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		<title>2000 books, 2000 signatures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<title>London Interactive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got back a short five-day visit to London, where I went to support the launch of the UK edition of A Tale for the Time Being. Canongate, my wonderful UK publisher, is doing the most amazing, cutting-edge stuff with the publication and generating all sorts of buzz in the London book world. The hardcover is a beautiful, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>waiting&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Dear friends, Much has been happening these past few weeks in preparation for the launch of A Tale for the Time Being, and it&#8217;s been a real team effort! My friend &#38; fellow filmmaker Bill Weaver and I shot a book trailer up on Cortes, with the backdrop of the brooding Pacific Northwest landscape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything&#8217;s up to date in Kansas City&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything&#8217;s up to date in Kansas City They gone about as fer as they can go They went an&#8217; built a skyscraper seven stories high About as high as a buildin&#8217; orta grow. Winter Institute &#8211; Kansas City, MO. Just about to head down to the Century Ballroom to the gathering of my tribe—booksellers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life is tough&#8230;and transient</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shambhala Sun just sent me the pdf of Norman Fischer&#8217;s article, Life is Tough &#8211; 6 ways to deal with it, from the March issue of the magazine, so I thought I&#8217;d share it here. As I mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s post, it&#8217;s a great article about the Lojong slogans, and his book, Training in Compassion, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing is Wasted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article I wrote for the March issue of Shambhala Sun Magazine about turning problems into art. When you’re a writer or an artist, nothing is wasted. Even the most painful and difficult situations in life can be recycled into material for a project, and it’s the artist’s job to be awake, aware, and opportunistic. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALA panel &amp; some thoughts on libraries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, January 25, from 4:00 &#8211; 5:15 pm, I&#8217;ll be on a panel at the American Library Association&#8217;s Midwinter meet-up to discuss the topic &#8220;The Novel is Alive and Well&#8221; with Seattle authors Terry Brooks, Ivan Doig, and Gregg Olsen. I&#8217;m looking forward to this because I love librarians, I have always wanted to be one, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Big Thing: Authors Tagging Authors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Sarah Sentilles tagged me to participate in The Next Big Thing: Authors Tagging Authors, a blog chain, a meme, a community, an ever-emergent and aggregating non-event that’s wending it’s way around the Internet. It’s authors tagging authors to answer ten questions about the book they’re working on. And it’s a nice way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hapa-Palooza!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hapa-Palooza is a very cool festival for all of our hapa/hybrid/half-blood/cross-bred/métis/mestizo/mixed-race/halved-and-doubled selves. It&#8217;s a celebration of mixed-roots arts and cultures, and goes from September 12 &#8211; 15. And to kick things off next Wednesday, Wade Compton, Julie Flett and I will be reading and talking with Sandra Singh about identity and writing and other interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Re-Occupy Your Mind &#8211; writing workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Ozeki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This writing and meditation workshop is a benefit for the very cool 826 Seattle, a nonprofit space traveler &#38; literacy drop-in center, and the Seattle chapter of novelist Dave Eggers&#8217; 826 National network of writing and tutoring centers. 826 Seattle sponsors an adult workshop series, entitled How to Write Like I Do, as a benefit [...]]]></description>
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