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		<title>Letter from the Old Pueblo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maisel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Old Pueblo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OUT, DAMNED BLOCK An Exercise for Non-Fiction Writers By Metece Riccio Raynor About Where This Letter Is From Tucson, affectionately known as the Old Pueblo to our Chamber of Commerce people who hope to jack up the town’s nonexistent cache, is true desert in the summer.  Like in the old westerns where some unfortunate cowboy’s trusty pony gets shot by an evil desperado, leaving the hero parched and stumbling in the badlands with only the saguaros and diamondback rattlers for company. He drained his empty canteen nine miles back, is dragging his carcass along and &#8230; <a href="http://ericmaisel.com/2011/12/letter-from-the-old-pueblo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Belfast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maisel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes Home Chooses You By Robin Rezende I moved to Belfast eight years ago with two pillows, a down comforter, and the faint notion that I’d leave the place within a year.  I assumed that I would complete my brief job assignment, pack up my pillows, shake out my down comforter, gather together a few Irish souvenirs for my family and friends, and be back at home in the US before anyone even missed me.  But sometimes home isn’t where you find it.  Sometimes home finds you. The question I’m always asked when I meet &#8230; <a href="http://ericmaisel.com/2011/12/letter-from-belfast/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from San Francisco</title>
		<link>http://ericmaisel.com/2011/11/letter-from-san-francisco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maisel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[creativity coach]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Ressler Since we’re being so geographical about all this, here’s something about where I live. A mere 250 years ago, a traveler from France said about this place, “There is not any country in the world which more abounds in fish and game of every description.” The flocks of ducks, geese, and sea birds, when startled, rose in a cloud so thick they made “a noise like that of a hurricane.” There were deer, elk, antelope, rabbits, salmon in the rivers, and a population of sea lions as dense as “pavement” on the &#8230; <a href="http://ericmaisel.com/2011/11/letter-from-san-francisco/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Minneapolis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maisel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sandy Nelson I’ve walked along the Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis for many years. I used to take my young sons for nature hikes and crayfish hunting along its banks. I’ve worked out many creative conundrums along the path; and found inspiration in every season it revealed to me. About a two block walk along the water, I can take a left turn and walk a block up the side street, and then travel a few more feet along Nicollet Avenue to a special spot. Tangletown Gardens used to be a gas station. Its blue &#8230; <a href="http://ericmaisel.com/2011/11/letter-from-minneapolis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the Colorado Rockies</title>
		<link>http://ericmaisel.com/2011/10/letter-from-the-colorado-rockies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Maisel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cindi Myers Are you a mountain person or a beach person? Like most simplistic personality tests, this one attempts to divide people into arbitrary categories. But I find it an interesting question, nonetheless.  Whether a view of mountains or of oceans fills you with a sense of wonder, freedom and creativity, both share a vastness and an awe-inspiring perspective. What is it about giant landscapes that reduce us to insignificance that inspire us? I put myself firmly in the camp of mountain person. I spent my formative years in Houston, Texas, flat and below &#8230; <a href="http://ericmaisel.com/2011/10/letter-from-the-colorado-rockies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<link>http://ericmaisel.com/2011/09/2378/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Maisel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noimetics is a new philosophy. By presenting a philosophy that can stand alongside philosophies like existentialism, rationalism, and humanism and that provides a radically new—and truer—explanation of what “meaning means” to human beings, I hope to provide a complete picture of what “making meaning” entails—and why that may deeply interest you. To learn more about noimetics, please join me for my class with the Academy for Optimal Living called Noimetics: Bring Meaning to Life! The class begins in November and can be joined at any time. Enrollment is now open.]]></description>
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		<link>http://ericmaisel.com/2011/09/2375/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Maisel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rethinking Depression, my latest book with New World Library, will appear February, 2012. In it I question whether “the mental disorder of depression” exists or whether in contemporary times human sadness has been monetized and languaged into a “mental disorder.” I follow that discussion with a plan for minimizing sadness and living life with purpose. Here are some early comments on Rethinking Depression. ** Allan Horwitz, author of Creating Mental Illness: “Eric Maisel’s Rethinking Depression raises fundamental questions about the differences between depressive mental disorder and normal sadness. Anyone who is wondering if they really &#8230; <a href="http://ericmaisel.com/2011/09/2375/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<link>http://ericmaisel.com/2011/09/2370/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Maisel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eric Maisel News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t miss my two new classes with the Academy for Optimal Living. One is called “Your Best Life in the Arts” and begins in October (and you can jump aboard after the start date!) and the second is called “Noimetics: Bring Meaning to Life!” and &#8230; <a href="http://ericmaisel.com/2011/09/2370/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<link>http://ericmaisel.com/2011/09/2365/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Maisel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Attractions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I chatted with 150 undergraduate and graduate students at Savannah College of Art and Design’s River Club on the subject of “Your Best Life in the Arts.” Over the course of an hour-and-a-half I laid out the major challenges facing creative and performing artists—and what they might try to do to meet those challenges. A lively half-hour of questions followed.  If you think that the students at your college or university might benefit from such an evening, let’s chat! ** During that same visit to SCAD I spent a full day working with SCAD’s &#8230; <a href="http://ericmaisel.com/2011/09/2365/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome</title>
		<link>http://ericmaisel.com/2011/09/2358/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Maisel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome! My name is Eric Maisel and I’ve written 35 books on a wide variety of subjects, including many on the challenges of the creative life. I’m interested in mental health issues (take a look at my latest book Mastering Creative Anxiety and my forthcoming Rethinking Depression) and in issues of life purpose and meaning (see my new philosophy of meaning called noimetics). If you’d like to train with me, take my classes or workshops, or invite me to speak, information is available at this site. Please enjoy. And check out our World Salon!]]></description>
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