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		<title>Instant Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nesting has begun in earnest, and I spent the weekend going through my massive camera and photography collection, with the end result that I&#8217;ve posted some of my original Polaroid SX-70 manipulations (and some fine art reproductions) for sale on Etsy. Josh chipped in with a very spiff artist&#8217;s bio that I&#8217;m reposting here because<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2011/06/instant-light/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2011/06/instant-light/</link>
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		<title>Sea Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So. When we last heard from our intrepid hero(ine), she had just returned from an extended stay in the Midwest and was bracing herself for the remaining slog through winter. Then she went silent. Usually when I go quiet here, it&#8217;s either because I&#8217;m in an exceptionally boring phase or because I can&#8217;t share what&#8217;s<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2011/04/sea-change/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2011/04/sea-change/</link>
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		<title>Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We almost didn&#8217;t make it. We stayed for Christmas, and had a lovely holiday. Once the holiday passed, I began to feel restless to move again, but was ambivalent about going back to California. Let&#8217;s just be honest &#8211; I&#8217;ve never been able to figure out why I left Greece. I guess when you find<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2011/01/home/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2011/01/home/</link>
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		<title>Ringing in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve. I don&#8217;t have any plans, just people I hope to see tonight. No resolutions, just ideas. I had a good year. I hope you did too, and that the year ahead blows us away with vibrancy and intensity.]]></description>
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		<title>Three Snakes Across the Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had one wish before we left California, and it was that we wouldn&#8217;t be too late for summer thunderstorms in the midwest. We weren&#8217;t. It&#8217;s rained half the time we&#8217;ve been here, hours of silent sheet lightning flickering cinematically over the white-sided houses, followed by hours of rolling thunder and speeding clouds. Then rain.<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/09/three-snakes-across-the-road/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/09/three-snakes-across-the-road/</link>
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		<title>Momentum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is September, which is birthday + anniversary month and so we&#8217;ve decided to head out to Missouri to visit family and get a very welcome break from the routine. We&#8217;ve been trying to make this trip for two years and we decided to just take our work with us. There will be family and<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/09/momentum/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/09/momentum/</link>
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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&#8217;t sleep either. When I do sleep, a few hours here and there, wherever I fall,<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/07/midsummer-dreams/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;t check them until evening, where I found all but the thyme burnt to a crisp. So&#8230;erm&#8230;I think tomorrow I&#8217;ll bake cookies in that thing instead.<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/07/balance/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;s been growing in a 2-gal pot in shade for 3 years<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/04/garden-update/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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 &#8211; in a poem I can tell you of the victory the lavendar felt as it wore my blood. Lavendar, if you are listening<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/lavendar/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/lavendar/</link>
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		<title>Evidence of Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what these are. But they&#8217;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&#8217;t so long ago. But we&#8217;ve moved on to better things. Josh has already shaved<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/evidence-of-spring/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/evidence-of-spring/</link>
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		<title>The Blue Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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&#8217;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<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/the-blue-room/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;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 &#8211; well, let&#8217;s just<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/watching-the-ponies/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;s horrendously expensive where I live so I don&#8217;t get to have it very often. Well, truthfully speaking, I don&#8217;t buy it where I live because it&#8217;s not very good. SO, given that it&#8217;s California citrus season &#8211; or the end of it, actually &#8211; there&#8217;s a lot<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/marmalade/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;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 &#8211; but seriously, I&#8217;d been using a paring knife for everything for<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/gustatory-ruminations/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/03/gustatory-ruminations/</link>
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		<title>Spring fever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;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&#8217;s the earliest of what is sown: Red Hamburger Onions (these probably have a real name, I call them<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/02/spring-fever/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;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&#8217;d like, though still satisfying because face it, playing in dirt is fun. So I sat down today and went<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/02/seed-inventory-2010/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/02/seed-inventory-2010/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s gettin&#8217; Biblical out there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re in the midst of a terrific snowstorm, real wrath of God type stuff (and while that&#8217;s a Ghostbusters quote, the subject of this post comes from our neighbor&#8217;s comment on the storm: &#8220;I hear today it&#8217;s supposed to be bad, but tomorrow it&#8217;s supposed to be Biblical&#8221;). The ever-watching They have been throwing around<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/01/its-gettin-biblical-out-there/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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 &#8211; until then, I only friended folks I knew at least tangentially. If you friend me on Facebook so that you can then slag off<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/01/social-media-manifesto/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;ve aggregated all the various stuff I put online in one<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/01/separation-of-fun-and-play/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/01/separation-of-fun-and-play/</link>
