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	<title><![CDATA[Coming Back After a Holiday]]></title>
	<body><![CDATA[Our dojo is closed over major holiday weekends. Over the Thanksgiving break there were no classes Thursday through Sunday. 

I went to class Wednesday night (unusual, for me), and tonight (I would normally have waited until Tuesday). Still, 4 days away seems like an awfully long time.

I noticed something interesting in both of the classes tonight, I think. We were having fun, and laughing like we always do, but there seemed to be a little different intensity and concentration. It was quieter than usual. During some exercises it sounded like a library (with soft falling, of course). 

It reminded me of the silence one hears just after a group of hungry friends sets down to dinner.]]></body>
	<date>11-30-2009</date>
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