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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; Personal Growth</title>
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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>
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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>Retirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>The Controlling Caretaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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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>That&#8217;s Just &#8220;The Way&#8221; it is</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/thats-just-the-way-it-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insanity, some tell us, is doing the same things, over and over, expecting different results. But what about expecting different results from other people, situations, or events&#8212;a brother-in-law saying something kind; a Verizon tech person avoiding jargon; an American movie not bleeding into sentimentality; morning commuters driving with less rage; a politician not speaking from an ideology; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eyes Have It</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, I was informed by my ophthalmologist that the cataract in my left eye had reached London-fog level. “We&#8217;ll remove the other cataract in a month,” he said. I knew I was at a critical point with my vision. I could read most of the large signs as long as they had polar-bear-size [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion and AA</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/1205/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of us in twelve-step recovery programs have never belonged to a religious institution. Some once belonged but have left. Some are still emotionally connected to their religious heritages, even though they do not practice their religions. There are a minority in recovery programs who have chosen Buddhism, a non-theistic sect. If they are practicing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saints Don&#8217;t Get Angry</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/1055/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a family of screamers, duckers, fighters, and scramblers. If that didn&#39;t work, my family withdrew into icy silence. That&#39;s what we thought bedrooms were for: our little caves of isolation where we could get our way in frozen-lake invisibility. If that didn&#39;t work, we could always go to plan B: smart-ass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shroud of Fatalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the&#160;second in a series of blog posts in which I expand upon key concepts from my&#160; e-book,&#160; &#34;A Recovery Journey:&#160; The Beginnings&#34; So, you have &#160;a great day at school. Your teachers laugh at your jokes. You get a 95 on your math exam. You talk to one of your teachers during lunch. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Mind and Your Job Won&#8217;t Do It</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/knowledge-and-careers-the-great-stiflers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of blog posts in which I expand upon key concepts from my  e-book,  &#8220;A Recovery Journey:  The Beginnings&#8221; Knowledge has always been important to me. I grew up believing that if I knew things, I wouldn&#8217;t be invisible, especially in a family where high drama and chronic volatility [...]]]></description>
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