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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>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>Island on Fire</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/05/11/island-on-fire/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 08:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A little prayer for our friends over in Avalon, on the island of Catalina, may be in order. The smoke you can see in this telephoto shot from a highrise&#8217;s webcam in downtown Long Beach, in mid-afternoon, shows the start of a rapidly moving brush fire that now threatens the main city on the island. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Just another noodle in the bowl&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/02/27/just-another-noodle-in-the-bowl/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trifling piffle. Is that a pejorative? Well&#8230; so be it. This brief but probably pointless improvised instrumental duet is a trifling piffle. Perhaps, someday, this song will become emblematic of the notion of a trifling piffle&#8230; if so, it will have found a purpose and meaning in its very purposelessness. Until then, it&#8217;s just 2 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>After the Darking of the Day</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/02/26/after-the-darking-of-the-day/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s just after sunset as I write this. Like any working stiff, even one who has worked odd hours for a couple of decades, I find myself relaxing a little at sunset. Even if I&#8217;m hard into a project of some kind, I&#8217;ll usually take a few minutes to watch the sky&#8217;s blue deepen to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is this thing still on?</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/02/19/is-this-thing-still-on/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First&#8230; a GIG ALERT: I&#8217;ll be joining fellow legends, Tim Swenson (formerly of Lunchbox [the original late 80s LA faves &#8212; not the johnny-come-lately 90s band of the same name] , Candida, Drink Deep, and Thieving Kind) and Raindog (aka publisher and poet RD Armstrong in his bluesy, whisky-voiced folky mode) at Long Beach, CA, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Martha&#8217;s Dance</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/01/05/marthas-dance/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Martha&#8217;s Dance improvised guitar duet http://www.archive.org/download/20060104_MarthasDance_TKMajor/2006-01-04_AYoS_Marthas_Dance_Instrumental.mp3 Internet Archive page for this recording]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wise men testify&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/12/21/wise-men-testify/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; The headline caught my eye as I scanned Google News: &#8220;Wise men testify to dragon&#8217;s virgin birth,&#8221; a story about a parthenogenic Komodo dragon at the London Zoo. No, too on the nose for a few days before Christmas, I thought. I looked on. Plenty of pointed, timely headlines. That was the problem. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Instrumental, 2006-12-02</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A simple improvised acoustic guitar duet, overdubbing myself. Instrumental 2006-12-02 http://www.archive.org/download/20061130_TKMajor_AYoS_Instrumental/2006-11-12-2_AYoS_Instr2006-11-30.mp3 Internet Archive page for this recording]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Whole &#8216;Nother New Morning</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/11/09/a-whole-nother-new-morning/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; Nice day, today. Yep. http://www.archive.org/download/AWholeNotherNewMorningAYoS200611083/2006-11-08-3_AYoS_A_Whole_Nother_New_Morning.mp3 Internet Archive page for this recording]]></description>
		
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