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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I cover nature. Daily drawings are digital finger painting atop photos, and include collage-symbols made from other moments in time. These personal symbols are stored as images in&#8230;</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>With Sunday Morning Hope by David Byrne and Patti Smith I don&#8217;t care for the word utopia. I feel it&#8217;s been so overused for so long that my&#8230;</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[E Mullen Matteson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Article = Art + Miracle I&#8217;ve been at a loss how to brand myself as a maker of digital stuffs, so I&#8217;m not going to do it.1 And&#8230;</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>My woods walk today taught me about portals. They appeared like little natural occurrences that reminded me of the way we try to see things about times and&#8230;</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[E Mullen Matteson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>She wanted her confection, her conception to be a &#8220;good good.&#8221; This is because the truth of her experience had told her if there was &#8220;good&#8221; there was&#8230;</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[E Mullen Matteson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When I was before nowI would hear the universe gong me into new thingsor clang me for missteps This is what you wantThat is what you should do&#8230;</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[E Mullen Matteson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This was originally written as testimony to RI state legislature to help pass the Reproductive Health Care Act in RI in 2019l codifying RI&#8217;s citizens right to abortion&#8230;</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This is a tough post to write, but  I felt I must write it, and attempt to communicate something that is likely felt by many, but hard to&#8230;</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[E Mullen Matteson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>[originally posted 12/6/2016] In case you haven&#8217;t already heard, here I present to you the Oxford Dictionary&#8217;s 2016 word of the year: post-truth. This confection, ahem, conception has&#8230;</p>
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