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	<title>The Firefly Forest &#187; Art, Music, Photography, and Writing</title>
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	<description>Discovering and enjoying nature - The Firefly Forest is a combination nature journal and plant and animal species identification guide</description>
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		<title>Prisoner of No Time, a Haiku</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2007/04/18/prisoner-of-no-time-a-haiku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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Projects and deadlines
no time for sun and flowers
just too busy now.
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		<title>Moon Haiku</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/11/17/moon-haiku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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On the dark water
the moon sparkles with silver
each wave her mirror.
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		<title>The Unquiet Sky</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/10/24/the-unquiet-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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The Unquiet Sky
I had come from the clouds
Like a black and wintry river,
Rain all day.
Magic within the dark air,
The impending shadow,
Stronger in the end than any evil,
Sooner than Hell overturn.
And yet I fear I may be overpowered
Like a disturbed ghost.
A dark cloud,
Lowering and compelling black,
Tossed upon the wind and so overcome,
Restored the sunshine,
The unearthly light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonlight and a String of Lights</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/10/17/moonlight-and-a-string-of-lights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a string of dragonfly lights hanging in a tree on the east side of my patio, where they often have the rising moon as a beautiful backdrop. This particular night, the full moon was glowing behind a misty veil of high clouds, and even though a camera can only capture a small portion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camera Tossing and Kinetic Photography</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/04/14/camera-tossing-and-kinetic-photography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While looking around on the photo sharing site Flickr, I discovered some truly extreme methods for creating light trail photographs, camera tossing and kinetic photography.
Camera tossing is exactly that, tossing your camera in the air with the shutter open so it takes a photo while tumbling through the air. Some of the best camera toss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flashing LED Light Trails</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/04/10/flashing-led-light-trails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some colorful, but very strange light trail photos I took of a novelty heart pin with flashing red and blue LED lights. These photos turned out very different from my previous light trail photos just due to the light source.
Because the LED lights were rapidly flashing, the light trails they produced were very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peaceful Music</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/02/08/peaceful-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listen to a variety of music, but I most prefer music that is calm and peaceful. One of my latest favorites is Joanne Shenandoah.

Her clear and lovely voice is gentle yet strong, and her music, often sung in her native Iroquois tongue, is calming and beautiful. Two of my favorite songs are her delightfully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complementary Colors</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/02/05/complementary-colors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complementary colors are directly opposite each other on a color wheel, and they include such color pairings as red/green, orange/blue, and yellow/purple. The use of complementary colors in artworks or photographs can give them pleasing contrast, vibrancy, and visual excitement. As an antidote to the drab winter blahs, here are some pre-winter complementary color pairings.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light Trail Photographs</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/01/10/light-trail-photographs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camera light drawings with a digital camera are fun and produce often surprising (and immediate) results. I recently made these light hearts from a dining room chandelier (f/18 with a 0.6 second exposure).

I next turned my camera to a Christmas tree covered in white lights. I moved my camera in small, smooth swirls when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cocteau Twins</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/12/27/cocteau-twins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was clicking through the TV channels this year and I happened across an old music video for the song &#034;Carolyn&#039;s Fingers&#034; by the Cocteau Twins.

I was immediately enthralled by this lovely, unusual song, and I became an instant fan of this now disbanded musical group.
I had only a vague idea of who the Cocteau [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Favorite Obscure Films</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/11/27/my-favorite-obscure-films/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/11/27/my-favorite-obscure-films/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a challenge from Tony at milkriverblog, here are my favorite obscure films. I generally prefer fantasy and science fiction movies, and thus movie descriptions like &#034;true to life&#034;, &#034;autobiographical&#034;, and &#034;based on a true story&#034; will usually make me skip a movie unless it&#039;s really really good or a nature film (always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creepy Ambient Electronic Music</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/11/17/creepy-ambient-electronic-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I often listen to classical music or relaxing new age music when I&#039;m writing papers or working on one of my websites, I sometimes like to listen to something a little bit different or somewhat darker like this playlist of my favorite creepy ambient electronic songs.
1. Amongst the Ruins &#8211; Delerium &#8211; Poem
2. Spirit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spam Poetry</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/11/12/spam-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 07:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get loads of spam emails in my various email accounts, and most of them contain random snippets of classic written works (Charles Dickens is a spammer favorite) or word salad (disjointed, nonsensical phrases). Spammers use these random sentences in an attempt to get their emails past spam filters, but my filters still manage to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Camera Fun</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/10/02/digital-camera-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my digital camera, a Canon EOS 20D, because with it my photographs are already in digital form, so they are easy to crop and save for the web. Another thing I love about my digital camera is that I&#039;m able to play around and experiment with it without wasting expensive film. If a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samsara</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/06/30/samsara/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samsara is the eternal, endless cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth in Hinduism and Buddhism. In Sanskrit, it means &#034;course of life&#034; and is literally translated as &#034;together it flows&#034;. It&#039;s also the name of one of my favorite songs by Rasa, available as a free download from Amazon.com. I like to have some [...]]]></description>
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