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	<description>Avondale, Tasmania</description>
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		<title>Brothers &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a bite-sized chunk shy of 3 am. Kai&#8217;s been pinwheeling and cartwheeling around the bed since the clock&#8217;s hands were together as one at midnight. No crying. Just queen-sized bed Olympics. Uncomfortable. Teething again. We try to settle him. Turn on a gentle light: little hand in mouth. Trying to soothe. Some Panadol and back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To a gentle 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year to Friends and Family, past, present and future. And to our wider family. May 2012 be a gentler year for all. Tweet]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agentleplace.com/to-a-gentle-2012/</link>
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		<title>A new addition to Avondale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a young medical student I was commonly told, Don&#8217;t feel too much. Keep your distance from patients and their emotions. I disagreed then and, after 20 years of experiential learning on the matter, I disagree now. One needs to feel for and with patients. Experience their joy. As well as their fear and aching. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agentleplace.com/a-new-addition-to-avondale/</link>
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		<title>Tobi &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rest in peace little angel girl. We&#8217;ll meet again at the Rainbow Bridge. Tweet]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agentleplace.com/tobi/</link>
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		<title>The Grim Reaper&#8217;s come calling lately &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; but at times has had to retreat with only the scythe he brought. When death involves those close to you it&#8217;s hard not to fall back on old paradigms of death involving fear and nightmarish images of the Grim Reaper. But when I quieten my aching heart and sit quietly with those departed I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agentleplace.com/grim-reapers-come-calling/</link>
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		<title>Back soon &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends Apologies for the silence on this blog over the past month and, more importantly, apologies for the posting of this only now. The lack of posts (and presence on other blogs although sometimes I think my presence is excessive) has caused some concern and this being posted earlier would have avoided that.  All [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agentleplace.com/back-soon/</link>
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		<title>Attached Horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of the insight into humans that I have gained can be attributed to the teachings afforded me by non-human animals. Perhaps because we humans have a tendency to blur our real nature with spoken words &#8211; far too many of them &#8211; I find I get a clearer picture if I look at humans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agentleplace.com/attached-horses/</link>
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		<title>Family (&#8230; or is that pack?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about Family lately &#8211; who wouldn&#8217;t after picking up a wandering little four-legged boy at 2.30 in the morning who should have been sleeping (safely, lovingly) at home with his family? (Boy?! Don&#8217;t you mean dog?) And that thinking intensified when, after almost 3 weeks, his &#8216;owner&#8217;/ carer/ family finally contacted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agentleplace.com/family/</link>
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		<title>Monty (a short story about a wandering dog)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So there we are returning from a friend&#8217;s party at 2.30 am, driving in a convoy of 2, when we find this little fellow: Monty. As we drove up Summerleas Road this without-a-care in the world character was jogging up one side of the road, peeing on a lamppost, casually crossing over the road, peeing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agentleplace.com/monty/</link>
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		<title>A Tale of Three Pups (a pictorial)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may recall that after Plato&#8217;s move to higher ground, and some weeks to settle our aching hearts, we took Chelsea down to Brightside Farm Sanctuary to see if we could find her a pal amongst the 55 dogs rescued from a Puppy Mill. You may also recall how Chelsea chose, in no uncertain terms, [...]]]></description>
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