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		<title>2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Marie Schuerlein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[i am so grateful to have extraordinary people in my life. here&#8217;s a handful who have help make 2011 a wonderful year. karla, matthew, jay, dad, mom, riley, galen, tyler, lindsay, alex, dylan, tony, matt, alice, jack, john s, derek, britt, jennifer, khue, thach, marc, lynn, callie, jj, jason, jermey, shannon, tim, charlie, kathleen, dan, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingsfromthemidpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8451060&amp;post=398&amp;subd=musingsfromthemidpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gratitudes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Marie Schuerlein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I decided to go on a rampage of gratitude. Here are just a few things from the last 30 days that I am grateful for&#8230; the little place I rented in Laguna sunsets my new laptop my new iPad doing tons of meditation from the beach to Trump Tower the trip to NY [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingsfromthemidpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8451060&amp;post=395&amp;subd=musingsfromthemidpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11.11.11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Marie Schuerlein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure what is means. I just like it. Do you ever feel the need to lighten the load, to purge, and to reduce the shear tonnage of your life? Suddenly, I find myself right in the middle of exactly that. Hard to explain. But I am going with it. Not sure what is means. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingsfromthemidpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8451060&amp;post=393&amp;subd=musingsfromthemidpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talking Is Overrated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Marie Schuerlein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever taken 8 hours off from talking? While you were awake? Give it a try. Please.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingsfromthemidpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8451060&amp;post=385&amp;subd=musingsfromthemidpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grieving A Made Up Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 04:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Marie Schuerlein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most delightful things about being human is our ability to imagine, vision and dream. Highly effective people are masterful at determining outcomes, making plans and setting in motion events that produce the desired result. And this is a wonderful skill, until it becomes a predator to ones happiness. Case in point. About [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingsfromthemidpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8451060&amp;post=383&amp;subd=musingsfromthemidpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soul Food.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Marie Schuerlein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you laugh? Hard. Do you do it enough? Just because. Do you make time to be goofy? Really goofy. Remember twelve-year-old-giggling-at-something-stupid silly? Try it. Good for the soul. Filed under: Musings<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingsfromthemidpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8451060&amp;post=377&amp;subd=musingsfromthemidpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Fighting For Mediocrity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Marie Schuerlein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I notice that we tend to defend our position like it has value. As if not showing up (even with good reason), not putting in the extra effort or having a &#8220;oh, that&#8217;s just how it is&#8221; mindset has ever produced amazing results. Why do we fight so hard to defend the mediocre? What would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingsfromthemidpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8451060&amp;post=367&amp;subd=musingsfromthemidpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theater Of The Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Marie Schuerlein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Ferry taught me “my mind is not my friend.” True that. I was taking a nap the other day, and realized as I was dreaming, that my mind was like the screen in a movie theater. On the screen were images &#8211; some unknown to me, some memories from long ago &#8211; that suddenly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingsfromthemidpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8451060&amp;post=345&amp;subd=musingsfromthemidpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Marie Schuerlein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion. How do I know? Imagine you are in a conversation with a colleague. See yourself standing in front of them, imagine seeing the words come out of their mouth, and you are responding. It’s friendly, enjoyable, and then you get a phone call and gesture “I gotta take this,” smile and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingsfromthemidpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8451060&amp;post=341&amp;subd=musingsfromthemidpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Don&#8217;t Have To Figure It Out Alone.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Marie Schuerlein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have two men in my life who intrigue me endlessly. One is 67, the other 40. Both are super smart, loving, talented, charming and well, all round good guys. You&#8217;d want to know them, too. What makes them alike, despite the 27 years that separate them, is they seem to think they have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musingsfromthemidpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8451060&amp;post=318&amp;subd=musingsfromthemidpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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