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		<title>The absurdity of hope; or December 23 at Barnes &amp; Noble.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James MacAdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Christmas I got a DVD of topo maps for all of Southern Arizona from my wife.  Oh, the excitement, the places I’d go!  I’d walk the whole area, explore hidden nooks off the trail, plan bike- and horse-packing trips to know the whole region, make it mine, all mine!  It’s like that feeling of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesmacadam.com&amp;blog=14976177&amp;post=431&amp;subd=jamesmacadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You, practicing not checking your smartphone.</title>
		<link>http://jamesmacadam.com/2011/10/17/you-practicing-not-checking-your-smartphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James MacAdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people don’t even notice it.  There is the familiar buzz in the pocket, or the soft, quirky tone that emanates from an indeterminate space in the room.  Before their conscious mind recognizes what it is, the amygdala responds, igniting whatever emotions it is they associate with incoming data: anxiety, hope, fatigue. Unconsciously, the Pavlovian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesmacadam.com&amp;blog=14976177&amp;post=412&amp;subd=jamesmacadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another goddamn nature essay</title>
		<link>http://jamesmacadam.com/2011/09/11/another-goddamn-nature-essay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James MacAdam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nature frees and inspires because it has nothing to do with our earnest, meaningful, petty lives.  That juniper tree I once loved is out there right now,  standing in the yellow grass, slowly, imperceptibly growing, holding the feet and prying beaks of chittering bushtits and sparrows.  Its square-checked bark slowly desiccates on the trunk, its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesmacadam.com&amp;blog=14976177&amp;post=399&amp;subd=jamesmacadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for myself, 10 years ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James MacAdam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmacadam.com/?p=390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the ripe old age of 35, I have noticed that my life is much better now than it was ten years ago.  Things still get chaotic, but it&#8217;s nice to have a steady job, a wife, and emotions that aren&#8217;t threatening to tear apart the very fibers of my being.  I like to think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesmacadam.com&amp;blog=14976177&amp;post=390&amp;subd=jamesmacadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life is finally getting back to normal</title>
		<link>http://jamesmacadam.com/2011/08/03/life-is-finally-getting-back-to-normal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James MacAdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across America, we’re about to see our above-average temperatures come back down towards normal again.  Not because the weather’s changing–it is, in fact, continuing to warm–but because our method of measuring it is.  The National Weather Service uses a 30-year average to calculate average temperature and precipitation measurements.  These averages are what we hear today’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesmacadam.com&amp;blog=14976177&amp;post=360&amp;subd=jamesmacadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nature couldn&#8217;t care less about you, but loves you just the same</title>
		<link>http://jamesmacadam.com/2011/05/31/nature-could-care-less-about-you-but-loves-you-just-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James MacAdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nature is impartial, amoral, and chaotic.  It is we, the conscious ones, who bring loving kindness, cruelty, meaning and order to it all. Consider that your loving family dog was meant to gnaw the belly of a still living elk calf, that your house cat will toy with a half dead mouse until it dies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesmacadam.com&amp;blog=14976177&amp;post=348&amp;subd=jamesmacadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of the Hive</title>
		<link>http://jamesmacadam.com/2011/05/09/the-wisdom-of-the-hive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 17:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James MacAdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days after the horrific shooting in Tucson this January, I saw President Obama speak at the national service for those affected by the disaster.  OK, so I watched him speak on a huge video screen in the stadium next to where he was actually speaking.  But I was there with about 20,000 other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesmacadam.com&amp;blog=14976177&amp;post=340&amp;subd=jamesmacadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death by Taxes</title>
		<link>http://jamesmacadam.com/2011/04/11/death-by-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James MacAdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I finished our taxes this week.  We got married in 2010, and received a several hundred dollar tax penalty.  Awesome.  Whether you are writing a check to Uncle Sam this April, or receiving a “refund” (an interest-free loan you provided to the government), taxes suck.  As the saying goes, they are one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesmacadam.com&amp;blog=14976177&amp;post=323&amp;subd=jamesmacadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why you want Eminem&#8217;s (subtle) body</title>
		<link>http://jamesmacadam.com/2011/03/29/why-you-want-eminems-subtle-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James MacAdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to teach a great class, give an affecting presentation, make transcendent art, or just show up more fully in your life?  Listen to Eminem’s song “I Need a Doctor.” The song is technically Dr. Dre’s (Eminem raps the first two verses and Dre the final one), but that’s just the point: Eminem owns this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesmacadam.com&amp;blog=14976177&amp;post=309&amp;subd=jamesmacadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Practicing Intensity</title>
		<link>http://jamesmacadam.com/2011/03/13/on-practicing-intensity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James MacAdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an intense week–after my last post had languished on the internet for a week with a couple hundred readers, all of a sudden several thousand showed up.  While most people would see this as a good thing, my mind used it as fuel for anxiety (what would I write next?  What are all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesmacadam.com&amp;blog=14976177&amp;post=294&amp;subd=jamesmacadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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