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		<title>Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday was the Merchant family reunion.  It was in Oneonta, NY, long time &#8211; centuries &#8211; home to my family. About 30 people attended, my generation, my parents&#8217; generation, our children&#8217;s generation. I was surpirsed at how warm I feel towards these people, some I hadn&#8217;t seen in 40 years. One aunt and two uncles and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jomerchant.com/?p=549</link>
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		<title>Lately</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sun is hot, the air thick. I so look forward to Labor Day and the change of seasons. Having my windows open and listening to the night noises. Better than any sleeping pill, I&#8217;d put money on it. Recently, I saw two first year Cooper&#8217;s Hawks on the overhead wires at Stoneykill Farm. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jomerchant.com/?p=541</link>
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		<title>Today (Actually last Thursday)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is well after sunset and I see Mercury and Venus. Neighbors are strolling, walking their dogs, returning home and lights have been turned on in the apartments across the way. The heat of the late July day and the humidity  lingers. The lightening bugs are out.  Dogs bark, crickets chirp, and cicadas make cicada [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jomerchant.com/?p=532</link>
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		<title>Last Monday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a wonderful Monday: mid eighties and humidity about 35%. A beautiful blue sky, light wind. Sun wasn&#8217;t too strong. Air smelled and felt good. I don&#8217;t mind Mondays but it does sometimes takes all day to get into a work groove. Especially now that I work a four day week. I go to work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jomerchant.com/?p=527</link>
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		<title>Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Google, the last day that my website recorded a third party malware was June 28, 2010. The website has to go 90 days without a recording of third party malware in order to become a safe site again. Some of the things that I would that has been of interest to me during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jomerchant.com/?p=521</link>
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		<title>Firsts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My nephew got married, first of his generation. I saw a possum (only my second live possum ever). I saw a shooting star (not my first but the first in a long long time). I tried a papaya, goat cheese and portabello mushroom. not bad but not going to go on my favorites list. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jomerchant.com/?p=517</link>
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		<title>Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a beautiful spring day!  I sat out on the balcony with the boys after work. I was beat. Mondays are always exhausting. Plus, my coworker called in sick. But sitting in my Adirondack chair, with Charlie on the pillow beside me and Simon climbing all over me, I felt great. I alternately read  my mystery and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jomerchant.com/?p=511</link>
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		<title>Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a Memorial Day presentation my sister gave this morning&#8230;             Welcome to all who have come to honor the men and women who have died for our country.  I would like to thank those who have invited me to speak; it is a privilege to be before you this Memorial Day.  I would like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jomerchant.com/?p=509</link>
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		<title>Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I saw everything. Everything was important. Everything was meaningful. My superstitious self was in high gear. I woke up or rather got out of bed later than I should have. I started my bad day column with a check mark. Couldn&#8217;t find hair brush. Another mark. I saw a family with eight goslings and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jomerchant.com/?p=503</link>
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		<title>Firsts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first goslings of the year! They are really hard to see but trust me they are there. Last year I saw them first on April 29th. Isn&#8217;t nature wonderful!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jomerchant.com/?p=498</link>
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