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Thought For the Day: There Is A Longing Among All People and Creatures To Have A Sense of Purpose and Worth. To Satisfy That Common Longing In All of Us, We Must Respect Each Other
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First Principles: I Congratulate You, My Fellow-Citizens, Upon the High State of Prosperity To Which the Goodness of Divine Providence Has Conducted Our Common Country. Let Us Invoke A Continuance of the Same
“I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.” – Zachary Taylor
His life was an interesting one. He did not spend any time in college but attained his status by always victoriously fighting for our country. His presidency was either the second or third shortest before he either died from Cholera or was poisoned. The jury is still out on that one.
Silenced Gentrification
Silenced Gentrification
by Michael Doyle
The sanctimonious and the truly racist
Bleat on as they savagely persist.
Demanding urban stratification
In lieu of what is deemed gentrification.
They claim that loving a bit of silence
Is tantamount to committing true violence
Against those too poor to find a solution
And put an end to noise pollution.
This is really a matter of presentation
At least more than it is representation.
Because you see, there is grace in quietude.
To my ears, I offer it gratitude.
It is easier in its sweet simplicity,
To find natural sounds greater than complexity.
Gentrification is not the case of rabid displacement.
Silence isn't silent in its embracement.
Artists enter the inner city like Johnny Appleseed
And just as suddenly it becomes about their needs.
Beauty and truth are found in the dreamer's hand,
This is something sociologists fail to understand.
Silence is not the world's fear of darkness.
It is humanity's stand to hold back the harshness.
It is the mind separated from overwhelming society,
And finding peace instead of angst and anxiety.
You don't have to be rich to enjoy a closed window.
You don't have to love the light to disdain shadow.
The clattering soundtrack of life that never ceases
Is not something that should be experienced in increases
More noise does not make a healthy society but is a mistake.
It is more than enough to make the nervous system shake.
To think there is something greater in the city's noise
Just reminds me that some need to find greater joys.
Those who fail to see this have missed the texture
That sound and light are the cosmic architecture.
And that in finding a bit of silence and quietude,
is something for which a thinking man finds gratitude.
(c) September 22, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Gentrification, Noise Pollution, Persistance, Poetry and Poems, Racist, Sanctimonious, Silence, Solution, Stratifcation, Violence
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Thought For the Day: There May Be Trouble Ahead – But While There’s Moonlight, and Music, and Love, and Romance – Let’s Face the Music and Dance
“There may be trouble ahead – But while there’s moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let’s face the music and dance.” – Irving Berlin
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First Principles: I Am Not Influenced By the Expectation of Promotion Or Pecuniary Reward. I Wish To Be Useful, and Every Kind of Service Necessary For the Public Good Becomes Honorable By Being Necessary
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.” – Nathan Hale
On this date, we honor the death of a man who valued freedom and liberty for all of America over his own life. For this, we express our gratitude to Nathan Hale.
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Thought For the Day: It Does Not Require Many Words To Speak the Truth
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” – Chief Joseph
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First Principles: All Distinctions of Birth Or of Rank Have Been Abolished. All Citizens, Whether Native Or Adopted, Are Placed Upon Terms of Precise Equality
“All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.” – James Polk
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Resurrected Life
Resurrected Life
by Michael Doyle
Gratitude flows from the inside.
This is the resurrected life that I can't hide.
The Word of God fuels the fire
Giving all of us our holy desires.
To do what pleases God within our dreams -
The story of Joseph exemplifies things to seem
As if God's intention overrides evil for good.
We live our lives as if this is what's understood.
Loving life as it grows into the overflow,
The Holy Spirit gives the wishes we need to know.
We love our lives as we forge our identity,
And live these moments in their fullest dignity.
Jealousy can sometimes come between,
And it takes fortitude to keep living the dream.
God's love brings our best and noblest elevation
As we serve at God's utmost inspiration.
Jesus, Himself, cannot be fit inside of a box.
He cannot be restrained by any system of locks.
In a day filled with 24 holy seconds into hours,
We gain our victory through His holy powers.
As Joseph fulfilled his holy calling,
He was not canceled by the darkest angels falling.
We are to give our best, however that best might be small
Filling the Kingdom's needs, we stand 10 feet tall.
Words are prophetic in their sacred keeping,
Be it in our joy or in our heartfelt weeping.
Our days are numbered by what we say,
And our continuity only lives day-by-day.
Seeking God's kingdom, we find
The love of God never leaves us behind.
Living the dream is different than the dream.
All the pain is sustained, however it might seem.
Life's circumstances must be lived under God's control.
It leads to the healing and magnification of our souls.
When we fail to manifest what passes for our brilliance,
How we survive is the tell of our lasting resilience.
It is in the painful seasons that we realize
The fullness of our identity in God's holy eyes.
God's patience builds our strength in His latitude
And for this, like Joseph's trials, God is owed our gratitude.
(c) September 20, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Bible, Christianity, Dream, Evil, Faith, God, Good, Gratitude, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Intention, Jesus, Joseph, Life, Overflow, Poetry and Poems, Resurrection, Understanding, Word of God
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is Discovered Without God’s Intention and Assistance
“Nothing is discovered without God’s intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.” – Charles Dickens
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First Principles: You Intended To Harm Me, But God Intended It For Good To Accomplish What Is Now Being Done, the Saving of Many Lives
“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.” – Genesis 50:20
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Tagged Accomplishment, First Principles, Genesis 50:20, God, Good, Harm, Intention, Lives
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