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		<title>Midsummer Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are the days which are not days, because I live to work at night. The nights are short, they are cool, they sparkle with unveiled stars and ring with the unsettled movements of night insects and birds that don’t sleep either. When I do sleep, a few hours here and there, wherever I fall, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/07/midsummer-dreams/</link>
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		<title>Balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I clipped herbs and dehydrated them in a solar dehydrator I rigged up from a mixing bowl and an antique wire-mesh colander. I then went to work and didn’t check them until evening, where I found all but the thyme burnt to a crisp. So…erm…I think tomorrow I’ll bake cookies in that thing instead. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/07/balance/</link>
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		<title>Garden update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It helps to make lists of the stuff we have growing, mostly so I remember to walk around our little property and water everything, but also so I remember to harvest and use it. 
Black monukka grape (this thing is blowing my mind, it’s been growing in a 2-gal pot in shade for 3 years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/04/garden-update/</link>
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		<title>Lavendar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I trimmed the dead winter twigs from the lavendar
and my finger was stabbed, but it was fair
This is the difference between a poem and the sting of real life -
in a poem I can tell you of the victory the lavendar felt as it wore my blood.
Lavendar, if you are listening
remember that I left everything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/lavendar/</link>
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		<title>Evidence of Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I don’t know what these are.

But they’ve taken over my backyard and I love it.

The vinca is blooming. 

The peas are mostly surviving the daily attacks by various local fauna. 

Daffodils are like little bits of sunshine.

This wasn’t so long ago.

But we’ve moved on to better things.

Josh has already shaved off his winter beard, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/evidence-of-spring/</link>
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		<title>The Blue Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m sitting under the window in the room that used to be my bedroom when I was sixteen. My laptop is propped up on a TV tray and I’m facing the door. When this was my bedroom, I had a blue sofa sitting here that I used as a bed. Why? Because when the sofa [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/the-blue-room/</link>
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		<title>Watching the Ponies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Josh went to Santa Anita to watch the horses race. It’s no secret to anyone who talks to me that Josh has been involved in auto racing since birth (and myself as well, in a spectator kind of way), but with the changes NASCAR has made to the Cup series — well, let’s just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/watching-the-ponies/</link>
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		<title>Marmalade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love marmalade. Adore it, even. And it’s horrendously expensive where I live so I don’t get to have it very often. Well, truthfully speaking, I don’t buy it where I live because it’s not very good. SO, given that it’s California citrus season — or the end of it, actually — there’s a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/marmalade/</link>
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		<title>Gustatory Ruminations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last two months Josh has been back in his culinary groove. He even took our chef’s knives to be sharpened (and I was so excited about this development that I embarrassed myself exclaiming over the fine hone in the hardware store — but seriously, I’d been using a paring knife for everything for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/gustatory-ruminations/</link>
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		<title>Spring fever</title>
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There’s nothing like an entire month of being snowed in under gray skies to propel me outside for seed starting after three sunny days in a row. I spent a happy hour digging in dirt and here’s the earliest of what is sown:
Red Hamburger Onions (these probably have a real name, I call them what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/02/spring-fever/</link>
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		<title>Seed Inventory 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January and February are seed catalog and seed starting months. We’re at high altitude with a weird growing season and issues with pests, so my previous years of gardening have not been as productive as I’d like, though still satisfying because face it, playing in dirt is fun. 

So I sat down today and went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/02/seed-inventory-2010/</link>
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		<title>It’s gettin’ Biblical out there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re in the midst of a terrific snowstorm, real wrath of God type stuff (and while that’s a Ghostbusters quote, the subject of this post comes from our neighbor’s comment on the storm: “I hear today it’s supposed to be bad, but tomorrow it’s supposed to be Biblical”). The ever-watching They have been throwing around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/01/its-gettin-biblical-out-there/</link>
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		<title>Social Media Manifesto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you friend me, I will probably friend you back provided you seem to be human and not pornspam. This is a new policy, as of the beginning of 2009 — until then, I only friended folks I knew at least tangentially. 
If you friend me on Facebook so that you can then slag off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/01/social-media-manifesto/</link>
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		<title>Separation of Fun and Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we have sort of officially launched Pomfolio, and my portfolio is being organically created at http://briannaprivett.com using the String Theory theme and a couple of plugins. I like it, it does what it says on the box. Plus, this is the first time I’ve aggregated all the various stuff I put online in one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/01/separation-of-fun-and-play/</link>
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		<title>Twelfth Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…was yesterday and we celebrated it well hanging out with friends and listening to old vinyl. Awesome dinner at Holy Molé. Strawberry soda. Conversations. 
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/01/twelfth-night/</link>
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		<title>Sunbeams</title>
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Sunbeams
Originally uploaded by briannaorg

