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	<title>On the South Side</title>
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		<title>A Prayer for the homeless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I get to work each morning, I enter the Post-Dispatch and take the stairs on the south-side of the building. The stairwell includes large windows that look out towards the St. Patrick Center and Interco Plaza. The St. Patrick Center is a provider of services for the homeless and some of these homeless had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, &#8220;I am thirsty.&#8221;
“I am thirsty.” Our Lord, the creator of the universe, was thirsty. I don’t even pretend to understand the fullest meaning of that.
I do know what it’s like to be thirsty; I was thinking though, have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner with my 13-year-old self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the good fortune of having a nice talk with my 13-year-old self. We met at an abandoned restaurant; the food and the service were terrible.
My young-self ordered pizza, of course; but some kind of strange&#8230;pizza&#8230;I guess. Cilantro? Provolone? I don&#8217;t know what that is. My older, fatter self assured me it would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom turns 80</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A big day. On February 22, Mom turned 80 years old. Wow.
First of all, she looks great. (That&#8217;s her on the deck of the Admiral circa 1954.) She&#8217;s in great shape due to the luck of good genes and taking good care of herself through the years. I can still see her on the living-room [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southcityfirst.com/weblog/?p=378</link>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, so he thinks. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m a big fan of Dawkins. Or, maybe, was a big fan is more accurate. His book The Selfish Gene, published in 1976 had quite an impact on my view of evolution. Nowadays, Dawkins is known more for his anti-religious rants than for his science writings. Why? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southcityfirst.com/weblog/?p=376</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Hurricane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like just yesterday that I sat here writing about my Emily on her 18th birthday. The previous post to that one was reflecting on her high-school graduation. After getting over the fact that I just don&#8217;t write much anymore, I figured I&#8217;d better get to work on a post concerning her college graduation.
Words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An evening with David McCullough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John and Marjie were gracious enough to consider us when they had two extra tickets to hear David McCullough speak down at Powell Hall tonight. And, though I am woefully behind in reading most of his books, I, like you, have seen and heard many of his endeavors on PBS. And, when I saw an hour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southcityfirst.com/weblog/?p=371</link>
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		<title>If Jesus could do it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I figure if Jesus could get up after three days in a tomb, I could maybe write a blog post.
I had my usual Holy Week schedule this past week: Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. For me, the usual combination of playing guitar and cooking. It&#8217;s what I do.
Saturday morning I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southcityfirst.com/weblog/?p=370</link>
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		<title>It was raining in the city</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was raining in the city. A hard rain.
No, really, it was raining hard. I was staring out the sixth floor hospital window onto a big, old, dark city. A river bending around us like some monster&#8217;s sinew. In the bed, my seventy-eight year old mother currently enjoying her morphine drip. She deserves it; she&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southcityfirst.com/weblog/?p=368</link>
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		<title>The world keeps on turning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s official. I was laid off last Friday, asked to stay through Wednesday, and hired Thursday. We move down to the Post-Dispatch building in downtown St. Louis in two weeks. &#8220;We&#8221; being my whole group less three. The CFO, and two clerks were let go. One of the clerks I hired six years ago; [...]]]></description>
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