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		<title>At 25 I took the roundabout and never wrote about it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadz Loresco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychobabble #2* Finally digressed into that phase of which my 23-year-old self would be proud: the uninhibited sloughing-off, the undoing of my quarterlife, starting with the mundane, my multipurpose bag for example. Bought a satchel for replacement today, a good bargain. Detailing out its size, color, look is tedious at 11PM, at work no less. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toneddownandvintage.com&#038;blog=26150192&#038;post=2601&#038;subd=toneddownandvintage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>{What had sounded better in my head}</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 22:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadz Loresco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything was necessary. The absoluteness of your everything distills necessary from &#8230; everything. Everything as necessary is music to my ears, as if notes dancing in and out of their measure, fluid, alighting with grace on the train platform, guiding the curious incongruence between my point A and point B, not bothered by the mess that by now has been wrought by my [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toneddownandvintage.com&#038;blog=26150192&#038;post=2589&#038;subd=toneddownandvintage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daenerys Stormborn and damning the odds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadz Loresco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First season, tenth episode. The reel is my memory. I remember flaming torches that could rival the number of those lit in all Survivor versions, forming a ring in the middle of the desert as in a sacrificial rite. The Dothraki and Ser Jorah Mormont behind. Daenerys&#8211; widowed, lost a child, lost a brother, having [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toneddownandvintage.com&#038;blog=26150192&#038;post=2573&#038;subd=toneddownandvintage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Because I have nothing original to say&#8211; so here&#8217;s E.B. White</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadz Loresco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first encountered the essayist E.B. White when my sixteen-year-old self bought the Elements of Strunk (yeah, Strunk). Since then this dead, old man (he died 86 years old) has been my almost-acquaintance&#8211; &#8220;not the type I would be drinking buddies with,&#8221; as one of my officemates puts it. The foreword about him in that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toneddownandvintage.com&#038;blog=26150192&#038;post=2554&#038;subd=toneddownandvintage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The breeze</title>
		<link>http://toneddownandvintage.com/2013/03/30/the-breeze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadz Loresco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My makeshift desk is our old iron board, chosen because it&#8217;s near a power outlet, but more importantly because it sits me near the screen door, now opened wide, and makes me gaze at the blackness through the terrace&#8217;s iron bars, and shadows&#8211; when this homey, fanning soft breeze would rendezvous with me at any [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toneddownandvintage.com&#038;blog=26150192&#038;post=2526&#038;subd=toneddownandvintage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In a few words, my state of mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadz Loresco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Lot on My Plate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joni Mitchell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the discrepancy between memories and what really happened]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A stray shot, nothing particularly interesting here, but it accidentally documented a memory: of the chain link-fenced plot across the back of my office building; despite the second-hand smoke, I would spend my afternoon breaks with friends across and stare, sometimes feigning spacey, at this incongruous ecosystem in our side of the city. Soon trees [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toneddownandvintage.com&#038;blog=26150192&#038;post=2463&#038;subd=toneddownandvintage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2713</title>
		<link>http://toneddownandvintage.com/2013/02/07/2459/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadz Loresco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So hi, stranger, thanks for having read till this line. I semi-outlined my thoughts on love earlier (because I can sniff Valentine shizz in the air) but they slipped by me when I typed &#8216;hi&#8217;. So maybe I&#8217;ll just talk about songs. Or my friends. Or post photos. Because I&#8217;ve totally forgotten how to write. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toneddownandvintage.com&#038;blog=26150192&#038;post=2459&#038;subd=toneddownandvintage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future of Forestry: Love Be Your Mantra</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadz Loresco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello! This guy Eric Owyoung sings &#8220;Take what you&#8217;re granted / Love be your mantra.&#8221; So&#8230; goodbye, riot. Filed under: Eureka Moments, Fragments Tagged: C.S. Lewis, Future of Forestry, Love Be Your Mantra<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toneddownandvintage.com&#038;blog=26150192&#038;post=2455&#038;subd=toneddownandvintage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little Alan Menken, a little Charles Dickens, and a little loving till we all die</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadz Loresco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Christmas Carol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A repost from Tumblr: &#160; After so many years, I remember this song. &#8220;Let the stars in the sky remind us of man&#8217;s compassion&#8221; never gets old. That is what I seek, everyday. From the faces of the sidewalk crowd, the side glances of the finer-dressed, stilettoed ones, and the hushes, the rushes, the blur [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toneddownandvintage.com&#038;blog=26150192&#038;post=2450&#038;subd=toneddownandvintage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I love love love being a girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shadz Loresco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do me a favor. Read this, and then watch the video that follows. ***** I Am An Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler I love being a girl. I can feel what you’re feeling as you’re feeling it inside the feeling before. I am an emotional creature. Things do not come to me as intellectual theories or [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toneddownandvintage.com&#038;blog=26150192&#038;post=2444&#038;subd=toneddownandvintage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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