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		<title>Thanksgiving as a Global Holiday</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/11/28/thanksgiving-as-a-global-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. ~ Howard Thurman I love the irony; what is considered a uniquely American holiday seems to bring &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2010/11/28/thanksgiving-as-a-global-holiday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chat! It&#8217;s good for your health</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/11/08/chat-its-good-for-your-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 04:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Michigan psychologist Oscar Ybarra brought me welcome news this week.  As the lead author of a study reported in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, Ybarra explains that brief (10 minute) social conversations like those you would use &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2010/11/08/chat-its-good-for-your-health/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Say Yes</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/10/12/say-yes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive. – Arnaud Desjardins Ask a Buddhist what we can count on and he will probably explain that nothing is &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/10/12/say-yes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping it Real</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/09/22/keeping-it-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I smiled listening to Michael Jordan honor his beloved sister and brothers as some of his valuable opponents when composing last week’s post. I get it; when I wrote The Way of Conflict, I began the introduction by telling the &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/09/22/keeping-it-real/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Emotions are Contagious</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/31/emotions-are-contagious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I read about the world&#8217;s mourning rituals I notice that you can catch a cold, you can contract the flu, but you can also get a case of sadness or joy from another. Emotions are contagious, which is not &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/08/31/emotions-are-contagious/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner with Job</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/20/dinner-with-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had dinner with Job. Thousands of years after the legend was born, the biblical character Job continues to incarnate in my pedestrian life. On Friday, he visited in the form of a father whose twenty-year-old daughter recently &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/08/20/dinner-with-job/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Standing at the First Gate</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/06/standing-at-the-first-gate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/06/06/standing-at-the-first-gate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Business of Endings</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/05/10/the-business-of-endings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 13:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Serve your wife, children, father, and mother, and treat them as if they are very dear to you, but know in your heart that they do not belong to you. - Ramakrishna When my son and I addressed his high school &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/05/10/the-business-of-endings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes a Team</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/02/07/it-takes-a-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure who came up with the favorite saying, but among three dear friends we took it to heart. I think Julie invented it, but she likes to credit Annie or me since her children are the youngest of &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/02/07/it-takes-a-team/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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