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		<title>COVID-19: 6-Month Impact Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>#WhatsUpWednesday 07.29.15</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2015/07/29/whatsupwednesday-07-29-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 21:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, we&#8217;re excited to highlight two of our nonprofits, 2Seeds Network and The Reading Connection! Read on to find out &#8220;what&#8217;s up&#8221; at these organizations this week, and how you can get involved to support them. 2Seeds Network This &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2015/07/29/whatsupwednesday-07-29-15/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>#WhatsUpWednesday 06.17.15</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Catalogue, we LOVE hearing stories of inspiration and collaboration, and this week&#8217;s #whatsupwednesday gives us a glimpse into two organizations doing just that: DC SCORES and 2Seeds Network. Have a story of your own to share? Send it &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2015/06/17/whatsupwednesday-06-17-15/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>#WhatsUpWednesday 05.13.15</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2015/05/13/whatsupwednesday-05-13-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2015 20:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spur Local]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are so grateful for another week of our wonderful nonprofit community at work! From bringing families together to bond over books, to installing gardens in the most unlikely of urban spaces, read on the learn more! The Reading Connection &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2015/05/13/whatsupwednesday-05-13-15/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>#WhatsUpWednesday 3.25.2015</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2015/03/25/whatsupwednesday-3-25-2015/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spur Local]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community and career education are key themes in this week&#8217;s #whatsupwednesday! Check out what some of our nonprofits are up to below: New Futures This week, New Futures showed off its interactive, online tool &#8211;New Futures Career Navigator&#8211; at the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2015/03/25/whatsupwednesday-3-25-2015/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fears and Successes</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/03/11/fears-and-successes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My books have, in a way, made me a parent. Peter and his friends grow, have fun, problems, fears, and successes, and I&#8217;ve been with them through it all. I love these children, and it&#8217;s been one of the greatest &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/03/11/fears-and-successes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>With Open Arms</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/03/04/with-open-arms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn&#8217;t make everything all right. It didn&#8217;t make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird&#8217;s flight. But &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/03/04/with-open-arms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Carry Away</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/02/25/carry-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along. &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/02/25/carry-away/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Richly Woven</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/02/19/richly-woven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. &#8211; American novelist Carson McCullers, born today in 1917]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Muscle</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/02/11/writing-muscle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=8337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.&#8221; &#8220;Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/02/11/writing-muscle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tired of Giving In</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/02/04/tired-of-giving-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People always say that I didn&#8217;t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn&#8217;t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/02/04/tired-of-giving-in/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Life Of Its Own</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/28/life-of-its-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I am in my painting, I am not aware of what I&#8217;m doing. It is only after a short &#8220;get acquainted&#8221; period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/28/life-of-its-own/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>One People</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/22/one-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our resilience. A decade of war is now ending. An economic recovery has begun. America&#8217;s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/22/one-people/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Greater Readiness</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/21/justice-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/21/justice-peace/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Own Experience</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/14/own-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is important to express oneself &#8230; provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience. My ambition is limited to capturing something transient. &#8211; Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, born today in 1841]]></description>
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		<title>Wake Up Thought</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/07/wake-up-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again. There are years that ask questions and years that answer. &#8211; American author Zora Neale Hurston, born today in 1891]]></description>
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		<title>The More Possibilities</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/04/the-more-possibilities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more you write, the more possibilities you see for stories in things that happen to you, that people tell you, that you read about in the paper, or just imagine. In one way, all of these ideas are a &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2013/01/04/the-more-possibilities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Will Be Seen</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/12/18/what-will-be-seen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Color possesses me. I don&#8217;t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. The painter should not paint what &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/12/18/what-will-be-seen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Infinitesimal Fraction</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/12/10/an-infinitesimal-fraction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me.&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/12/10/an-infinitesimal-fraction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>First and Final</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/12/04/first-and-final/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A name is the first and final marker of individual rights, one fixed part of the ever-changing human world. A name is the most basic characteristic of our human rights: no matter how poor or how rich, all living people &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/12/04/first-and-final/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Catalogue Milestones: 2012</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/27/cfp-milestones-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/27/cfp-milestones-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spur Local]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philanthropy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Marie LeBlanc, Community Partnerships Coordinator After looking back over the past ten years, the Catalogue is excited to reflect on our last year (2012!) and the exciting accomplishments that we&#8217;ve seen in the past twelve months. In 2012, the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/27/cfp-milestones-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Catalogue Milestones: 2011</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/19/cfp-milestones-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/19/cfp-milestones-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Giving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philanthropy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we approach our celebration of the 10th Catalogue for Philanthropy, we look back to see how the Catalogue has grown and evolved. Just one more year and then &#8230; we&#8217;re at this one! Let&#8217;s look at what was new &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/19/cfp-milestones-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Catalogue Milestones: 2010</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/13/cfp-milestones-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spur Local]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philanthropy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7616</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Marie