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	<title>christina m. crook</title>
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	<description>writer. seeker. maker.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Letters from a Luddite: 358 emails. 1 new view.</title>
		<link>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2012/02/358-emails-1-new-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Crook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Letter writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[internet fast]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[letters from a luddite]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[one month offline]]></category>

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Hello friends.
I am back online.
But the letters I wrote over the course of the last month are still wading in. I&#8217;ve decided to remain largely silent on the Net until they all arrive. I want the experiment to speak for itself.
This week I am back in the thick of it, wading through 358 emails, 90% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The life I&#8217;m holding</title>
		<link>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/12/the-life-im-holding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Crook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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I am sitting in the Outhouse, the cool coffee shop near my house, stealing an hour away from the kids while our nanny/babysitter watches Madeleine and Thomas. Alexandria comes two mornings a week. I usually still have the baby while she takes Madeleine to the park or the library. Sometimes I lie in bed ad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change for Good</title>
		<link>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/12/change-for-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Crook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Motherhood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[computer technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood and Toronto libraries]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[over-reliance on computers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[self-checkouts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Toronto Public Library]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[working ourselves out of a job]]></category>

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I don&#8217;t mean to be a Debbie Downer, but is all change good?
I am weary of computer technology. Yes, I own a Mac. Yes, I blog. Yes, I Facebook. I spend time on these things in fits and starts, as I feel led, working hard to not be led by compulsion.
I see the world around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word for Thought Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/12/word-for-thought-wednesday-14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Crook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The more we give away, the more we discover how much there is to give away. The small gifts of God all multiply in the giving.&#8221; &#8221;He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.&#8221; - Proverbs 11:25 NIV
- Henri Nouwen

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		<title>What would Jesus think of Occupy?</title>
		<link>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/11/what-would-jesus-think-of-occupy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Crook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Context with Lorna Dueck]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lorna Dueck]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Toronto]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>

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Image: Mark Tansey, Myth of Depth, from Adbusters Tactical Briefing #19
&#8220;For months, tactical briefings from Adbusters have poured into my inbox. The advertisement-free anti-consumerist magazine and foundation at the centre of the Occupy Wall Street movement has one aim: to address global social and economic inequalities and the undue influence of corporations. No small feat.
Since September 17th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Women We Are</title>
		<link>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/11/the-women-we-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Crook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Seeking Eve]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sheloves magazine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[she loves magazine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sheloves]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[women of faith]]></category>

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&#8220;When I asked to tell her story, she said there’s not much there.
She said the same.
And so did she. And she.
But I said, “You’re wrong. There’s so much. So much you’re missing. The thriving career, working with the big-name designer. The kids kept safe, the lives you’re shaping. The Friday night make-stuff-party you host in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Art, made by you</title>
		<link>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/11/beautiful-art-made-by-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Crook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arts and culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[beautiful things]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[2012 in San Francisco. Please visit this link for more information.   From your friends at You-Are-Beautiful  --  You Are Beautiful PO Box # 220175 Chicago]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[and send it in. It can be ephemeral or labor intensive. It can be massive in scale or exceptionally tiny. You decide! After the show is over]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Call For Participation: Make Your Own "You Are Beautiful" Artwork  Get excited]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[get involved! Make something]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IL  60622 USA  http://you-are-beautiful.com/]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[January 6th]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[make anything. Make the world a little more beautiful.   This is an open call to make your own 'You Are Beautiful' piece for an exhibition at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[make art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[you are beautiful]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[you can have your work returned or installed in the streets of San Francisco.  All work is due by Friday]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Call For Participation: Make Your Own &#8220;You Are Beautiful&#8221; Artwork



Get excited, get involved! Make something, make anything. Make the world a little more beautiful. This is an open call (from the good people at You Are Beautiful) to make your own &#8216;You Are Beautiful&#8217; piece for an exhibition at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word for thought Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/11/word-for-thought-wednesday-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Crook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Words for thought]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[leonard cohen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen  Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/leonard_cohen.html#ixzz1dt4lOH00]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

londontown, 2009


&#8220;Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.&#8221;
- Leonard Cohen

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		<title>Lost &#038; Found&#8230; 15% discount and A GIVEAWAY!</title>
		<link>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/11/lost-found-15-discount-and-a-giveaway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/11/lost-found-15-discount-and-a-giveaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Crook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arts and culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lost and found goods]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[craft]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[etsy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lost and found]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[make]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[making stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nostalgia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[scout]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[scout badges]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[scouting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[scouting badges]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vintage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vintage cards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I love old things - buttons and bellbottoms, postcards and polkadots. So, you can imagine my excitement when my husband first showed me his vast collection of scouting badges. I have been brainstorming a fun project for them for most of a year.
Back in Vancouver I began collecting more badges in hopes of launching a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word for thought Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/11/word-for-thought-wednesday-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2011/11/word-for-thought-wednesday-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Crook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Collage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Words for thought]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[beautiful things]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["All of us are trees in winter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[brother lawrence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[quotes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[whom God loves unconditionally anyway."]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[with little to give. Stripped of leaves and growth]]></category>

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[acrylic, foil and paper on canvas]
&#8220;All of us are trees in winter, with little to give, stripped of leaves and growth, whom God loves unconditionally, anyway.&#8221;
- Brother Lawrence


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