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	<description>Find Something to Feel Good About, Today!</description>
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		<title>Happiness Is A State of Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 05:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s Something To Feel Good About Today… At the grocery checkout this evening, the cashier smiled and asked me how I was doing? I smiled back. After ringing up my sale she looked at the credit card receipt and thanked me personally by mentioning my name. “Have a wonderful evening, “she said as I loaded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relationship Building</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s Something To Feel Good About! What matters most to me in my life are my key relationships. While I do connect on facebook, I consider it fun but rather superficial. I want and need to connect regularly on a deeper emotional level with a much smaller group of intimate friends and family members. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open to Receiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s Something To Feel Good About Today! We never know who we will meet or how they will touch our lives. That’s why it’s so important to be open to allow their goodness to find us. It was that way for me when I connected with a stranger and after a brief heartfelt conversation received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lasting Friendships</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s Something To Feel Good About Today… I have a circle of girlfriends that I connect with once a month via conference call. When we formed our supportive circle we all lived in close proximity. Now half of us live on the west coast and half still live in NYC. We’ve been connecting now for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marlene’s Mid-Life Diary As an artist, everything comes to life for me when there is a visual attached. I love a good story but when there are photographs or illustrations I immediately sneak a peek before I read any text. That’s why it’s so exciting for me to begin to post images with my blogs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group Support</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marlene’s Mid-Life Diary After returning from a weekend retreat with like- minded people it’s important to reach out and stay connected. Someone sent the email addresses of all the attendants and we began to correspond via e-mail. It’s interesting to see who responds. I’m hoping to make a few new friends through this process.]]></description>
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		<title>Missing Loved Ones</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marlene’s Mid-Life Diary I’m feeling sad today, missing loved ones who don’t live close by. Most of my friends and family are on the East Coast and here I am in CA. Tonight I’ll begin a round of phone calls, and connect with everyone as they come to mind. Even if we can’t be together, [...]]]></description>
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