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		<title>Pete Seeger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s issue of Dr. Mardy is a link to his website where he lists 10 songs that start with the word &#8220;If&#8221;.  You should visit this page and listen to the YouTube videos of these songs.  In particular, and for me the most moving was Pete Seeger singing &#8220;If I Had A Hammer&#8221; with Arlo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=250&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wreathes Across America &#8211; December 12, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, December 12, 2009,  Morrill Worcester, owner of Worcester Wreath Company, Harrington, Maine, will donate over 15,000 Maine balsam fir holiday wreaths to be placed on graves at the Arlington National Cemetery. This will be the 18th consecutive year that Mr. Worcester has donated wreaths at Arlington. This year, Cemetery officials have assigned Sections [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=248&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetic Art Opening!!</title>
		<link>http://pickupthepen.com/2009/10/15/poetic-art-opening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<title>Second Annual Yellow Ribbon fundraising event &#8211; Poetic Art!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello,

After Mick O&#8217;Sheas&#8217; great success last year  now Marti and I are very pleased to announce the next fundraiser for the  Yellow Ribbon Fund in remembrance of our son, Sgt. Scott Kirkpatrick.


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		<title>The Historic Moment</title>
		<link>http://pickupthepen.com/2009/01/20/the-historic-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the crowds around Washington these last couple of days I am struck by and marveling at the ebullient joy and pride of Americans for this historic moment.   I cannot watch this on TV or listen to the voices on the radio both here in America and around the world without getting very emotional.  A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=212&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Christmas Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Different Christmas Poem
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the garden to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=205&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dinah and Ella, does it get any better?</title>
		<link>http://pickupthepen.com/2008/10/07/dinah-and-ella-does-it-get-any-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<title>Yet, Another Sign of the Apocalypse</title>
		<link>http://pickupthepen.com/2008/10/06/yet-another-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great British chocolate maker has offshored to China the production of its great chocolate&#8230;..  I quote:
Hong Kong&#8217;s food safety agency said samples of two chocolate products made by British candy maker Cadbury at its Beijing factory contained considerably more melamine than the city&#8217;s legal limit of 2.5 parts per million.
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		<title>What just happened here?</title>
		<link>http://pickupthepen.com/2008/09/28/what-just-happened-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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&#8221; It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed? &#8220;
&#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=198&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Barber&#8217;s Diaries&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pickupthepen.com/2008/08/31/the-barbers-diaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Ellis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[personal history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Barber Diaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Great Depression]]></category>

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This is a new motion picture project a friend of mine, Dave Henderson has been involved with.  It is about the amazing diaries of Charles Ellis, a black man and barber who secretly expressed his thoughts, philosophy and world view for 44 years, throughout an era of dynamic racial change in America, in his diaries.
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