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	<description>&#34;I was born in this world with a song...&#34;</description>
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		<title>In Memorandum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Dedicated to the eduring memory of my first banjo, companion of 5 years, recently separated from me while on tour&#8230;). This is the story of a good friend. The kind of friend who was just the right height to lean on and wrap your arms around on the long, long, loooooong greyhound bus rides cross [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kyras.net/2012/04/in-memorandum/</link>
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		<title>Art at the Heart- De l&#8217;Art au Coeur!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear everyone! Heartroot Farm is the land on which I was raised and that I&#8217;ve been care taking for the past few years&#8230;We have been dreaming of a four-season performance and workshop space for over a decade and are hoping to finally finish up it&#8217;s construction in the next couple of years&#8230;Find out more at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kyras.net/2012/04/art-at-the-heart-de-lart-au-coeur/</link>
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		<title>landing gratefully.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes landing is hard. After so long floating on air you come back down to ground and look around, beffudled. What&#8217;s all this stuff? The things that were once out of sight and out of mind jump out at you from every bush and wait with sardonic leers around each bend in the road (Road? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kyras.net/2011/12/landing-gratefully/</link>
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		<title>Taking Copenhagen by storm&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Denmark!? Who ever thought I would be exploring this northern country as winter casts itself over the sky and the sun curls around the edge of the earth ever earlier&#8230;? Jacob Svendsen, one of my fellow participants in the Ireland Listening Room retreat, longtime songwriter and native Denmarkian;), invited me over with the irresistible persuasion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kyras.net/2011/12/taking-copenhagen-by-storm/</link>
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		<title>Alpine views</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The train winds it&#8217;s way slowly through the jagged peaks of the alps surrounding Innsbruck, following the curves of the shockingly turquoise blue river whose name, Inn, lends itself to the city. Green fields give way to dens pine forests on one side, while the mountains peer down their snow-capped nose-tips on the right&#8230; Houses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kyras.net/2011/11/alpine-views/</link>
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		<title>The Listening Room, Ireland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the past week on an island in Ireland writing music with a group of 10 other singer-songwriters&#8230;heaven on earth? Close to it&#8230; The Listening Room is an event organized by Brett Perkins that takes place in a few different locations each year, including California, Denmark and the island of Inis Oirr, the smallest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kyras.net/2011/10/the-listening-room-ireland/</link>
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		<title>The Whirling Rainbow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The time since the Earth Activist Training PDC has been full to overflowing! On the Heartroot Farm front we have been blessed with many visitors and, as a result, lots of movement&#8230;The balcony of the main house is in the midst of being redone with cedar from our woods,; the garden has been a constant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kyras.net/2011/09/the-whirling-rainbow/</link>
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		<title>Earth Activist Training: Permaculture (on the) Rocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well well well&#8230; Here I am again, carving out a little pause for myself to reflect and write some kind of narrative to my past&#8230;weeks? Months? Anyways, here I am. &#8220;Let the beauty we love be what we do&#8230;there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground&#8230;&#8221; This quote is a trace from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kyras.net/2011/07/earth-activist-training-permaculture-on-the-rocks/</link>
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		<title>On this Solstice Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The summer neglect of this blog is excusable&#8230; The outdoors are flourishing with life (including our good friends the horse fly and the mosquito) and calls to me every morning. This particular morning, the morning of the longest day of the year, I woke to the moon shining so brightly through my window that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kyras.net/2011/06/on-this-solstice-day/</link>
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		<title>Carbon Calculator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I highly recommend using this for anyone whose current lifestyle involves travel via oil-based methods&#8230;The website http://www.actioncarbone.org/ allows you to download a widget that you can install on your webpage to encourage other people to use the calculator and offset their carbon emissions. There is a lengthy and in depth explanation on the site of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kyras.net/2011/05/carbon-calculator/</link>
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