LeBlanc, Community Partnerships Coordinator As we approach our celebration of the 10th Catalogue for Philanthropy, we look back to see how the Catalogue has grown and evolved. The Catalogue&#8217;s review team is a staple of the work we &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/13/cfp-milestones-2010/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/12/veterans-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veterans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we pause &#8212; as a nation, and as a people &#8212; to pay tribute to you. To thank you. To honor you, the heroes, over the generations, who have served &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/12/veterans-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On The Trail</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/05/on-the-trail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It&#8217;s a thing of discovering. That&#8217;s when writing is really &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/11/05/on-the-trail/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Unfold in the Dream</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/10/22/unfold-in-the-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Everybody is different &#8212; even writers. You have to learn how to use your energy and not squander it. In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/10/22/unfold-in-the-dream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>As Memory Is</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/10/15/as-memory-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As persons deprived of memory become disoriented and lost, not knowing where they have been and where they are going, so a nation &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/10/15/as-memory-is/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In The Closeness</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/10/09/in-the-closeness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[...] Now sets the weary moon upon its slack seabed Now the bursts of laughter quiet down, and even the storyteller Nods his head like a child on his mother&#8217;s back The dancers&#8217; feet grow heavy, and heavy, too, Come &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/10/09/in-the-closeness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sound of Music</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/10/01/sound-of-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 04:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; I go to the hills When my heart is lonely I know I will hear What I&#8217;ve heard before My heart will be blessed, With the sound of music And I&#8217;ll sing once more. &#8211; &#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/10/01/sound-of-music/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Catalogue Milestones: 2003</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/25/cfp-milestones-2003/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/25/cfp-milestones-2003/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, Catalogue friends! We are looking forward to our 10th anniversary and launch event, coming up on December 3. So to start celebrating both that anniversary and our network of awesome local nonprofits, we&#8217;ll be counting down the 10 &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/25/cfp-milestones-2003/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>So Much Depends</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/17/so-much-depends/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/17/so-much-depends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=7048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. &#8211; American poet William Carlos Williams, born today in 1883 In the poetic spirit, learn more about Catalogue&#8217;s arts and literacy nonprofits this morning &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/17/so-much-depends/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Hear America Singing &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/11/i-hear-america-singing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/11/i-hear-america-singing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[September 11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=6999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 11th, 2012: I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics &#8212; each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/11/i-hear-america-singing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger For Life</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/04/hunger-for-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empowerment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=6959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the age of 12, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/09/04/hunger-for-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/08/31/labor-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=6956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/08/31/labor-day-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Architect</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/08/27/the-architect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=6921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Very near my sunset, I bless you, Life [...] Because I see at the end of my rough way that I was the architect of my own destiny and if I extracted the sweetness or the bitterness of things it &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/08/27/the-architect/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Infinite Objects</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/08/20/infinite-objects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 04:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=6850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. The poet is alone with infinite objects in his own obscure sphere and does not know whether he should be &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/08/20/infinite-objects/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Territory</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/08/13/new-territory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=6797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[...] I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile. Scientific research is &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/08/13/new-territory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thy Comrade</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/30/thy-comrade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=6676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[...] I&#8217;ve watched thee every hour; I know my mighty sway: I know my magic power To drive thy griefs away. Few hearts to mortals given, On earth so wildly pine; Yet few would ask a heaven More like this &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/30/thy-comrade/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Challenge To Others</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/24/a-challenge-to-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=6628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/24/a-challenge-to-others/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Time Has Come</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/16/the-time-has-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won&#8217;t die secret deaths anymore. &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/16/the-time-has-come/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Single Ray</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/10/single-ray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/10/single-ray/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/09/lessons-learned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From last week&#8217;s &#8220;Leading women offer lessons for work in philanthropy&#8221; in The Atlantic: Katie Couric, special correspondent for ABC News and cancer advocate: &#8220;To really pour yourself into something, you have to be moved by it.&#8221; Laurie Tisch, president &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/09/lessons-learned/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In Freedom</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/04/in-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.&#8221; &#8211; Albert Einstein (1938) Have a good Fourth of July, friends! We&#8217;ll be back up on Thursday.]]></description>
