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		<title>MENSCH: A person of character.</title>
		<link>http://jeffgarvin.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/mensch-a-person-of-character/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MENSCH: A person of character. An individual of recognized worth because of noble values or actions. If you’ve ever been to San Francisco more than likely you were greeted by the fog.  I was there for a training class earlier this year.  There was one other time that I had the pleasure of visiting but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffgarvin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7188426&amp;post=116&amp;subd=jeffgarvin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Future&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://jeffgarvin.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/whats-in-a-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know what your 5 and 10 year goals are?  How could you ever succeed in life if you don’t have it all planned out.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffgarvin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7188426&amp;post=112&amp;subd=jeffgarvin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sailing Katarina-Rincon, Puerto Rico</title>
		<link>http://jeffgarvin.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/sailing-katarina-rincon-puerto-rico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffgarvin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expecting who knows what; booked it over the phone sight unseen.  His name was Billy and he sounded just like you would think, “don’t worry about anything, just bring yourselves and a towel.  We’ll take care of the rest”, is what he said.  You are probably thinking the same thing that I thought “never trust [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffgarvin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7188426&amp;post=106&amp;subd=jeffgarvin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise-Huntington Beach</title>
		<link>http://jeffgarvin.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/paradise-huntington-beach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffgarvin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before we start, go ahead get a good cup of coffee, a glass of wine or whatever it takes to centre your thoughts.  This is a conversation between you and me. A conservative, eclectic spot of paradise, people, bikes, more people, more bikes, sand, shops and surf (oh and not to forget a Starbuck’s on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffgarvin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7188426&amp;post=89&amp;subd=jeffgarvin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney-Taste the good life</title>
		<link>http://jeffgarvin.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/sydney-taste-the-good-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t just walk by a wine tasting! It was a scene right out of a movie; You’ve Got Mail, St. Elmo’s Fire, or any movie that has that scene when the characters are strolling through a street market with lots of people and the leaves are falling from the trees. In Sydney there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffgarvin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7188426&amp;post=86&amp;subd=jeffgarvin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conversation w/Monique in Sydney</title>
		<link>http://jeffgarvin.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/conversation-wmonique-in-sydney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffgarvin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monique said she had never considered the existence of God. Willy is a field engineer that traveled to Sydney with me.  He and I had talked about not telling Kevin that we were going to be in Sydney, its not that we don’t like him.  He is really a good friend.  But Kevin is one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffgarvin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7188426&amp;post=83&amp;subd=jeffgarvin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney:Great!</title>
		<link>http://jeffgarvin.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/sydneygreat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monique said she had never considered the existence of God.  As she had grown up in New Zealand it had never been part of her family’s dinner conversations.  Now that she had quit her job with Qantas Airline, she’s was entering that phase of life where we discover what really matters.  The Biography channel said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffgarvin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7188426&amp;post=72&amp;subd=jeffgarvin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ludicrous</title>
		<link>http://jeffgarvin.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/ludicrous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[he words echo very loudly, “with man this is impossible.” There is no amount of effort that we can put forth to change the outcome of our life. When we die, we die. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffgarvin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7188426&amp;post=65&amp;subd=jeffgarvin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Nights – Paralyzed</title>
		<link>http://jeffgarvin.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/dark-nights-%e2%80%93-paralyzed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 01:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you think of yourself as paralyzed or an invalid? I’d say most of us don’t.  When those words pass through our thoughts there is usually a visual that comes with it; a man in a wheel chair returning home from war, a lady lying in a hospital bed struggling. The other day I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffgarvin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7188426&amp;post=61&amp;subd=jeffgarvin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A man and his bike and his clothes</title>
		<link>http://jeffgarvin.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/a-man-and-his-bike-and-his-clothes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mind is wondering; “did I calculated the numbers correctly,” “what will we do this weekend,” “its nice not to have to be anywhere right now.”    It might have something to do with the fact that I went to sleep at 2am and got up at 7am.  Sandi asked me why I wanted to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffgarvin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7188426&amp;post=54&amp;subd=jeffgarvin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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