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		<title>His Time to Shine &#8211; Learning to Step Out of the Limelight and into the Role of Wife and Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2010 &#8211; I quit my day job to focus full time on my music and develop our Creative Arts Initiative in Sierra Leone. Ali and I gave away all of our belongings (aside from personal and sentimental items) and moved out of our tiny Azusa apartment. We were ready to live the life of creatives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3words.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25625596&amp;post=475&amp;subd=j3words&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Am In Need of Music &#8211; A Poem by Elizabeth Bishop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling fingertips Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow Oh, for the healing swaying,  Old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead. A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3words.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25625596&amp;post=465&amp;subd=j3words&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;When in Doubt, Stick With the Black Keys&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I woke up in a funk. The weather out here in central Pennsylvania has been super cold and cloudy&#8230; and I need a little sun every few days to stay sane. Plus, the wind picked up last night, which made our bedroom door bang back and forth on its latch, so sleep was fragmented [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3words.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25625596&amp;post=455&amp;subd=j3words&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Symphony of Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the holidays we travelled to Golden, Colorado to be with members from both sides of our family: Ali&#8217;s family from the East Coast, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins; both of my parents; and my uncle and aunt. It was the first time that all these wonderful people were in the same place at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3words.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25625596&amp;post=447&amp;subd=j3words&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HELP! My Kid Isn&#8217;t Musical!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard this from one of my student&#8217;s parents the other day and I nearly fell over. For one thing, her sweet little girl is playing an instrument that&#8217;s twice her size. Secondly, she&#8217;s seven. So I told her mom, &#8220;you know, I really wouldn&#8217;t worry about that right now&#8230;&#8221; But it got me thinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3words.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25625596&amp;post=423&amp;subd=j3words&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>December Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations Jossef Findlay and Charese Wolfe for winning last month&#8217;s giveaway! I hope you&#8217;re enjoying your Ukulele Instructional Books&#8230; _____________________________________________ So&#8230; this month I&#8217;m giving away a book that gave me a lot of inspiration when I first read it and I love passing it on to fellow musicians and truthseekers alike. It&#8217;s called The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3words.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25625596&amp;post=405&amp;subd=j3words&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Making Change&#8221;&#8230; NEW Song!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m SO excited about my new anthem song! With the help of the super talented Haas on rap vocals; Vinny Threats on drums; Daniel Brummel on bass; and my wonderful producer, Phil Gates; I wanted to create a song that would lift spirits in times of great change. I&#8217;ve always used music to tell stories and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3words.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25625596&amp;post=356&amp;subd=j3words&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Taken from Meditations For Women Who Do Too Much) How confused we get about parenting! So often, we are stuck in the amazing belief that it is our responsibility to teach our children. We forget that it is equally as important to learn from them. Some of our children don&#8217;t take their responsility to teach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3words.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25625596&amp;post=363&amp;subd=j3words&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 Hour To Myself</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, after putting Cienna down for a nap and cleaning up after breakfast, I looked around at a quiet living room. Sun streamed through the large sliding glass doors and I found myself putting down the to do list, grabbing my guitar and a fresh composition notebook, and setting up on the back patio for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3words.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25625596&amp;post=342&amp;subd=j3words&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess we have our ups and downs in life. Our flurries of inspiration, our moments of artistic emptiness, our seasons of intense emotion, our lulls of quiet solitude. It&#8217;s like a tide chart or a moon cycle. Or maybe like a seasonal spiral that keeps coming back around to the same place, but with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=j3words.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25625596&amp;post=337&amp;subd=j3words&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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