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		<title>Agent Of Progress</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/03/agent-of-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[drama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WILDE: &#8220;&#8230; But the artist is the secret criminal in our midst. He is the agent of progress against authority [...] I made art a philosophy that can look the twentieth century in the eye. I had genius, brilliancy, daring, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/07/03/agent-of-progress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Immeasurably Rich</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/06/25/6393/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] I chose to be a lawyer and ultimately a judge because I find endless challenge in the complexities of the law. I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. For &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/06/25/6393/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To Be Free</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/06/18/to-be-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise. Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/06/18/to-be-free/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Catalogue: By The Numbers</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/06/14/cfp-by-the-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie LeBlanc]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marie LeBlanc, Community Partnerships Coordinator The Catalogue for Philanthropy is excited to celebrate its tenth year of publication this year with the 2012/13 Catalogue. The following figures give a snapshot of the Catalogue, its applications, and community of nonprofits &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/06/14/cfp-by-the-numbers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Kind of Life</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/06/11/what-kind-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what&#8217;s going on. (1971) We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/06/11/what-kind-of-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>That Swing</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/30/that-swing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It don&#8217;t mean a thing, if it ain&#8217;t got that swing It don&#8217;t mean a thing all you got to do is sing It makes no difference If it&#8217;s sweet or hot Just give that rhythm Every little thing you&#8217;ve &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/30/that-swing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Of Invention</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/23/of-invention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! (Henry V) O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/23/of-invention/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Bridge</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/17/the-bridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh, I&#8217;ve never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor edge of danger and must be fought for &#8212; &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/17/the-bridge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Every Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/09/every-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.&#8221; &#8220;To be free &#8230; to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/09/every-opportunity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Spark</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/02/aspark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.&#8221; &#8211; French writer Emile Zola, born today in 1840 &#8220;Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/04/02/aspark/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Place</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/03/26/the-right-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] I&#8217;d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth&#8217;s the right &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/03/26/the-right-place/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Elsewhere</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/03/20/elsewhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In beginning to write The Giver, I created a world that existed only in my imagination &#8212; the world of &#8220;only us, only now.&#8221; I tried to make [protagonist] Jonas&#8217;s world seem familiar, comfortable, and safe, and I tried to &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/03/20/elsewhere/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Connectings</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/03/12/connectings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo a thousand fondlings, revisings, moldings, addings, removings, graftings, tearings, correctings, smoothings, rebuildings, reconsiderings, nailings, tackings, chippings, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/03/12/connectings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Utopia of Life</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/03/06/utopia-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] William Faulkner said, &#8220;I decline to accept the end of man.&#8221; I would fall unworthy of standing in this place that was his, if I were not fully aware that the colossal tragedy he refused to recognize thirty-two years &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/03/06/utopia-of-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Each Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/27/each-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Psalm of Life Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/27/each-tomorrow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Following Presidents Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/21/following-presidents-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see a great nation, upon a great continent, blessed with a great wealth of natural resources. Its hundred and thirty million people are at peace among themselves; they are making their country a good neighbor among the nations. I &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/21/following-presidents-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Bounty is as Boundless</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/14/my-bounty-is-as-boundless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! Still making your evening plans? Look through out Cultural nonprofits for some great, local offerings of music, theater, dance, and art. First, rehearse your song by rote To each word a warbling note: Hand in hand, with &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/14/my-bounty-is-as-boundless/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>One Small Thing</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/09/one-small-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/09/one-small-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[giving]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=5139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[HELPED are those who find the courage to do at least one small thing each day to help the existence of another&#8211;plant, animal, river, or human being. They shall be joined by a multitude of the timid. HELPED are those &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/09/one-small-thing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Writers Today</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/07/writers-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. &#8211; Charles Dickens, born today in 1812 If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/02/07/writers-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Know We Can</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/25/know-we-can/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/25/know-we-can/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[State of the Union 2012 from President Barack Obama: Think about the America within our reach: A country that leads the world in educating its people. An America that attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs. A &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/25/know-we-can/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Variety</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/23/a-great-variety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But the forming a new System of Government, for so numerous a people, of very different views, and habits, spread upon such a vast extent of Territory, containing such a great variety of soils, and under such extremes of climate, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/23/a-great-variety/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Plus Character</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/17/plus-character/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/17/plus-character/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=4918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character &#8212; that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/17/plus-character/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Ceremony</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/09/wordless-ceremony/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/09/wordless-ceremony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And what is so strange about that memory is that everybody seems to be floating on those sweet sounds, moving rhythmically, languorously, in complete isolation; responding more to the mood of the music than to its beat. When I remember &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/09/wordless-ceremony/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Resolving for 2012</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/03/resolving-for-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/03/resolving-for-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Giving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[renaming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tend to be a bit skeptical of New Year&#8217;s resolutions, since (for no other reason) the first day of the second month of winter feels like an odd time to restart engines or rethink strategies. Moreover, for many arts &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2012/01/03/resolving-for-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Esperanza</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/12/20/esperanza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn&#8217;t be all the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/12/20/esperanza/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>As