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		<title>By: Kim Detmers</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kim Detmers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you again for sharing and reminding me of the things that really matter. 
You are an amazing soul and I appreciate your bravery and generosity with life.
Happiness to you always, Kim</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you again for sharing and reminding me of the things that really matter.<br />
You are an amazing soul and I appreciate your bravery and generosity with life.<br />
Happiness to you always, Kim</p>
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		<title>By: Jeanne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeanne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lovely things on your site. Glad I stumbled upon it. Hope you have a very healthy new year! And peaceful, too, for all of us. jeanne in oregon</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lovely things on your site. Glad I stumbled upon it. Hope you have a very healthy new year! And peaceful, too, for all of us. jeanne in oregon</p>
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		<title>By: victoria pittman</title>
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		<dc:creator>victoria pittman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Beautiful site..photography, art and inspirational.

Blessed New Year to you.

Victoria
(a new follower)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beautiful site..photography, art and inspirational.</p>
<p>Blessed New Year to you.</p>
<p>Victoria<br />
(a new follower)</p>
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		<title>By: Susan Lomuto</title>
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		<dc:creator>Susan Lomuto</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Kathi and Brenda!

Elaine - doing great now and hoping to stay that way!

Maureen -  thank you for your kind words and heartfelt sentiment.  I&#039;ve missed your comments on daMuse!

As an addendum to the post (and in response to some of the emails that I have received since Wednesday), here&#039;s the back story to my posting about the cancer:

During a long conversation with Tom (my guy), discussing what to include in my year-end post, he reminded me that part of the appeal of Daily Art Muse is that while it is about ART first, I do let my voice, my life, my experiences come through from time to time.  

He let me sit with that awhile and then quietly mentioned that he thought there was a public-service aspect to my particular experience that could benefit others.  While I do not want to impose my journey on everyone, I realized that I could let others know I had been dealing with cancer and then if anyone wanted to start a dialogue or needed information they could email me privately.  

Many thanks for your well-wishes.  While we all know that life is changeable, right now I&#039;m happy, healthy and looking forward to this wonderful new year!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Kathi and Brenda!</p>
<p>Elaine &#8211; doing great now and hoping to stay that way!</p>
<p>Maureen &#8211;  thank you for your kind words and heartfelt sentiment.  I&#8217;ve missed your comments on daMuse!</p>
<p>As an addendum to the post (and in response to some of the emails that I have received since Wednesday), here&#8217;s the back story to my posting about the cancer:</p>
<p>During a long conversation with Tom (my guy), discussing what to include in my year-end post, he reminded me that part of the appeal of Daily Art Muse is that while it is about ART first, I do let my voice, my life, my experiences come through from time to time.  </p>
<p>He let me sit with that awhile and then quietly mentioned that he thought there was a public-service aspect to my particular experience that could benefit others.  While I do not want to impose my journey on everyone, I realized that I could let others know I had been dealing with cancer and then if anyone wanted to start a dialogue or needed information they could email me privately.  </p>
<p>Many thanks for your well-wishes.  While we all know that life is changeable, right now I&#8217;m happy, healthy and looking forward to this wonderful new year!</p>
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		<title>By: Happy New Year and Great Resolutions from Photojojo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Happy New Year and Great Resolutions from Photojojo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Maureen Carlson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maureen Carlson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The lesson for me in reading your post is that I really should act more on my intuition.  Several times this past year I thought of sending you, Susan, a little &quot;thinking of you&quot; note as I sensed a poignancy in your writings that spoke to me.  But - I never did it.  

I, too, am glad that you&#039;re still here and that I have the opportunity to say thank you, and to tell you that reading your posts has become a part of my ritual.  But, more than that, I appreciate your vulnerability and trueness and personal voice.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The lesson for me in reading your post is that I really should act more on my intuition.  Several times this past year I thought of sending you, Susan, a little &#8220;thinking of you&#8221; note as I sensed a poignancy in your writings that spoke to me.  But &#8211; I never did it.  </p>
<p>I, too, am glad that you&#8217;re still here and that I have the opportunity to say thank you, and to tell you that reading your posts has become a part of my ritual.  But, more than that, I appreciate your vulnerability and trueness and personal voice.</p>
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		<title>By: All Things Metal Clay &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Happy New Year and Great Resolutions from Photojojo</title>
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		<dc:creator>All Things Metal Clay &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Happy New Year and Great Resolutions from Photojojo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Elaine Luther</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elaine Luther</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh my goodness, colon cancer and you managed to keep up the blog!  That&#039;s amazing.

I hope you&#039;re on the mend and doing great now!

Here&#039;s to health!

Elaine</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh my goodness, colon cancer and you managed to keep up the blog!  That&#8217;s amazing.</p>
<p>I hope you&#8217;re on the mend and doing great now!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s to health!</p>
<p>Elaine</p>
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		<title>By: Brenda Marks</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brenda Marks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sending my best wishes to you for a really wonderful 2009!</description>
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		<title>By: Kathi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kathi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Happy New Year to you and yours Susan. Let&#039;s hope that the word for next year is PEACE!</description>
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