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	<title>CYNTHIA J. PATTON &#187; Love</title>
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		<title>Won&#8217;t You Be My Neighbor?</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2018/07/wont-you-be-my-neighbor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Nate and I recently went to see the movie, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? If you haven’t heard of the film, it’s a documentary on Fred Rogers (aka Mr. Rogers). Nate and I both grew up watching Mr. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2018/07/wont-you-be-my-neighbor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of &#8220;Just Words&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hate. American chose hate. I am still grappling with this outcome, still feel as if one day I will wake from a bad dream. Except this isn&#8217;t a dream. Donald Trump has just been inaugurated so our collective nightmare won&#8217;t &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2017/02/the-myth-of-just-words/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dating &#8230; Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m dating again. This isn&#8217;t a place I expected to find myself after my marriage to Michael 1.0 in 1994, but it comes with the territory following a divorce, thankfully I got help with this since I found everything about &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2017/01/dating-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Question of Settling</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/11/a-question-of-settling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Summer 2015, when my brother Tom got engaged, I joked he was moving fast. His long-winded divorce had ended just two weeks earlier. “We’ve dated one-and-a-half years,” he said. “And this time, neither of us are settling.” At the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/11/a-question-of-settling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Things We do For Love</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2015/08/the-things-we-do-for-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was driving home and saw a man in the middle of the street. It wasn&#8217;t a lazy, neighborhood street, but a congested four-lane arterial. He was cutting across mid-way between intersections, weaving through traffic. It was &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2015/08/the-things-we-do-for-love/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on Luck (And Other Stuff)</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2015/03/some-thoughts-on-luck-and-other-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Saint Patrick’s Day approaches, I’ve been thinking a lot about luck. Most people think it’s incredibly unlucky that after eight years of infertility, my ex and I adopted a baby girl who turned out to have autism spectrum disorder—a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2015/03/some-thoughts-on-luck-and-other-stuff/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Success, Failure, and the Drive to Keep Creating</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2014/07/success-failure-and-the-drive-to-keep-creating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have Elizabeth Gilbert, the best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love, as well as five other books and countless publications as a longtime magazine writer &#8212; covering music and politics for Spin and GQ. Gilbert also owns and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2014/07/success-failure-and-the-drive-to-keep-creating/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Link Between Vulnerabilty and Creativity</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2014/05/the-link-between-vulnerabilty-and-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work where she has spent the past ten years studying courage, shame, and authenticity. Brené states that &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2014/05/the-link-between-vulnerabilty-and-creativity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Healing Power of Love and Creativity</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2014/01/tuesdays-with-ted-22/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. This week I am thrilled to share a powerful talk given by poet, writer, artist, and educator Tanaya Winder, who is a good friend and former classmate of my good friend, Jennifer Simpson. So &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2014/01/tuesdays-with-ted-22/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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