Justice</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/12/12/as-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=4681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. Our country is the world &#8212; our &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/12/12/as-justice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Asking, Knowing</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/11/28/asking-knowing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anthropology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=4555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. &#8211; anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, born today in 1908 As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true faculty of knowing &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/11/28/asking-knowing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>With Colors</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/11/15/with-colors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=4479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I found I could say things with colors that I couldn&#8217;t say in any other way &#8212; things that I had no words for. Fill a space in a beautiful way. To create one&#8217;s own world, in any of the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/11/15/with-colors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Openness</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/10/27/openness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=4315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/10/27/openness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mutuality</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/10/17/4235/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/10/17/4235/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When Creating &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/10/06/when-creating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity. &#8211; pioneer of modern architecture Le Corbusier, born today in 1887 A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/10/06/when-creating/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Color and Music</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/09/26/4084/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. &#8211; painter Theodore Gericault, born today in 1791 My people are American, my time is today [...] music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times. &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/09/26/4084/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We Will Go Farther</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/09/12/3965/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=3965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The people rest on land and weather, on time and the changing winds. The people have come far and can look back and say, &#8216;We will go farther yet.&#8217; [...] The people, yes. The people will live on. The learning &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/09/12/3965/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/09/02/labor-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=3913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The history of the United States is in vital respects the history of labor. Free men and women, working for a better life for themselves and their children, settled a continent, built a society, and created and diffused an abundance &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/09/02/labor-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Like Magic</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/08/15/like-magic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true &#8212; such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/08/15/like-magic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Quality of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/08/09/the-quality-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/08/09/the-quality-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Rare</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/08/02/what-is-rare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Words & Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baldwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=3599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One writes out of one thing only &#8212; one&#8217;s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/08/02/what-is-rare/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Memorable 4th</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/07/05/memorable-4th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[declaration of independence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=3341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On this day each year, we gather with family and friends to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of our Declaration of Independence. With vision and courage, our Founders stated unequivocally to the world: &#8220;We hold these truths to be &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/07/05/memorable-4th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Around Town: July 4th</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/07/01/around-town-july-4th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man&#8217;s freedom. You can only be free if I am free. &#8211; Clarence Darrow, 1857-1938 Have an enjoyable, uplifting, and safe Independence Day. We&#8217;ll catch up on &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/07/01/around-town-july-4th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes for the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/06/14/quotes-for-the-day-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=3216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.&#8221; &#8220;We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/06/14/quotes-for-the-day-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes for Today</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/06/07/3166/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=3166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few choice words from post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, who was born today in 1848: &#8220;Go on working, freely and furiously, and you will make progress.&#8221; &#8220;Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/06/07/3166/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quote for Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/05/31/quote-for-tuesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 04:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=3109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;On this day, we memorialize them all. We memorialize our first patriots, blacksmiths, farmers, slaves and freed men who never knew the independence they won with their lives. We memorialize the armies of men &#8212; and women disguised as men &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/05/31/quote-for-tuesday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quote for Monday</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/05/09/quote-for-monday-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 04:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=2917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. &#8211; Marian Wright Edelman (1939-Present) Free the child&#8217;s potential, and you will transform him into the world. &#8211; Maria Montessori &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/05/09/quote-for-monday-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes for Monday</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/04/25/quotes-for-monday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=2768</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.&#8221; &#8211; Giorgio de Chirico &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/04/25/quotes-for-monday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quote for the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/04/18/quote-for-the-day-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=2704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.&#8221; &#8211; Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) &#8220;Music is a higher relevation than all wisdom and philosophy.&#8221; &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/04/18/quote-for-the-day-6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Numbers for the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/04/04/numbers-for-the-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=2557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Of the 50 million students currently in American public schools, only 18% have access to dance education. (National Dance Education Association) Of those students, only 7% are taught by a certified dance specialist, rather than a sports coach or general &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/04/04/numbers-for-the-day-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Numbers for the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/03/15/numbers-for-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Cain]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cfp-dc.org/?p=2331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Forest area makes up 33% of the total land area in the United States. 21 out of 822 native American fish species now are extinct and 2/3 of the nation&#8217;s freshwater mussels are at risk of extinction. Less than 1% &#8230; <a href="http://blog.cfp-dc.org/blog/2011/03/15/numbers-for-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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