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		<title>The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently reviewed The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama for our church newsletter, HUU Review. this is just the first paragraph:
Barack Obama covers the waterfront in his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope — politics, race, faith, values, international relations, family, the struggles of the poor and the middle class in this country and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powers of the Governor of Virginia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My talk today is based on a series of three articles I wrote for the Associated Press back in 1952.The subject was the increasing powers of the office of Governor of Virginia, under the ever-changing State Constitution.. Those stories in turn were based on a small volume written in 1942 and published on order of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Reporting Career</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk delivered by JJG before a James Madison University journalism class (14 women, one man) Monday, November 14, 2005.
This is quite a pleasure for me, talking about reporting with a group of young aspirant newspersons. The proportion of sexes is a little surprising. Don&#8217;t young men want to be newsmen any more?
Well, I was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View of Life After Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy &amp; Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Presented at&#160; HUU Meeting 
January 7, 1990
By James J. Geary 
Wade asked me to talk, for not more than seven minutes, on my view of life after death. To do it justice I think I would need to go into my whole philosophy of being, and there is not time for that. But I&#8217;ll make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching School</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last vocation I ever thought I would be involved in is teaching. But a teacher I became &#8212; for a memorable three weeks. It was in a remote one-room school in the mountains of Montgomery county Virginia. I had about 18 students enrolled in six grades. Six of the 18 were only five years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survival Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A talk delivered by James J. Geary 
before the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist congregation 
15 November 1998
Good morning again, survivors! And congratulations! 
We are all survivors, are we not? 
(Story - not sure what was read) 
So he didn&#8217;t survive. But we have &#8212; at least so far. Survival and security is the topic of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay With Me Beauty</title>
		<link>http://www.jims-writings.com/stay-with-me-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk Delivered by James J. Geary before the Harrisonburg Unitarian
Universalist Church 
Sunday, April 1, 2001
Centering time II (spiritual music) 
[As I turned on the music, I said &#34;April Fool.&#34; It was What a Beautiful World by Louis Armstrong&#160; When it finished, I remarked that it was not April Fool after all; that the quot;Satchmo&#34; really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shaving</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dislike shaving. I&#8217;ve learned to do it first thing in the morning (most of the time), because it is doubly difficult to go back and do it later in the day. I also do the following: I soften my beard by washing thoroughly with soap, then covering my beard for 15 or 20 seconds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy of a Lifetime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Prepared for delivery before the Harrisonburg
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
29 March 1992)
By James J. Geary
When Beryl Lawson called me at the end of January and asked if I would put on a program March 22, and I agreed, she then asked me for a title, I was about to leave on an extended trip out-of-state, so off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dusk on a Snowy Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember a late winter afternoon when I experienced a strange sense of being lost that I had not experienced before, nor have I since. I was seventeen, it was during my high school year in Pittsburgh, and I was visiting with my aunt, Katherine Waddell, her husband, Herb, and their two young daughters, Ruth [...]]]></description>
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