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		<title>Two Choices at The Ball Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. Here is his speech: &#8220;When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Poem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, Transforming the yard to a winter delight. The sparkling lights in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afraid Of Rejects?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scores of best-selling books have been rejected many times before being published. Here are just three examples: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Despite its having sold 40 million copies since 1970, publishers originally thought that the concept of a book being told from the point of view of a seagull was simply ridiculous. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hankjordan.com/blog/afraid-of-rejects/</link>
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		<title>Breaking Barriers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For thousands of years the learned scientists worldwide agreed it absolutely couldn&#8217;t be done, but in 1947 we broke the sound barrier in the skies of California and flew faster than sound travels (more than 700 miles per hour). Now it&#8217;s routine for aircraft to fly faster than Mach One. The scientists swallowed their pride, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hankjordan.com/blog/breaking-barriers/</link>
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		<title>Something to Think About</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people lose their health to make money&#8230; and then lose their money to restore their health. Thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future. They live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.]]></description>
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		<title>Song Lyrics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever try to remember an old song and you just can&#8217;t remember all the words? When that happens to me, I get very frustrated. Rejoice! I found a website that solves it. Go to www.lyricsplayground.com]]></description>
		<link>http://hankjordan.com/blog/song-lyrics/</link>
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		<title>Talk About Political Correctness&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking up the history of putting handles on cups, on Google the other day, and ran across the terms BCE and CE describing the dates the handle thing started (in the Neolithic era).  Puzzled, I looked up the two sets of initials and found out the following information: Definition of BCE: Abbreviation for [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAWN CARE &#38; GOD God said : &#8220;Frank, you know all about gardens and nature. What in the world is going on down there on the planet? What happened to the dandelions, violets, milkweeds and stuff I started eons ago? I had a perfect no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hankjordan.com/blog/293/</link>
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		<title>The Rocky Road to Father&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday June 19 will be Father&#8217;s Day. National Father&#8217;s Day originated in Spokane Washington in June 1910 &#8212; more than a hundred years ago. It was proposed as a special day one Sunday afternoon by Sonora Dodd after she attended a church memorial service honoring mothers. She wanted to honor her own father. Her Methodist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hankjordan.com/blog/the-rocky-road-to-fathers-day/</link>
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		<title>Change Is Inevitable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The typical 9-to-5 job is dying on the vine as more young people, as well as Baby Boomers, decide to create their own destiny by launching their own business enterprises. Yet many new business owners struggle with getting their business ideas off the ground. Once they are open for business, they often flounder as they [...]]]></description>
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