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	<description>Harvesting our Wisdom, Sharing our Stories</description>
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		<title>The first peace</title>
		<link>http://vitalelders.org/?p=105</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invitation - Councils for Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, we’re Mike and Patricia Bell and we are part of an international group that is planning the launch of the World Foundation for the Discipline of Peace. The founders of the Foundation, WindEagle and RainbowHawk, are Elders and Keepers of a body of timeless wisdom tools and practices that have their roots in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who will teach him?</title>
		<link>http://vitalelders.org/?p=102</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who will teach him?


He stood outside in shirt sleeves
At 2 in the morning in the cold and drizzle
Like drunken Geordies often do


Proclaiming his love for her and
Not understanding what he had done
As I guess many young men might find themselves


She had been out with him a few times
But did not really know him 
Until he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need Re-inspiring at work?</title>
		<link>http://vitalelders.org/?p=99</link>
		<comments>http://vitalelders.org/?p=99#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you one of a growing number of busy, successful managers who have lost their enthusiasm for work? It just does not seem to engage or excite you in the way it once did.
Increasingly managers are stressed and, despite how much they have to do, they often feel bored. They have lost their zest for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not if but when &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://vitalelders.org/?p=98</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a wonderful poem from a new friend:
&#8216;Not if but when &#8230;&#8217;
 
Bush &#8216;n&#8217; Blair say: It&#8217;s not if but when there will be a major terrorist attack.
 
The World Health Organisation says: It&#8217;s not if but when there will be a global pandemic.
 
The World Bank says: It&#8217;s not if but when house prices will fall and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elders are the cultural glue</title>
		<link>http://vitalelders.org/?p=89</link>
		<comments>http://vitalelders.org/?p=89#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard gerontologist tells group of seniors about their value to the community
There&#8217;s a reason humans live twice as long as our nearest biological cousins, says a Harvard-trained gerontologist who visited Medford Thursday.
Old people are &#8220;the glue that holds us together,&#8221; Dr. Bill Thomas told a crowd of nearly 400 seniors gathered at Medford&#8217;s Red Lion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fat linked to loss of intelligence</title>
		<link>http://vitalelders.org/?p=90</link>
		<comments>http://vitalelders.org/?p=90#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Body]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mind]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has already been nicknamed the &#8220;Homer Simpson effect&#8221; - and now research suggests being overweight could affect your intelligence.
A five-year study of more than 2000 middle-aged people has found a possible link between weight and brain function.
Research published in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology, found people with a higher Body [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soothing the spirit helps heal the body</title>
		<link>http://vitalelders.org/?p=91</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Spirit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["A lot of people, in the face of serious illness, look for hope and find their way through religion or spirituality or meditation or reiki or whatever helps them," said Suzanne Swan, director of education at To Life. ]]></description>
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		<title>How To Take Off 10 Years</title>
		<link>http://vitalelders.org/?p=92</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Body]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Research is unlocking the secrets to living longer and better. And 70 percent of the factors influencing life expectancy are due to good choices and good luck -- not good genes. In part-two of our story, scientists studying aging, exercise, nutrition, and related fields offer more moves to peel off the years. Picks so powerful, the researchers have adopted them in their own lives.

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		<title>Oh, happy days</title>
		<link>http://vitalelders.org/?p=93</link>
		<comments>http://vitalelders.org/?p=93#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spirit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are we happy yet? Suzy Freeman-Greene ponders the wisdom of the ancients in the search for happiness and how our expectations have changed over the centuries.

THE HAPPINESS INDUSTRY is in overdrive. There has been an explosion of books about happiness. There are conferences on happiness, laughter clubs and happy hours. A Harvard academic teaches a course on happiness that is the university's most popular subject. Happiness is the subtext of most ads, the promise hidden in a shoe or soft drink. Everywhere we go, we're told to have fun.
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