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	<description>Creative writing, commentary, and then some.</description>
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		<title>Tourist in My Own Hometown &#8211; Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This portion of my blog is about my on-going discovery of Miami-Dade County.  I didn’t say Miami because for most of the world, Miami starts and ends east of the Julia Tuttle causeway, with some (coincidental) destinations east of the Everglades and north of Key Largo.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://ianmerkel.com/2010/03/06/tourist-in-my-own-hometown-introduction/</link>
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		<title>To My Dad&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
NB:  This is something I wrote on my inauguration of my Dad&#8217;s website just a few minutes ago.  I figure I&#8217;d post it on my website as well.
Greetings!  I will be the first person to admit that this website should have come out years ago, but there’s no time like the present to start something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianmerkel.com/2009/06/21/to-my-dad/</link>
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		<title>Say it ain&#8217;t so, Mel.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now most everyone has found out about the present administration's decision to change the way how we deal with Cuba... But what does all this have to do with Senator Mel Martinez (R, FL)?  Plenty.]]></description>
		<link>http://ianmerkel.com/2009/04/14/say-it-aint-so-mel/</link>
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		<title>Move</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Movement is all about willpower. 
We are intricate machines, but useless without guidance.
Willpower is a form of guidance.  I will not be left offline.
I will not be left strewn on the floor.]]></description>
		<link>http://ianmerkel.com/2009/04/02/move/</link>
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		<title>Crisp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The flavor of Granny Smith apples
My taste buds brought to attention by the watercress in my salad
The sting of wasabi mixed with my double black soy
The prose of a Shakespeare comedy
The intent in the command voice of a drill instructor
A mother&#8217;s imperative remark to her pestering child
The perfect application of white in a field of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianmerkel.com/2009/01/21/crisp/</link>
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		<title>A funny thing happened on the way to your inauguration, Mr. Obama.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few observations and thoughts hours away from high noon, 20 January 2009 - what will be the beginning of a new American executive quadrennial period.]]></description>
		<link>http://ianmerkel.com/2009/01/20/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-your-inauguration-mr-obama/</link>
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		<title>Standing in bloom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Standing in bloom amongst your peers
sharing the same common descriptor,
yet holding your own.
You are part of this composition in which we all belong,
yet you are so much different from the rest.
In your own beauty you defy being known as just another shiny pebble:
you are the brightest gem of the lot.
Everything grows in this city by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianmerkel.com/2009/01/13/standing-in-bloom/</link>
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		<title>Untitled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The proverbial bird has been released
And the missing has since begun&#8230;
I pass by her street and all I can sense is my missing her even more.
I hope all the bards were correct in their assertion that the bird to whom I gave my heart might perchance return.
Soundtracks are best played to a great Hollywood production: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ianmerkel.com/2009/01/05/untitled/</link>
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		<title>A Prime Example of Patriotism&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always wanted to during the summer to attend the Last Night of the Proms and be part of the massive audience enjoying and perhaps even singing along with the BBC Orchestra and Chorus...]]></description>
		<link>http://ianmerkel.com/2008/09/21/a-prime-example-of-patriotism/</link>
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		<title>Returning to the Haberdasher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does clothing, open source solutions, and time have in common?  Lots.]]></description>
		<link>http://ianmerkel.com/2008/09/15/returning-to-the-haberdasher/</link>
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