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-like-this-advice.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Glimpse genuine joy, in a way, in the middle of world horror”: George W.S. Trow to Alison Rose, quoted in The New York Times obituary for Rose.]]></description>
<dc:subject>advice happiness life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:7e6c306ff771/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/09/costs.html">
    <title>Costs</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-19T13:41:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/09/costs.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The problem with Kirk’s way of thinking is that it never considers who bears the cost of gun violence. I’ll repeat something that I wrote in a 2021 post: no one lives life in the aggregate.]]></description>
<dc:subject>death life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:8aae55ddc9b9/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-knot-in-bulrush.html">
    <title>“A knot in a bulrush”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-09T21:34:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-knot-in-bulrush.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Thomas Nashe’s The Terrors of the Night, or A Discourse of Apparitions.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:4ca62e508e06/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/08/minneapolis.html">
    <title>Minneapolis</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-29T14:25:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/08/minneapolis.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis:

“Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church. These are kids that should be learning with their friends. They should be playing on the playground. They should be able to go to school or church in peace without the fear or risk of violence, and their parents should have the same kind of assurance.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>death life MaryMiller</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:b22209c5d176/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/john-david-moore-im.html">
    <title>John David Moore, i.m.</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-24T12:47:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/john-david-moore-im.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[John David and I shared an office in our early years on the tenure track: two desks, and a massive file-cabinet/bookcase unit dividing the room in two. We would trade observations about local inanities across an imaginary transom.]]></description>
<dc:subject>death friendship life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:4018f835907e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:friendship"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-model-for-us-all.html">
    <title>A model for us all</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-24T12:44:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-model-for-us-all.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At one point this man held his cone sideways — the ice cream that had been on top was all gone — and said “Flashlight.” The kids were delighted.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:e3c04f6bf044/</dc:identifier>
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</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/found-objects.html">
    <title>Found objects</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-16T15:28:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/found-objects.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Found: a Coleman lantern, a digital alarm clock, and a board-book copy of Goodnight Moon, the boards showing sharp indentations here and there.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>deer life nature</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:a57c72207808/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:nature"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/ever-fashion-forward.html">
    <title>Ever fashion-forward</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-25T14:16:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/ever-fashion-forward.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[More black polo shirts.]]></description>
<dc:subject>clothing domesticcomedy life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:768be5f5ec13/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:domesticcomedy"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/turn-on-your-hazard-lights-once-again.html">
    <title>Turn on your hazard lights (once again)</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-22T15:11:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/turn-on-your-hazard-lights-once-again.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now that summer is upon us, I’m repeating advice that I shared in 2011 and again in 2023 and 2024. Pass it on.]]></description>
<dc:subject>advice life travel</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:8305f214ceaf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/whats-use.html">
    <title>“What’s the use?”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-22T15:08:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/whats-use.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Hans Christian Andersen.]]></description>
<dc:subject>advice fiction life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:a56be6ebe197/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:fiction"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/aldi-and-anderson.html">
    <title>Aldi and Anderson</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-15T14:42:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/aldi-and-anderson.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At our Aldi outlet yesterday I packed one of our cold bags Wes Anderson-style.]]></description>
<dc:subject>film life shopping</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:1d5a71ed10e5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:shopping"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/intimations-of-mortality.html">
    <title>Intimations of mortality</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-01T16:25:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/intimations-of-mortality.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A possible influence on this dream: mortality, duh. But also a moment when a student told me she had been unable to sleep all night after reading Philip Larkin’s “Aubade.” My words in the dream jibe with the poem.]]></description>
<dc:subject>death dreams life poetry teaching</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:473321506ee4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:dreams"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:poetry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:teaching"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/how-then.html">
    <title>How then?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-23T13:43:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/how-then.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Every two or three hundred pages, Andersen comes out with a passage that knocks me flat.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:92ac5b713545/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/nineteen-sixty-one.html">
    <title>Nineteen sixty-one</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-02T13:12:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/nineteen-sixty-one.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“You could pass for thirty-five,” she said.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>age life shopping</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:ccb5e01c3c6a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:shopping"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/louise-leddy-19322025.html">
    <title>Louise Leddy (1932–2025)</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-21T13:44:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/louise-leddy-19322025.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My mom died in her sleep this morning.]]></description>
<dc:subject>death family life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:96d5cc6e51b6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:family"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-one-thing-needful.html">
    <title>The one thing needful</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-23T01:47:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-one-thing-needful.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Adolescence: “All kids really need is one thing that makes them feel okay about themselves.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:600005c1c407/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/six-friends.html">
