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		<description><![CDATA[Wow&#8230; so I got looking on here and hadn&#8217;t realized just exactly how long it has been since I last wrote something.  There has been so much happening it&#8217;s almost hard to know where and when to start from.  Well, for starters I supposed I should mention that I&#8217;ve finally finished the divorce paperwork&#8230;at least [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jademark1.wordpress.com&blog=4780724&post=289&subd=jademark1&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts of memories past&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was removing files from my old computer the other day and came across a journal entry that I had written almost 5 years ago.  I&#8217;ve posted portions of it below.  I think the thing that strikes me the most about this is that even all those years ago I already sensed at least in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jademark1.wordpress.com&blog=4780724&post=283&subd=jademark1&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Storytelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 01:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a storyteller is a dying art.
There is a deep and powerful tradition of storytelling throughout human history.  People would gather around fires, in dining halls, cabins, and numerous other places to hear a great yarn, or to spin one.  Stories were how people communicated history, identity, dreams for the future, rules to live by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jademark1.wordpress.com&blog=4780724&post=276&subd=jademark1&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soccer Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s been a unique experience this season, I got put in charge of helping to put together the contact list/snack list et al for my son&#8217;s soccer team.  I&#8217;m still trying to figure out exactly how I got &#8220;volun-told&#8221; to do this but all-in-all it&#8217;s been a good experience.  It has also made me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jademark1.wordpress.com&blog=4780724&post=273&subd=jademark1&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith &amp; Fatherhood&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to the radio today and heard someone refer to Miss California as our &#8220;modern day Esther.&#8221;  Seriously?  I don&#8217;t know whether to laugh or cry.
Maybe I walk in a strange place but as a practicing Christian I&#8217;m totally okay with the idea that America is NOT a Christian Nation.  It&#8217;s not like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jademark1.wordpress.com&blog=4780724&post=270&subd=jademark1&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Night and kickball</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight was a good night.  If in all the posts I&#8217;ve done over the past year I somehow have not made that point enough I just want to say for the record that tonight&#8230;tonight was a good night.  My son and I went to my kickball game (yes it&#8217;s for adults too!) where he helped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jademark1.wordpress.com&blog=4780724&post=267&subd=jademark1&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caught by surprise</title>
		<link>http://jademark1.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/caught-by-surprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times I&#8217;m still shocked at what grabs me, moves me to tears, plunges right through any defenses I have.  I was watching the movie &#8220;We&#8217;re Back &#8211; A Dinosaur&#8217;s Tale&#8221; with my son and, for those of you w/o kids or who haven&#8217;t seen this film, it&#8217;s basically a story about Dinosaurs who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jademark1.wordpress.com&blog=4780724&post=264&subd=jademark1&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pushed beyond our limits&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://jademark1.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/pushed-beyond-our-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not the anger, pain or sadness that I can&#8217;t take.  It&#8217;s not the anxiety, the demands on attention, the impatience that I can&#8217;t understand.  It&#8217;s not the depression that I can&#8217;t sympathize with.  It&#8217;s the desire to be &#8220;NOT here&#8221; with teeth so tightly clenched I can barely understand, stated with tears streaming down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jademark1.wordpress.com&blog=4780724&post=256&subd=jademark1&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peaceful&#8230;? Really?&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to wonder at the irony of this, it was from an article by a reporter covering the NATO 60th anniversary summit in Europe.  He had put a small quote in from a &#8220;Peace&#8221; activist before the activist went to march in a street protest against the military organization.  Sounds good right?  Peaceful protest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jademark1.wordpress.com&blog=4780724&post=253&subd=jademark1&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Liberal or Liberal Conservative</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay so I&#8217;m not sure the title does this one justice but couldn&#8217;t think of anything  better to call it.
Last night I was at a friend&#8217;s concert (she&#8217;s a Christian artist &#8211; which is great, actually she was the opening act for another band) and her set went really well.  Afterwards my son and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jademark1.wordpress.com&blog=4780724&post=250&subd=jademark1&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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