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		<title>10 things I like about being car-free</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. None of my typical day is spent strapped down in a small metal container alternating between abject boredom and fear for my life. 2. At least some of my day is spent zooming on my bike with the wind in my hair noticing the sights, sounds and scents of the world around me. Or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inalcanzable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[A poem] Tus palabras vienen through that dark curtain, that quicksand where clarity gasps for breath Estás tan lejos pero siempre has estado lejos unreachable tal vez en algun idioma eres inalcanzable quizas si tu fueras aqui conmigo a mi lado estaría distante I struggle agotada longing, imagining a time when we could stand frente [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Car-free in N.C.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back in North Carolina, after a year and a half in Mexico. Why? It was just time, for reasons that are a little too personal to post here. It was an amazing experience living down there. I plan to visit Tulum before too long. But for now, I&#8217;m here in the American South, settling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Boy, do I miss Whole Foods&#8221; department</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Warning: the following is a rant.] My local Mexican supermarkets have some ways which are really annoying to someone trying to live a non-wasteful lifestyle. For example, the way they have to make it really hard to get my groceries home. It almost seems like that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re trying to do. I don&#8217;t own a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pacific Trash Vortex</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 19:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read up on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (or Pacific Trash Vortex), the giant swirling island made entirely of plastic trash which floats in the northern Pacific ocean &#8211; with an estimated size of at least the area of Texas (and some say much larger). I had been aware of it before, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can I think about something without attaching any words to it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 20:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patty Ayers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day in Spanish class, I was trying to understand some sentence the teacher had put together, one that was a little complicated. We don&#8217;t speak much English in this class, but occasionally they allow it, so I asked her if the sentence meant such-and-such in English. But she interrupted me halfway, saying (in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The subjunctive: the trippy, creative verb tense</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 19:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m studying Spanish, as I have been for two years, but with even more ferocity than ever. I&#8217;m in school 5 days a week at Solexico here in Playa del Carmen, and I often spend another couple of hours studying on my own. It has been a long haul, and very discouraging at times, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful hand-made jarana from Veracruz</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it beautiful? I&#8217;m thinking of buying it.]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican supermarket t-shirt phrases</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 17:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patty Ayers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking at t-shirts in the local San Francisco de Assis supermarket here in Playa del Carmen, and found some really funny messages in English printed on them. I totally understand not having command of a second language. But if I were going to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to have cool, clever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Hour</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patty Ayers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So today and tonight people all over the world are turning out their lights for an hour, starting at 8:30 PM local time, to show support for protecting the enviroment. I remember so well when it seemed that the only people interested in &#8220;ecology&#8221;, as we called it in 1970, were children and hippies. I [...]]]></description>
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