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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.5.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:07:54 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>A Colorburst Prayer</title><subtitle>A Colorburst Prayer</subtitle><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/atom.xml"/><updated>2009-07-04T00:58:15Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.5.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>introducing sofia</title><category term="co-op life"/><category term="madison"/><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/6/27/introducing-sofia.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/6/27/introducing-sofia.html"/><author><name>Steve McClure</name></author><published>2009-06-27T23:19:30Z</published><updated>2009-06-27T23:19:30Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[I've neglected to mention a quiet revolution occurring within my own co-op house. In May, the house finally settled on a new name for itself.&nbsp;]]></summary></entry><entry><title>more impressions of albuquerque and madison</title><category term="madison"/><category term="travel"/><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/6/17/more-impressions-of-albuquerque-and-madison.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/6/17/more-impressions-of-albuquerque-and-madison.html"/><author><name>Steve McClure</name></author><published>2009-06-17T23:48:00Z</published><updated>2009-06-17T23:48:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[I've been in Albuquerque during the last week to visit my father, my aunts and a friend. &nbsp;Albuquerque has always been a second home to me, not only because my father has lived here for three years, but also because I've had relatives here my entire life. &nbsp;Lately when I've been coming here, I find myself comparing Albuquerque with Madison.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>forty days into a new day</title><category term="personal"/><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/6/2/forty-days-into-a-new-day.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/6/2/forty-days-into-a-new-day.html"/><author><name>Steve McClure</name></author><published>2009-06-02T02:24:47Z</published><updated>2009-06-02T02:24:47Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Forty days ago, a guy showed up at my door carrying a blue shoulder bag. He was delivering something I'd been eagerly anticipating for five months--something which would hopefully put an end to sleep-deprived nights and caffeine-injected days that I'd drag myself through like a zombie. Something which would address my severe case of sleep apnea]]></summary></entry><entry><title>living vicariously through graduation</title><category term="personal"/><category term="the seasons"/><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/5/20/living-vicariously-through-graduation.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/5/20/living-vicariously-through-graduation.html"/><author><name>Steve McClure</name></author><published>2009-05-20T01:35:24Z</published><updated>2009-05-20T01:35:24Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Living further away from the college campus, and not having been a student in decades, one would think that I would somehow have escaped any sort of contact with the whole graduation thing. No siree, not this year.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>everything i've done</title><category term="personal"/><category term="spirituality"/><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/5/10/everything-ive-done.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/5/10/everything-ive-done.html"/><author><name>Steve McClure</name></author><published>2009-05-10T19:05:06Z</published><updated>2009-05-10T19:05:06Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[To this day, I'm still clear that community is of central importance to me, and I also have the desire to promote it through the Baha'i Faith, in addition to other means. Yet it is also clear that a certain cynicism has crept into a lot of my work, a feeling that I'm working hard but not necessarily achieving fulfillment.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>reflection on the twelve days of ridvan</title><category term="spirituality"/><category term="the seasons"/><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/5/4/reflection-on-the-twelve-days-of-ridvan.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/5/4/reflection-on-the-twelve-days-of-ridvan.html"/><author><name>Steve McClure</name></author><published>2009-05-04T02:30:15Z</published><updated>2009-05-04T02:30:15Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.bahai.us/garden-of-paradise">Ridvan</a>, for you non-Baha'i readers out there, marks the twelve days that Baha'u'llah spent in a garden outside of Baghdad right before he was exiled to Constantinople. It was there that he declared his mission to his followers. It is considered the holiest of holidays for Baha'is. It started on 21 April and went until yesterday, 2 May.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>a new day</title><category term="blogging"/><category term="personal"/><category term="the seasons"/><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/4/26/a-new-day.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/4/26/a-new-day.html"/><author><name>Steve McClure</name></author><published>2009-04-26T02:07:01Z</published><updated>2009-04-26T02:07:01Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Thought you might like the new design. I never quite felt comfortable with the old one. Someone had remarked that it looked like a winter sunset, and there was indeed something kind of bleak about it. The graphic was based on something much more colorful, but it was so bright that it detracted from the text. This one is intended to be more cheerful.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>okay, enough about colds—but how about that emergency room visit?</title><category term="personal"/><category term="the seasons"/><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/4/13/okay-enough-about-coldsbut-how-about-that-emergency-room-vis.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/4/13/okay-enough-about-coldsbut-how-about-that-emergency-room-vis.html"/><author><name>Steve McClure</name></author><published>2009-04-13T00:17:42Z</published><updated>2009-04-13T00:17:42Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[I was reluctant to post about this because after a post about colds, a post about snow, and a post about colds and snow, well, I didn't want to be writing about this subject again.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>more sunday snow and a box of tissues</title><category term="madison"/><category term="personal"/><category term="the seasons"/><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/4/5/more-sunday-snow-and-a-box-of-tissues.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/4/5/more-sunday-snow-and-a-box-of-tissues.html"/><author><name>Steve McClure</name></author><published>2009-04-05T14:15:50Z</published><updated>2009-04-05T14:15:50Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[If it's Sunday, it must be snow again. When I woke up this morning around 6:30 a.m., I saw the first tiny snow flakes falling down and within an hour or so, the landscape had turned from brown to white.&nbsp; We are looking at three to seven inches before day's end.&nbsp; Once again, I am sequestering myself in my bedroom, though now it's because I've come down with a nasty cold.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>listen, the snow is falling</title><category term="madison"/><category term="the seasons"/><id>http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/3/29/listen-the-snow-is-falling.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.colorburstprayer.net/the-different-drummer-journal/2009/3/29/listen-the-snow-is-falling.html"/><author><name>Steve McClure</name></author><published>2009-03-29T12:49:50Z</published><updated>2009-03-29T12:49:50Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[After two weeks of enjoying weather in the 50's and 60's, a winter storm blew through and dumped a few inches of snow on south central Wisconsin.]]></summary></entry></feed>