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		<title>My Tribute to Chris Klicka, the greatest man I ever knew personally</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Cathy and Megan returned from a memorial service in Virginia where homeschool champion, Chris Klicka, was honored. I never want to forget this hero of mine. On this post, I summarize reflections from his memorial service, that I might not forget, and in not forgetting, live better.
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		<title>David and Cathy&#8217;s blog and 30th wedding celebration page</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer (June 16th) Cathy and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. We took our big trip during December to the Philippines as part of this celebration. On August 29, we celebrated our 30th anniversary by renewing our vows before our friends.  Cathy was beautiful in her wedding dress. As we did after our wedding, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dbarfield.wordpress.com&blog=511208&post=161&subd=dbarfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Graduation thoughts for my niece</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my niece Bethany on her high school graduation 
May 23, 2009
Bethany – congratulations on your graduation.  You are not a different person than you were yesterday, but your circumstances are changing in a significant way. You will not be going back to your high school; you will soon be moving from home; a great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dbarfield.wordpress.com&blog=511208&post=156&subd=dbarfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oriented toward growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[note: this posting is under construction; it is my first use of an audio clip; after I get that working, I will work on my written introduction and highlights]
More from the book/CD I have been reading/listening to: Integrity, the Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality by Dr. Henry Cloud.
Below is a short 4 minutes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dbarfield.wordpress.com&blog=511208&post=146&subd=dbarfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oriented Toward Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Reality is always your friend, everything else is a fantasy.”
&#8220;There are a lot of honest, non-fudging people that are not reaching their potential. The reason is not that they are lying but that they are missing parts of reality that are important to making things work.&#8221;
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		<title>We&#8217;re home; update on Cathy&#8217;s injury</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1/9/09 update on Cathy &#8211; Cathy is recovering well. Yesterday Cathy got a walking boot so she is now more mobile.
Return home - We made it safely back to the US on December 30. The trip from Manila to Kansas is a long one, even under the best of conditions. With Cathy’s injury to her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dbarfield.wordpress.com&blog=511208&post=113&subd=dbarfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David and Cathy&#8217;s 30th anniversary trip to the Philippines</title>
		<link>http://dbarfield.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/last-post-from-the-philippines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arriving in the Philippines and initial days, December 16, 2008
Cathy and I just arrived in the Philippines for our 30th wedding anniversary vacation and to see our daughter who is teaching here. We arrived late Sunday night.
The trip involved flights from Kansas City to Minneapolis, a 13.5-hour flight from Minneapolis to Tokyo and 5-hour flight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dbarfield.wordpress.com&blog=511208&post=90&subd=dbarfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing Work and Rest</title>
		<link>http://dbarfield.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/balancing-work-and-rest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many others, my life has been out-of-balance for many years, working too much. In taking the chief engineer position last year, I only complicated matters even more. When I volunteered to teach for my pastor during his Thanksgiving vacation, I decided to spend some time on a study of the Scripture&#8217;s perspective on balancing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dbarfield.wordpress.com&blog=511208&post=52&subd=dbarfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Promoted to Chief Engineer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, my boss of 23 years, the chief engineer of the Division of Water Resource, retired rather suddenly when a great opportunity came his way (and being ready for a break from the responsibility to spend more time with his family) .  The  day he retired  they asked me to be acting chief engineer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dbarfield.wordpress.com&blog=511208&post=18&subd=dbarfield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Accepting and rejecting limitless opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is an update of an earlier post; I keep reflecting on it]
Here is a quote worth reflecting on (from an article by Jeff Jones entitled &#8220;Getting With the Program&#8221; in the Center for Church Based Training&#8217;s Life Development Planner that our church&#8217;s elders and wives have been doing together):
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