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	<title>Rocky &amp; Gawenda</title>
	
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		<title>Goodbye from Rocky and Gawenda..for now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gawenda</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rocky and I have decided the time has come to move on. I signaled this possibility in a previous post, on September 17, when I posted a piece which showed, I hope, the direction in which my writing was taking me&#8211;away from Rocky and Gawenda....<br/>
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		<title>Strangers on God’s beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gawenda</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/?p=1094</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There was a baptism on the beach this morning. It was a morning of lovely sunshine and cloudless skies, windless and warm, gently so, a spring morning and we could feel it, Rocky and I, the warmth of it and the lightness of it, Rocky running along...<br/>
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		<title>A Day of Atonement.</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/2009/10/01/a-day-of-atonement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gawenda</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/?p=1074</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rocky resisted emphatically, straining against the leash, his legs rigid and dug into the wet grass of the park, as I tried to head towards the beach. The rain came down in swirls, soft rain, light and mist-like, but the wind was brutal and in the...<br/>
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		<title>Rocky and Gawenda, the book launch</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/gawenda/~3/RFs2YX-Y5ic/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/2009/09/27/rocky-and-gawenda-the-book-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gawenda</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/?p=1068</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rocky and I would like to invite you to the launch of Rocky and Gawenda: the story of a man and his mutt this coming Saturday, October 3 at  10.15 for 10.30 at Veg Out, the St Kilda communal vegetable garden at Peanut Reserve, near Luna Park.  Tim...<br/>
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		<title>Linz, Hitler and me</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/gawenda/~3/bUrxpMiZ0_s/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/2009/09/17/linz-hitler-and-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gawenda</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/?p=1012</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This may well be one of my last posts on Rocky and Gawenda. The writing has taken me in a new and unexpected direction, where memory and imagination meet. I am not sure where this will go, this mixture of memory and imagination, where `facts&#8217;...<br/>
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		<title>Rocky rejected, love betrayed</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/gawenda/~3/nDdYdL4sYNc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/2009/09/03/rocky-rejected-love-betrayed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gawenda</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/?p=984</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It is the second day of spring. Beside the St Kilda pier, on a morning  that feels as if winter has gone, consigned to wherever it is that memories are stored, the sky light blue, the air warm and crisp at the same time, wind-less, the sun soft...<br/>
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		<title>The return of hope</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/gawenda/~3/25kTyp-aM3U/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/2009/08/24/the-return-of-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gawenda</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/?p=964</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By the time we reach the boardwalk beside the cafes on our way home, having walked, Rocky and I, out to the edge of the water along the sandbank that separates St Kilda beach from the beach at Albert Park, the sandbank, at low tide stretching almost...<br/>
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		<title>Rocky and the mystery of friendship: part two</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/gawenda/~3/RtwxSx-vFWg/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/2009/08/13/rocky-and-the-mystery-of-friendship-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gawenda</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[My old friend  has warned me by email, that he intends to write a response to what I had to say about him in a recent post and that what he has to say may not be all I might have hoped for.  I informed him that he is free to say about me whatever he...<br/>
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		<title>Rocky and Gawenda between the covers.</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/gawenda/~3/Fm_8UxxC2vc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/2009/08/07/rocky-and-gawenda-between-the-covers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gawenda</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I would not have done this had I thought it possible that  it was in some important way,  a sell-out of Rocky and Gawenda . Mind you, the possibility&#8211;faint but tantilising, I admit&#8211; of  fame has crossed my mind. Several times in recent...<br/>
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		<title>Rocky and the mystery of friendship</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/gawenda/~3/jj-TVCDpSBA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/gawenda/2009/08/03/rocky-and-the-mystery-of-friendship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gawenda</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[An old friend emailed me  to say that he felt he has been replaced in my affections by Rocky.  My friend, my oldest friend,  had asked me to do something for him, a rather trivial thing that was  unlikely to take up too much of my time. I had...<br/>
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