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Monthly Archives: June 2017
Playful State of Mind
Playful State of Mind by Michael Romani Ideas come in fanciful doodling Free associating and noodling Staring out of life’s windows Watching the breeze flow You have to keep a playful state Never able to really force the great In … Continue reading
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Tagged Design, Doodling, Edge, Memories, Paradigm, Photographs, Playful, Poetry, Second Life, Typography, Window
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Carnivalesque
There is an on-going celebration tonight in Second Life in honor of it’s 14th Birthday. I was honored in being asked to read an hour of poetry. Who knew that an hour is so long? 😉 As I was getting … Continue reading
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Tagged Birthday Bash, Carnival, Celebration, Festival, Happiness, Photographs, Poetry, Reading, Second Life, Songbird
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An Accidental Definition
An Accidental Definition by Michael Romani There is a sense of scattered taunts Hidden in the hand painted fonts That reaches for the imperative Found in an industrial narrative Where the cross thatched tags Create a sense of visual lag … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidental, Definition, Graphic, Impressions, Narrative, Photograph, Poetry
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First Principles: In Uniting, We Stand…
Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. – John Dickinson, lyrics from The Liberty Song Most of my life, I have mistakenly believed this phrase as being another part of American history first. … Continue reading
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Tagged Divided, Fall, John Dickinson, Stand, The Liberty Song, United
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Thought For the Day: Free Expression and Rule of Law Are Necessary To Freedom
“Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.” – Salman Rushdie, quote from the January 16, 2008, The Times … Continue reading
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Tagged Free Expression, Freedom, Open Society, Rule of Law, Salman Rushdie, Thought For the Day
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The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
Based on Twilight Zone, Season 1; Episode 22 The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street by Michael Romani Late summer on Maple Street, USA Children play as laughter rings on this sunny day The day begins its descent; it’s 6:43 … Continue reading
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Tagged Civility, Manipulation, Maple Street, Monsters, Rumors, Suspicious, The Twilight Zone
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Destiny (Heart Found)
Destiny (Heart Found) by Michael Romani I hear your fears Comforting your tears Bound in hand and in heart Bound as we’ve been from the start Now, nothing can keep me away I have found my home And here I … Continue reading
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Tagged Ally Romani, Beauty, Destiny, Heart, Photographs, Poetry, Second Life, Smile
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First Principles: The Happiest Moments Come From Family
“…(T)he happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family. “ – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Francis Willis, April 18, 1790
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Tagged Family, Francis Willis, Happniess, Home, Life, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: To Be The Father of Growing Daughters Invokes Awe
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self … Continue reading
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Tagged Daughters, Family, Father's Day, Love, Sacred, Terrible Beauty
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First Principles: Good and Wise Government Is Dependent On Family
“[T]hat important and respectable, though small and sometimes neglected establishment, which is denominated a family…[The family is] the principle of the community; it is that seminary, on which the commonwealth, for its manners as well as its numbers, must ultimately … Continue reading
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Tagged Community, Family, First Principles, Founding Fathers, Government, Heritage, James Wilson, manners, Natural Rights, US Supreme Court
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 