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	<title>Rivenrock Gardens Cactus Blog... go to www.rivenrock.com for edible cactus &#187; philosophy</title>
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		<title>On Learning How to Live</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2012/01/31/on-learning-how-to-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appreciation and accountability is important in life. So too is an examination of life. The fellow who wrote this post speaks eloquently, succinctly, with heart and the ageless wisdom found in depth. It touched me greatly.... and I wish to pass it on. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Californication</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2012/01/21/californication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California has its share of 'issues'... high taxation and tight regulation stifles business... yet these same prohibitors tend to force a work-around solution.... and the end result is that our environment is relatively clean for the tens of millions living in this space, and we have a thriving 'Underground' economy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live your life!</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2012/01/11/live-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a good article, written by a hospice nurse.... she details some of the thoughts of the dying that she met during decades of this work..... They break down to five concerns... 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2. I wish I didn’t work so hard. 3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. 4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. 5. I wish that I had let myself be happier Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonrise January 08, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2012/01/09/moonrise-january-08-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Central Coast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Central Coast is relatively unspoiled.... Although it's been travelled and lived in for thousands of years.... it still seems very rural  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life is for living</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2012/01/06/life-is-for-living/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death"  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Word</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2011/12/02/new-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ineptocracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ineptocracy: (in-ep-toc’-Ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life for the taking</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2011/12/01/life-for-the-taking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old man Once looked at me in the eye He seemed to sigh He seemed to sigh, "don't let life pass you by"  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beagles released from animal-testing facility</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2011/12/01/beagles-released-from-animal-testing-facility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video show a group of beagle dogs that were given over to an animal-rescue group after the testing lab didn't need them anymore. Beagels are the dog most used for medical/product testing because they are docile, don't eat much, and trust humans and will stay in a cage for their whole life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Always think, plan, and visit</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2011/11/27/always-think-plan-and-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are five things that you cannot recover in life:  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tao</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2011/11/26/tao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no worse calamity than desire, There is no greater misery than knowing no contentment, There is no greater catastrophe than losing self-control. Contentment can come from realizing one has enough, Attaining contentment, one can attain internal peace.  [...]]]></description>
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