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Monthly Archives: May 2017
Take Five, #1: The Serpent
At tonight’s short form poetry workshop, we engaged in a sort of game of poetic wordplay. The goal of the game is to take five selected lesser used words and quickly form a dash of poetry from these words. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Ebullience, Garden of Eden, Ineluctable, Lethean, Naked Simian, Perfidy, Short Form Poetry, Sibilant, Take Five
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First Principles: Beware of A Corrupt Press
“[The press] corrupts, it deceives, it inflames. It strips virtue of her honors, and lends to faction its wildfire and its poisoned arms, and in the end is its own enemy and the usurper’s ally. It would be easy to … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: A Society Must Be Just and Humane
As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity. The free-labor system conforms to the divine law of equality, … Continue reading
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Tagged Communities, Consciences, Context, Equality, Flourish, Free Labor, Humanity, Justice, Prosper, Thought For the Day, William H Seward
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Foot Ware
In a continuing theme that I have been exploring lately, I have been looking at the fine art of design, abstract and otherwise. Today’s poem is a play on designing footwear. Despite a lifetime of running, working out and competition, … Continue reading
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Tagged Competitive Response, Design, Foor Wear, Olympian, Poetry
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Proactive Health Care: An Introduction
My purpose here is to get this ball rolling in way of a comprehensive introduction. Afterward, it’s my hope that many of the health topics will be prepared by my resident expert and love of my life, Ally Romani. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Body, Cure, Individuals, Mind, Preventtion, Proactive Health, Self Responsibility, Soul, Whole Health
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First Principles: Sustaining Governance Depends On A Broad Base of Support
“The pyramid of government, and a republican government may well receive that beautiful and solid form, should be raised to a dignified altitude: but its foundations must, of consequence, be broad, and strong, and deep.” – James Wilson (1804) … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Be Yourself In the Face of Conformity
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson To conform yourself to a world that is depraved and growingly increasingly sick in how it operates … Continue reading
Mother’s Day 2017, Part III
Mother’s Day 2017, Part III by Michael Romani As rare and true as a mother’s love Only second to that of God above Is a gift that has blessed each of us Given to each as a just because That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Balloon, Caring, Closeness, Embraces, Fountain, Gift, Higher, Mother's Day, Nurture, Prayer, Words of Love
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C.S. Lewis Study: Mere Christianity
Tonight was the first meeting of the C.S. Lewis Study that Ally and I are holding at Aloha Promises Forever! We covered the first chapter of Mere Christianity and then used a study guide to review the key concepts covered. … Continue reading
The Purple Testament
My daughters want to be writers. In talking about this along the way, I was asked who I thought were the best of the writers that I had come across in my life. Well, I thought of course of all … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Philippines, Poetry, Promises, Rod Serling, The Purple Testament, Twilight Zone, War Stinks, World War II, Writers, Writing
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 