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	<title>The Wildest Branch &#187; island</title>
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		<title>of Safety and of Wildness</title>
		<link>http://wildestbranch.com/2010/05/21/of-safety-and-of-wildness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 09:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Silver Branch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This, then, is our ordeal.   The wildness here is like no other. Even in the wildest range of mountains, there is solid ground for us to put our feet on. Here, there is nothing solid.   No safety. Only our boat.   Only our small cramped boat that is being tossed about in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innisfallen in the Making…</title>
		<link>http://wildestbranch.com/2010/01/01/innisfallen-in-the-making%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Three Dwellings of Wisdom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn’t expected it and maybe it was the change from the slate blue lake to the closeness of the green of the island, but once I set foot upon Innisfallen, I knew it was a special place. I wonder if, as I suspect,  it is inherently spiritual or if the centuries of learning, contemplative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the journey to the harp</title>
		<link>http://wildestbranch.com/2009/02/22/the-journey-to-the-harp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tribal Compassion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wildestbranch.com/?p=661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the Dagda and Lugh and Ogma journeying across Ireland to find the oak of two blossoms. To regain their sovereignty. The harp. The music of the land. They had no insurance. There was no store. They could not just make a new one. They had to regain their sovereignty. The music of the land. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>pay heed to the herdsman</title>
		<link>http://wildestbranch.com/2009/02/14/pay-heed-to-the-herdsman/</link>
		<comments>http://wildestbranch.com/2009/02/14/pay-heed-to-the-herdsman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immram]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an island where there is a spear-burning river that keeps us away from the calves. Such a river need not be deep to protect the calves. Go, dip your spear in that shallow river and watch. Even small things can weigh heavy here. The calves of this island are calves, but appear to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the difficulty of sheep</title>
		<link>http://wildestbranch.com/2009/02/06/the-difficulty-of-sheep/</link>
		<comments>http://wildestbranch.com/2009/02/06/the-difficulty-of-sheep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immram]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  But so that I may reveal The secret of this island to you inquire of me. -The Woman of the Fortress     Do not be alarmed. Most of us in the western world today are in trouble even before we are in trouble. We are in trouble because of the greatest secret in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hold the branch for three days</title>
		<link>http://wildestbranch.com/2009/01/31/hold-the-branch-for-three-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immram]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To find the beginning of the birthing, we must be willing to continue, we must be willing to sail on to the next island. It is there that we find a door with a valve. The valve turned by willingness. The valve opened by willingness will allow the nourishing salmon from the sea into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>three years later, intruding</title>
		<link>http://wildestbranch.com/2009/01/14/three-years-later-intruding/</link>
		<comments>http://wildestbranch.com/2009/01/14/three-years-later-intruding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ireland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mourning]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://filleadh.org/blog/?p=377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crossing the short bridge, I hadn’t expected it, mainland to island, so to those who remain: this is my prayer, at last. I dare not intrude. Yes, rain was expected, clouds blackening, rolling on whispering prayers in the hearth warmed room, filled with the scent of peat and whiskey, songs and tears. Rusting boats quiver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>it does happen, doesn&#8217;t it?</title>
		<link>http://wildestbranch.com/2009/01/13/it-does-happen-doesnt-it/</link>
		<comments>http://wildestbranch.com/2009/01/13/it-does-happen-doesnt-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Burnt Thumbs and Other Songs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[potentiality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happens, doesn’t it? The day comes when the world pushes open the door we have closed against the world. -John Moriarty, What the Curlew Said It does happen, doesn’t it? That fateful day of the door crashing in on us, pushed open by the world, different levels of the world, that in one way [...]]]></description>
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