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		<title>Oregon Honeymoon Daydreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Tait</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exciting news: the first step of our visa application for me to move to the U.S. and marry Joe was approved this week! We still have several steps to go through before the process is complete (waiting for the application to be forwarded to the National Visa Centre, more forms, a medical exam, interview at [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtneytait.com&#038;blog=29342983&#038;post=892&#038;subd=thewordloft&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stargazers. (And a couple things my mom taught me.)</title>
		<link>http://courtneytait.com/2013/05/09/stargazers-and-a-couple-things-my-mom-taught-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 23:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Tait</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas + Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lessons taught by mom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I decided I couldn&#8217;t wait any longer for blooms to appear. The snow has finally melted (!) but the trees in Saskatoon are dry and brown. I&#8217;ve been craving green, growth, and colour&#8230; So I gave my cousin Heather my debit card on her run to the grocery store, and asked her to pick up [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtneytait.com&#038;blog=29342983&#038;post=966&#038;subd=thewordloft&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confession: I&#8217;ve been spending my nights with Keith Richards</title>
		<link>http://courtneytait.com/2013/04/30/confession-ive-been-spending-my-nights-with-keith-richards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Tait</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autobiography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Richards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rolling Stones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It starts around midnight&#8211;I settle in under the duvet, adjust the lamplight, take a sip of water. Then I flip open the page. We&#8217;re currently in the middle of &#8217;76. Richards has brought his seven-year-old son, Marlon, on tour through Europe&#8211;the two of them drive to the gigs, Marlon holding the map, Richards at the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtneytait.com&#038;blog=29342983&#038;post=945&#038;subd=thewordloft&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Story of Cousins. And a Recipe! (Heather&#8217;s Granola)</title>
		<link>http://courtneytait.com/2013/04/23/a-story-of-cousins-and-a-recipe-heathers-granola/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Tait</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recipes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[childhood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saskatoon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was born I didn’t have a sister, yet. She arrived later, when I was 15&#8211;but that’s a different story. What I had was a cousin who is like a sister. She’s been with me since the start, since I was a baby in a crib in a yellow-checked nursery on Wiggins Avenue. Heather’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtneytait.com&#038;blog=29342983&#038;post=890&#038;subd=thewordloft&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flashback: Dead Poets Society (and a Long-Distance Date)</title>
		<link>http://courtneytait.com/2013/04/15/flashback-dead-poets-society-and-a-long-distance-date/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Tait</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead Poets Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Hawke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; One thing I&#8217;ve realized I like doing is re-watching a movie I saw as a kid, picking up on all the layers of meaning I may have missed the first time around. It&#8217;s so cool to view something from the adult perspective and compare it to the perception your younger self had. As I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtneytait.com&#038;blog=29342983&#038;post=822&#038;subd=thewordloft&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE NINE: Furniture Designer Meredith Nicole on Falling in Love (with Woodwork)</title>
		<link>http://courtneytait.com/2013/04/11/the-nine-furniture-designer-meredith-nicole-on-falling-in-love-with-woodwork/</link>
		<comments>http://courtneytait.com/2013/04/11/the-nine-furniture-designer-meredith-nicole-on-falling-in-love-with-woodwork/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Tait</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[furniture design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Passage School of Fine Cabinet Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meredith Nicole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oden Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver furniture designers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The first time Meredith Nicole learned how to sharpen a plane iron to perfection and took a pass with it, she fell in love. That was in 2008. She had already completed a BA in Art and Design from Emily Carr University; lived, worked and created art for five years in Taiwan; and revamped [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtneytait.com&#038;blog=29342983&#038;post=803&#038;subd=thewordloft&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A nod to our Danish mid-century forefathers a table which focuses on fine details and rich grain. Joined together using hand cut mortise and tenon. Black Cherry, Kwila, hand cut brass fasteners.Photo Credit: Ingeborg Suzanne</media:title>
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		<title>On Patience. And Spring in Saskatoon. And Meeting my Future Husband.</title>
		<link>http://courtneytait.com/2013/04/08/on-patience-and-spring-in-saskatoon-and-meeting-my-future-husband/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Tait</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Three summers ago I boarded a bus in South Korea, heading to a festival in a town called Boryeong. I wasn&#8217;t thinking about husbands. I was thinking about the beach ahead, and the beer in my bag. If one of the friends with me had said, &#8221;Your future husband&#8217;s gonna be on this bus,&#8221; I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtneytait.com&#038;blog=29342983&#038;post=805&#038;subd=thewordloft&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE NINE: Eve Joseph on The Irrational Madness of Writing</title>
		<link>http://courtneytait.com/2013/03/18/the-nine-eve-joseph-on-the-irrational-madness-of-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Tait</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;. . . I want to know about blindness. I want to ask poetry where the birds went when they disappeared and how it was they reappeared in cursive loops like a new language above the daffodil fields one afternoon in late March.&#8221; ~Eve Joseph (from &#8220;Questions&#8221;, The Secret Signature of Things) Ask Eve Joseph if it&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtneytait.com&#038;blog=29342983&#038;post=790&#038;subd=thewordloft&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Transitions. And the West Coast. And a Bunch of Other Stuff.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Tait</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In two days a year will have passed since I flew to India, since I left Korea, since I stepped in cow dung on the broken concrete outside our hotel in Delhi&#8217;s Paharganj. The skin of my foot was bare against my sandal&#8217;s straps; an Indian boy offered to wipe it with torn newspaper [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtneytait.com&#038;blog=29342983&#038;post=779&#038;subd=thewordloft&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE NINE~Stars Keyboardist Chris Seligman on Band Personalities, His Pre-Show Rituals, and the Biggest Lesson He&#8217;s Learned in the Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Tait</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Before blowing on his first french horn in a 7th-grade music class in Toronto, Chris Seligman&#8211;keyboardist and french horn player for the Canadian Indie Pop group Stars&#8211;had no interest in music. But his natural gift for the instrument was noticed by his aging and eccentric teacher, who recruited him to join four other students [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtneytait.com&#038;blog=29342983&#038;post=476&#038;subd=thewordloft&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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