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	<description>A Chronicle of Life in the Village of Innsbrook</description>
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		<title>A Thing Worth Dying For</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hear more and more that the United States is becoming more polarized&#8230; that our leaders in Washington are much more worried about attacking each other than they are about finding solutions to our economic, environmental and social woes. Popular wisdom has it that mudslinging has reached an all-time high&#8230; that Tea Partiers and Coffee Partiers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thedogwoodjournal.com/?p=238</link>
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		<title>Running for God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running at Innsbrook is a special kind of experience. I&#8217;ve run in a lot of great places. Chicago, Sanibel, the Rocky Mountains&#8230;but Innsbrook offers a fantastic combination of pleasure and pain that is just sort of rare. The hills at Innsbrook &#8212; that would be the pain part for those following along from home &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thedogwoodjournal.com/?p=220</link>
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		<title>A Lack of Resolve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For three years now, a friend of mine has been after me to write a New Year&#8217;s resolution. But he doesn&#8217;t want just a resolution, he wants a goal from me, a statement of intent, a to-do list for self realization. He writes a goal for himself every year, tracks it and reports on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thedogwoodjournal.com/?p=212</link>
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		<title>Taking the Sting Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid growing up in Pond, Missouri&#8230; what? You&#8217;ve never  heard of Pond, Missouri? It&#8217;s right between Grover and Glencoe. Newcomers call it Wildwood.  Anyway, as an eight-year-old, I was a newcomer myself, a transplanted native from the &#8221;tough streets&#8221; of Creve Coeur. So when I was set free in Wildwood on 40 acres of farmland, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thedogwoodjournal.com/?p=203</link>
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		<title>Thanks for nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What are you thankful for?&#8221; I’ll probably hear this question 20 times in the next couple days. At office meetings, at kids&#8217; activities, when I meet friends, and undoubtedly in about 300 e-mails. The kids will bring home art projects about what they’re thankful for, and I will hear countless celebrities rattling off what they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thedogwoodjournal.com/?p=187</link>
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		<title>Recycling Innsbrook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Out of the mouths of babes.&#8221; I like that saying a lot. Heck, who am I kidding, I like most sayings a lot, which is kind of a paradox, because I have always believed sweeping generalizations are inherently wrong and typically a path to bad thinking. But I am also very prone to look for shortcuts, and often &#8220;old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thedogwoodjournal.com/?p=180</link>
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		<title>A thorny question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We haven&#8217;t put a counter on the Dogwood Journal yet, perhaps out of fear that the count will come back with a big zero. One, two, or if the heavens are really smiling, three readers per entry would be very exciting.  And since I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m going to assume that the readership of this blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thedogwoodjournal.com/?p=172</link>
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		<title>All in the family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our week-long kids camp at Innsbrook just concluded and word on the street is that it was much enjoyed by all. Kids from ages 6 to 13 spend five hours a day at Innsbrook&#8217;s farmhouse area in the shade of our giant Mulberry trees learning about everything from Tibetan prayer flags to printing to drama [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thedogwoodjournal.com/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Innsbrook Independence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while I get a ration of trouble from someone about working for an elitist, gated community. My comeback is always, &#8220;everyone is welcome in, we just have to know who&#8217;s here in order to keep unattended second homes safe&#8221;. Usually that gets and eye roll and that&#8217;s the end of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thedogwoodjournal.com/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Theater of the mind&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at Innsbrook once a year we hold a classical  music festival where some of the most wonderful artists working today gather for 10 days of phenomenal music. We mostly focus on string and piano chamber music with some woodwinds and brass thrown in for good measure. But there is something strange in hearing the first notes of cello or violin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thedogwoodjournal.com/?p=153</link>
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