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		<title>Terry Tempest Williams in Orion Magazine</title>
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		<title>How do you Measure Up?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tracy Aviary is installing a new feature for kids of all ages to see how they measure up to the world's great birds. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatwest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5114811&amp;post=1093&amp;subd=greatwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity and Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Creativity Crisis by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman July 10, 2010 For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went  wrong—and how we can fix it. Here&#8217;s a glimpse of the article: &#8220;Researchers say creativity should be taken out of the art room and put into homeroom. The argument that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatwest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5114811&amp;post=1087&amp;subd=greatwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Powdered Dancers–Colorado River</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The male attaches to the female using the claspers at the end of his abdomen. He stands watch while she deposits her eggs in the slow water of the eddy. Should she be threatened by a predator, he will fly off with her. Powdered Dancers (Argia moesta) are members of the family Conenagrionidae (pond damsels) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatwest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5114811&amp;post=1080&amp;subd=greatwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not a poem but this week’s dragonflies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new hobby: identification of local dragonflies: Canyon Rubyspot Sooty, Powdered (male/female) and Blue Fronted dancers Blue Ringed dancer Flame Skimmer, Eight-spotted Skimmer. Widow Skimmer. Black saddlebags Striped meadowhawk. Filed under: Wild Lives Blog<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatwest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5114811&amp;post=1074&amp;subd=greatwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Tempest Williams on the Gulf Oil Spill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Tempest Williams The Progressive 25 June 2010 “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” —Upton Sinclair, Oil! The Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater got it right in an improvisational satire of a coffee disaster spill in the BP boardroom. “Don’t worry,” the CEO [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatwest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5114811&amp;post=1044&amp;subd=greatwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Tempest Williams “Hard Questions” in the Progressive</title>
		<link>http://greatwest.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/link-to-terry-tempest-williams-in-the-progressive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://progressive.org/williams0710.html Filed under: Wild Lives Blog<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatwest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5114811&amp;post=1066&amp;subd=greatwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>W.S. Merwin–Poet Laureate 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, W.S. Merwin was appointed American’s 17th Poet Laureate. Deciding to write about Merwin opened a door in my memory.  I thought back to particular lines and spent an hour in the books where I knew I’d find them, each one taking me back to who and where I was when I first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatwest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5114811&amp;post=1028&amp;subd=greatwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I love this from Humberto R. Maturana</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I consider that the natural biological manner of living is constitutively aesthetic and effortless, and that we have become culturally blind to this condition. In this blindness we have made beauty a commodity, creating ugliness in all dimensions of our living, and through that ugliness, more blindness in the loss of our capacity to see, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatwest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5114811&amp;post=1022&amp;subd=greatwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Art Camps at the Aviary</title>
		<link>http://greatwest.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/saturday-art-camps-at-the-aviary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris peterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been working with Tracy Aviary to develop the Children&#8217;s Art Park for almost three years. We are excited to partner with Tracy Aviary this summer to offer children&#8217;s art programming in the ArtPark on Saturdays. Click on the image for a link to the info on their webpage. Filed under: Community Arts, Workshops [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greatwest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5114811&amp;post=1018&amp;subd=greatwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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