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		<title>What We Know About Each Other</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2012/01/what-we-know-about-each-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toby won’t go in the auditorium for the noonday concert so Ellie takes Donnie and Melinda while Toby and I wait in the hallway. When you’re ready, I tell him, as calmly as I can because I really want to hear the Schubert concerto. Toby sits cross-legged on the floor, rocking contentedly and we hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems by Direct Care Workers: A Direct Care Worker Teaches the World to Love</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/12/poems-by-direct-care-workers-a-direct-care-worker-teaches-the-world-to-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She knows how to turn your mother’s body to slide the wet Attends from under her, to clean her peri area, so the skin does not turn red and every day your mother tells her the same story - she saw Yul Brynner in the King and I on her honeymoon and every day the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for my Care Angel</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/05/waiting-for-my-care-angel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 20:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Leah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following poem was contributed by Joan Leah Nights and days blend together as I wait for your care Without you I would simply sit and stare My hands are wrinkled and riddled with pain Once I could care for myself, I still try but in vain I try to sleep so the time goes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Took This Job</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/05/why-i-took-this-job-in-the-first-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 22:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Direct Care Alliance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following poem was contributed by David Moreau Toby and Donnie go to the library with me on Friday. Toby asks for a book on NASCAR and looks for pictures of crashes while Donnie talks to everyone. I’m trying to get him to Say hi and move on and usually he’s okay with that but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems by Direct Care Workers: A pretty good field trip</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/02/a-pretty-good-field-trip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ellie and I take Donnie, Leo, Noelle and Roland to the college for the noon day concert. We get there early and walk around the pond and the ducks swim toward us looking for bread. All we give them is a song, The one little duck with the feather on his back, he led the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Taking Out the Trash Reminded Me Why I Love My Job</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/01/how-taking-out-the-trash-reminded-me-why-i-love-my-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EL-LIE, EL-LIE. Say it, Melinda, Marge says. She is a staff person and Melinda is one of the participants assigned to her. Marge is sitting at the front table doing her tracking after lunch while Melinda strings beads like she did all morning, and repeats, EL-LIE, EL-LIE, EL-LIE. Oh, that’s pretty funny, Ellie, another staff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ringing in 2011: Inspiring Yourself and Each Other</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/01/ringing-in-2011-inspiring-yourself-and-each-other/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2011/01/ringing-in-2011-inspiring-yourself-and-each-other/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Tilley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I was offered a position at another company.  I had to make a decision whether to stay with my current job or to take the leap and accept the new position I was being offered.  From the outside, it was pretty much a no-brainer.  The new position was offering much better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems by Direct Care Workers: My Aunt&#8217;s Repeat Story About My Mother</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2010/11/poems-by-direct-care-workers-my-aunts-repeat-story-about-my-mother/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2010/11/poems-by-direct-care-workers-my-aunts-repeat-story-about-my-mother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the surface, this poem has nothing to do with work. But my mother would have been a good direct care worker. She would have known that any system of care needs to include everyone. My Aunt&#8217;s Repeat Story About My Mother Ruth Tiernan once took thirteen kids in one car swimming at Cobbet’s Pond. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the Power Within Ourselves: From the Pennsylvania Conference</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2010/09/from-the-pa-direct-care-workers-association-conference-lets-work-together/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2010/09/from-the-pa-direct-care-workers-association-conference-lets-work-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the dreaming, scheduling and registering; all the e-mails and phone calls; the finding a place to meet and people to teach and share; the keeping fingers crossed that enough direct care workers could actually take a day off and attend a conference that we all badly need; the baking of cupcakes for the welcoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems from Direct Care Workers: We Are Family</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2010/07/poems-from-direct-care-workers-we-are-family/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2010/07/poems-from-direct-care-workers-we-are-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The staff from Practical Life Skills keeps a pretty tight lid on Thursday’s music group in the big cafeteria. No one’s allowed past the tape three feet in front of the sound system. The guys from our room don’t get to use the microphone and because of fire regulations they insist we have to have [...]]]></description>
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