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		<title>Dr. Martin Luther King</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[16 syllables just one off from a haiku &#8211; but still my mantra always. Injustice any where is a threat to justice every where. -Martin Luther King &#8211; Letter from a Birmingham Jail<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mamataraj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2481552&amp;post=1749&amp;subd=mamataraj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku for the Insomniac</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is this night thief - stealing my most precious sleep- meeting dawn. again. Tagged: Haiku, sleep<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mamataraj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2481552&amp;post=1729&amp;subd=mamataraj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There must be something about the stars on this day . . .</title>
		<link>http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/there-must-be-something-about-the-stars-on-this-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tarajean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/?p=1706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Because today, I&#8217;m feeling exactly the same way I was feeling last year when I wrote this &#8211; I mean exactly &#8211; to an almost tee- and it is too weird for me to even fathom. That this day and that day that I would feel. . .  Is it the lack of light that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mamataraj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2481552&amp;post=1706&amp;subd=mamataraj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent Haiku</title>
		<link>http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/advent-haiku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tarajean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cheeer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scrooge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Caught between bah humbug and light &#8211; today I&#8217;m choosing Christmas cheer. Tagged: cheeer, christmas, haiku holiday, scrooge<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mamataraj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2481552&amp;post=1702&amp;subd=mamataraj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>some words &#8211;</title>
		<link>http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/some-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tarajean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[community service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eleanor Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ella Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Lou Hamer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hopkins academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marian Wright Edelman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mother Teresa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sojourner Truth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/?p=1685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since 2009 I have given three eulogies.  Some people will never have to give one &#8211; and me, I&#8217;ve stood up three times in the last two and a half years to deliver words of longing and grief.  It is a task that I have, unfortunately, nearly gotten used to. So it was with great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mamataraj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2481552&amp;post=1685&amp;subd=mamataraj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing a shopping cart on Route 9 &#8211; in morning- rushhour traffic- for a good cause.</title>
		<link>http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/pushing-a-shopping-cart-on-route-9-in-morning-rushhour-traffic-for-a-good-cause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tarajean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hunger Relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philanthropy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outside of the work I do for MotherWoman, the Western Mass Food bank is my favorite, local non-profit.  I think that regardless of one&#8217;s position in life, no one should ever go hungry. Unfortunately,  according to the Western Mass Food Bank, 20 percent of households with children in Massachusetts (1 in 5) said they were unable to afford [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mamataraj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2481552&amp;post=1682&amp;subd=mamataraj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Growns up and you&#8217;re all growns up.</title>
		<link>http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/all-growns-up-and-your-all-growns-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tarajean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[365]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All Growns up and your all growns up., a photo by Tara&#8217;n'Russ on Flickr. I&#8217;ve known most of these folks, you know besides the little ones, for more than ten years now. A couple for way longer than that. And now, these people who used to be my roommates &#8211; now we&#8217;re all sitting around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mamataraj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2481552&amp;post=1678&amp;subd=mamataraj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day is done, gone the sun . . .</title>
		<link>http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/day-is-done-gone-the-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tarajean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grandparent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veterans Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is because of my two nephews, two uncles, two cousins and father-in-law-  because of both my grampas, my gram and of course my father who loved a good Army story, that I celebrate the work of veterans.  It is for the great-grandfather I never met, and the great, great, great, great-uncle, and for the great, great, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mamataraj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2481552&amp;post=1676&amp;subd=mamataraj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blog-In For Democracy!</title>
		<link>http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/blog-in-for-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tarajean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bank crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[election day 2012]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/?p=1657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[* Today, across the web, bloggers will be simultaneously posting this letter as a new form of democratic protest called the Blog-In. I am just one of many. Click here to see a full list of the writers participating. (Our hashtag on Twitter is #BlogIn2011.) You are invited to join, too. Simply copy &#38; paste this letter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mamataraj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2481552&amp;post=1657&amp;subd=mamataraj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Night Haiku</title>
		<link>http://mamataraj.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/monday-night-haiku-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tarajean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adhd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[time management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There isn&#8217;t enough time- no matter how hard. . . For all that I love. Tagged: adhd, Haiku, time management, working mom<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mamataraj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2481552&amp;post=1656&amp;subd=mamataraj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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