    <title>Six friends</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-13T00:32:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/six-friends.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Look closely and you’ll see four pairs of eyes, one eye from a figure caught in profile, one figure with back turned away from the camera, and some random lights across the way.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life nature deer</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:2c3ef17166d4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:nature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:deer"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/02/no-left-turn.html">
    <title>No left turn</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-26T14:48:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/02/no-left-turn.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Put your phone away,” I said, five or six times. Yes, I talk to other drivers. Example: “Merge!” It matters not that they cannot hear me.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:fd8030b1046b/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/02/andersonreed-rules-for-life.html">
    <title>Anderson–Reed rules for life</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-14T14:53:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/02/andersonreed-rules-for-life.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Laurie Anderson states the three rules for life that she and her partner Lou Reed devised.]]></description>
<dc:subject>advice life love</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:64d692c933ca/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:love"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/01/message-received-maybe.html">
    <title>Message received, maybe</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-27T20:03:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/01/message-received-maybe.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Mom, we’ll just visit here in your room today. Donald Trump was elected president, and the giant television in the dining room has his inauguration on. So we’ll just stay here.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:f6e929ae50ef/</dc:identifier>
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</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/12/interstate-freakout.html">
    <title>Interstate freakout</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-27T18:39:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/12/interstate-freakout.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Driving home in our Prius post-Thanksgiving I saw the Tire Pressure Monitoring System light come on. We were on an interstate — yikes!]]></description>
<dc:subject>life travel</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:ddcc9156b342/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/talking-about-contingency.html">
    <title>Talking about contingency</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-30T01:57:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/talking-about-contingency.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From A Man on the Inside: “Every great thing in your life, when you look back on it, feels like a miracle.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>life television</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:613ebad8161c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-can.html">
    <title>In the can</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-30T01:51:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-can.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In today’s Beetle Bailey, art imitates life.]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics life work</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:dd6ace17ddd6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/turning-off-news.html">
    <title>“Turning Off the News”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-17T14:33:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/turning-off-news.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From The Borowitz Report, “Turning Off the News”:

I’m not a neuroscientist like George Santos, but in my experience, turning off the news is good for your mental health. And you’ll have more time for things you actually enjoy. Read a novel. See a friend. Walk your dog. Which is what I’m going to do right now.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life news</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:f119cfbd067e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/beautiful-afternoon-ugly-moment.html">
    <title>Beautiful afternoon, ugly moment</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-08T15:13:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/11/beautiful-afternoon-ugly-moment.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Would you leave your pretty granddaughter in a room alone with him?”]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:540eadec6bf9/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/things-i-learned-on-my-summer-fall.html">
    <title>Things I learned on my fall vacation</title>
    <dc:date>2024-10-29T03:05:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/things-i-learned-on-my-summer-fall.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“We may be lost, but we’re making good time”: Yogi Berra.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fall learning life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:8cfbaca051fd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/unflavored-dulness.html">
    <title>“Unflavored dulness”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-10-11T20:26:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/10/unflavored-dulness.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“It is wonderful, the romance and tragedy and adventure which one may find in a quiet old- fashioned country town, though to heartily enjoy the every-day life one must care to study life and character, and must find pleasure in thought and observation of simple things, and have an instinctive, delicious interest in what to other eyes”: Sarah Orne Jewett.
is unflavored dulness.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fiction life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:55ab6bf161a6/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/figuring-out-how-to-be-yourself.html">
    <title>Figuring out how to be yourself</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-27T19:56:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/09/figuring-out-how-to-be-yourself.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nick Lowe, interviewed on the PBS News Hour last night:

“Johnny Cash once said to me, incredibly disappointingly, I thought at the time, ‘Nick, what you have got to do is figure out how to be yourself.’]]></description>
<dc:subject>advice life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:9c203138962d/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/doones.html">
    <title>Doones</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-22T19:41:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/08/doones.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Nabisco man hands us Lorna Doones.]]></description>
<dc:subject>food life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:0cf53d177d67/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/its-pathological.html">
    <title>“It’s pathological”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-25T14:50:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/its-pathological.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Eddie Glaude on Donald Trump’s suggestion that people with disabilities should just die.]]></description>
<dc:subject>death life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:bbfba23cd240/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/tv-as-radio-or-childrens-game.html">
    <title>TV as radio or children’s game</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-24T14:36:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/tv-as-radio-or-childrens-game.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Listening or playing Guess Who?]]></description>
<dc:subject>life radio television</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:ba0b0c63ce22/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/recently-updated.html">
    <title>Recently updated</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-20T20:33:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/recently-updated.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What really happened with the banana man, which is even more ridiculous.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life shopping</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:53b1bba43dc7/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-banana-man.html">
    <title>The banana man</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-18T14:22:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-banana-man.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sure, you can go ahead of us to buy one banana.

