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		<title>Absence Does Make the Heart Grow Fonder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met the dawn on my early morning run. It spread out all puffy and orange and pink across the sky. The beauty caught my breath in my chest, and I was reminded that I am alive and witness to majesty. This is a day I was glad to be running, grateful to have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingmypatchofsky.com&amp;blog=1229587&amp;post=3410&amp;subd=erinstraza&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things I Love about India</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In less than eight hours I leave India. [sigh.] Of course I miss the Hubster, and I am so happy to get home to him. But my heart longs to stay, to spend time with the daughters in this incredible family I’ve come to know and love. I thought I would post more often during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingmypatchofsky.com&amp;blog=1229587&amp;post=3406&amp;subd=erinstraza&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blessing Bingo</title>
		<link>http://fillingmypatchofsky.com/2012/02/14/blessing-bingo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erinstraza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one should take a trip without a little something called Blessing Bingo. Dearest friend Krista made these cards for us, keeping us alert to all that God would do in our midst during our travels. Sherry Didi, Ali Didi, and I have enjoyed chatting about the squares we&#8217;ve been able to cross off. Here’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingmypatchofsky.com&amp;blog=1229587&amp;post=3392&amp;subd=erinstraza&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Overload</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s only been four days but I’ve had experiences aplenty. Here are some highlights. Enjoy! Best.Bus.Ride.Ever. Happiness is riding in a bus with 30-plus giggly, giddy girls between the ages of 10 and 20. There were introductions that could hardly be heard, followed by giggles from the girls as I tried to repeat these exotic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingmypatchofsky.com&amp;blog=1229587&amp;post=3385&amp;subd=erinstraza&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give a Friendly Toot</title>
		<link>http://fillingmypatchofsky.com/2012/02/11/give-a-friendly-toot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erinstraza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I took Drivers’ Ed oh-so-many years ago, there was a training video explaining the rules of the road. One scene showed a driver backing out of a blocked-view driveway, and the voice over said in such situations, drivers should precede slowly and “give a friendly toot” with your horn to warn oncoming traffic. This, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingmypatchofsky.com&amp;blog=1229587&amp;post=3382&amp;subd=erinstraza&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Deep Contrast</title>
		<link>http://fillingmypatchofsky.com/2012/02/10/a-deep-contrast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erinstraza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My heart and brain can’t keep with the experiences I’ve had on this adventure to India. Jetlag isn’t helping my effort to process—the time from my U.S. Wednesday to my Indian Friday are lumped together as one long day. All I can do is describe the experiences I’ve had in the general order of occurrence. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingmypatchofsky.com&amp;blog=1229587&amp;post=3380&amp;subd=erinstraza&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practicing Rest</title>
		<link>http://fillingmypatchofsky.com/2012/02/06/practicing-rest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erinstraza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something about travel—especially long-distance travel—that prods the heart to consider matters of safety and security. Our hearts tend to find comfort in familiarity, the very thing that most trips lack. My upcoming trip to India weighs in heavy on the Unknown Scale. I&#8217;ve never been there. I&#8217;ve never been on a plane more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingmypatchofsky.com&amp;blog=1229587&amp;post=3374&amp;subd=erinstraza&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Word Wednesday: Acronym vs. Initialism</title>
		<link>http://fillingmypatchofsky.com/2012/02/01/which-word-wednesday-acronym-vs-initialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erinstraza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before prescriptivists were lamenting the onset of mobile phone text-speak, there were abbreviations like laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) and scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus) and USA (United States of America). Abbreviations come in two flavors: acronyms and initialisms. This week’s Which Word Wednesday looks at the difference between the two. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingmypatchofsky.com&amp;blog=1229587&amp;post=3372&amp;subd=erinstraza&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Tuned for God&#8217;s Version of My Life</title>
		<link>http://fillingmypatchofsky.com/2012/01/23/stay-tuned-for-gods-version-of-my-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erinstraza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m India bound. February 8 I will board a plane that will send me halfway around the world and approximately 8,226 miles from home. This trip is the culmination of a journey that began just over a year ago, when I first started developing communications for As Our Own. I didn’t realize that working for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingmypatchofsky.com&amp;blog=1229587&amp;post=3363&amp;subd=erinstraza&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Word Wednesday: Metonym vs. Synonym</title>
		<link>http://fillingmypatchofsky.com/2012/01/18/which-word-wednesday-metonym-vs-synonym/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erinstraza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thesaurus Day! Today is the day we observe the word treasury that was written by Peter Roget, born January 18, 1779. Roget’s Thesaurus was first published in April 1852, which begs the question: What did writers do to find synonyms before then?! I, for one, am happy to be living on this side of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fillingmypatchofsky.com&amp;blog=1229587&amp;post=3356&amp;subd=erinstraza&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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