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		<title>Name for Network?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now we&#8217;re possibly moving to a new place where we can network better it&#8217;s also an opportunity to change the name, if others feel it&#8217;s appropriate.
Here&#8217;s a reminder of what this network is about
Chronic Artists is dedicated to those creative people who have to balance their artistic practice with the challenges of life with chronic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&blog=3983817&post=102&subd=chronicartists&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry For The Quiet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the lack of activity on the blog and in making the most of the network.
Quite a few people have struggled to sign up to the blog ring or to complete the process to allow their link to get added by the system.  There isn&#8217;t a way to simplify this using the current ringsurf [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&blog=3983817&post=100&subd=chronicartists&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Pippa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ashysheela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pippa creates all sorts of arty stuff, from sock monkeys and scrapbooks to collage and crochet! See all her creations on her website: Pippa&#8217;s Arty Life, only a selection of what she has been up to is shown here!

Her work is bright and often spontaneous, she turns her creative eye to everything from what to wear to the bits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&blog=3983817&post=82&subd=chronicartists&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VSA Arts &#8211; Visual, Performing and Literary Artists With Disablities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachelcreative</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VSA Arts has an online exhibition of Art, Disability &#38; Expression.
As well as showing many examples of visual art it also examines some of the history and culture of disability as content.  There are some powerful and fine images in the exhibition.

VSA Arts has an Artists Registry which is free to join. Represented on the registry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&blog=3983817&post=80&subd=chronicartists&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renoir Was A Chronic Artist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that Renoir battled with rheumatoid arthritis for the last 30 years of his life?
By the last ten years of Pierre-Auguste Renoir&#8217;s life he could not use crutches and needed a wheelchair. He had excruiating pain and near the end of his life had to be carried to his easel.  When he lost the use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&blog=3983817&post=78&subd=chronicartists&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The State of Me by Nasim Marie Jafry.</title>
		<link>http://chronicartists.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/book-review-the-state-of-me-by-nasim-marie-jafry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ashysheela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually read books about ME. I find it incredibly hard work reading about the experiences of other people who have the same illness as I do, as it is just too emotionally draining.
Reading &#8220;The State of Me&#8221; though, was a pleasure. It is moving but not over sentimental, and engrossing and very witty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&blog=3983817&post=71&subd=chronicartists&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Oddball Marriage: Creativity and Illness</title>
		<link>http://chronicartists.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/that-oddball-marriage-creativity-and-illness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachelcreative</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Guest Blogger: Sarah Marie Lacy, Artist http://www.smlacyart.com
That Oddball Marriage: Creativity and Illness

I&#8217;ll be honest &#8211; when Rachel first asked me to write a post about how being chronically ill affected my creativity, I drew a complete blank. I had no idea if the two even interacted, let alone affected each other. I know it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&blog=3983817&post=69&subd=chronicartists&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Rachel M</title>
		<link>http://chronicartists.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/featured-artist-rachel-m/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ashysheela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel M does not consider herself to be an artist as such, but her creative activities are very important to her. She lives in “survival mode” most of the time due to severe ME/CFS, and finds that to notice and capture happenings or feelings with words or photographs, serves as a coping tool and allows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&blog=3983817&post=57&subd=chronicartists&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Alvason</title>
		<link>http://chronicartists.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/featured-artist-alvason/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachelcreative</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alvason is a photographer with CFS.
I have had chronic fatigue for ten years now. Someone asked me recently how I deal with a chronic illness. I replied that I have an optimistic outlook and I believe things will get better for me and one day I will be if not cured, at least fitter than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&blog=3983817&post=54&subd=chronicartists&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Writer: Nasim Marie Jafry &#8211; State of Me</title>
		<link>http://chronicartists.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/featured-writer-nasim-marie-jafry-state-of-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachelcreative</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NMJ (Nasim Marie Jafry) of Velo-Gubbed Legs has just had her debut novel published. It&#8217;s called The State of Me and draws on the author&#8217;s own experience of life with ME.

The central character is a 20 year old student struck down by a mystery illness which leaves her debilitated and bed-ridden.
&#8220;She is eventually diagnosed with M.E, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&blog=3983817&post=52&subd=chronicartists&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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