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		<title>Failure is an Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelo Melendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was walking by a cube and noticed a sign stating &#8220;Failure is not an option.&#8221; At first I thought, wow, that&#8217;s dedication and determination. Later, however, I wondered, what does this person do? What do they create? Heck, if all I set out to do must succeed, I&#8217;m doomed! And how will I learn? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spare Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelo Melendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure why it&#8217;s taken me this far into the New Year to post (FWIW), until I got to thinking about it&#8230; there&#8217;s lots going on!
On top of winding down from the holiday season, which has only been a week now, I&#8217;m transitioning out of a training/education centric approach to writing and performing to generating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Later&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelomelendez.com/2009/later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelo Melendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone asked me today about my New Year resolutions. Truth is, I don’t make any. I’ve undergone lots of changes in life since 2000, surely made lots of mistakes, too. But one significant thing I learned is to try and keep things realistic and simple. Which, at least for me, means cleaning out the emotional, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smokescreen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelo Melendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve never had a bent toward protest songs. That’s certainly not to say we don’t have lots of material for great protest song fodder, and I do have some VERY strong opinions about what’s happening in our country today. So when I got an email about a veteran who is turning 95 in a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hairballs</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelomelendez.com/2009/hairballs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelo Melendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, life’s a hairball&#8230; a tangled mess. We either live in it or hover just beyond it, but can’t live without it. Get too close, you get sucked in &#8212; too far away and you’re isolated from the hairball &#8212; but then, what’s life without life?
After my first pass through Gordon McKenzie’s “Orbiting the Giant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glass House</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelomelendez.com/2008/glass-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelo Melendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read &#8220;Grace&#8221; by Richard Paul Evans, a novel. An easy yet intriguing read, primarily because it&#8217;s a story of the heart. While it&#8217;s comprised of classic elements, the outcome is challenging, and very much speaks to my being.
Over the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve looked high and low for a summary statement about my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Friend</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelomelendez.com/2008/old-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelo Melendez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yogi Berra may have said it best tonight, &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to miss it&#8221;, referring to Yankee Stadium, where the last game of its storied 85 years was played in front of over 74,000 fans. As a boy, I attended several games and got to see the likes of Pepitone, Mantle, Maris, Howard, play ball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suppose&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelomelendez.com/2008/suppose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelo Melendez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[muse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way to San Diego for a work related conference, I started reading &#8220;Blue Like Jazz&#8221; by Donald Miller, non-religious thoughts on spiritual Christianity. Right out of the gate I was captivated by a statement about jazz being a product of the first generation of post slavery Negroes. I studied Jazz in college, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every Man</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelomelendez.com/2008/every-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelo Melendez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cornerstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impartial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not easy to write about someone I don&#8217;t personally know. Though every time I&#8217;ve seen and listened to Tim Russert, he made me feel as if I did know him. His approach to journalism as personal as it gets, whether president or military leader, he never pulled punches. But as deep as his questions got, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paint</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelomelendez.com/2008/paint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelo Melendez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[happenings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I played a gig with Rick Spreitzer and Kevin Edwards at the Green Rice Gallery in NoDa&#8230; very enjoyable. I mean, people flowing through all evening, looking at the various artwork hung on walls and placed on stands, sipping wine and beverages, munching on treats &#8212; lots of smiles and conversation. All this going on as the [...]]]></description>
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