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		<title>Adventures In My Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bigrigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Bigrigg It&#8217;s hard to have a decent adventure in the Canadian Rockies in January. The days are short. The air is so cold that my breath sticks to my scarf in little icicles. Most of my adventuring lately had been in my head, while I am curled up under Great Aunt Helen&#8217;s yellow-and-purple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebluesock.com&amp;blog=20989159&amp;post=518&amp;subd=thebluesock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Bigrigg Three nights ago, just as I was falling asleep, I had a kind of vision. In it, I was dancing down the main street of my town, loose, free and full of joy. I felt wide open, carefree, as if my soul were bared for all to see. I met someone I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebluesock.com&amp;blog=20989159&amp;post=512&amp;subd=thebluesock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned In 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bigrigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Bigrigg This has been the best year of my life. It hasn&#8217;t been the easiest, I did not spend all of it happy, parts of it were devastating and I spent at least one month of it certain that my world was going to crash down around me. But it was the best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebluesock.com&amp;blog=20989159&amp;post=506&amp;subd=thebluesock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Comfort And Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bigrigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Bigrigg My first Christmas away from my family. I&#8217;m not sure how I imagined it. I&#8217;m not sure that I imagined it at all. I probably told myself that I would deal with it when the time came, every time the thought popped into the foreground of my mind. Or I may have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebluesock.com&amp;blog=20989159&amp;post=501&amp;subd=thebluesock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Of My Favourite Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bigrigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Bigrigg I realized today that some of you may not know anything about me, other than what I have previously posted on here. I am going to correct that. Right now. Sort of. I am on a journey of happiness and healing, of self-discovery and self-creation. Here is an incomplete, not-all-encompassing, brief list [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebluesock.com&amp;blog=20989159&amp;post=497&amp;subd=thebluesock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where The Heart Is</title>
		<link>http://thebluesock.com/2011/11/23/where-the-heart-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bigrigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia BigriggThe drive from my small mountain town to Edmonton, the booming capital, reminds me so much of Ontario. No majestic mountains, no spread of prairies, just gently rolling hills of sprawling farmland, now covered in a thick layer of untouched snow. Occasionally the speed limit dips from 110 to 80, and I slow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebluesock.com&amp;blog=20989159&amp;post=490&amp;subd=thebluesock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning Of My Life</title>
		<link>http://thebluesock.com/2011/11/03/the-meaning-of-my-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bigrigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Bigrigg It feels like forever since I have had meaning in my life.  I can&#8217;t remember the last time and I don&#8217;t remember what the meaning was &#8211; what I was proud of myself for, what I was excited about, what I wanted to accomplish.  I must have been so lost all of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebluesock.com&amp;blog=20989159&amp;post=485&amp;subd=thebluesock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Climbers Of Mountains, The Stuff Of Legends</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bigrigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Bigrigg          Photo By Cynthia Bigrigg The story of our friendship is legendary.  Once upon a time.  Six years ago, a boy and a girl who couldn’t stand each other.  Then something changed.  One day there was something there that wasn’t there before.  An extension of kindness, a glimmer of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebluesock.com&amp;blog=20989159&amp;post=481&amp;subd=thebluesock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bunny Ears</title>
		<link>http://thebluesock.com/2011/09/21/bunny-ears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bigrigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Bigrigg My mother’s parents always had an ancient television topped with a pair of “bunny ears.” I liked it this way. My grandparents lived three hours away from my home growing up, so it was always a special treat when we got to visit them &#8211; something that my sisters and I anticipated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebluesock.com&amp;blog=20989159&amp;post=478&amp;subd=thebluesock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frenchies, Beer, and More To Ponder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bigrigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cynthia Bigrigg          Photo By Guylaine B. Max and I sit opposite each other on the red couch.  He holds a green bottle in his left hand and wrestles with my puppy with his right.  Max and I might have had a moment once, but it feels like ages ago.  Tonight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebluesock.com&amp;blog=20989159&amp;post=474&amp;subd=thebluesock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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