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		<title>One more blessing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had so many beautiful words of condolence. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be posting anymore blessing, I can&#8217;t take anymore and you probably can&#8217;t either. However this final blessing tore me up. So here it is.

An Angel Never Dies
Don’t let them say I wasn’t born,
That something stopped my heart
I felt each tender squeeze you gave,
I’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A blessing for Roxanne Carris</title>
		<link>http://muchbetternow.com/a-funeral-bessing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gaelic blessing below was given to us at our wedding by my best man. Six years later and our friend Patrick suggested the same blessing for Roxie to help her little soul safely to the other side. Separately I had chosen a piece of music for the funeral, Attendite, performed by the Libera Boys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on grief from John O&#8217;Donohue</title>
		<link>http://muchbetternow.com/funeral-reading-grief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were very moved by this blessing for grief. The moving and poignant words were read for us at the funeral of our baby, Roxanne. They were written by the Irish poet and philosopher John O&#8217;Donohue and come from his book of blessings called Benedictus.

When you lose someone you love,
Your life becomes strange,
The ground beneath [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown&#8217;s words of condolence to David Cameron</title>
		<link>http://muchbetternow.com/gordon-browns-words-of-condolence-to-david-cameron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course we are not alone in our grief and we share our sadness with David Cameron who lost his six year old son yesterday and with Gordon Brown who also lost his daughter back in 2001 just a few days after she was born.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the head of our community.</title>
		<link>http://muchbetternow.com/letter-to-the-head-of-our-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear G*****,
Thank you for agreeing to help us with the funeral of our baby girl, Roxanne. We understand it is a lot to ask and we are very grateful and honored for your assistance.
Please do not think we are asking you to be a minister or priest, we understand completely that this is unusual for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My poor baby girl is dead.</title>
		<link>http://muchbetternow.com/my-poor-baby-girl-is-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the last year and a half on a journey of what I hoped would be self improvement. I gave up the booze, I&#8217;ve tried to be a good husband, I&#8217;ve learnt to control many of my fears and I&#8217;ve prepared myself for being a father. This blog was all part of the process.
Having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting it right as a first time father.</title>
		<link>http://muchbetternow.com/getting-it-right-first-time-father/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m no daddy blogger but I think I can be forgiven a few posts on upcoming fatherhood.
With only a few weeks to go thoughts turn to the birth. How will I cope? Male friends have been pretty hopeless on the subject of pregnancy, childbirth and fatherhood in general. &#8220;You&#8217;re never going to sleep again&#8221; does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goody, Johnson and Cyrus &#8211; Fear and Loathing continued</title>
		<link>http://muchbetternow.com/goody-johnson-and-cyrus-fear-and-loathing-continued/</link>
		<comments>http://muchbetternow.com/goody-johnson-and-cyrus-fear-and-loathing-continued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than a week ago I published a post discussing why there seemed to be an increase in &#8220;celebrities in trouble&#8221; stories at the moment. I wasn&#8217;t a 100% convinced by my own theory at the time, but  her we are, not more than a week later, and we now have three more public figures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clarkson, Thatcher &amp; Bale &#8211; Fear and Loathing</title>
		<link>http://muchbetternow.com/clarkson-thatcher-bale-scapegoat/</link>
		<comments>http://muchbetternow.com/clarkson-thatcher-bale-scapegoat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve come to a realization regarding some of the minor news stories circulating at the moment. Such is my loathing of rolling news that I have found it necessary to look behind the news items to get some sort of perspective on the current climate, the stories themselves are rubbish.
There seems to be an increase [...]]]></description>
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