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		<title>Happy New Mirrors!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img src="/sites/default/files/RalphWaldo.jpg" alt="Ralph Waldo Emerson Old" style="margin-right: 3px; margin-left: 3px; float: left;" data-mce-src="https://bluecerealeducation.com/sites/default/files/RalphWaldo.jpg" data-mce-style="margin-right: 3px; margin-left: 3px; float: left;" height="124" width="100"> Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I’ve long loved New Years. It may be my favorite holiday. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore. I’m convinced most important changes are evolutionary, torturously slow and staggering as we claw incrementally forward.  It’s not that I expect much to be so very different in the next calendar year... I suppose it’s more of a symbolic thing – this idea of perpetual re-creation.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Absolution (Bring Me My Crosier)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The traditional Catholic Church did something better than most when it came to confession. They formalized it and structured it so that the old was drained before the new began. The confessional allowed complete emptying of sins and the shortcomings. Just as significantly, the penitent were given acts of contrition to perform. Contrary to caricature, these were not the cleansing themselves, but symbols for the penitent to give them something tangible – some ‘buy in’ – in order to solidify their absolution. The forgiveness meant more and felt more real if the sinner could DO something to demonstrate their change of heart. The confessional, the assigned acts, the beads and even the collar – they’re scaffolds for the intangibles in play. They’re props in the most literal sense – holding up the parts we can’t see.

We need this.]]></description>
		
		
		
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