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		<title>Path of Kindness: Thirty-Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her face is the first I see in the crowd of neighbors and friends. “Mother.” One word. It crawls up my throat, part saw-dust, part-earth, all bitter. Her eyes flick over my face, down where my hip is, where Hearts sits in her sling, and to Sa, bare-faced, Sa who smiles and bows. “Come in, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8421269&#038;post=362&#038;subd=jolantru&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Path of Kindness: Thirty-Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 02:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Let’s go home,” Sa says finally, hand unwinding the shawl. Face out for all to see. I heave Heart into her sling. She’s getting so big now. My own heart is sore and teeters on an edge. I see the destruction in the City. Everything gone. My life. Gone How am I going to heal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8421269&#038;post=360&#038;subd=jolantru&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Path of Kindness: Thirty-Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I end up delivering babies for the first week as physician. Then I stitch cuts and allocate cold medicine. Inside me, the fire burns. I think it seeks an outlet. Sword play doesn&#8217;t slake it. I try to stem it, coax it down to a slumber. But the earthquake has awakened it. The earth movements [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8421269&#038;post=358&#038;subd=jolantru&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crowdfunding Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: If I run an Indiegogo campaign to fund – say – the illustration of Oysters, Pearls &#38; Magic as a graphic novel, are people willing to donate? Now to your regular programming. We are now on the last chapters of Path of Kindness.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8421269&#038;post=355&#038;subd=jolantru&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like that, Ibal passed away. The day has begun as normal. Waking up, going to the clinic, handling Heart over to Suriah, treating the steady stream of patients still affected by the earthquake. Ibal retires back to his inner room. I treat more patients, stitching wounds and dispensing medicines. When the day is done, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8421269&#038;post=353&#038;subd=jolantru&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Path of Kindness: Thirty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fire erupts in the school sector of the City. The whole morning is filled with smoke and ash. Ibal and I treat burns and scalds as well as smoke inhalation. When I go home, Sa gives me a look. “You sure you didn&#8217;t start it?” It is said half-jokingly, half-snide remark. I refuse to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8421269&#038;post=350&#038;subd=jolantru&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Path of Kindness: Twenty-Nine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mysterious gifter has left a pot bearing a tree sapling at the door of our little apartment. I recognize it immediately, having grown up with it, hung wishes on it. A casuarina. I keep it indoor, so that it is warm. Someone – the gifter? &#8211; has left a cream-colored card in the pot. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8421269&#038;post=347&#038;subd=jolantru&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Path of Kindness: Twenty-Eight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is perhaps the will of the sea that I meet Shu once more. I am helping Ibal in his clinic. It is a full morning with patients streaming in. The weather has gone bone-cold and the usual crop of illnesses pops up with coughs and colds. Suriah has kept the clinic warm with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8421269&#038;post=345&#038;subd=jolantru&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Path of Kindness: Twenty-Seven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kindness is a path of thorns and bramble My feet bleed But I live and love. ~*~ The skies are awash with fire. Fire clouds, fire stars, fire skies. I reach up and touch the fire. It feels like coming home, to a warm hearth, to Mother&#8217;s smiling face. I bring the fire down&#8230;and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8421269&#038;post=343&#038;subd=jolantru&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Path of Kindness: Twenty-Six</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The war of bitter and sour words continues as Sa heals and I learn more at Ibal&#8217;s clinic. I am grateful Heart is still young to pick up the suppressed anger. But she is sensitive enough to know something is happening. She starts crying when we argue and I have to take her away to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8421269&#038;post=341&#038;subd=jolantru&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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