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		<title>God and the Devil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized the other day that the reason the Devil is so pissed off is that all his beautiful evil is rooted in stupidity.
And today I realized that why God is so hooked on love is because He is essentially alone

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		<title>love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been puzzling lately about love, the concept, and aware that I don&#8217;t understand it. Oh, I understand craving and desire well enough &#8211; put another dime in the jukebox, baby. But love? Is it wishing well, or delighting in? Yeah.
Two thought, both oblique.
The word ananda, commonly translated as bliss, means that which cannot be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>life as a river: aphorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 14:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[metaphysics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How are we like rivers?
Because life flows through us.

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Dr. Allan&#8217;s Newsletter: Oct,, 2012: St. Johnswort, and some snippets from newspapers


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		<title>slave to mood and circumstance: poem</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/moans/coup-de-grace-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[moans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[slave to mood and circumstance

this morning Siobhan’s dog
caught a squirrel
but lacked the wit
to kill it
minutes lost chasing the lurcher
then there it lay
unable to move
breathing
I finished it
as heart demanded
now what’s there to ease my pain
the new client who didn’t arrive
ah give up striving
and let the world provide
and pray
to be blessed
with a better death

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		<title>how things are: and CODA (poem)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[how things are: and CODA
perhaps it’s just
a consequence of is-ness
of one and one being two
and the cosmic numbers
they are just
what numbers do
CODA
the very next day
(working on “…Ezra’s creed”)
I realized that in the existent (the actual) 1+1≥2
so cosmic numbers emerge not from what pure numbers do
but from where the manifest
(which is non-linear)
finds it’s norm

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		<title>how things are:  a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cosmic numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[how things are: or the emergent
perhaps it’s just
a consequence of is-ness
of one and one being two
and the cosmic numbers
they are just
what numbers do

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		<title>pictures with words</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pictures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[quite like what I painted/drew last night

&#8220;sometimes I felt so real
sometimes I turned into a cartoon
sad in the revolving days&#8221;
I recently posted a page with many of the graphics
that I&#8217;ve adorned with words
find it by clicking here

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		<title>Narrative pictures: Darcy&#8217;s Mastectomy</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/pictures/narrative-pictures-darcys-mastectomy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth piece on my narrative pictures page is about Darcy&#8217;s mastectomy

to get to my home page

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		<title>narrative piece: Cleopatra on the Nile</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the third of these narrative pieces is a painting done on Sunday at the Arts &#38; Letters Club with a poem woven in it&#8230;
 
Cleopatra on the Nile

It&#8217;s a matter of happenstance
and the deal
and the grave
The deal God made with the devil
Do you remember the train
in that old black and white film
roaring through the night?
And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Narrative Pieces:  Arthur and Marilyn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pictures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arthur Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marilyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monroe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Shaw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[the second &#8220;narrative&#8221; work on the page (scroll down when you get there)  is Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, and talks a little about the photographer, Sam Shaw


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