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		<title>The Last Days of Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 1 pm, flecks of snow began to drift down from the sky above Mt. Greylock &#8211; uncertain and flaky at first, then a steady drizzle. Such leaves as were still present on the trees collected the snow, grew heavy and their branches bent double under the weight. The color of autumn began to fade [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mirkwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233969&amp;post=1222&amp;subd=mirkwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The polyglot novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trouble with the phrase magic realism, is that when people use it, they tend to hear the magic and not hear the realism, whereas in fact one of the things about going to the world of García Márquez is that you discover he is telling the truth. He is not exaggerating; he is understating. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mirkwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233969&amp;post=1176&amp;subd=mirkwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whither goest  thou America &#8230; ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neal and I and Louanne talking of the value of life as we sped along, in such thoughts as &#8220;Whither goest thou America in thy shiny car at night?&#8221; and in the mere fact that we were together under such rainy circumstances talking heart to heart. Seldom had I been so glad of life. [Jack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mirkwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233969&amp;post=1167&amp;subd=mirkwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will they know we were once here?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All that night long, the boy slept and the man waked, gazing forward steadily into the dark. There were no stars. – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore. In San Francisco on Labor Day Weekend, the folks at the California Academy of Sciences screened a special live show called &#8220;Tour of the Universe&#8221;. Here, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mirkwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233969&amp;post=1149&amp;subd=mirkwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frogs in the well</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Krauss offers a dose of perspective, and takes a swing at our ludicrous obsession with our own pitiful smallness Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mirkwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233969&amp;post=1117&amp;subd=mirkwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cormorant Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 02:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t seen this while driving on Storrow, but the separate bicycle route gets you close enough to the Charles River to notice this plastic tube at which cormorants regularly congregate. If you see a black shorebird with its wings opened for a long time, it is very likely a cormorant drying out its wings. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mirkwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233969&amp;post=1089&amp;subd=mirkwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. and Mrs. Redtail</title>
		<link>http://mirkwood.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/mr-and-mrs-redtail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buzz and Ruby Redtail moved in to my neighborhood at 185 Alewife Brook Parkway, just beside the new Trader Joe&#8217;s. Last year, the couple had three children &#8211; Lucy, Lucky, and Larry, who have since left home leaving (literally) an empty nest. Then, Buzz and Ruby left too. This year, to many peoples&#8217; great surprise, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mirkwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233969&amp;post=1076&amp;subd=mirkwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So, which lovely car would YOU like to be doored by?</title>
		<link>http://mirkwood.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/so-which-car-would-you-like-to-be-doored-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happened again. I narrowly escaped being doored in Inman Square. I was on my daily bicycling commute going at a leisurely 8-9 miles per hour just past Cambridge Hospital (convenient, eh?) when suddenly: A woman abruptly strides into the lane 3 feet ahead of me, and in a split second flings open the door [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mirkwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233969&amp;post=1046&amp;subd=mirkwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Super Perigee</title>
		<link>http://mirkwood.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/super-perigee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Sweetie-hey</title>
		<link>http://mirkwood.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/sweetie-hey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday morning, while biking to work alongside a couple of Garden Street joggers, the sweet sound of a cardinal&#8217;s song made me take notice. It was the first cardinal song I had heard in 2011. When I drove through Mt. Auburn cemetery today, most cardinals were silent, but a couple did sing in anticipation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mirkwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=233969&amp;post=1000&amp;subd=mirkwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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