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	<title>Strange Places</title>
	<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org</link>
	<description>where imagination takes us and invents us</description>
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		<title>on teaching poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a curious thing, the way we teach poetry at school. Some are lucky with teachers who have a passion for poetry. Many, not so lucky. 
‎&#8221;It&#8217;s as if poetry were a virus, and school exposure a mass vaccination program. A small dose in elementary school, a booster in high school, and you&#8217;re immune [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/2012/02/05/on-teaching-poetry/</link>
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		<title>canadian poetry in english 2011 anthology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will help launch  The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011 here in Vancouver. I am not in the anthology, but will read a couple of poems from it and will read a few of mine. Each reader gets 10 min., so it will be moving fast.
Here are the details. 
Saturday, February 4th at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/2012/02/02/canadian-poetry-in-english-2011-anthology/</link>
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		<title>it gathers you up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[‎&#8221;This experience—this awareness of my elemental, thingly presence to the tangible things that surround me—has remained, for me, the purest hallmark of magic, the very signature of its uttermost reality. Magic doesn&#8217;t sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your /explanations/ fall away: the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/2012/01/13/it-gathers-you-up/</link>
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		<title>the weight of dew</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first full length poetry collection is coming along. Edits are all done. Cover is done. Soon off to the printer.
The first launch will be on
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
5:30-7:30 pm.,
at the Railway Club, (Back Room ),
579 Dunsmuir Street  Vancouver, BC V6B 3K4
phone: (604) 681-1625

Cover photo by fellow poet, photographer, and mathematician Robin Susanto.
Introduction by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/2012/01/09/the-weight-of-dew/</link>
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		<title>Happy Solstice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we went to the Sun Yat Sen gardens for the Winter Solstice. Here are some images from the lanterns that filled the gardens. There were a lot of people but mostly what you saw was the dark studded with lantern lights. This turning of the light is always a turning point for me too. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/2011/12/22/happy-solstice/</link>
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		<title>a boundary to looking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For there is a boundary to looking.
And the world that is looked at so deeply
wants to flourish in love.
Work of the eyes is done, now
go and do heart-work
on all the images imprisoned within you; for you
overpowered them: but even now you don&#8217;t know them.&#8221; 
           [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/2011/12/06/a-boundary-to-looking/</link>
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		<title>upcoming reading on Dec. 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be reading this upcoming Thursday Dec. 1st at the Kranky Cafe alongside Heather Haley, and Miranda Pearson. Series hosted by Garry Thomas Morse who promises a preamble. Click here for the bios and more info. 
The Kranky Reading Series 
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 7pm
Poets Daniela Elza, Miranda Pearson, and Heather Haley will read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/2011/11/26/upcoming-reading-on-dec-1/</link>
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		<title>please meet Baikusheva Mura, she is 1300 years old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I met Baikusheva Mura. She is an inhabitant of our planet that is 1300 years old. 

Baikusheva Mura (Black Fir).
Pinus Leugodermis.
Age: 1300 years.
Circumference: 7.8m.
1930 meters above sea level.
Height: 26m.
She was found in the year 1897.
(I was not sure if to refer to the tree as a he or a she. I will refer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/2011/10/30/please-meet-baikusheva-mura-she-is-1300-years-old/</link>
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		<title>pre.occupied: intersection, street, direction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we purposefully stumbled onto the Occupy Vancouver rally at the Vancouver Art gallery. I do not have too many words since I am still processing it. Also my words are focused on revisions for the manuscript for my upcoming book, as well as my conference presentation. But here are some iphone photos:

There was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/2011/10/16/pre-occupied-intersection-street-direction/</link>
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		<title>happy thanksgiving and thanks receiving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I do not think of the origin of Thanksgiving I can relax into this holiday and focus on giving thanks. (Alright, even if I think of it, but that takes more work). Giving thanks is worthwhile to do on any day of the year.Once a year it is great to see the flash light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeplaces.livingcode.org/2011/10/08/happy-thanksgiving-and-thanks-receiving/</link>
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