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		<title>Not all hermits live in isolation.  For many, it is a mental attitude, not a physical location.</title>
		<link>http://mentalimaging.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/not-all-hermits-live-in-isolation-for-many-it-is-a-mental-attitude-not-a-physical-location/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people come to this blog because of two posts on choosing to live as a hermit.  It was not my intention when I started mentalimaging to focus on this topic.  And, I never imagined that this topic would generate more hits than anything else.  Most of the comments on the hermit posts are from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalimaging.wordpress.com&blog=1435674&post=366&subd=mentalimaging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chile&#8217;s Michelle Bachelet &#8211; Public Approval Rating 70+</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the full story in the NYTimes 
In 2006, Michelle Bachelet captured the world’s attention, becoming the first woman to be elected president of Chile, a deeply conservative country. And she had done it alone, without the famous husbands that had propelled other female presidents in Latin America.
Analysts and pollsters attribute her stunning popularity to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalimaging.wordpress.com&blog=1435674&post=359&subd=mentalimaging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Norma Rae</title>
		<link>http://mentalimaging.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/the-real-norma-rae/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never knew who the real Norma Rae was (1980 movie with Sally Field).  What a courageous woman!
Crystal Lee Sutton, the union organizer whose real-life stand on her worktable at a textile factory in North Carolina in 1973 was the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning movie “Norma Rae,” died Friday in Burlington, N.C. She was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalimaging.wordpress.com&blog=1435674&post=349&subd=mentalimaging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Office of Global Women&#8217;s Issues</title>
		<link>http://mentalimaging.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/office-of-global-womens-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just realized today, from reading an article in the Christian Science Monitor, that there is an Office of Global Women&#8217;s Issues in the State Department &#8212; and that Melanne Verveer is the Ambassador at Large of this office.  She was appointed on June 12, 2009.
Here is the link: http://www.state.gov/s/gwi/ to their website.
From the swearing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalimaging.wordpress.com&blog=1435674&post=347&subd=mentalimaging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 34th Toronto International Film Festival opened on Thursday with the women in charge.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read full article in the New York Times
While still struggling to find their place in the movie industry at large — the number of directors at American studios remains well over 90 percent male — female filmmakers have managed to occupy some of this 10-day festival’s most valuable slots: those showcase screenings and press conferences [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalimaging.wordpress.com&blog=1435674&post=345&subd=mentalimaging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beaches of Agnes &#8211; a film that gives you the desire to grow old</title>
		<link>http://mentalimaging.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/the-beaches-of-agnes-a-film-that-gives-you-the-desire-to-grow-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read full story in the NYTimes
Agnès Varda, the only female filmmaker associated with the Nouvelle Vague at its high-water mark and now, at 81, an artist of undiminished vigor, curiosity and intelligence. That is certainly how she appears in “The Beaches of Agnès,” her latest film, which opens in New York on Wednesday, after winning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalimaging.wordpress.com&blog=1435674&post=321&subd=mentalimaging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to live as a hermit.</title>
		<link>http://mentalimaging.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/how-to-live-as-a-hermit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read full story in the Guardian by Rachel Denton
I moved here in January 2002 and started my life as a hermit, naming my house after St Cuthbert, the patron saint of hermitage. On a typical day, I pray between 6am and 8am. After breakfast, I work on my calligraphy business, perhaps on card designs or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalimaging.wordpress.com&blog=1435674&post=319&subd=mentalimaging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Aries Woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sixty-two years of age, and an impetuous romantic girl of seventeen cannot exceed me in ardent passionate feelings.&#8221;
Jane Digby has been called &#8220;one of the most remarkable women of the nineteenth century.&#8221; A celebrated beauty, she was married at seventeen to Lord Ellenborough (later Viceroy of India). He was twice her age and within a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalimaging.wordpress.com&blog=1435674&post=314&subd=mentalimaging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introvert&#8217;s Rights Movement &#8211; I like you, now please shut up.</title>
		<link>http://mentalimaging.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/introverts-rights-movement-i-like-you-now-please-shut-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Article by Johnathan Raush, &#8220;Caring for Your Introvert.&#8221;
Introverts may be common, but they are also among the most misunderstood and aggrieved groups in America, possibly the world.
Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalimaging.wordpress.com&blog=1435674&post=311&subd=mentalimaging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New book about chasity, &#8220;Chastened: No More Sex in The City.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read full article in Guardian UK by Hephzibah Anderson
The physical withdrawal is acute at times, but it passes. Now I can see that sex was a distraction that allowed me to ignore pretty much everything else in my life that wasn&#8217;t quite what it should or could have been. I became fixated on relationships to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalimaging.wordpress.com&blog=1435674&post=309&subd=mentalimaging&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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