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		<title>Chapter 3 &#8211; Peeking through Kashmir’s Keyhole</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Lee Naas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So why else would this 45 year old lunatic named Ron (rhymes with cracked pecan) be clutching a bottle of rose wine in my mitt, the other fingering my last Camel, hoping Mr. Bik has one last light in his reservoir, the arrowhead in my pocket gouging my thigh as I sit down on Kashmir’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Intro to Chapter 3 &#8211; Peeking through Kashmir’s Keyhole</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Lee Naas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Difficulty of Letting Go
It was difficult to let go of Chapter 3.  Is my opening sentence so clumsy, only Einstein could untangle it?  Will the fact Ron yammers on about his mom’s forbidden subjects—politics, religion, and (oh Lordy, Lordy) sex&#8211; offend my readers?  Is the chapter so hopelessly tangled in flashbacks, I’m turning you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Journal Rap</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Lee Naas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I taught English years ago at City Colleges of Chicago, I required each minority student to keep a journal.  Students were given extra credit points to put tickler questions on the left hand corner of the blackboard.  My aim was to create a community of writers as soon as possible.
The first day, I always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 2 &#8211; Stuff That Could Send Me To Cherokee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Lee Naas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most peoples don&#8217;t know how lonely the farm is.  I mean my sister Nancy carries on with her brown doll Maggie, and mom and dad got each other to lean on like pitchforks.   My pet pigeons used to coo to their mates till Bega came along, and set them free to crack their wings over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Writing = A Meld of Memory &amp; Imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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That&#8217;s not my idea.  But what a relief when I read it in Christine Rainer&#8217;s How to Tell your Life Story.  Having rough drafted Book1 of Changing Colors, I was concerned I&#8217;d made too much use of imagination, which, like some evil snake, couldn&#8217;t resist hissing from inside my wicker basket.  My inner critic, Detective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Writing as Tripping&#8230; and Shape Shifting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Lee Naas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Chapter 1-Dancing on the Dangerous Side,&#8221; I got the opportunity to enter the consciousness of 45 year-old-Ron Naas (rhymes with not the boss).  To borrow a phrase from Eckhart Tolle, except for Ron&#8217;s remembrances of his Princess Vicksburg, he&#8217;s mainly in his &#8220;pain body.&#8221;  I do enjoy being Midlife Mess Ron for a spell, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intro to Old Black Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Lee Naas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Invitation to Celebrate



Two Crows in a Nest


So my son Steffen Corby Naas and I (2 crows) are sitting up in my nest tree at Penthous #25, and he&#8217;s reviewing my poems.  Not an enjoyer of such yuck mucks by any means, he&#8217;s saying, &#8220;Dad, you love people so much, you ought to write stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Version of Old Black Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 08:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Lee Naas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old Black Women read by the author Ronald Lee Naas

Intro to Old Black Women -- Old Black Women the poem
.MP3 Download &#60;-right click &#8220;save as&#8221;-&#62; .MP4 Video Download
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		<title>Old Black Women and Other Wonders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 08:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Lee Naas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Old Black Women and Other Wonders is a collection I&#8217;ve already written, except for the blog introductions and selection of photos. These portraits of the people I love feed into Changing Colors, but I don&#8217;t have room to include them in my memoir.
Over the past decade, I&#8217;ve read many of these prose poems to congregations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Invitation to Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 23:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Lee Naas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the blog of Ronald Lee Naas
and his memoir Changing Colors
Welcome to the changing of my colors, a two book journey I&#8217;ve been working on for the past 12 years. This memoir keeps wanting to rewrite itself.  At age 66, I&#8217;m realizing it may take me to 112, and still this story may not [...]]]></description>
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