<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>My Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.tblog.com/</link><description>A tBlog Blog!</description><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:11:45 -0700</lastBuildDate><language>en-us</language><item><title><![CDATA[Our House Has Sold!!]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1970058593</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1970058593</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:23:25 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[These are excerpts from my journal, and still they amaze me:

Monday 16 Mar 09

Today we buried our St Joseph statue by the for sale sign left us by Dana Orr.  While we worked to bury St J, ... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1970058593'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy New Year!!]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1970041820</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1970041820</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:00:36 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today I received a birthday message from a dear one, Whisper.  He's someone I know from another life it seems.  So glad he's doing well.  

Alas, I'm trying to stimulate interest in writing to my... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1970041820'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't call me Chester!]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969997056</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969997056</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:22:57 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[JT's been of the habit of calling me "Chester" lately, because I have a hitch in my git-along when tired.  It's an odd thing, since my stroke I've got a few little things:   my smile's crooked but ado... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969997056'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm gonna pray for you ..."]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969996736</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969996736</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:11:50 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Whenever someone offers to pray for me, I make note.  This is someone who has *some* sort of experience with prayer.  I've in the past asked specifically for the prayers of these folks - for jobs, hea... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969996736'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[At The Very Core of Being ...]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969996088</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969996088</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:13:59 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sadness.  Grief and sorrow - not quite sadness, but almost, being the heart's rendering of that pain.  Blake, Keats, Isaak Walton and Longellow are all quoted - yet it's the baby's first cry that clin... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969996088'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Speedy Entry]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969995995</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969995995</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:36:42 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[You know what I notice is, the briefer and more cogent blogs get read!  I can't believe that this is something that occurs to me just now.  Amazing, but true, those blogs where many (though brilliant)... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969995995'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universe Thrives - Blog Ahoy!]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969995495</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969995495</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:35:28 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There's yet another new blog afoot at http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Andrea.Kelso.MS.CNS.Psychotherapy.540-239-4199 where I've been writing specifically stuff that might be of interest to the ... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969995495'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy New Year]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969970843</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969970843</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:21:31 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today's the first day of a very special time.  

Hunting season's over.  That means the gate's locked on the fire road from our house going toward the Appalachian Trail.  We took the blaze orange... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969970843'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rescue Me!]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969956851</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969956851</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:50:00 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There's new data  - quite special, really, and really very important.  

People here at tBlog and beyond, have rescued me with attention.  Now I've launched my life onto the path toward wholen... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969956851'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Newest Page]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969949603</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969949603</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 18:21:33 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Okay.  I'm back [again]- if a bit altered, changed - you know.

So now I'm up to getting myself to all my appointments.  Some things I'll seek to do will unfold as follows:

- contact my ... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969949603'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm Out of the Hospital!!]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969940673</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969940673</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:42:29 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm out of the hospital - and glad of it!  This week I've been getting myself out of email junk - next week I'll get my blog under some sort of work.  Anyway, I've returned from the grave!!  More soon... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969940673'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andrea is in the hospital]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969936440</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969936440</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:03:09 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hi,  This is from Andrea's husband John.  On 1/11, Andrea suffered a brain hemorrhage.  We coulda lost her!  Her recovery will take some time, so she will probably not be posting for a while.  She is ... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969936440'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is This Dread?]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933727</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933727</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:40:25 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There's something about *dread*

That launches from the solar plexus

With ghostly fingers, rising as if with helium

Finally to leap from nostrils, eyes and ears - bringing soft faint.

Ma... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933727'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too Funny - but for the terrifying Sadness Of It All]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933444</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933444</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:07:24 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[My husband told me of reading news of this, shaking his head and complaining I was laughing (perhaps a little too loudly,) at his "sadness."  I don't know, it's just one of those moments where the tip... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933444'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imprisoning the Mentally Ill]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933340</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933340</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:05:24 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Back in November, Mimi called attention to an article in her paper The Orlando Sentinel, by April Hunt, "Get mentally ill out of jail, defender says"  http://tinyurl.com/ycto8q . 

Today the New ... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933340'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein hanged]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933329</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933329</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:30:31 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today I'm horrified to hear on the radio that Iraq has (not surprisingly, I realize,) seen fit to deliver the poison of revenge to their people.  Saddam Hussein has now been executed by hanging.  ... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933329'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yip Harburg, poem of courage]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933244</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933244</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:00:58 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
'Lives of great men all remind us 
greatness takes no easy way. 
All the heroes of tomorrow 
are the heretics of today. 
Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, 
Thoreau, Christ, and Debbs 
He... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933244'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA["Normal Day"]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933231</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933231</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:33:08 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.

Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.

Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.

... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933231'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[lovely prayer by Rilke]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933071</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933071</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:38:55 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA["I love you, gentlest of Ways,                                        who ripened us as we wrestled with you.

You, the great homesickness                                          we could never ... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969933071'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amy Goodman's Christmas tribute to Yip Harburg]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969932903</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969932903</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:29:25 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Just looked at our recording of Amy Goodman's Christmas tribute to Yip Harburg.  Harburg's son, Ernie Harburg, participated in the hour-long interview looking at the work of his amazing father, E.Y. H... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969932903'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purpose of Religion]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969932564</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969932564</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:41:22 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big
temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion
inside, in our hearts.

- HH The Dalai Lama, f... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969932564'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blogging and Homeland Security]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969931867</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969931867</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:09:42 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[My husband has alerted me to an interesting twist in homeland security:  John McCain wants to hold bloggers accountable for the entirety of safety-breaches associated with commenters to said blog.... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969931867'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Things ...]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969931856</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969931856</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:39:37 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[#One, I'd like to dovetail from PuC's post on the child prodigy artist/poet.

It sparked my long-held fascination with a gentleman I once saw on the tellie, by the name of Alonzo Clemons.  I'd lo... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969931856'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell to Clinic for the Poor]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969931473</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969931473</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:11:31 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Just submitted this to the Roanoke Times for publication on their letters and opinions page:

Merry Christmas, and Goodbye to a jewel in the crown of Radford
University.

At Christmas we ce... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969931473'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a Lazy-Butt, and  Mel White's sincerest Fan!]]></title><link>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969930950</link><guid>http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969930950</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:43:23 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Open Letter From Mel White to Jerry Falwell
http://www.soulforce.org/article/526 June 5, 1999

"Dear Jerry,

I've been reading your autobiography again. It still moves me. And I'm n... <a href='http://akelso.tblog.com/post/1969930950'>more from akelso...</a>]]></description></item></channel></rss>