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		<title>Artwork on Flickr</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my website! To see a comprehensive set of images of my work, click HERE FOR FLICKR PAGE.  I am also adding work to the tabs you see at left, so far to &#8220;Commissions&#8221; and &#8220;Paintings.&#8221; Thanks for visiting! ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I was just thinking I can understand why some artists hit the bottle, when what do I stumble upon in the groupon website?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drinking and Art History&#8217;s great artists have all known the secret to producing classic works: become inspired by the freeing effects of alcohol. Here&#8217;s how a few different drinks can inspire your inner artist: Wine: A leisurely sipped glass of wine was a favorite tool of Michelangelo, who used it to refresh himself in between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicashirley.com/?p=283</link>
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		<title>U2 for the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Grace, she takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name Grace, it&#8217;s the name for a girl It&#8217;s also a thought that changed the world And when she walks on the street You can hear the strings Grace finds goodness in everything Grace, she&#8217;s got the walk Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicashirley.com/?p=277</link>
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		<title>Plastic, anyone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who knew &#8220;plastic&#8221; had to do with art? Thus saith Merriam Webster online: plastic art: 1 : art (as sculpture or bas-relief) characterized by modeling : three-dimensional art 2 : visual art (as painting, sculpture, or film) especially as distinguished from art that is written (as poetry or music) —often used in plural]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicashirley.com/?p=269</link>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God wanted to make sure that we couldn’t lose him, so as opposed to relying on our capacity to find him, he decided to just live in us. &#8211;Brad Cummings]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicashirley.com/?p=264</link>
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		<title>light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;m feeling kind of a little e. e. cummings-esque today.  when i awoke, i wrote thus on a piece of paper: the lamentation of a housecat spills through my otherwise still room.  still but for shine or shadow of the sun, played upon by clouds like a light blossom, now opened, now closing.  in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicashirley.com/?p=242</link>
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		<title>And I can&#8217;t afford it/ But it&#8217;s mine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something changed inside me: broke wide open, all spilled out Till I had no doubt that something changed. Never would have believed it till I felt it in my own heart: In the deepest part the healing came. And I cannot make it And I cannot fake it And I can&#8217;t afford it But it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicashirley.com/?p=231</link>
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		<title>Women, etc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting at the front desk in a counseling office, reading a book about freedom from overeating, and finding that it says a lot about women in general, whether they cope with food or not.  One sentence brought unexpected tears to my eyes as I thought about all the people I&#8217;ve been given to &#8220;love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicashirley.com/?p=225</link>
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		<title>To look unblinking at the Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love an author called Thomas Kelly.  But just now I want to post a quote not of his, but of something said of him when he died in 1941: &#8220;I was filled with a kind of joy when I read of Thomas Kelly&#8230;I feel I want to sing when I hear of such men [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicashirley.com/?p=215</link>
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		<title>Daily Lewis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In His city all things are made for each.  When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.  Each thing, from the single grain of Dust to the strongest eldil [angel], is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jessicashirley.com/?p=210</link>
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