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Thought For the Day: Fix Your Eyes Forward On What You Can Do, Not Back On What You Cannot Change
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First Principles: America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside. If We Falter and Lose Our Freedoms, It Will Be Because We Destroyed Ourselves
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
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Friendships Adulting
Friendships Adulting
by Michael Doyle
Moving to the next new neighborhood.
Among the things best to be understood,
Is that while friendship preserve,
A new way of life has a lot to maybe fear.
Each region has it's own peculiar way
And there are things we learn not to say
If we are to somehow learn to get along.
Not everyone is amused by the same song.
There's a heiarchy of familial worship.
It's a ranking from spouse to friendship.
Once you reach a certain age and place,
There's also an acceptance we embrace.
At best if we make it to the exception,
We find we continue more as an expectation.
We learn to dance the dance of fragility
As we stumble across our own flexibility.
There are long lapses in communiation
And still we hold to our passing relation.
In the blink of society's collapsing eye
A friendship might live or it might just die.
We say our goodbyes with forget-me-nots
And just as quickly it seems we have forgot.
Still we move to new, unfamiliar places
We reach out to neighbors as if we remember traces
Of those things that hold our commonality,
That is until we arrive at life's complexity,
There is the times that we have casually spent,
As if time's worth was cheap and easily lent.
September 30,2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Leave Every Place You Go, Everything You Touch, A Little Better For Your Having Been There
“Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.” – Julie Andrews
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First Principles: I Have One Life and One Chance To Make It Count For Something…For As Long As I Can With Whatever I Have To Try To Make A Difference
“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.” – Jimmy Carter
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Thought For the Day: They Call Themselves Revolutionaries But They Want To Make the Government Omnipotent
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.” – Ludwig Von Mises
First Principles: The Storm of Frenzy and Faction Must Inevitably Dash Itself In Vain Against the Unshaken Rock of the Constitution
“The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.” – James Buchanan
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To Get Back Up Again
To Get Back Up Again
by Michael Doyle
Whether it was nobler
In word or in deed,
Never knowing if I'd get older
From my worries, I was freed.
One moment in its delay,
It could turn my world upside down
And nothing I could say
Would turn around that frown.
A focused half pose,
Landed me in notes uncertain.
Truth is that no one knows
More than it's unhealthy to be hurting.
The half-pulled gun
Might be an introduction to fun.
Or it might be the battle won
Before it has even really begun.
We lived where nothing could go wrong
And inside leveled like notes in a song.
It might produce a beautiful melody.
Or it might become one last tragedy.
Corruption and indifference often rule
In the world's places run by the fool.
All of this was taught in the killing school
Where jaded love is often the most cruel.
We talk to ourselves so that others might hear,
Playing the bluff while managing our fear.
Life's fleeting moments hold on tight,
With all of us praying to get it right.
Somewhere there is an outbound flight.
An operator watches only for the fight.
There are battles waiting to be won
Over arguments that should never have begun.
The penalty of living lives extraordinary
Is spending half our time in purgatory.
There are wounds that will never heal.
Knowing this makes living life the real deal.
Knowing how to quit is not the skill set
That men like us have acquired just yet.
There's no time for losers, born to win.
They knock us down so that we get back up again.
(c) September 29, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Little Science Takes You Away From God, But More of It Takes You To Him
“Little science takes you away from God, but more of it takes you to Him.: – Louis Pasteur
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First Principles: If Ever A Time Should Come When Vain and Aspiring Men Shall Possess the Highest Seats In Government, Our Country Will Stand In Need of Its Experienced Patriots To Prevent Its Ruin
“If ever a time should come when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” – Samuel Adams
It seems we have arrived at this point where both principal parties of these United States contain far too many vain and aspiring men who we should confront and remove from contention for positions of leaderhip for the good of our nation.
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