But no good deed goes unpunished.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life shopping</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:fed85e60ce47/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/06/hows-your-mom.html">
    <title>“How's Your Mom?”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-06-24T14:04:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/06/hows-your-mom.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From a This American Life episode that aired in February: Janelle Taylor addresses the question “How’s Your Mom?” Likely to be helpful to anyone close to a person with dementia.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:bf1396ce9b45/</dc:identifier>
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</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/wild-strawberries.html">
    <title>Wild strawberries</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-29T14:24:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/wild-strawberries.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I think I have finally figured out what interests the deer who visit the back of our backyard: Fragaria vesca, or wild strawberries. They’re why the deer appear so choosy as they browse the ground.]]></description>
<dc:subject>food life nature deer</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:a45f92469ff6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:food"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:nature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:deer"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/sunday-in-park-with-geese.html">
    <title>Sunday in the park with geese</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-29T14:22:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/sunday-in-park-with-geese.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After Seurat.]]></description>
<dc:subject>art life nature photography</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:6a8bdf675f4b/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:nature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:photography"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/revised-cosmology.html">
    <title>Revised cosmology</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-23T17:43:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/revised-cosmology.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s cicadas all the way down.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Illinois life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:7366f6e53343/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:Illinois"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/mad-hot-cicada-spring.html">
    <title>“Mad Hot Cicada Spring”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-23T17:39:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/mad-hot-cicada-spring.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Elaine wrote a short piece for piccolo and violin, “Mad Hot Cicada Spring.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>Illinois life music</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:4c5a8b43705c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:music"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/perhaps-best-words-ill-read-today.html">
    <title>Perhaps the best words I’ll read today</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-17T14:41:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/perhaps-best-words-ill-read-today.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“MOUSE CAUGHT”: on the side of a Tomcat Kill & Contain Mouse Trap.]]></description>
<dc:subject>death life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:9413104b2c1e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:death"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/first.html">
    <title>First!</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-09T19:46:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/first.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Cicadaville.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:27291f620ce0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/oh-god-how-beautiful.html">
    <title>“Oh God! How beautiful!”</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-03T14:48:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/oh-god-how-beautiful.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of my cataract surgery, my friend Stefan Hagemann pointed me to Annie Dillard’s essay “Seeing” (1974). In it Dillard recounts several case histories from Marius von Senden’s Space and Sight: The Perception of Space and Shape in the Congenitally Blind Before and After Operation (1960), a study of people who were able to see for the first time after the removal of congenital cataracts.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:d924e1d25277/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/04/look-reader-no-glasses.html">
    <title>Look, reader, no glasses</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-23T13:31:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/04/look-reader-no-glasses.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I put a new photograph of my unglassed and several-years-older face in the sidebar. RSS readers, you’ll just have to click through.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:6ea2494d73f1/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/04/cataract-and-cataracts.html">
    <title>Cataract and cataracts</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-23T13:30:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/04/cataract-and-cataracts.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Walking on a sunny morning a couple of weeks ago, with both eyes cataract-free, I began to tear up because everything looked so brilliantly beautiful: the sky, some trees, the pavement. Yes, the pavement.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:d670ed737139/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/03/iris-apfel-19212024.html">
    <title>Iris Apfel (1921–2024)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-03-03T15:09:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/03/iris-apfel-19212024.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Elaine and I have two degrees of separation from Iris Apfel.]]></description>
<dc:subject>friendship life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:06314786b896/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/01/how-many-retired-english-professors.html">
    <title>How many retired English professors does it take to change a lightbulb?</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-03T15:44:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/01/how-many-retired-english-professors.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The problem: the dome/globe hiding the dead bulb would not budge. The solution: tap the dome with a shoe, many, many times.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life lifehacks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:4e9b12211cac/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/12/current-events.html">
    <title>Current events</title>
    <dc:date>2023-12-18T14:10:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/12/current-events.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am thinking of every post right now as a flight from current events. Those events are always on my mind. But I have no special insight into them.]]></description>
<dc:subject>death life news war</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:dca95132017e/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/11/cogito.html">
    <title>Cogito</title>
    <dc:date>2023-12-03T15:24:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/11/cogito.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I overthink, or at least I think I do; therefore, I am.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life philosophy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:da31638ff595/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/cinnamon-toast-and-orange-juice.html">
    <title>Cinnamon toast and orange juice</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-30T14:10:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/cinnamon-toast-and-orange-juice.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This news item strikes me as a respite from other news.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life news</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:0a39528cfa21/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/but-speaks.html">
    <title>“But” speaks</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-17T14:31:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/but-speaks.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Alexandra Petri, writing in The Washington Post (gift link): “The word ‘But’ asks that it not appear in these sentences.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>grammar life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:b5c0acb535a0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:grammar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/hi-papa.html">
    <title>“Hi, Papa”</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-06T14:03:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/hi-papa.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’m seen as a grandfather type.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:48a19a726d32/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/09/thirty-nine.html">
    <title>Thirty-nine</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-01T14:23:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/09/thirty-nine.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An anniversary.]]></description>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:2e58ee8b2fb8/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:life"/>
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</item>
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