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the field in which I grow my worlds.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-03-03T22:19:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2018/02/25/finding-wonder/</loc><lastmod>2018-02-25T03:11:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2018/02/18/building-character/</loc><lastmod>2018-02-17T20:01:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2018/02/11/tap-dancing-in-a-bee-costume/</loc><lastmod>2018-02-10T20:26:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2018/02/04/finding-jack/</loc><lastmod>2018-02-04T04:40:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2018/01/28/living-with-the-questions/</loc><lastmod>2018-01-28T05:22:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2018/01/21/happy-endings/</loc><lastmod>2018-01-24T05:15:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2018/01/14/yearly-writing-goals/</loc><lastmod>2018-01-14T04:29:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/12/31/happy-new-year/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/img_1428.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img_1428</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-31T21:51:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/12/24/lights/</loc><lastmod>2017-12-21T21:37:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/12/17/first-snowstorm/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/img_3049-e1513467814992.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Snowstorm</image:title><image:caption>Looking out on a changed world.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2024-03-17T07:59:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/12/10/liminal-spaces/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/woodedpath2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>woodedpath2</image:title><image:caption>Into the woods we go again....</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-09T22:07:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/12/06/letters-from-imaginary-places/</loc><lastmod>2017-12-06T21:32:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/12/03/my-muse-me/</loc><lastmod>2017-12-02T15:39:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/11/26/playing-by-house-rules/</loc><lastmod>2017-11-28T17:10:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/11/19/writing-before-dawn/</loc><lastmod>2025-08-29T08:27:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/11/12/on-writing-in-november/</loc><lastmod>2017-11-11T23:03:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/11/05/distraction-at-the-gate/</loc><lastmod>2017-11-04T13:51:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/10/29/dracula-in-the-gaps/</loc><lastmod>2017-10-28T20:28:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/10/22/what-stories-give-us-part-2/</loc><lastmod>2017-10-22T00:20:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/10/15/what-stories-give-us-part-1/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/empathy-cat.jpg</image:loc><image:title>empathy cat</image:title><image:caption>I had no idea how to evoke empathy in a picture, so here's my cat.  </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2022-11-16T11:55:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/10/08/writing-grief/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/purple-flower.jpg</image:loc><image:title>purple flower</image:title><image:caption>Nevertheless, we persist.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-10-11T21:07:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/10/01/cultivating-mental-green-space/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/green-space.jpg</image:loc><image:title>green space</image:title><image:caption>This garden is on a wide grassy lawn crammed between the two busiest streets in Oakland.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-30T21:51:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/09/24/buried-treasure/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/old-notebooks.jpg</image:loc><image:title>old notebooks</image:title><image:caption>Magic Eye, Lisa Frank, and shiny chrome robot unicorns...I am definitely dating myself.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-23T14:49:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/09/17/the-power-of-words/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/paper-2596796_640-e1505575460577.jpg</image:loc><image:title>paper-2596796_640</image:title><image:caption>Caution:  Aim Away from Face.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-16T15:48:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/2017/09/10/navigating-by-starlight/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://jenniferhykes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_0295-e1505003349208.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_0295</image:title><image:caption>Obligatory cat 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