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		<title>Twelfth Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;was yesterday and we celebrated it well hanging out with friends and listening to old vinyl. Awesome dinner at Holy Molé. Strawberry soda. Conversations.]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2010/01/twelfth-night/</link>
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		<title>Sunbeams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunbeams Originally uploaded by briannaorg I haven&#8217;t written anything in nearly three weeks, since our cat was taken ill and subsequently put to sleep, so I figured I&#8217;d write a little bit about Fitzgerald here and see if it helps me resume the tenuous writing habit I&#8217;d so carefully built up over the last six<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/12/sunbeams/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;s life yesterday and had a lot of fun. Cried the rest of the afternoon because I&#8217;m a girl and because I hadn&#8217;t seen a lot of these people since I was a kid and goodbyes are tough, but it&#8217;s good to reconnect and open the door for seeing<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/12/today-is-sunday/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;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 &#8220;emergencies&#8221; in before they leave for the holiday. Since we were out for much of last week due to illness (and by &#8220;out&#8221; I mean<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/11/gratitude-and-thanks/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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 (&#8220;Maybe tomorrow I&#8217;ll care&#8221;). I wanted to post the poem<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/11/the-little-green-valley/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;ve carved out time for creativity every day, and it&#8217;s given me an enormous feeling of relief. The title of this post refers to the Revelations I have<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/11/revelations/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;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<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/10/the-scent-of-the-air/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;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&#8217;t a flower after<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/09/september-summer-saturday-afternoon/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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]]></description>
		<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&#8217;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&#8217;ve got Promises to keep&#8230;. -Jolie Holland]]></description>
		<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 &#8211; have you ever seen Tron? If you haven&#8217;t, it doesn&#8217;t matter, but it&#8217;s notable that they refer to what we would call &#8220;computer users&#8221; as &#8220;programmers&#8221; &#8211; as in, you were expected to use a computer by programming it. I was sort of musing around, talking with Josh about how I&#8217;ve noticed<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/06/from-a-conversation-with-my-favourite-giraffe/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/06/from-a-conversation-with-my-favourite-giraffe/</link>
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		<title>Why we&#8217;re buying a farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;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.]]></description>
		<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&#8217;m exhausted. That&#8217;s all there is about me. I&#8217;ve been doing various things to fight it since wintertime, iron supplements, eliminating coffee, sleeping regularly. Still tired. On to the stuff I&#8217;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<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/05/late-spring-moan/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/05/late-spring-moan/</link>
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		<title>Happy Mother&#8217;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&#8217;s eensy window garden was mentioned at Apartment Therapy&#8217;s The Kitchn. That&#8217;s one powerful windowsill! The pics below are going to be used in a book on urban gardening by Spanish publishers Ormobook.]]></description>
		<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&#8217;s One Straw Revolution (making seedballs from my Freedom Seeds &#8211; support the Soil and Health Library<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/04/a-week-in-the-life/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;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&#8217;s be honest &#8211; did you want incessant philosophical ruminations based on my daily bird feeding excursions, or<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/03/revisiting-documentation-practices/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2009/03/grinding-gears-behind-the-scenes/</link>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t have to tell me I&#8217;m lucky, I know it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Great software is not created by observing users, any more than great architecture is built by interviewing people who live in houses&#8221; Josh gives some usability straight talk over at Joshix.com]]></description>
		<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>
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		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/10/fishes/</link>
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		<title>King of the Zombies!</title>
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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&#8217;ve always felt this was by far the best arrangement of this song &#8211; I like the Zombies version a lot too.]]></description>
		<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 &#8211; 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<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/07/orphan-works-revisited/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/07/orphan-works-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Anathea &#8211; Judy Collins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. &#8220;Bring me gold and six fine horses, I will buy my brother&#8217;s freedom.&#8221;"Judge, O Judge, please spare my<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/06/anathea-judy-collins/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></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&#8217;re not likely to see again this side of a Belle Epoque bordello.]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/06/roses/</link>
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		<title>And the late great Marcel Proust &#8216;ad an &#8216;addock!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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,<a href="http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/05/fish-named-eric/"><br /> Read more >></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/05/fish-named-eric/</link>
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		<title>Danse Serpentine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Danse Serpentine Lumiere Brothers, c. 1899 Hand-colored]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/04/danse-serpentine/</link>
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		<title>Here Comes the Sun</title>
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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]]></description>
		<link>http://brianna.org/mmvi/2008/04/funkytown/</link>
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