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		<title>Kòman m tande flit la!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kòman m tande flit la! (How I hear the flute). It is the title of my next book I hope to publish this year&#8211;14 pieces for a quartet&#8211;flute, violin, viola and cello still coming from Chantrèl, a Haitian approach to &#8230; <a href="http://gifrants.com/whatsnew/koman-m-tande-flit-la/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The ill-fated disease of superiority</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have learned that “Be perfect as Our Father in Heaven is perfect” is our first commandment. I have also learned that within each one of us a fragment of Our Father is guiding us diligently to His kingdom. As &#8230; <a href="http://gifrants.com/blog/the-ill-fated-disease-of-superiority/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Best Wishes for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time and space have no beginning and no end. However, we try to measure both of them. From sunrise to sunset, to the distance between the stars, we use markers that translate to repetitive events each year for time, to &#8230; <a href="http://gifrants.com/blog/best-wishes-for-2012/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Persona</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have ransacked my sub-conscience. I have disinterred everything, everything hidden and secret—from the holy to the wicked, the puritan to the pervert, the peaceful to the violent, the conformist to the anarchist, the flexible to the radical, the decent &#8230; <a href="http://gifrants.com/blog/persona/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>On the notion of freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never thought of freedom as the right to do whatever I wanted. Indeed, it is a divine right. But, I thought of it as the possibility to make choices. Those choices do have consequences. Those consequences do imply &#8230; <a href="http://gifrants.com/blog/on-the-notion-of-freedom/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>DaPonte String Quartet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DaPonte String Quartet based in Maine is performing on Feb. 4 in Portland. Proceeds will go to Konbit Sante (www.Konbitsante.org) a non-profit organization providing health and health education in Cap-Haitien, my hometown, in Haiti. One of my pieces published &#8230; <a href="http://gifrants.com/whatsnew/daponte-string-quartet/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>About tears</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first act of the new born censures his own existence—he cries as air penetrates his lung. Those tears are tears of life. As we grow up, it becomes unavoidable that we are going to experience multiple experiences, good and &#8230; <a href="http://gifrants.com/blog/about-tears/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The power of faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man is lost in the desert. No food. No water. He panics. In his desperation to survive, his mind revolts against his fate. It provides him what he is longing for. Suddenly, he sees food, water and an oasis &#8230; <a href="http://gifrants.com/blog/the-power-of-faith/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The gods of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost every past civilization celebrated their gods of war. Invocations echoed their strength and invincibility; sacrifices and ornate offerings revived the altars of temples and sacred locations named after them. Even before the last Iraq war, an American General said &#8230; <a href="http://gifrants.com/blog/the-gods-of-war/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A little bit about my life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always believed that I was born old, very old. I remember that at the age of seven, standing in front of my house, I said to myself loudly—“the sky was not blue and there were no hills and mountains &#8230; <a href="http://gifrants.com/blog/a-little-bit-about-my-life/">[more]</a>]]></description>
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