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		<title>Thoughts on Songwriting Contests</title>
		<link>http://potluck.com/2010/08/thoughts-on-songwriting-contests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark S. Meritt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to some valuable learning about my songwriting and how to participate more effectively in songwriting contests, my SpinTunes experience led me to some general thoughts on how songwriting contests are &#8212; and could be &#8212; run.
SpinTown and the others most directly involved in running SpinTunes explicitly made an effort to design the contest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlights from My SpinTunes 1 Experience</title>
		<link>http://potluck.com/2010/08/highlights-from-my-spintunes-1-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://potluck.com/2010/08/highlights-from-my-spintunes-1-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark S. Meritt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My participation in the SpinTunes songwriting contest has come to an end. It was a valuable experience. I learned a lot and had many thoughts and insights along the way, and I met a bunch of great people, my fellow competitors in particular, a group with a lot of songwriting talent and an earnestly friendly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost, Found: Last Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://potluck.com/2010/05/lost-found-last-tuesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 19:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark S. Meritt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, the final new Tuesday episode aired. As much as it moved things forward and set up the finale, I don&#8217;t have much to say other than this:

I remain pretty convinced of the general direction I posed the show taking in last week&#8217;s post and the post from the week before.
For a show so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost, Found: Light at the End of the Tunnel</title>
		<link>http://potluck.com/2010/05/lost-found-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/</link>
		<comments>http://potluck.com/2010/05/lost-found-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark S. Meritt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Good and Evil and In Between
The third from the last episode, and we start to see, literally and figuratively, a light at the end of the tunnel. And I believe more than ever in what I&#8217;ve said about Lost providing a complicated, atypical look at &#8220;good&#8221; vs. &#8220;evil.&#8221;
A Woman kills the twins&#8217; Mother, apologizing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost, Found: That Sinking Feeling</title>
		<link>http://potluck.com/2010/05/lost-found-that-sinking-feeling/</link>
		<comments>http://potluck.com/2010/05/lost-found-that-sinking-feeling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 01:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark S. Meritt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I haven&#8217;t written about Lost for ages. Yes, I&#8217;ve procrastinated across the better part of the entire series in what was intended to be episode by episode commentary. Yes, this isn&#8217;t an episode-specific commentary. Yes, I realize nobody probably even reads this or cares much about my take on the show. But here are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Life</title>
		<link>http://potluck.com/2009/10/still-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark S. Meritt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[His child will soon come
He fills vase with mum
Brightly drawn
Still life
The child is dead born
It won&#8217;t see the morn
It is gone
Still life
He lets the child leave
He lets himself grieve
He moves on
Still life
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		<title>Meditation on Doing Nothing</title>
		<link>http://potluck.com/2009/07/meditation-on-doing-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://potluck.com/2009/07/meditation-on-doing-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark S. Meritt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d heard about a Buddhist meditation group about 1.5 years ago. Specifically, it&#8217;s a Vipassana meditation group, which means it&#8217;s about insight meditation. I&#8217;d put it off for a while, but several weeks ago I decided I&#8217;d like to try it. It took a few weeks for me to bother to call to find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost, Found: Raised By Another</title>
		<link>http://potluck.com/2008/10/lost-found-raised-by-another/</link>
		<comments>http://potluck.com/2008/10/lost-found-raised-by-another/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark S. Meritt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Claire dreams of her baby&#8217;s disappearance. In the dream, Locke says, &#8220;It was your respnsibility but you gave him away, Claire. Everyone pays the price now.&#8221; She goes through the crib, only to get blood on her hands. This episode will soon tell us that she wanted to put the baby up for adoption. Is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost, Found: Solitary</title>
		<link>http://potluck.com/2008/09/lost-found-solitary/</link>
		<comments>http://potluck.com/2008/09/lost-found-solitary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark S. Meritt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The survivors can travel with each other, they can bond with others, and they can do so all the more effectively through and after their journeys, but each individual journey is a solitary one.
Sayid finds the cable to the ocean. What is it? A first thought might be some connection to the outside world, reasonable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective</title>
		<link>http://potluck.com/2008/09/thoughts-without-a-thinker-psychotherapy-from-a-buddhist-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://potluck.com/2008/09/thoughts-without-a-thinker-psychotherapy-from-a-buddhist-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark S. Meritt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist PerspectiveBy Mark Epstein
Purchase at: ]]></description>
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