<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[laurelbuxton]]></title><description><![CDATA[laurelbuxton]]></description><link>https://laurelebuxton.wixsite.com/laurelbuxton/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:24:12 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://laurelebuxton.wixsite.com/laurelbuxton/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Emotional Vulnerability]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it came time for the imaginative exercises, I delayed mine as much as possible. 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I had noticed that before going...]]></description><link>https://laurelebuxton.wixsite.com/laurelbuxton/post/warmup-work</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c78ae8fcea214001cc2d7c5</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 04:01:38 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Laurel Buxton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overdramatic Readings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today in Voice and Diction, Peter had us do an exercise with our sonnets where we read them in what we imagined to the most outlandish,...]]></description><link>https://laurelebuxton.wixsite.com/laurelbuxton/post/overdramatic-readings</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c7766f07dee88001c62ac8d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 04:43:46 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Laurel Buxton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visualizing Energy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first time I did a viewpoints exercise, I was fifteen years old and had just been thrust into the world of Shakespeare. 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