“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” William Ellery Channing
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First Principles: Difficulties Are Meant To Rouse, Not Discourage. The Human Spirit Is To Grow Strong By Conflict
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Thought For the Day: The Reason It Hurts So Much To Separate Is Because Our Souls Are Connected
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
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Pages Turn (The Night We Watched The Notebook)
Pages Turn (The Night We Watched the Notebook)
by Michael Doyle
Together in each other's heart,
You wanted to watch a movie.
We did our best, and each did our best part
You picked one to see how it would move me.
A summer spark with a kiss in the rain,
The story it told as it is, and so it goes.
The choices made bring love and sometimes pain.
Where the wheel lands, nobody knows.
Pages in a notebook are cherished and turned.
The memories of a lifetime are kept and learned.
A home is built with love and calloused hands.
True love is kept by those who truly understand.
Letters might be lost or kept from reading,
But a true heart knows even as it is bleeding.
Neither time nor distance can be froze.
Still, it is that heart knows just what it knows.
When the days grow older, the pages still turn.
The pages of our story will be read as we yearn.
I will tell you our truth from its very start,
Just so you remember the keeper of your heart.
Pages in a notebook are cherished and turned.
The memories of a lifetime are kept and learned.
A home is built with love and calloused hands.
True love is kept by those who truly understand.
In the boat of life, I will row you to shore,
Giving you love in memories and something more.
We will watch as the sweet birds take their flight,
And I will read to you until the morning's light.
Our two souls are sweetly bound to each other.
I could look the world over and never want another.
For as long as time, I will find where you stand,
And know the end of our time will find us hand in hand.
Pages in a notebook are cherished and turned.
The memories of a lifetime are kept and learned.
A home is built with love and calloused hands.
True love is kept by those who truly understand.
(c) August 21, 2026 Michael Doyle
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A Hero’s Journey Begins, Part II
A Hero's Journey Begins, Part II
by Michael Doyle
Each moment of life is loaded with intensity,
Peppered in each moment to withstand the immensity
Of whatever challenge might come our way.
This is the wake-up call of a hero's day.
Staying the course keeps the cool
That serves as every hero's school.
There are lessons every day that exceed the reach.
These lessons, in whatever form, seem to each
To test the preservation of meaning's cloud.
That is what is and isn't to be allowed.
None of this is down to any form or hard science.
But there's a lot to be said for the collective conscience.
Each hero is born to be set on their journey.
The choices made determine each hero's destiny.
It all comes down to a matter of trust.
Each sets out, and it comes down to get there or bust.
Life's messages are meant to be read
Over and over, without a sense of dread.
But instead, to discern with each turn
The lessons we have left to learn.
(c) August 20, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Beginning, Challenge, Collective Conscience, Cool, Course, Day, Hard Science, Hero, Immensity, Intensityy, Journey, Lesson, Life, Meaning, Peservation, Poetry and Poems, Reach, School, Way
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Thought For the Day: There Are Those Who Seek Knowledge In Order To Serve; That Is Love
“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.” – Bernard of Clairvaux
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First Principles: A Sacred Respect For the Constitutional Law Is the Vital Principles, the Sustaining Principle of a Free Government
“A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.” – Alexander Hamilton
It is too bad the DSA doesn’t realize this. In seeking to destroy the Constitution, they have pronounced themselves the enemies of the American way of life and as seekers of the destruction of our customs and traditions. After all, if you are not for the rule of law, have you not opened the floodgates to tyranny?
A Hero’s Journey Begins, Part I
A Hero's Journey Begins, Part I
by Michael Doyle
Essentially, a hero is someone ordinary
Who is given the chance to be extraordinary.
Through whatever set of events or circumstance,
He or she has been given this dynamic chance.
It's about rising up to the opportunity
And meeting whatever opposition with capability.
Through whatever needed means that have arisen
The hero answers the call that has been given.
It's mostly about the choice not to fear,
To give the fight your best and persevere.
Heroes take their chunk of the universe
And read its villains chapter and verse.
Staring death in its cold, bitter eyes,
Unflinching as if refusing to even recognize
The possibility of facing tomorrow dead.
This is not the thought for a hero's head.
It is only to push forward in the fight,
The best of our heroes possess the light.
Joined against adversaries as the best.
Each who is a hero is ready for this test.
I once thought this might describe me.
But my life has passed with the possibility.
I am as most men, just a man doing my best.
As for anything more, God has done the rest.
(c) August 19, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Elegance Is When the Inside Is As Beautiful As the Outside
“Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.” – Coco Chanel
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First Principles: Bibles Are Strong Entrenchments. Where They Abound, Men Cannot Pursue Wicked Courses, and At the Same Time Enjoy Quiet Conscience
“Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.” – James McHenry, signer of the Constitution
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Tagged Abudance, Bibles, Courses, Entrenchment, First Principles, James McHenry, Mankind, Pursuit, Quiet Consience, Wickedness
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Great Is the Lord
Great Is the Lord
by Michael Doyle
Though the rains may fall,
I will hear and heed your call.
Through my darkest days,
I will always sing your praise.
Through all that Satan has done,
I will keep my eyes on the Son.
Whispering my love to your morning,
Whatever comes without warning.
When I hear just what I feel,
I turn to see, and know it's real.
Looking into the spirit of God's endless light,
He's taken an aspiration and turned it right.
The sins burn bright in eternal fire.
So it is with God's holy desire.
The winds blow through the trees,
And we pray as we are fallen on our knees.
It's never-ending as we turn to praise.
God's love falls on us to the end of days.
We learn the only way to love is to give.
This is the secret that every Christian lives.
(c) August 18, 2026 Michael Doyle
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