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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; John T Marohn</title>
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		<title>Welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Website will be devoted to essays and insights related to diversity, addiction/recovery, psychological growth issues, global perspectives, the disenfranchised,  aesthetics, and cultural values. The core value streaming throughout the essays I write will be about returning to our innocence, which sometimes requires a trauma, a jolt, an invasion of the “other,” or a paradigm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gods and Graven Images</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[monotheism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Trinity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often, I return to thinking about the Ten Commandments. In those revisits, I continue to discover how far removed I am from those ancient Christian tenets I grew up with as a child. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” says the first commandment. This is the I-am-the-leader-of-the-pack commandment telling humanity that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Moneyball,&#8221; A Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baseball, says one sports commentator, has to be won “on the field.” He goes on to comment: “You have to steal. You have to punt. You have to sacrifice. You have to have men in a scoring position. You gotta bring &#8216;em in.” “You don&#8217;t do that with a bunch of statistics,” he continues. Later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poems about old age]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bartering for more time, Slow, disgruntled goat Among the sprinters. A weeping clock, Refusing, In your own time, To be the last Creeping wrinkle Of defeat. In the scorched land Of stained notes, Ragged files, Bruised finger-tips, Your aching bones Limp into The coffee room, Listening to your Taut Monologues of Sweet revenge Against the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filthy Lucre</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[borrowing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This blog-post is a kind of no-brainer. It is about money. But it is also about all the things that many of us encounter in our relationship with money: financial insecurity, freedom, autonomy, gratification, ownership, deferring payments, borrowing, owing anonymous institutions&#8212;unless we&#8217;re out on the street, we, in America, are all in on it Money, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To My Dear Occasion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Discipline,&#8221; my partner said, &#8220;Is the necessary content Of a full life.&#8221; Like the raw sun Bored by the earth&#8217;s Dazed circling? Or the summer&#8217;s knuckles Chafed  against The walls of Fall? Or low-hanging fruit, Without a second chance Against indifference? I will remind you, My dear occasion, That love has no Routines.]]></description>
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		<title>Departure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November is memory for me When I see a flock of birds Moving, en masse, Towards the tired South, Disarmed of their certain solitude, An ensemble act, wide in its swath, Buffetted by resistant winds, Cradling their lazy departures From frozen nests And breadless sidewalks.]]></description>
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		<title>The Controlling Caretaker</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/1315/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No problem. How much do you need to borrow?&#8221; This is not an atypical response of a caretaker. Someone asks the caretaker for money. The caretaker responds simply and to the point. And the response is positive. Caretakers are like that. Suspend your disbelief for a few seconds, however, and listen to how another type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sin Nombre, A Film Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Crossing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican gangs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Making a fictional film about a social issue is not easy. If it&#8217;s a dark satire like “Dr Strangelove,” or “Catch 22,” or even “One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest,” the viewer always gets the feeling in the pit of their stomach that there is something not right with the world, that some impending dark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magdalene (10)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her wedding happened, Formality dimming The brazen light Of her floating world. Now, decisions Would be made, Finality descending, Like a rabid eagle, Upon weightless chance. Escorted to the Resting place Of unbending oaths And exit-proof promises, She would learn To wander Into the craggy patches Of her restless mind.]]></description>
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