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		<title>Opening the Box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, on ye olde Twittere, I posted:
The process of therapy is akin to refitting a war factory for peacetime production.
Not to toot my own horn, but the more I think about this metaphor, the more I like it.
A war factory would contain all kinds of machinery for perpetuating conflict, violence, and destruction&#8230; and there always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Remember the Meal, Not the Stain&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The laundry detergent commercial that&#8217;s been running lately has this tag, &#8220;Remember the meal, not the stain.&#8221;
They show a family eating hot dogs.
&#8220;Remember the meal&#8221;?
Hot dogs?
Really?
Regarding the stain, I can see why people wouldn&#8217;t want to remember stains!  After all, if my experience with stains, marks, and accidents is any indication of what most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.personalarchaeology.com/2010/05/28/remember-the-meal-not-the-stain/</link>
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		<title>If It Fails to Sate, Leave It Off the Plate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think that you can probably find people in just about any topic that will get their knickers all up in a knot if you hold a particular opinion&#8230; and when it comes to food, there is no lack of strongly-held opinions.
In addition to that, there are many studies out there which are seemingly contradictory, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.personalarchaeology.com/2010/04/13/if-it-fails-to-sate-leave-it-off-the-plate/</link>
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		<title>Runaway Train by Soul Asylum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t recall ever hearing this song in its entirety before, just the first couple lines of the chorus&#8230; I never, ever knew what it was about.
I found it deeply moving; if it&#8217;s not too obvious to point it out, it&#8217;s about why children run away.  Nearly every single line tears at my heart&#8211;not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.personalarchaeology.com/2010/04/04/runaway-train-by-soul-asylum/</link>
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		<title>The Lie of the Ugly Duckling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In therapy today, a cop character appeared, with the expression, &#8220;Move along.  Nothing to see here.&#8221;
Whenever this is said in the movies, there is almost certainly something to be seen!  The implications of this are two-fold:

There is something grisly to behold and the cop is protecting innocent civilians from having to witness the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.personalarchaeology.com/2010/03/02/the-lie-of-the-ugly-duckling/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;You Are Not Google&#8217;s Customer&#8221; Feedback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a comment on Facebook regarding You Are Not Google&#8217;s Customer that I thought was quite insightful, and so I thought I would share it here:
I agree to your point about the customer. But the other side is missing too much for my taste: Google is only attractive to advertisers if it pleases a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.personalarchaeology.com/2010/02/19/you-are-not-googles-customer-feedback/</link>
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		<title>You Are Not Google&#8217;s Customer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent SNAFU from Google has caught a lot of people off-guard, at the very least.  Several people have expressed a great deal of rage over the fact that their privacy, which they believed to be safe, was obliterated by Buzz.
In witnessing the very strong emotions that were circling Buzz, I found it difficult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.personalarchaeology.com/2010/02/17/you-are-not-googles-customer/</link>
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		<title>Meeting the &#8220;Family&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a double session at therapy today, and while I don&#8217;t really want to talk about everything that went on in the session, I can say that the 2-hour period of time was intense and fruitful!
I&#8217;m starting to get a sense of what parts compose me and the personalities therein.  It&#8217;s still very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.personalarchaeology.com/2010/01/18/meeting-the-family/</link>
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		<title>Where Do I Want to Be in X Years?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to answer this question for the past few days, and I find that I keep going over it again and again, which generally means that I&#8217;m missing something!
As it usually happens, once I admitted that to myself, I struck on the core of the issue, which I&#8217;d like to share with you. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.personalarchaeology.com/2010/01/18/where-do-i-want-to-be-in-x-years/</link>
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		<title>Why Acting?</title>
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An additional note (a bit of a spoiler, perhaps&#8230;)
Something else that could have occurred if I had been successful early is I could have projected my &#8220;difficult&#8221; emotions onto those around me and caused harm to others, which would be an even worse fate&#8230;
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