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	<description>What Would You Love To Create?</description>
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		<title>The Tea House Writing Sessions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I used to sit regularly at a Buddhist center back in Australia. One of the members there was a student of the Japanese tea ceremony and she used to hold a tea ceremony for us once a month. The center was in the inner suburbs of Sydney, and we sat on our meditation cushions [...]


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		<title>Cicada Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 00:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cicada shell; it sang itself utterly away. Basho (trans.R.H.Blyth) Late Spring in Australia is when the air swells with the piercing cry of countless cicadas. It feels like the ground, the gum trees, and the sky are all vibrating with them. The sound is incessant, to the point where it almost distorts your sense [...]


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		<title>Love Poem For A Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*** One night the tide refused to turn and the moon, distraught, abandoned her orbit and wheeled away. Nights fell darker and the tideline teemed with confusion as the soldier crabs waved their claws and wobbled off. Rock pools, having lost their Cyclops-eye, became invisible against the sea and sulked as shallow-creatures rolled blindly inside [...]


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		<title>The Intention Rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[labyrinth picture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labyrinths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I’ve been consciously working on setting intentions, both in my art-making and labyrinth walking practices. I’m finding I don’t have time to not do this. If I set an intention with a project, or chunk of work then everything naturally becomes more focused for me and usually something worthwhile happens. If I don’t set [...]


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		<title>Eclipse Walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got to do a labyrinth walk beneath the total lunar eclipse the other night (this is one of the great things about having a labyrinth in the back yard). At the start of the walk I set the intention to focus on the theme of moving between  shadow and light, and what that might [...]


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		<title>Labyrinth Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great side effects of immersing myself in studying, painting and walking labyrinths all this month is that they&#8217;ve begun to seep into my dreams. I&#8217;m reading an amazing book called &#8216;Dancing at the Edge of Death&#8217; by Jodi Lorimer, which traces the origins of the labyrinth back to the Paleolithic era. It&#8217;s [...]


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		<title>Red Dragonfly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to belong to a writing group a few years ago, and our main focus was on exploring emotional issues through metaphor, story, and poetry. One day in response to the writing prompt I wrote a piece about an experience I had with a dragonfly. I found out later that some cultures saw dragonflies [...]


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		<title>The Goat King Sits On A Golden Throne</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything was burned. I stood at the edge of our property where the bush began its descent into the valley. Looking out over the blackened landscape, I saw a white shape shifting behind some tree trunks. At first I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, and walked closer to get a look. Then [...]


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		<title>6 Impossible Things: #6 The Upside Down Umbrella</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creativity is a non-linear process. We start out at Point A and end up at Point C, or Point Q, or any other point that happens to not be called Point B. This is because, on the way from Point A to Point B , impossible things happen that steer us away from our original [...]


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		<title>6 Impossible Things: #4 A Penny-Farthing For Your Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Rowley</dc:creator>
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