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		<title>Audacity</title>
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&#8220;I disappear my fear. I resurrect my audacity.&#8221;
That is the advice I received for the coming week. In fact, I am supposed to use it as my mantra for the week. Very interesting, eh?
When the crystal ball dropped on Times Square, ushering in 2010, I made up my mind that this year was going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2010/03/16/audacity/</link>
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		<title>Pins and needles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dishwasher hums in the background. It’s nearly midnight. For the first time in a while, the words are bubbling up and demanding to be put on paper. 
We are all on pins and needles. March 12th was the day that my eldest daughter’s top college choice mailed out their notification letters. Batch admissions, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2010/03/13/pins-and-needles/</link>
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		<title>Changes</title>
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As you can see, I am experimenting with new wordpress themes. I have been a bad blogger. It&#8217;s not that I haven&#8217;t been thinking deep thoughts or experience things that are worthy of appearing here on the pages of Shameless Agitator &#8211; I really have!  I have just had doubts about how to express [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2010/03/12/changes/</link>
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		<title>Jamie&#8217;s Wish (TED)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is why I have my Subversively Political page.
Food is political.


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		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2010/02/19/jamies-ted-wish/</link>
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		<title>Bodhichitta, revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I reach for a favorite book to remind myself of bodhichitta.
Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chodron: 
On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2010/01/23/bodhichitta-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Blasts from the past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting for me to watch how viewers find this blog via the search terms that they use at google, etc. Sometimes I will click on a link in my stat counter to see what is there. Words I wrote three, four, even eight years ago come flooding back. Some of them are in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2010/01/22/blasts-from-the-past/</link>
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		<title>From the archives: The Road to Hell is Paved with Cardboard Boxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom and I are sitting in her house, which used to be her mother&#8217;s house. We are reminiscing and both thought of this blog post I wrote years ago. Enjoy!
May 6, 2003 &#8211; The Road to Hell is Paved with Cardboard Boxes
I bet you are wondering just what it in all of those cardboard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2010/01/17/from-the-archives-the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-cardboard-boxes/</link>
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		<title>My puppies</title>
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		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2010/01/13/my-puppies/</link>
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		<title>A New Year&#8217;s Meme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I join Rana in reflecting on 2009.
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
I attended my first NHL Stanley Cup Playoff games!
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I always make the same resolution and always try to keep it: Practice non-attachment.
3. Did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2010/01/01/a-new-years-meme/</link>
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		<title>Bright Lights</title>
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PLACEBO &#8216;Bright Lights&#8217; from PlaceboWorld on Vimeo.


Bright Lights
Placebo
Cast your mind back to the days
When I pretend&#8217; I was OK
I had so very much to say
About my crazy living
Now that I&#8217;ve stared into the void
So many people I&#8217;ve annoyed
I have to find a middle way
A better way of giving 
So I haven&#8217;t given up
But all my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/12/19/bright-lights/</link>
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		<title>Caution</title>
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Back away from the cave and DON&#8217;T POKE THE BEAR!


Of course, some people never listen.

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		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/12/10/caution/</link>
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		<title>For what it&#8217;s worth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after I posted my to-do list yesterday, I remembered what I&#8217;d forgotten. In the middle of the night, while the to-do lists composed themselves in my head, it suddenly seemed important to go through my clothes in the storage bins to see what I could pass on to Goodwill.
That&#8217;s when I realized &#8211; I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/12/08/for-what-its-worth/</link>
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		<title>To Do (or not?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I waited to fall asleep last night, my thoughts were overwhelmed by things I want to do, things that started organizing themselves into lists.
Of course, by the light (?) of the morning, I am struggling to recall the items that felt so important last night. One thing caused a &#8220;Yes! I HAVE to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/12/07/to-do-or-not/</link>
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		<title>Double Entendre and Shenpa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just realized the double entendre in the title of my last post. 
I wrote the post about finding my edge and used the meaning of edge to be the outside limit; the place where discomfort sets in, the place where I feel challenged, the place where I have to fight the urge to escape.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/11/27/double-entendre-and-shenpa/</link>
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		<title>Re-discovering My Edge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am heading into the home stretch with NaNoWriMo. I hope to finish later this week. I also have a brief essay about my grandfather that I want to edit and submit to the &#8220;Readers Write&#8221; section of my favorite literary magazine. Then it is time to dig in and finish the longer essay that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/11/23/rediscovering-my-edge/</link>
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		<title>My baby is 18 today!</title>
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Happy Birthday, my lovely daughter! I am so proud of you!
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		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/11/13/my-baby-is-18-today/</link>
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		<title>Is it mid-November already?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another campaign season, another year of waking up the day after election day and wondering what happened to summer.
I thought I was done with this. I remember writing as much earlier this year. I was good at saying NO to the requests. Then my resolve wavered and before I fully realized, I was down the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/11/10/is-it-mid-november-already/</link>
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		<title>Questions rather than advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I shared the advice I&#8217;d been given through September.  I expected more advice on Tuesday but was met with questions: 
Is there a big difference between your current job and your beloved career? Do you suffer from the unsettling feeling that your calling hasn&#8217;t called you yet? Are you under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/10/01/questions-rather-than-advice/</link>
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		<title>A new direction (?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I received some advice. I was told to repeat the following mantra twenty times: 
I know exactly what I want. I know exactly what I don&#8217;t want. I know exactly what I kind of want but I won&#8217;t waste my time on it any more because it sidetracks me from working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/09/28/a-new-direction/</link>
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		<title>My own personal Fuck You Up Fairy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slurp and I have decided that we need our own personal Fuck You Up Fairies.
The term will be familiar to fans of the Showtime series “Weeds.”
Nancy, a suburban mom whose husband dropped dead of a heart attack leaving her alone to fend for her family by selling weed, decides to expand her territory onto the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/09/14/my-own-personal-fuck-you-up-fairy/</link>
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		<title>One of a Kind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Placebo

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		<link>http://shamelessagitator.com/blog1/2009/09/10/one-of-a-kind/</link>
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