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		<title>Songs Into Groceries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[﻿
I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of thinking lately.  It looks likes this:

When you&#8217;re self employed as I am you still have to do what your boss says.  The hard part is knowing how to be a good boss.  How do you connect with more folks?  What&#8217;s the next level?  How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psalm 147</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday I&#8217;m leading worship at Gustavus Adolphus.  As I was reading through the texts to choose songs I felt a pull towards this weeks Psalm.  I wrote this simple melody using verse 1 as the chorus and the remaining verses of the Psalm as the verses of the song.  Here&#8217;s a lead sheet.  If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>life is a lovely mess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all try to live the life we love, generally only to find that love is messy.  And messy is hard to love.
I&#8217;m just finishing this book:

It&#8217;s fascinating but also a little scary because as it turns out I have a lot of stuff.
In the retrospection that comes free with every Minnesota winter I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

It&#8217;s like riding a bike.  Right?
I took about six weeks off of facebook and blogging.
Getting back into it is a bit sluggish.
Absence did not make the heart grow fonder.
It severed a few ties.  Not necessarily good or bad.
I&#8217;m still trying to figure out what to take away from it all.

Here are two observations, one personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow Down, It&#8217;s A New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a beautiful November.  Visits from my brother and favorite mother in law.  Evenings with friends.  Attending a live recording with the Pakans.  The first snow.  Songs pitched (and Kurtz caught a few&#8230;) Homemade pizza and getting back into the baking season.  Upcoming Turkey and Buy Nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Advent Song/Planning Ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year I&#8217;ll be the artist in residence at Humble Walk Lutheran Church during the season of advent.  Me and the Pastor, who I totally have a crush on*, have been doing some planning and what not and though it&#8217;s still a month away I have some ideas.  They may be worth sharing.  If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 5,6,7 – Rachel. Was. Right.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I&#8217;ve got to wrap this tour up. Too much has happened in the days since.  I&#8217;ll condense, be conciser, what have you.  It&#8217;ll be the highlights reel. It&#8217;ll still be long though, so get comfy.  And thanks for joining in.)
I slept poorly.  That&#8217;s not entirely true.  (Is this entire blog based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DAY 4: dumb phone, new band, dead van</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(From the road journal&#8217;s of Nate Houge&#8217;s recent tour to Arkansas and back in his 86 Vanagon)
I started the day by burning my fingers on my backpacking stove while heating up water for coffee.  Not cool.  In fact, very hot.  Rearranging the instruments to make room for company I headed for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 3: Woody, AOK, Joy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(For those of you just joining us, I&#8217;m posting road journals from my recent tour to Arkansas and back &#8211; October 2011)

Day 3 – Woody, AOK, Joy
I woke up in the Michelson&#8217;s basement.  Thankfully, that&#8217;s also where I had fallen asleep.  I love it when it works out that way.  After breakfast, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 2: Roller Coaster, Piano Lessons, Wichita.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up in a Walmart parking lot.  That&#8217;s not something you get to say everyday.  I walked in and bought a juice and wandered for a bit under the eerie fluorescent lighting.  Then I made my way back to Our Lady and got out my stove and french press.  I was going [...]]]></description>
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