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		<title>Earliest Memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My baby cousin fell asleep while watching 101 Dalmatians. I would sleep too but I already caught a glimpse of the large layered chocolate cake with rainbow sprinkles all over. It was prominently placed on the small round kitchen table on top of a long colorful plastic tablecloth with tropical flowers. It was December 31st. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823879&amp;post=181&amp;subd=zingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meditations on Gratitude 0001</title>
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		<title>Mother&#8230; Daughter.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He&#8217;s out you know, living with your aunt Leona. He&#8217;s in community college.&#8221; she says, eyes wide. She hopes her daughter feels encouraged by his accomplishment, his getting out of jail for the seventh or eighth time. This time it was for good behavior. He had been in intensive care most of the duration of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823879&amp;post=137&amp;subd=zingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charles White&#8217;s Men.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[On Art...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a Negro in America, I relate to images that are meaningful to me, images that are closest to me. I use that as a springboard to deal with the more board and the more all-encompassing. -Charles White For the past week or so, I have been grappling with my disillusionment with relationships in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823879&amp;post=63&amp;subd=zingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>#183, Seydou Keita.</title>
		<link>http://zingha.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/183-seydou-keita/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Moorish woman from Northern Mali lying on her elbow next to her companion on a prayer rug. She is wearing a traditional bright blue robe (koymeeti) and a large necklace with tassles around her neck. Her hair is arranged in he form of a helmet decorated with sliver ornament. -description from catalogue It was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823879&amp;post=97&amp;subd=zingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A State of Numbness (Third Period)</title>
		<link>http://zingha.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/the-state-of-numbness-third-period/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zingha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The everyday.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[molestation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is third period at the middle school (or, job #1). My ninth grader&#8230;the one who revealed that she was raped over the summer comes rushing into my office&#8230; &#8220;Miss T, you gotta help me, I&#8217;m supposed to be getting jumped after-school!&#8221; Why I asked, what happened&#8230; and where were you yesterday?&#8221; Since she revealed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823879&amp;post=52&amp;subd=zingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women in Yellow&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://zingha.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/women-in-yellow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[On Art...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eldzier Cortor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Color Purple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two women are walking in a rural Georgia field of purple flowers in Alice Walker&#8217;s Pulitzer prize winning novel. One is strong willed, spirited, independent and had mastered the skill of negotiation needed for her survival, the other is quite, resilient and meek. Her ability to bounce back from trauma, this resiliency, is her power. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823879&amp;post=14&amp;subd=zingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Moody (or damn, he&#8217;s beautiful!)</title>
		<link>http://zingha.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/mr-moody-or-damn-hes-beautiful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zingha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My second job is as an Youth Support Counselor in a group home for boys with a private agency in Long Island. I took this job while I was in graduate school to earn extra cash, get out of the house, and to continue my work with At-risk youth, while pursuing an MFA. New York [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823879&amp;post=19&amp;subd=zingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Struggling Artist&#8230;Struggling Counselor.</title>
		<link>http://zingha.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/struggling-artiststruggling-counselor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zingha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoping that this will somehow serve as a symbol of my recommitment to documenting my thoughts and experiences, that I can maintain this commitment on a somewhat frequent basis&#8230;yeah&#8230;I too am blogging. This is not my first attempt that this. In the past I have conceived it, designed it, named it and that&#8217;s where it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zingha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4823879&amp;post=4&amp;subd=zingha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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