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		<title>When elephants lose their chains&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who has loved Kipling&#8217;s The Elephant&#8217;s Child, or Disney&#8217;s Dumbo, here is a lovely tale of 2 elephants reuniting after more than 20 years in captivity: And here is an even stranger story about The Elephant Whisperer and &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/when-elephants-lose-their-chains/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 02:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mothers' Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent me a beautiful photo of her grand-daughter on Mother&#8217;s Day, which captivated me. It captured the essence of what it means to be a Mother and to become a Mother, because, despite the trials and tribulations, there &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/mothers-day-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Greedy Pig.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 21:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I doubt we could find similar illustrations today:  &#8220;A Greedy Pig&#8221;, from the wonderful collection at BibliOdyssey.]]></description>
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		<title>Ever heard of Charles Perrault?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beuaty and the Beast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Perrault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cinderella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairy tales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Red Riding Hood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother Goose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sleeping Beauty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mother Goose, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.  In many ways, it saddens me that we associate all these stories with Disney and Hollywood, rather than crediting a prolific author with &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/ever-heard-of-charles-perrault/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Darkness in the light&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/darkness-in-the-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 05:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve McCurry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do check Steve McCurry&#8217;s beautiful collection of photographs of After Dark.  A feast for the eyes.]]></description>
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		<title>The advantages of middle age.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 04:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle age]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, since 50+ seems to be the new middle age&#8230;  Thus, humans can be seen as members of an elite club of species in which adulthood has become so long and complicated that it can no longer all be given over &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/the-advantages-of-middle-age/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The wonders of anesthesia&#8230; a recent phenomenon.</title>
		<link>http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/the-wonders-of-anesthesia-a-recent-phenomenon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 04:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anesthesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surgery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What we nowadays take for granted, once was a horrific experience.  From the New England Journal of Medicine:  Two Hundred Years of Surgery: The horror of great darkness, and the sense of desertion by God and man, bordering close on despair, &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/the-wonders-of-anesthesia-a-recent-phenomenon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the scenes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/behind-the-scenes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing to do with politics&#8230;all to do with the workers behind the scenes&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A man, his love, a chimp posse, and an old fashioned song&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/a-man-his-love-a-chimp-posse-and-an-old-fashioned-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal kingdom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chimps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Paso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marty Robbins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Martin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I feel down, I always take refuge in music. A long time ago, when Steve Martin and I were young, I saw this skit on TV and have never forgotten it, because it cheered me up (I believe it &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/a-man-his-love-a-chimp-posse-and-an-old-fashioned-song/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan poetry, proverbs and photography.</title>
		<link>http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/afghan-poetry-proverbs-and-photography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan proverbs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve McCurry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Only the inimitable great photographer Steve McCurry can make us see beauty where others see poverty and despair, and intertwine poetry and proverbs to give us a glimpse of what I, at least, see as an enigma: Ah! How beautiful is Kabul &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/afghan-poetry-proverbs-and-photography/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Back to my Dillon roots&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All things Dillon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dillon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dillon Regiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Brigade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wild Geese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthur Dillon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles de Gaulle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dillon rum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Brigade in the service of France]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a challenging and fascinating 3-week tour in Afghanistan, I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Paris, visiting museums galore. To my incredible delight, the Musée de l&#8217;Armée ~ where Napoleon is buried in a &#8220;matrioshka&#8221; style vault &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/back-to-my-dillon-roots/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kabul commute.</title>
		<link>http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/kabul-commute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koran burning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently told me that life in Afghanistan has the capacity of changing course in a blink.  Two weeks ago, Tuesday, I was happily ensconced in our working compound, immersed in research, when word came out that a few Korans &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/kabul-commute/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking of a little Afghan boy&#8217;s future&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/thinking-of-a-little-afghan-boys-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koran burning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unrest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of street dogs in Kabul, scavenging for food among the garbage, but I had not seen any of the &#8220;Afghan&#8221; dogs of long hair fame. Then, one morning, I saw a little boy running in the snow, &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/thinking-of-a-little-afghan-boys-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>War&#8217;s Children.</title>
		<link>http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/wars-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children and war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve McCurry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steve McCurry has a haunting collection of portraits and other photographs depicting the wizened, resigned, sad, shocked, and sometimes bewildered faces of children in war. I just discovered his blog, and have found his artistry poignant and riveting. Mr. McCurry &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/wars-children/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A province of Afghanistan.</title>
		<link>http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/a-province-of-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Dillon Hillas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Counter Insurgency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISAF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter warfare.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is something enchanting and mysterious about this photo of the mountains of Afghanistan and the Batman capes! A member of coalition special operations forces begins to recover pallets of supplies in the snow during an airdrop in the Shah &#8230; <a href="http://www.dillonhillas.com/dumspirospero/a-province-of-afghanistan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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