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		<title>A Winter World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To one who lives in the snow and watches it day by day, it is a book to be read. The pages turn as the wind blows; the characters shift and the images formed by their combinations change in meaning…It is a shadow language, spoken by things that have gone and will come again. ~ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&amp;blog=12569504&amp;post=2338&amp;subd=julianhoffman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A Winter World</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">A line of snow, a line of sky</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Garden under snow</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Glittering</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Wilson A. Bentley, via Wikipedia Commons</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Bentley&#039;s snowflake photos, 1902, via Wikipedia Commons.</media:title>
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		<title>Glimpsed, In Passing: 2011</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/12/28/glimpsed-in-passing-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/12/28/glimpsed-in-passing-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’d be quite right in thinking that this isn’t part two of our journey to Szczecin in Poland. And rather than have you looking for it, or wondering whether I’ve deleted the subtitle of the previous post and therefore the obligation to write a follow-up, I’ll confess to not having written it. Not yet anyways. Much of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&amp;blog=12569504&amp;post=2302&amp;subd=julianhoffman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Great Prespa Lake</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lizard orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Eagle owl</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Evros Delta House</media:title>
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		<title>A Family Affair: Szczecin, pt.1</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/11/29/a-family-affair-szczecin-pt-1/</link>
		<comments>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/11/29/a-family-affair-szczecin-pt-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stettin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Szczecin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To listen to an audio version of &#8216;A Family Affair&#8217; click the play button &#8220;All origins become mysterious if we search far enough into the past. And almost all peoples, when we look at their earliest origins, turn out to have come from somewhere else.&#8221; -Noel Malcolm, Kosovo: A Short History A fierce north wind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&amp;blog=12569504&amp;post=2182&amp;subd=julianhoffman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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			<media:title type="html">A Family Affair</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Shipyards, 2010</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Ships &#38; Cranes</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Boats, 1936</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Harbour cranes, 2010</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Pepsi, 2010</media:title>
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		<title>Crossing Paths</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/11/04/crossing-paths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[red-footed falcons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Certain exquisite experiences in the natural world arise because of the precise alignment of unpredictable paths. We can never know exactly where and when they’ll occur, if at all, and that, perhaps, is the very essence of their charm. Other than being out on the land as often as possible, I know of no way to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&amp;blog=12569504&amp;post=2152&amp;subd=julianhoffman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A Crossing of Paths</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Willows</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Meadows</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Riders of the storm</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Scrubland light</media:title>
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		<title>Gathering In</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/10/18/gathering-in/</link>
		<comments>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/10/18/gathering-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autumn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[changing leaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall colours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun passes lower in the sky, bringing the quickening rush that starts the long winter months. Tresses of drying peppers spread like flames across sheds, turning the stone walls into scenes of tropical design. The elegant stems of onions that have spoked all summer above the swelling bulbs are plaited, woven together like hands in a dance, and hung out of the way of snow. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&amp;blog=12569504&amp;post=2128&amp;subd=julianhoffman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Julian Hoffman</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Gathering In</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Willow leaves</media:title>
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		<title>Faith in a Forgotten Place</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/10/04/faith-in-a-forgotten-place/</link>
		<comments>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/10/04/faith-in-a-forgotten-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prespa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terrain.org]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zagradec]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Where there are borders, there are bridges.&#8221; I&#8217;d been researching a cross-border eco-tourism project on the Albanian side of the lake when Myrsini Malakou, director of the Society for the Protection of Prespa, suddenly said this during an interview. Her words crystalized for me a vague idea that I&#8217;d been carrying around throughout the time I&#8217;d spent in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&amp;blog=12569504&amp;post=2072&amp;subd=julianhoffman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Julian Hoffman</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Faith in a Forgotten Place</media:title>
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		<title>A Sort of Homecoming</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/09/12/a-sort-of-homecoming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And you know it&#8217;s time to go Through the sleet and driving snow Across the fields of mourning Lights in the distance And you hunger for the time Time to heal, desire time - U2, &#8216;A Sort of Homecoming&#8217; Whenever I monitor birds on the lower hills I pass what is left of the village. I stay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&amp;blog=12569504&amp;post=2015&amp;subd=julianhoffman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flights of Summer</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/07/14/flights-of-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a boy summer has seemed synonymous with flight. Whether a figurative lift coinciding with the end of school when my brother and I would take to our bikes or the fields with equal delight and spend endless, consuming hours exploring whatever was there to be discovered, or an actual journey through air, travelling from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&amp;blog=12569504&amp;post=1863&amp;subd=julianhoffman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Circumference of a Second</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/06/24/the-circumference-of-a-second/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To listen to an audio version of &#8216;The Circumference of a Second&#8217; please press the play button. for Dimitris Noulis Sometimes just a few words can transport us. A friend had emailed me the first line of a 17th century poem by Henry Vaughan, and I found myself reading it over and over: I saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&amp;blog=12569504&amp;post=1801&amp;subd=julianhoffman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Light of Birds, Evros Delta</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/05/28/the-light-of-birds-evros-delta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 08:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To listen to an audio version of &#8216;The Light of Birds&#8217; please click on the play button. They&#8217;re returning, wave after wave of them spilling over the delta of the Evros River. The sky is streaked with sharp-winged falcons, with storks whitening the meadows when they descend, with flocks of ibis that close like black umbrellas on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&amp;blog=12569504&amp;post=1738&amp;subd=julianhoffman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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