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	<title>Another Cosmic Folklore</title>
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	<description>Haikus, Squirrels, and Coyotes :o)</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why is Sometimes Harder Than How</title>
		<link>http://cosmicfolklore.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/10/27/why-is-sometimes-harder-than-how/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A photographer friend of mine friend had posted a blog where she discussed how she created her beautiful works, and she mentioned that it was easier to discuss how she did it, rather than why she did it. It spun me into thinking about college and having to discuss with professors what we were doing, not why or even how.]]></description>
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		<title>The Moon Muses, revisited</title>
		<link>http://cosmicfolklore.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/10/25/the-moon-muses-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Women have inspired songs in the hearts of men since the dawn of creation.  We’ve sang of goddesses, mothers, whores, love lost and gained.  We’ve sang of their beauty, their ugliness, their love, and their scorn.  This is why the ancient myths tell us that the muses of men are female, that inspire us men to such vibrations of motivation to create.  
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		<title>Lost in Space</title>
		<link>http://cosmicfolklore.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/10/18/lost-in-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a hinged, sectional neck piece with a hollow-formed center section built up from a spiral around a section of copper tube.  The center piece depicts a space ship spiraling in to the empty negative space, maybe a black hole.  And, within the spiral are patterns with an almost tribal look to them.  Also, there is a ruby that is at the source, maybe a red planet. ]]></description>
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		<title>Still is Still Moving to Me</title>
		<link>http://cosmicfolklore.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/08/06/still-is-still-moving-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Johnson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aren’t we all always on our way?  Moving, evolving, growing, getting, giving, we are all always on the go, even when setting perfectly still.  As a kid I used to awe over how the sky always seemed to be perfectly still as I stare out of the window of a car zooming down the highway. The moon hanging in the sky like it was painted on a backdrop.  Being still is just the illusion that we aren’t moving, but we all are moving at the speed of light. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to the Lapidary</title>
		<link>http://cosmicfolklore.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/06/08/ode-to-the-lapidary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The lapidary is the unsung hero of the jewelry world.  We tend to just select a stone and then make something taking all of the credit, as if we had just found this rock lying on the ground.  Whoever cut the facets on a ruby or diamond just falls into oblivion, just as he lapidary who cuts the cabs or the beads. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Vesica Pisces Cuff</title>
		<link>http://cosmicfolklore.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/06/03/vesica-pisces-cuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Vesica Pisces is the name of an ancient shape. It has been used to represent many ideals throughout history; Jesus, the goddess, vagina, free masonry, part of the Tree of Life pattern, and eternity. It is the joining of two circles forming what is sometimes called a pointy oval.  This shape has been the basis for several of the symbols that I use in my work, such as the rocket and fish shapes.  To me this represents both the spiritual and the effeminate. ]]></description>
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		<title>Franklin my dear, I don&#8217;t give a darn.</title>
		<link>http://cosmicfolklore.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/05/11/franklin-my-dear-i-dont-give-a-darn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My supply of rough was winding down as well as my supply of gem material, so Lora and I made reservations at a cabin tucked away in a holler just outside of Franklin, NC.  Although Lora is originally from the tar heal state, she had never been to one of these gem shows in Franklin either.  We have visited some of the mines there, and we have a favorite gem shop there at the Franklin Gemstone Warehouse.  But, the Franklin Gem Shows were very new to us.]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Drop</title>
		<link>http://cosmicfolklore.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/04/30/fire-drop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire agates!!!]]></description>
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		<title>A Birthday Suprise</title>
		<link>http://cosmicfolklore.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/04/12/a-birthday-suprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had my head in this PC trying to get my website designed and ready for content, but I took a little time to make something special for my oldest daughter's birthday, between ring orders and a few simple chain orders.]]></description>
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		<title>Spring at the Bench</title>
		<link>http://cosmicfolklore.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/03/21/spring-at-the-bench/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been our spring break week, so I have had some extra time at the bench.  We were going to try to get in some gem mining in North Carolina.  A prospector friend of mine had written to tell me of a rock slide that exposed some excellent ruby specimens, but the kids, money, and stuff started conflicting.  So, we stayed close by and I got in extra hours at the shop, which is fine with me.  I’d rather be at the bench making some of my many sketches come to life.]]></description>
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