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	<description>by michael joseph lmsw</description>
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		<title>thoughts on the erotic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The erotic is neither the whip nor the whisper, but the lingering of attention to how either, or both, strikes the senses.]]></description>
		<link>http://psychoutblog.com/2011/07/03/thoughts-on-the-erotic/</link>
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		<title>watching fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
As of late, through our cold winter nights, I&#8217;ve taken to staring into the glow of a fire.  Lights off, computer asleep, TV quieted, cell phone hidden away in another room – I let myself fall under the spell of her skirt-like flames licking, screaming, bending and percolating behind the glass of my wood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://psychoutblog.com/2011/03/03/watching-fire/</link>
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		<title>The Wild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have the demands of modern life robbed us of our healthy inclination of hours to sit and ponder?]]></description>
		<link>http://psychoutblog.com/2010/08/01/the-wild/</link>
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		<title>The heroism of doubt&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doubt is not a problem of strength or conviction. Doubt is the light that humbles us in face of our limitations.]]></description>
		<link>http://psychoutblog.com/2010/05/09/the-heroism-of-doubt/</link>
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		<title>Kerouac:  &#8220;Belief &#038; Technique for Modern Prose&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[List of Essentials by Jack Kerouac
1.  Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2.  Submissive to everything, open, listening
3.  Try never get drunk outside your own house
4.  Be in love with yr life
5.  Something that you feel will find its own form

6.  Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7.  Blow as deep as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://psychoutblog.com/2010/05/02/kerouac-belief-technique-for-modern-prose/</link>
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		<title>breathe&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's easy for us to take our breathing for granted -- like most things we don't think about.]]></description>
		<link>http://psychoutblog.com/2010/03/17/breathe/</link>
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		<title>Poker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great poker players are self-aware, conscious of who they are for better and worse, take responsibility for their own results]]></description>
		<link>http://psychoutblog.com/2010/01/25/poker/</link>
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		<title>he must be crazy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all take comfort in the story of Sisyphus who was doomed to an eternity of rolling that rock up the hill day in and day out, only to have it roll back down. We take comfort in it, even as we curse it as our own fate.]]></description>
		<link>http://psychoutblog.com/2009/12/28/he-must-be-crazy/</link>
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		<title>Silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

10:37pm…midwinter…20007. An ice storm cut through Ann Arbor downing our electricity for days. Gone the incessant humming, buzzing, and chatter of TVs, microwave ovens, radios, computers, digital clocks, lamps, and the refrigerator. Other than the occasional snapping and popping of a perky fireplace fire, the house was doused in the sudden immensity of silence.
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://psychoutblog.com/2009/12/06/silence/</link>
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		<title>pornography is dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are exposed to more naked bodies engaged in more kinds of sex than any time in the history of humankind. ]]></description>
		<link>http://psychoutblog.com/2009/10/30/pornography-is-dead/</link>
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