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		<title>A New Year a New Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is dedicated to my on-line community; to know and have access to such gifted writers and poets is wonderful. Having writers and poets as friends is a blessing.
&#8220;When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.&#8221;
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
&#8220;The world is round and the place which may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mapsfromagoodkingdom.com&blog=4735720&post=1359&subd=mapsfromagoodkingdom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where We Start</title>
		<link>http://mapsfromagoodkingdom.com/2009/09/26/where-we-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a source of fascination for me.  To build a life.  What is it really?  What is it that we do, I mean.  To make a life.  What does that mean?  I thought about this the other day sitting alone in an airport, people watching and then yesterday at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mapsfromagoodkingdom.com&blog=4735720&post=1289&subd=mapsfromagoodkingdom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hey Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scary.  The farce that has become the rhectoric from the right-wing- fringe-now-turned-mainstream-GOP-voices &#8211; inspired by a coming speech from our President addressed to the nation&#8217;s students as they begin school and said speech to contain the controversial messages; work hard, set goals, take responsibility.  As a result of all the noise, my wife and I received the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mapsfromagoodkingdom.com&blog=4735720&post=1245&subd=mapsfromagoodkingdom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to Her Children: President Obama&#8217;s Address to the Nation&#8217;s Students</title>
		<link>http://mapsfromagoodkingdom.com/2009/09/05/a-letter-to-her-children-president-obamas-address-to-the-nations-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post features a wonderful letter written to her children, by friend and brilliant writer, Rebecca King at her blog &#8217;Adventures of a Nervous Girl&#8217;. 
http://adventuresofanervousgirl.typepad.com/nervous_girl/2009/09/a-letter-to-my-children.html

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		<title>Believe: an essay</title>
		<link>http://mapsfromagoodkingdom.com/2008/12/24/believe-an-essay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe: an essay
By Darren King [copyright 2008]
Watching &#8220;The Polar Express&#8221; with our children the other night, I noticed something I hadn&#8217;t in previous years.  Perhaps it took a few viewings for me to see the film&#8217;s depth beyond the astonishing animation.  Or maybe, I&#8217;m just slow to notice these things.  But I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mapsfromagoodkingdom.com&blog=4735720&post=1022&subd=mapsfromagoodkingdom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays</title>
		<link>http://mapsfromagoodkingdom.com/2008/12/06/happy-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend of mine &#8211;  a wonderful writer, activist, poet, humanitarian, philosopher, commentator to progressive politics, outspoken champion of human rights, fan of art, music and film, husband and father, theologian and pastor who fifteen years ago presided over my marriage to Deborah Larson &#8211; wrote a wonderful essay I wanted to share [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mapsfromagoodkingdom.com&blog=4735720&post=891&subd=mapsfromagoodkingdom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Home</title>
		<link>http://mapsfromagoodkingdom.com/2008/10/11/coming-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming Home
By Darren King [copyright 2008]
Traveling for business is odd.  At least when you do it as frequently as I do.  It&#8217;s necessary.  But it&#8217;s odd.  The drama that comes with airports and shuttles.  Rental cars and hotels.  Sometimes I feel like Steve Martin in &#8220;Planes, Trains and Automobiles&#8221;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mapsfromagoodkingdom.com&blog=4735720&post=279&subd=mapsfromagoodkingdom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Private Investigations</title>
		<link>http://mapsfromagoodkingdom.com/2008/10/07/private-investigations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a mystery to me, the game commences,
for the usual fee, plus expenses.
Confidential information, it&#8217;s in a diary.
This is my investigation; it&#8217;s not a public inquiry. &#8211; Mark Knopfler
Private Investigations
By Darren King [copyright 2008]
Private investigations.  They&#8217;re at the heart of a writer&#8217;s work.  Unsoliticited thoughts made public.  And the process is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mapsfromagoodkingdom.com&blog=4735720&post=188&subd=mapsfromagoodkingdom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hope:  An Essay</title>
		<link>http://mapsfromagoodkingdom.com/2008/10/05/hope-an-essay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[True to form, we stayed late at our friends last night.  Or early.  Depending upon your perspective.  I think we set a new record.  We pulled into our driveway at 2AM.  Our children are so comfortable at our friends house, they eventually fall asleep while watching a ball game or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mapsfromagoodkingdom.com&blog=4735720&post=155&subd=mapsfromagoodkingdom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>greetings from a (mostly) good kingdom</title>
		<link>http://mapsfromagoodkingdom.com/2008/10/04/greetings-from-a-mostly-good-kingdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife Deborah and I have mostly been talking today.  About &#8220;mostly&#8221;.  Mostly, it seems, has become our end-goal in life.  Not perfect.  Not the best.  Mostly.  We strive to be mostly good people.  We try to be mostly good parents.  I could never wear a shirt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mapsfromagoodkingdom.com&blog=4735720&post=149&subd=mapsfromagoodkingdom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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