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	<title>The Desert</title>
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	<description>Learning to Live Life in Mexico</description>
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		<title>This is Juarez</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Misty Lindsey 2010
&#8220;I never even gave the United States much thought,&#8221; said José Luís Aguilar Rangel, 38, as he stood over his son&#8217;s coffin, which lay next to the coffin of his nephew Horacio. &#8220;But Mexico has abandoned us, betrayed us.
&#8220;Shame on them,&#8221; he said, alluding to authorities he described as too corrupt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Sky &#8211; Poem for Juarez</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clouds of fire descend on my city,
dismantle the tension of the darkness,
silence the night-howling.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/1545</link>
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		<title>Borderland Moments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Bruce Berman of Border Blog

&#8220;We don&#8217;t play at the cantinas anymore because it is too dangerous. We do two funerals a day instead,&#8221; said musician Jose del Villar at the San Rafael cemetery after serenading a grieving widow, a black accordion strapped to his chest.
But residents have little hope. The only thing that the military [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/1380</link>
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		<title>Width of a Fence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Bruce Berman of Border Blog

My spirit craves relief. The desert cries out for liberation. This afternoon is dragging on and the pain in my neck has moved closer to my brain, tender lightning storms brilliant in my skull. I just read about some more people being shot up and down. Another drug rehab place. 18 dead. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/1419</link>
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		<title>Mornings in Juarez</title>
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The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money.
Tracy Kidder &#8211; Mountains beyond Mountains

Its 5:23 and the alarm on my cell phone is set to sound its melodious tune in 7 minutes, but I have been laying awake for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/1369</link>
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		<title>Student-Santa alliance benefits beleaguered bordertown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mexico, our weary sister, continues to struggle for a brighter day. In her fight she has captured our hearts; now we stand beside her, and we are not alone. Our friend Billie has become a powerful voice for the Borderland. She is a fighter for Justice, a carrier of Hope and Love. Billie and her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/1442</link>
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		<title>Jenny &#8211; Love Will Conquer All</title>
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Our friend Jenny recently entered in to battle with breast cancer. As you can see by her expressions in the posters above, Jenny is a fighter, a warrior, a powerful spirit. Jenny is an artist who has developed an absorbing approach to canvass while living in El Salvador for the past seven years with her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/1276</link>
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		<title>in-between</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dead leaves, crushed without a thought
of the life that had once blazed within the veins of the
delicate skeletons, only move now with the
wind and the boots and the shoes; marionette puppets,
lifeless and broken.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/1172</link>
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		<title>War on Drugs: Failing humanity.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our border community is now painfully divided. It is a microcosm of our hemisphere, our world embroiled in a war on drugs. The violence is a wake-up call, not only for Mexico, but also for the U.S.
Billie Greenwood &#8211; Allvoices.com

Back in April we posted a short video from The Newspaper Tree about the &#8220;War on Drugs&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/1056</link>
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		<title>Irony in the Desert</title>
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Dear Child of God, if we are truly to understand that God loves all of us, we must recognize that He loves our enemies, too. God does not share our hatred, no matter what the offense we have endured.
Desmund Tutu


Still not sure how Chris sniped this photo; comes with his tactical training, I suppose. Anyhow, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mmlindsey.com/archives/1044</link>
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