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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 New Communicators event idea discussion group,  I had a conversation with Jerry Ketel and Tyesha Snow about the power of inspiration and the idea that all creative companies should subsidize – in some way — inspirational experiences for employees. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if your employer gave you two paid [...]]]></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>
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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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		<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>
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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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		<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>
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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>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archetypes]]></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>
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		<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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