I haven’t written anything in nearly three weeks, since our cat was taken ill and subsequently put to sleep, so I figured I’d write a little bit about Fitzgerald here and see if it helps me resume the tenuous writing habit I’d so carefully built up over the last six months.
We found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/12/sunbeams/</link>
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		<title>Today is Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went to a celebration of my grandpa’s life yesterday and had a lot of fun. Cried the rest of the afternoon because I’m a girl and because I hadn’t seen a lot of these people since I was a kid and goodbyes are tough, but it’s good to reconnect and open the door for seeing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/12/today-is-sunday/</link>
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		<title>Gratitude and Thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving United-States Americans! I’m pausing for breath for the first time in what seems like weeks. Work this week has been overwhelming, as folks try to slide last minute “emergencies” in before they leave for the holiday. Since we were out for much of last week due to illness (and by “out” I mean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/11/gratitude-and-thanks/</link>
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		<title>The Little Green Valley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we laid my grandfather to rest. I am grateful I was with him when he passed, and still more grateful for my great-uncle John, who led the service with his guitar and played a few cowboy songs and a song my grandfather himself wrote (“Maybe tomorrow I’ll care”). I wanted to post the poem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/11/the-little-green-valley/</link>
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		<title>Revelations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a good week inside my head. Outside of it as well, but I like that the interior is matching the exterior a bit better.
I’ve carved out time for creativity every day, and it’s given me an enormous feeling of relief. The title of this post refers to the Revelations I have had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/11/revelations/</link>
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		<title>The Scent of the Air</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something particular about the air in these mountains. It isn’t just the mingling of the pines and cedars, the dusty desert weeds that always bloom some shade of yellow from hues of watery pale sunlight to deep egg yolk orange. There is also the scent of granite as it decomposes, the dust and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/10/the-scent-of-the-air/</link>
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		<title>September summer Saturday afternoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m sitting on my neighbors swing playing fetch with their giant puppy while the bees investigate my red linen skirt and the hummingbirds buzz my head on their way to the feeder hanging from a nearby tree. A bee just landed on my finger to check me out. She decided I wasn’t a flower after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/09/september-summer-saturday-afternoon/</link>
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		<title>Ego surf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Personas &#124; Metropath(ologies) &#124; An Installation by Aaron Zinman





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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/08/ego-surf/</link>
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		<title>Metro Monday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh the sun is too bright
And the mountains are too far
And there’s nowhere in town
I can get to in my broken car
I got nowhere to go
But to sleep
I could shut my eyes
But I’ve got
Promises to keep.…
–Jolie Holland







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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/08/metro-monday/</link>
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		<title>From a conversation with my favourite Giraffe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think — have you ever seen Tron? If you haven’t, it doesn’t matter, but it’s notable that they refer to what we would call “computer users” as “programmers” — as in, you were expected to use a computer by programming it. I was sort of musing around, talking with Josh about how I’ve noticed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/06/from-a-conversation-with-my-favourite-giraffe/</link>
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		<title>Why we’re buying a farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…so I can have 100 arable sq. ft. in which to grow things that only get MOSTLY eaten by chipmunks, not entirely.
No eggplant for me this year! Danged rodents. 
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/06/why-were-buying-a-farm/</link>
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		<title>Late spring moan.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m exhausted. That’s all there is about me. I’ve been doing various things to fight it since wintertime, iron supplements, eliminating coffee, sleeping regularly. Still tired. On to the stuff I’m growing at the moment (with lots of pictures):
My neighbor gifted us with an EarthBox and a handful of plants to use with it — [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/05/late-spring-moan/</link>
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		<title>Happy Mother’s Day</title>
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/05/happy-mothers-day/</link>
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		<title>Indoor Urban Gardening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This brianna.org post about last year’s eensy window garden was mentioned at Apartment Therapy’s The Kitchn.

That’s one powerful windowsill! The pics below are going to be used in a book on urban gardening by Spanish publishers
Ormobook.



