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		<title>Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry this blog and the network haven&#8217;t developed as I would have liked.  The truth is I haven&#8217;t had the energy to put into making it work. I&#8217;m tempted to be rid of this rather neglected blog but don&#8217;t want to do anything hasty.  So as an interim measure I&#8217;m making a few changes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983817&amp;post=110&amp;subd=chronicartists&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chronically Creative &#8211; A Series of Articles from Magpie Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s fantastic to see a series of articles over on Magpie Girl&#8217;s blog looking specifically at the chronically creative. I&#8217;m sad that I haven&#8217;t the resources or health to keep this blog going as well I&#8217;d hoped so it&#8217;s great to see this need being met elsewhere.  Magpie Girl describes herself as &#8220;a spiritual director [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983817&amp;post=107&amp;subd=chronicartists&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Second Life Exhibition of ME/CFS Artist&#8217;s Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been contacted by Kirsty Best, the director of a Centre for ME/CFS in the virtual world Second Life http://www.mecfscentre.org This post is re-written from the information Kirsty provided in her email to me. The Second Life Centre for ME/CFS are holding a week of events in the Centre for the week surrounding ME/CFS Awareness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983817&amp;post=104&amp;subd=chronicartists&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Name for Network?</title>
		<link>http://chronicartists.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/name-for-network/</link>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983817&amp;post=102&amp;subd=chronicartists&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983817&amp;post=100&amp;subd=chronicartists&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983817&amp;post=82&amp;subd=chronicartists&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">ashysheela</media:title>
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		<title>VSA Arts &#8211; Visual, Performing and Literary Artists With Disablities</title>
		<link>http://chronicartists.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/vsa-arts-visual-performing-and-literary-artists-with-disablities/</link>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983817&amp;post=80&amp;subd=chronicartists&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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>
		<dc:creator>rachelcreative</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983817&amp;post=78&amp;subd=chronicartists&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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>ashy</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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983817&amp;post=71&amp;subd=chronicartists&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chronicartists.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3983817&amp;post=69&amp;subd=chronicartists&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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