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		<title>You will die soon.</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/12/21/you-will-die-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once again find myself confronted by the notion that existence is merely an impossibly brief intermission between two infinitely consuming periods of non-existence.  Time, as it relates to individual experience, can be divided into three distinct categories: pre-you, you, and post-you. Being presently fully immersed in the &#8220;me&#8221; phase of this process, I cannot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&amp;blog=13704405&amp;post=844&amp;subd=adventureandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (r)evolution of a giant.  How tomorrow could be better, and how you could help.</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/11/12/the-revolution-of-a-giant-how-tomorrow-could-be-better-and-how-you-could-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late 2004, a handful of elite kids decided to try something out for the first time.  By early 2005, a couple million more had joined them.  In the beginning, prior to the spark, nobody was on it.  Nobody.  It crept in quietly, ghost-like, as all great addictions do.  By the time we recognized it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&amp;blog=13704405&amp;post=826&amp;subd=adventureandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An era of discontent: 7 Reasons and Remedies for the listlessness of early adulthood</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/11/06/an-era-of-discontent-7-reasons-and-remedies-for-the-listlessness-of-early-adulthood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadness and happiness are slippery words, two I believe to be overused in the western discussion about sustainable well-being.  To describe someone who battles mild depression as an unhappy person would be off base, as would be labelling a person with a generally positive affect as happy.  In reality, humans spend very little of their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&amp;blog=13704405&amp;post=820&amp;subd=adventureandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why we wake up in the morning</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/05/19/why-we-wake-up-in-the-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 07:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each morning 7 billion people arise to a single task- to be the architects of an existence that is rich in both quality and meaning.  The complexity and diversity of the human experience is evident in the endless number of ways these terms are personally defined, but a basic unity of purpose is difficult to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&amp;blog=13704405&amp;post=806&amp;subd=adventureandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feed the pig!</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/04/13/feed-the-pig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning of my senior year in college I found myself with a very abstract travel dream.  I knew I wanted to take an extended backpacking trip when I graduated, but I had very little idea where to go, and I definitely didn&#8217;t know how I was going to pay for it.  There were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&amp;blog=13704405&amp;post=799&amp;subd=adventureandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A.F.R.E.S.H.M.E.- A brief manifesto of change</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/04/01/a-f-r-e-s-h-m-e-a-brief-manifesto-of-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wareness F reedom R ationality E thics S implicity H ealth M indfulness E xperimentation A brief manifesto of change Positive change, whether it happens on a personal, national, or global scale, begins with awareness.  If we are to actualize our innate potential, we must first learn to differentiate between the forces holding us back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&amp;blog=13704405&amp;post=794&amp;subd=adventureandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical eating and impending upheaval in the American farming industry</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/03/09/ethical-eating-and-impending-upheaval-in-the-american-farming-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the state of morality in America?  When our story is told by historians, what kind of story will it be?  Will it be a tale of greed, oversight, and disaster, or one of self-correction and redemption? Many would argue that we&#8217;ve made great progress.  Skeptics would turn to the dealings of corporate America for evidence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&amp;blog=13704405&amp;post=778&amp;subd=adventureandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The last of the quiet spaces</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/03/04/the-last-of-the-quiet-spaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[clarity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  recently read Henry Thoreau&#8217;s description of the hours he passed in a gently swaying canoe, fishing and philosophizing upon the moonlit stillness of his beloved Walden pond, and I sensed stirring within me a familiar urge to seek solitude.  For Thoreau, it was the serenity of the pond and the dense surrounding Massachusetts woodland that would inspire the clarity necessary to create Walden,  a work that has since been recognized as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&amp;blog=13704405&amp;post=770&amp;subd=adventureandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$$$=Votes that matter</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/02/25/votes-that-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you get any further into this post, do me a favor.  Take the cash and credit cards out of your wallet or purse, and spread them in front of you. Think about what these resources mean to you.  What will come of them?  Gorceries?  A flat screen television?  Vacation savings?  New shoes? Now expand your considerations beyond [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&amp;blog=13704405&amp;post=752&amp;subd=adventureandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why travel?</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/02/11/why-travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As children with minds fresh and new, time has a way of stretching itself  gently beyond distant horizons into to a place unseen and therefore void of consequence.  We grow older and we come to understand that the passing seconds, of which the supply once seemed so limitless, are in fact our most non-renewable resource.  Slow and unassuming at first, but with gaining momentum, comes the realization [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&amp;blog=13704405&amp;post=745&amp;subd=adventureandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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