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		<description><![CDATA[Since I wrote my last post – Meditation, Medication, and Where I’ve Been – I’ve thought a lot about the things I do that affect my mood. In that piece, I was working through my own resistance to taking an anti-depressant because I felt that it was a false comfort, an artificial means of improving [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=412&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had a string of days during which I was just cranky. Here’s a sampling of things that were pressing my buttons so you get my gist: I’m cranky that people don’t let others out of elevators or off subway cars before pushing their way on I’m cranky that people walk 4 across on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=251&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those Three Little Words &#8211; I Forgive You</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mohandas Gandhi Always forgive your enemies &#8211; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde Rufus Wainwright (nee Pipsqueak) came to me when he was 4 weeks old, a pound and a half, and beyond scrawny. His eyes sealed shut with an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=165&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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