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		<title>Red River Meander</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2021/02/07/red-river-meander/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 23:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Winter Meditation</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2012/12/19/christmas-2012-meditation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had just picked up something in my left hand when the urge to put my right hand on the keyboard next to me found my hand already moving over to the keys. After a half minute, something told me to hit the red button and I started recording. As always, what was captured was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A little guitar interlude&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2011/02/08/a-little-guitar-interlude/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Flat Five Jump (Instrumental)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; new instrumental Wet eucalyptus leaves buried the wipers on the old Falcon station wagon. He scooped up three handfuls, throwing them into the gutter by the curbside of the rusty wagon. A light drizzle was falling and he knew in his heart of hearts that the car wouldn&#8217;t start.  It&#8217;d been three [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Near London Bridge</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/03/21/near-london-bridge/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tower Bridge, near London Bridge He was moping in a pub near the boring, real London Bridge and he finally stumbled out into the slanting daylight late in the afternoon. His girlfriend, scratch that, ex-girlfriend, had flown back to LA the day before, leaving him with a half deck of traveler&#8217;s checks, some of her [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Throw the bums out&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/02/05/throw-the-bums-out/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve written before in this space about being an anti-war, environmentally concerned Republican (unnecessary war only benefits the arms dealers and a dead planet is bad for business &#8212; what&#8217;s hard to understand about that?) I figure it&#8217;s probably appropriate for me to announce some changes around here&#8230; I wish the GOP was still [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Long Gone Sunday</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/11/24/long-gone-sunday/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just after dawn the birds wake each other up. On Sundays, very early, you could sit in a certain spot in my old backyard, with a leafy canopy above you and the vine covered garage and overgrown yard before you, with the gentle sound of the little fountain* in the background and, for a little [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Castles in the sky&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/09/02/castles-in-the-sky/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A thousand dreams. Gone, like that. All those things they&#8217;d planned, lying awake, moonlight through the window, in each other&#8217;s arms. The places they&#8217;d go. The things they&#8217;d do. The projects they&#8217;d pursue together. The dreams. Gone. He knew in an instant they were as gone as though they&#8217;d never been. Sometimes when people break [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Danse Improvisée (Oo Bébé)</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/08/03/danse-improvisee-oo-bebe/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Partners will come and partners will go, waltzing off into the past. The music goes on long after we&#8217;re gone. In the end, there is only the dance&#8230; &#8212; The Dance, TK Major When I was a little kid, at school my first year, our kindergarten teacher introduced us to a clever little game called [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Shadow on Mars&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/07/19/a-shadow-on-mars/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s Mars. There, in the picture to the left. And, yeah. That&#8217;s a picture of a robot&#8217;s shadow stretching across the dry Martian soil. No doubt you read about it or heard it on the news. Mars robot blah blah blah. Opportunity Rover yadda yadda yadda. Conditions that would make the evolution of carbon-based lifeforms [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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