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	<description>&#34;You&#039;ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.&#34; - Ray Bradbury</description>
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		<title>The joy of fear</title>
		<link>http://buildingmywings.com/2010/03/07/the-joy-of-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. &#8230; You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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This quote is a touchstone for me; my main intention in starting this blog was to chronicle my attempts to follow Eleanor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the &#8220;end&#8221; in &#8220;friend&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://buildingmywings.com/2010/02/24/putting-the-end-in-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning, I had a perfectly friendly phone conversation with someone who&#8217;s been acting as my self-appointed &#8220;life coach&#8221; for a few months. We&#8217;d been out of touch for a couple of weeks, so it was time for a check-in. He asked about my hair (still growing), my weight (at my goal and holding), my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too picky</title>
		<link>http://buildingmywings.com/2010/02/08/too-picky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, as I was roaming the city with my camera, my lens cap flew off one too many times, so I ducked into a camera shop on Stockton (or maybe it was Grant) in search of a lens cap leash. I found one, and as long as I was there, I asked the guy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In which I play in traffic</title>
		<link>http://buildingmywings.com/2010/01/31/in-which-i-play-in-traffic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, a friend passed her old mountain bike on to me. I was very excited at first. I imagined zipping nimbly around like the people in Amsterdam who commute merrily hither and thither on their beater bikes. I bought padded bike shorts (because I thoroughly approve of any sport for which my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The only thing wrong with you</title>
		<link>http://buildingmywings.com/2010/01/29/the-only-thing-wrong-with-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many, many years, I thought that there was something wrong with me, something that everyone could see but me. I was never quite sure what it was, though. I struggled to fix what I could and hide what I couldn&#8217;t fix, and I was either apologetic or defensive about the things I could neither [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Made by loving hands at home</title>
		<link>http://buildingmywings.com/2010/01/22/made-by-loving-hands-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in 7th grade at the tail end of the &#8217;70s, just before the academic world changed. At the time, 6th grade was the end of elementary school, 10th grade was the beginning of high school, and the three years in between were called &#8220;junior high.&#8221; Within a few short years, the 9th graders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boylston and Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://buildingmywings.com/2010/01/19/boylston-and-berkeley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early-to-mid &#8217;90s, I worked frequently as a freelance copy editor for a Boston advertising agency. It took up several floors in a spectacular wedding cake of an office building at 420 Boylston Street, on the corner of Boylston and Berkeley. Across Berkeley was an enormous, soullessly modern office building. Diagonally across the intersection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going with the flow</title>
		<link>http://buildingmywings.com/2010/01/18/going-with-the-flow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was planning to use the new year as an excuse to get more aggressive about my desire to try new things. Then I was felled by the head cold of doom. I managed to struggle through New Year&#8217;s Day and even get out to socialize a few times, but I&#8217;ve basically spent the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An unassuming hero</title>
		<link>http://buildingmywings.com/2010/01/11/an-unassuming-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1942, as the Nazis began to deport Dutch Jews to concentration camps, an executive at a spice company who had already moved his wife and two daughters from Germany to the Netherlands realized there would be no second chance to run. The family went into hiding instead, living in a suite of rooms concealed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tut, two</title>
		<link>http://buildingmywings.com/2010/01/07/tut-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure what it says about me that in an exhibit full of extraordinary and beautiful objects, some of them almost 3,500 years old, what I found most emotionally compelling was a small oval piece of ivory, no larger than the palm of my hand, carved to resemble a duck with its head curved [...]]]></description>
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