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		<title>Lessons From a Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a bright and cheery morning and we were all collected around the table of a much loved acquaintance…we had been doing this each Saturday morning for years.  My friend has Parkinson’s and we try each week to bring her a bit of the past and the present in our remembrances and our togetherness.]]></description>
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		<title>Family Visits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wandered down to the basement bedroom and looked at what was left… a messed up bed and a playpen in one corner.  But memories flitted through my head.]]></description>
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		<title>Blessings Old and New</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been neighbours for 20 years.  Sadly, I watch her husky sons load the truck as they haul their mother’s furniture to her new apartment.]]></description>
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		<title>And a Little Child Shall Lead Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It always amazes me that the children you bear can be so terribly different.  Delightful but different.]]></description>
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		<title>Covered with Cobwebs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hip surgery was behind me, my recovery going very well and the sun which had only shone seven days out of 31 last month was finally shinning brilliantly.]]></description>
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		<title>And He Carried Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up gradually and saw the face of my youngest daughter gazing at me rather anxiously.  My hip surgery was over and now it was time to get back to the real world.]]></description>
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		<title>When the Curtain Goes Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us have experienced the let-down when the theatre play is over.  It’s natural.  For a while we are caught up in the movement, the story and sometimes the music and then it is done.]]></description>
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		<title>This Old House</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/12/19/this-old-house-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daughter Robin bought our old house when we decided to move.  It certainly made things easier…I didn’t have to tidy it up constantly for prospective buyers, and I left packed up boxes everywhere.  Then one day in September the movers arrived.]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let there be laughter … no more tears
I’ve cried a river these past few years]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Weather Patterns</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/12/05/changing-weather-patterns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many examples in nature that remind us that things are never static … change is inevitable .]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to a Widowed Friend</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/11/28/ode-to-a-widowed-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things will get better, I know that’s true
Because I’ve walked the same road as you.]]></description>
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		<title>Timber!</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/11/21/timber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up the stairs I lug the fair sized box.  It contains my Christmas tree.  This year I feel a little more enthusiastic about putting it up.  (I know widows that refuse to continue putting up trees, but I’m a traditionalist.)]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing Griefs</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/11/14/comparing-griefs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I have learned these past few years is how varied grief is. My experience is similar to many yet I find others who are far more stoic, maybe braver, and not nearly as emotional as I have been.]]></description>
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		<title>Of Squeezes and Squabbles</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/11/07/of-squeezes-and-squabbles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have kept a number of emails sent me after Harry died … one from a dear friend who assured me that although time would help, I would probably never get over my grief as my grief was a tribute to a man who loved me for many  years.

And perhaps it is true, that the more you love someone the more you grieve.]]></description>
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		<title>Similar Faces</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/10/31/similar-faces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met someone the other day
And saw in her my past]]></description>
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		<title>Like a Visit to Grandma&#8217;s House</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/10/24/like-a-visit-to-grandmas-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Can I do this?” I ask myself. Then making the decision even tougher, I chose the most miserable winter day I could find.  It was -20 C and the snowfall at the sides of the roads was in windrows nearly four feet tall.  But, I did it!]]></description>
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		<title>The Essence of a Man</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/10/17/the-essence-of-a-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn’t played the family movie for a few years so took courage one day and played it. We looked so young and as I watched I could see our baby girls grow into young adults in front of my eyes.]]></description>
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		<title>Selfish Streaks</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/10/10/selfish-streaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is very hard in some ways to write about grief … mainly because it is about “you, you, you.”]]></description>
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		<title>Carry On</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/10/03/carry-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I got a pet and it died, I vowed I would never involve myself again in that kind of grief.  The years have slipped by and I still pat dogs and cuddle kittens, but they are not mine ... no way, the last lost puppy nearly did me in.]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Year of Mourning</title>
		<link>http://www.presbyterianrecord.ca/2011/09/26/the-second-year-of-mourning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My best friend has just been put in long-term care.  I remember how her and Harry cried the last time they saw each other at the hospital.  I guess they knew the writing was on the wall.]]></description>
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