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	<title>Thoughts &#38; Deeds &#187; Inspiration</title>
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		<title>Conversation, Inspiration, and Vacation</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/10/conversation-inspiration-and-vacation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night during a <a href="http://www.thenewcommunicators.com" target="_blank">New Communicators</a> event idea discussion group,  I had a conversation with <a href="http://twitter.com/jerryketel" target="_blank">Jerry Ketel</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/tyeshasnow" target="_blank">Tyesha Snow</a> about the power of inspiration and the idea that all creative companies should subsidize – in some way — inspirational experiences for employees. Wouldn't it be great if your employer gave you two paid weeks off specifically to seek out inspiration that you can bring back to your work and career]]></description>
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		<title>Of Sea and Salt and Sand</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/05/of-sea-and-salt-and-sand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up on the Puget Sound, with sea water in view and the sound of gulls in my ears each day. Mine is a coastal folk, whether from Scotland or Ireland or Sweden, always near the water if not on it. The ocean delineates the boundaries of all I know, a comforting velvet rope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounds Like Teen Spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/03/sounds-like-teen-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being entertained]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mix Tapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Using technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Muxtape died at the heavy hands of the RIAA it was a sad day for those of us who enjoyed sharing and discovering new music via old skool mix tapes. Thankfully, OpenTape brings the music back to the masses! I&#8217;m relaunching my monthly mixes and hope you&#8217;ll share your mixes if you have them.
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#039;s it to you?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/11/whats-it-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building a community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Listening to music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saving the world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not easy to describe how it felt when California passed Proposition 8 – banning same-sex marriages – last week. The same happened in Oregon four years ago. We search for words to express how it feels to know that secretly (and openly) 52% of people hate us. We rage and we cry and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes. We. Can.</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/11/yes-we-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/?p=309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mine is a pretty cynical generation. Most of us in our 30s have spent the majority of our lives in a recession, in a war over oil, facing climate change, and enduring political parties that fail to inspire much less to lead us to a better tomorrow. We&#8217;ve lacked hope that things will get better, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United we stand, divided we fall</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/10/together-we-stand-divided-we-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building a community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put aside ideas of &#8220;real Americans&#8221; and &#8220;pro-American&#8221; parts of the country and the divisive rhetoric from both political parties. Look around you. Take in what you see, and realize that we can&#8217;t become a better city, state, or nation without each other — in spite of our differences.
This is the change we need.

(Thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to recharge</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/10/time-to-recharge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Portland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hoyt Arboretum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the wonderful things about running a creative agency is that on the rare 70 degree mid-October day you can play hookey and enjoy the sun. You can&#8217;t take a gift like this and stay inside in the Pacific Northwest. No! It&#8217;s an imperative to get outside, recharge, enjoy the weather and get some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no &quot;I&quot; in team; true in softball and life</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/09/there-is-no-i-in-team-true-in-softball-and-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/09/there-is-no-i-in-team-true-in-softball-and-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building a community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve played team sports since I was 5, but I love me a team. Not watching teams, but being part of one. I love the cameraderie, the friendly competition, the way the whole transcends the sum of its parts to become something new, better, more awesome. Nothing brings this home for me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Battlestar Galactica matters; or, Mythology FTW!</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/08/why-battlestar-galactica-matters-or-mythology-ftw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/08/why-battlestar-galactica-matters-or-mythology-ftw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas & Theories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[archetypes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[storytelling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember in high school when you had to read Homer’s Odyssey? Your teacher probably bored you with discussions of archetypes, heroes, and a whole lot of crazy Greek gods, goddesses, and weird offspring and creatures like Charybdis. Maybe if you had a really cool teacher and you got to watch Star Wars as a treat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the bull by the horns</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/07/taking-the-bull-by-the-horns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/07/taking-the-bull-by-the-horns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthdays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not normally the adventure-seeking type, but when our rafting guide suggested that I &#8220;ride the bull&#8221; for my birthday this weekend, I couldn&#8217;t really find fault with the idea. That&#8217;s me on the front of the raft, holding on tightly in case the river consumes me, throwing the f*ck yeah horns high in the [...]]]></description>
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