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		<title>Actual Conversation I Had at the Car Wash Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Setting:  A young woman stands at the entrance of a shiny, fairly new Car Wash with a credit-card reader.  Behind her is a sign with the menu of services from least expensive to most. &#160; Woman: “What’ll you have?” Me, pondering the options: “Well, I’d like to get a wash and a wax.” Woman: “That <a href='http://kellypigott.com/?p=746' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>In the Beginning, the Band Director Created the Heavens and the Earth&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jade Ethridge, a friend from High School, recently spread the word that our old band director, Gerry Waguespack, passed away. When I read the news my mind immediately went back to the late seventies and to the fro I sported and to the band room at Acadiana High School where I played the trumpet. I <a href='http://kellypigott.com/?p=739' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>When Death Comes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a morbid subject, right? Imagine Hamlet, staring at the skull of Yorick and asking, “To be, or not to be.” Or Edgar Allan Poe studying a raven while sipping a vial of absinthe and coming up with the word, “Nevermore!” Or the grim reaper, clothed in a black robe, carrying a sickle and knocking <a href='http://kellypigott.com/?p=674' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>So Why did the Last Pope Who Resigned Resign? A Historical Context for Benedict XVI&#8217;s Resignation That&#8217;s More Interesting Than the Slate Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been asked by several people about my thoughts concerning Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation .  In particular, they want to know if there is a historical precedence. Well…I’m glad you asked. I won’t pontificate (groan) on whether successive popes will resign when they start falling asleep in church (they won’t).  But I would like to <a href='http://kellypigott.com/?p=657' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Turning 50</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I turned 50 today. And I’ve been working through Jane Kenyon’s poems in the mornings. It just so happened that today’s poem, entitled “Main Street: Tilton, New Hampshire,” was about capturing a moment as she sat in a car waiting for (presumably) her husband to buy a wedge of cheese at a small shop. The <a href='http://kellypigott.com/?p=651' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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