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		<title>A poem on the homefront</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tunes from etherworld</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In LA for a spell. The gods are playing roulette with the weather. Maybe I&#8217;m looking at things through east-coast-lenses, cuz ppl seem so placid and undisturbed while I&#8217;m being met by sudden attacks of sneezes and sniffles, oh my. I&#8217;ll be spending the next day indoors and channel surfing, taking a break from all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.torabrava.com&amp;blog=7482785&amp;post=556&amp;subd=torabrava&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The shy face of spring returns</title>
		<link>http://blog.torabrava.com/2010/03/26/the-shy-face-of-spring-returns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been away from the bloggie since the last winter. I refer not only to the season that just bid its farewell in the jolly northern hemisphere, but I also call attention to the fact that I just lived through the last real winter of my life. My yoga practice has revealed a few things to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.torabrava.com&amp;blog=7482785&amp;post=493&amp;subd=torabrava&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To my lost ones in the north</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure they don&#8217;t believe they&#8217;re lost &#8212; they&#8217;re only lost to me, since I&#8217;ve never met my family in the North half of Korea. It&#8217;s a matter of perspective, as with much else in life. I am, myself, born of South Korea, my aunts, uncles, cousins and one grandmother, born of South Korea. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.torabrava.com&amp;blog=7482785&amp;post=434&amp;subd=torabrava&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rehearsal @ Gibson Studios</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U know I hit that. It sat hulking in the corner, like a big shiny lollipop. That big, red shiny Baldwin baby grand. Mommy, I want one!!! Now!!!!!! Sitting in the Gibson rehearsal studio, in the former Hit Factory building of legend, I thought, &#8220;It&#8217;ll look fabulous in the living room of my beach house [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.torabrava.com&amp;blog=7482785&amp;post=405&amp;subd=torabrava&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Insomnia On a Snowy Eve</title>
		<link>http://blog.torabrava.com/2009/12/31/insomnia-on-a-snowy-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eve of 2010. I&#8217;ve heard good things about this coming year. Whoever you are, you&#8217;re probably reading this from the other side of midnight. I&#8217;m writing this at 7am on the morning of the eve, having slept none at all. Dang allergies. SO&#8230;instead of zzzzs, I baked a new year&#8217;s cake. So far 2010 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.torabrava.com&amp;blog=7482785&amp;post=370&amp;subd=torabrava&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://blog.torabrava.com/2009/12/16/the-exorcist-meets-the-oyster-on-the-half-shell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shouldn&#8217;t that make for &#8220;The Sexorcist&#8221;? Alas, no. It merely describes the state of Food Poisoning in which I had found myself last week, barely any sex appeal in sight. I know! A tad disappointing, right? On the other hand, I find any story that mentions hours of nausea and projectile vomiting may be worth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.torabrava.com&amp;blog=7482785&amp;post=333&amp;subd=torabrava&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Souls Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.torabrava.com/2009/11/05/all-souls-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sky looked different this morning. From where I sit at my desk, I can usually see a lot of sky, including what is revealed apart from it, the cityline and river and the changing colors of leaves and trees. The sky is like the ocean. It never looks the same, but sometimes it will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.torabrava.com&amp;blog=7482785&amp;post=267&amp;subd=torabrava&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hitched in the hills</title>
		<link>http://blog.torabrava.com/2009/10/30/hitched-in-the-hills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hitched? Me? Nah. It&#8217;s not my time yet. And not that I don&#8217;t like talking about myself, but come on. I had been holding my blogger tongue for too long. Life got busy and hectic in a way that I wasn&#8217;t sure I&#8217;d blog about. Then I realized how silly I was being&#8230; my brother got [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.torabrava.com&amp;blog=7482785&amp;post=226&amp;subd=torabrava&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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