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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/04/indoor-urban-gardening/</link>
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		<title>Red-tipped grey Spring morning</title>
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/04/red-tipped-grey-spring-morning/</link>
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		<title>A Week in the Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the cusp of releasing our first iPhone app and the new IF, so inspiration and motivation have been keywords to get me through the final stages of these projects. This week I am inspired by:
1) Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution (making seedballs from my Freedom Seeds — support the Soil and Health Library if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/04/a-week-in-the-life/</link>
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		<title>Revisiting Documentation Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, this was a video blog for an entire year! Who’d have guessed? I suppose after twelve years online, taking the freeform approach to information architecture on a personal site leads to these sorts of interludes.
And let’s be honest — did you want incessant philosophical ruminations based on my daily bird feeding excursions, or did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/03/revisiting-documentation-practices/</link>
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		<title>Grinding gears behind the scenes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Resurrecting the WordPress based version of brianna.org in order to experiment with new and exciting technology. More on its way…
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/03/grinding-gears-behind-the-scenes/</link>
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		<title>You don’t have to tell me I’m lucky, I know it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Great software is not created by observing users, any more than great architecture is built by interviewing people who live in houses”
Josh gives some usability straight talk over at Joshix.com
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/11/you-dont-have-to-tell-me-im-lucky-i-know-it/</link>
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		<title>Fishes.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/10/fishes/</link>
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		<title>King of the Zombies!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/10/king-of-the-zombies/</link>
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		<title>Summertime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I’ve always felt this was by far the best arrangement of this song — I like the Zombies version a lot too.
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/07/summertime-2/</link>
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		<title>Orphan Works, revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My thoughts on Copyright Law in the US are muddied, as should be expected — this issue is a gnarly motherfucker, to put it bluntly. So many layers of interpretation, obfuscation, when what it really comes down to is this: today, as it stands, your work is only protected as far as you can afford [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/07/orphan-works-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Anathea — Judy Collins</title>
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ANATHEA
Lazlo Feher stole a stallion,
Stole him from the misty mountain,
And they chased him and they caught him,
And in iron chains they bound him.Word was brought to Anathea
That her brother was in prison.
“Bring me gold and six fine horses,
I will buy my brother’s freedom.”“Judge, O Judge, please spare my brother,
I will give you gold and silver.“
“I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/06/anathea-judy-collins/</link>
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		<title>Roses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



roses

Originally uploaded by briannaorg


Fresh from the desert mountain, a shade of red you’re not likely to see again this side of a Belle Epoque bordello.

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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/06/roses/</link>
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		<title>And the late great Marcel Proust ‘ad an ‘addock!</title>
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Yesterday we purchased five hearty and hale goldfish, and one interesting water plant, installed them in an old stock tank my mother likely picked up at some antique-fair-garage-sale-etc. and then sat back to watch them do fish things, like hide under rocks and make themselves invisible.
We named them all Eric. Except the black one, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/05/fish-named-eric/</link>
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		<title>Danse Serpentine</title>
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Danse Serpentine
Lumiere Brothers, c. 1899
Hand-colored
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/04/danse-serpentine/</link>
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		<title>Here Comes the Sun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/04/here-comes-the-sun/</link>
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		<title>Funkytown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
via CuteOverload
by Waverly Films
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/04/funkytown/</link>
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		<title>Alice in Wonderland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
“So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”
~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/03/alice-in-wonderland/</link>
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		<title>Kale, carrots, dill</title>
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Kale, carrots, dill
Look how far we’ve come since January! These were all sown when the moon was waxing gibbous in the sign of Cancer. I’m not being very scientific in my moon phase sowing experiments, and I have no idea if it had much bearing, but I do know that I’ve been sowing seeds only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/02/kale-carrots-dill/</link>
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		<title>Mrs. Cotten Picking Freight Train</title>
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/02/mrs-cotten-picking-freight-train/</link>
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		<title>Baby dill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

Baby dill
Originally uploaded by briannaorg

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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/02/baby-dill/</link>
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		<title>Winter surprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  

Winter surprise
Originally uploaded by briannaorg


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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/02/winter-surprise/</link>
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		<title>Bird Count</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On today’s menu: black oil sunflower seeds &#38; the usual, peanuts. The sunflower seeds have drawn visits today from several towhees, juncos, acorn woodpeckers, brewer’s blackbirds, steller’s and scrub jays, several band-tailed pigeons, and one northern flicker.
It should be noted for the purposes of this record that it has snowed for several hours this morning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/02/bird-count/</link>
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