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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Compared to this time last year are you happier or sadder? At the end of this month it will have been exactly two and a half years since I left that stable job and set out on an adventure of random and self employment. Two. And a half. Years. It was a story of burnout [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[What made your job interesting in 2025? Some people may incorrectly tell you that technically I don’t have a job. They are wrong. I am not traditionally employed these days, true, but I do in a very real sense work for myself&#8230; which is a huge job and a lot of work. Living the dream… [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Who or what are you leaving behind in 2025? I was reading over old posts. I mean, half the reason I write this damn blog is that, as they say, writing is cheaper than therapy. That is to say&#8230; these words are mostly for me. It is a public journal of a sort, after all, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Excuses Me</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[December 26&#160;of 31&#160;December-ish&#160;posts We were driving home from the last of multiple family christmas gatherings today and, as we sped north down the highway, we passed the giant outlet mall on the outskirts of the city. Then we passed about five hundred cars driving slowly bumper to bumper in the southbound direction and queuing for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[December 3&#160;of 31&#160;December-ish&#160;posts What’s your favourite subject in school, I ask a kid. Recess, he replies. What’s the best part of your job, I ask myself. Working from home a few days a week, I almost write. Except that’s not really true. What made your job interesting in 2022? I’ve spent a few posts this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Monday Zen: Simplification &#038; Leaving Spaces</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cultivating a less-complicated life and living the cast iron philosophy shouldn&#8217;t need to be an active, busy pursuit towards simplification. How would that even make sense, after all? I opened up my email inbox this morning to a corporate reminder that I had excess vacation to use up. Somewhere in a human resources database I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been nearly a month since I&#8217;ve dropped a post here, I realize, but with the world swirling in chaos and my life sometimes feeling like a lot of the same, I now find myself needing to write yet another explanation post. I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about my professional life these days. I&#8217;m locked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[What did you want this year … and get? Too much. As I was wrapping up my work email for the holiday break yesterday, thumbing through my last few messages, a long thank you note rolled in from the president of a company with which my team does a significant amount of business. It concluded [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Nearly every day for the last year this blog has given me space to think about and write about living a more simple, purposeful life. Better food. Longer walks. Moments of captured creativity. But so what&#8217;s my point? Who or what are you leaving behind in 2021? I guess getting to the end of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Short: Friday Fires</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2021 01:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Long work days, short cool evenings. I had my phone in one hand and an axe in the other (metaphorically speaking, of course) as Friday&#8217;s quitting time slipped into view. The benefit of (still) working from home is that I can check the laptop for rogue, last-minute emails even while I heat up the backyard [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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