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		<title>Just Don&#8217;t Listen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 21:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Only Thing With Wings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting how you can be a somebody one place and a nobody in another. Interesting and frightening, Because nothing you show for yourself is viable in the nobody world. In the Land of Nobody, nobody is awake. They&#8217;re just stumbling numb, pan-handling for the next thing to smash into that hole marked cozy. And what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Message Society Zine Issue #2 is HERE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mailing out #SMSZine #2 tomorrow. I am so excited about this issue. I packed it full! If you have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about, you can read about the Secret Message Society Zine and get signed-up HERE. Thanks to your help, I was able to make my first month&#8217;s goal of 30 subscribers, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Know &#8211; A Case of the High-Highs and the Low-Lows</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Call your sorrow a disease or don&#8217;t. Take drugs or don&#8217;t. See a therapist or don&#8217;t. But whatever you do, when life drives you to your knees, which it is bound to do, which maybe it is meant to do, don&#8217;t settle for being sick in the brain. Remember that&#8217;s just a story. You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Day Cannot Suck</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 22:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Narrative]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mantras]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I awoke this morning to the sound of the doorbell ringing. We do expect someone to do that every morning &#8211; our neighbor who usually joins us for breakfast and rides or bikes with us to school, but this was a good 30 minutes earlier than he usually comes. &#8220;Do you think if I ignore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thrashing About With God &#8211; The Cover</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My book has a cover! And I love it so much. It has a 70&#8242;s hippy feel, but it also reminds me of Alice In Wonderland and Tim Burton and the dark place I sort of fell in love with while writing this book. It was created by Nick. Thank you, Nick! The book is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Anthology of Babes &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I almost never feel like I have ample time to indulge in my creative impulses and ideas. Nevertheless, I just keep making art anyway.&#8221; - Lori Landau, An Anthology of Babes, p. 25 &#8220;I&#8217;d always sensed [my mom] had felt caged and yearned for a deeper connection to a more earthly spiritual god; something deemed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About May 15th!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 15th is magic around here this week. Three things I want to share with you about that date: &#160; 1. The Secret Message Society Zine Number Two goes to print. That means issue one will no longer be available. So if you want to get in on the inaugural issue, I have 4 copies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Scared</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/05/im-not-scared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Narrative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;re all scared. If you&#8217;re not scared you&#8217;re not paying attention.&#8221; -Miranda Bailey, Grey&#8217;s Anatomy I have overcome fear. I don&#8217;t know how it happened, but I&#8217;m not scared of anything anymore. Nothing. Not my kids getting hit by a car as they walk to school alone. Not my husband finding some hot woman who pays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warble – Custom Secret Message Art Series</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/05/warble-custom-secret-message-art-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychologist, Author and Artist, Rachel Awes, has a thing for listening. She has created a book called All I Did Was Listen with beautiful graphics and hand lettered words. She also has a blog where she does a regular post called Listening to You. In this post she features other artists&#8217; artwork centered on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circling</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/05/circling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a picnic on a mountain. We go to this mountain at least once every Spring so Tony can ride his bicycle up it. It always feels so surreal being there so high in the sky on a big rock next to lots of other big rocks, some more dangerously close to the edge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live You – Custom Secret Message Art Series</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/05/live-you-custom-secret-message-art-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 11:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe I first heard about The Friendly Anarchist about two years ago, due to an eBook that was people were talking about called Beyond Rules: A Dilettante&#8217;s Guide to Personal Sovereignty, Space Travel, and Lots of Ice Cream.  It was around that time I was exercising my right to be a rebel, and the contents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From My Corner</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/04/from-my-corner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was starting out with a sleep deficit. I feel the need to say this because I had a hunch this day was going to be a rough one from the moment I tried to peel my eyes open and found they were glued shut. When I feel tired like I did that morning, everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pain and Potential – Custom Secret Message Art Series</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/04/pain-and-potential-custom-secret-message-art-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my mind Tyler Braun is a writer. I know he is much more than this &#8211; father, husband, pastor, worship leader, human soul mingled with something divine, but I connected with him over words at some point on-line, and that connection has held steady. He was writing a book. He was trying to carve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wreck-It Girl</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/04/wreck-it-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.messycanvas.com/?p=10895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.&#8221; - Rilke &#8220;In my next life,&#8221; I told him, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna be able to fix anything, just like you.&#8221; &#8220;Is that right?&#8221; He said, walking out the door to his truck to get a hammer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone is Selling Something</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember as a kid I used to listen to Zig Ziglar. He said everyone was a salesman. Everyone is selling something. And yesterday I got in a conversation with Tony and he said, a person can sell anything if they really believe in it. And my friend Carlos once said something on Twitter about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entertaining Dreams as a New Reality</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/04/entertaining-dreams-as-a-new-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I was able to make some kind of meaning that would reconnect me to life here again&#8230;I started to dream wonderful dreams. I mean, I always dreamed, but these were incredible dreams. I can&#8217;t tell you what it meant that somebody could recognize this huge part of me and say, &#8216;It does make sense and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sensual One – Custom Secret Message Art Series</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/04/the-sensual-one-custom-secret-message-art-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie Gibbons has graced me with a sort of intangible bolstering when it comes to expressing my creative voice. She was one of the first three to purchase a piece of my art when I reopened my Etsy store in 2012 after a three year pause. (For me, a new trembling artist, this spoke volumes.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannot Be Tamed – Custom Secret Message Art Series</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/04/cannot-be-tamed-custom-secret-message-art-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amber Haines writes with words of poetry. I can prove it: &#8220;Our entire town will wake like a woman and not wash her hair. She’ll put on her favorite hippie skirt. She might be a little cold, but she won’t care. I can’t wait to see her walk around sighing great big sing-song sighs, toting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Place of Constant Becoming &#8211; Custom Secret Message Art Series</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/04/a-place-of-constant-becoming-custom-secret-message-art-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is this artist, Eden Nova, who opened a new world for me. It&#8217;s the world of surrealism, imagination, play. It&#8217;s the world of synchronicity and tapping into the elusive dreamworld where the shadow side likes to play. I was first drawn to Eden because of her photography. I have a few of her pieces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Forward</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/04/looking-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A list I jotted down to help me move forward with detachment.]]></description>
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		<title>Spitting in the Face of Reality</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/04/spitting-in-the-face-of-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Essay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not write lately because I feel trapped. Many things I just can&#8217;t bring myself to say out loud. That is a death sentence to a writer. I am a zombie walking. I feel numb, like my life is happening outside of my body. I have applied for jobs. The comical way that none [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All Catch and Release These Days</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/03/its-all-catch-and-release-these-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Narrative]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chakras]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my practice today I took some time to really orient myself with chakras. I had this sensation that everything I&#8217;ve ever experienced is housed in my body and it felt good to visit each of the 7 resting places and know what gets stored up there and what freedom wants to break forth. My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Let Go of the Cage</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/03/i-let-go-of-the-cage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The church wasn&#8217;t one I recognized from my past, so it could have been any old church. I was there with my kids, although I wasn&#8217;t hanging out with my kids. It was a kids event put on by the church, much like a Vacation Bible School, and I was there to serve in some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A letting go of sorts</title>
		<link>http://www.messycanvas.com/2013/03/a-letting-go-of-sorts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art Journal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enamored by hands and the way they grip. Re-touching my word #detached a little more gently. Liking the feel of this. #iamtaj #glueittuesday #artjournal]]></description>
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