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WordPress #Daily Prompt July 14 – Tailor
Zoot Suits were once quite the riot….
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Second Life
Tagged Daily Prompt, Passions, Riots, Tailor, Wordpress, Zoot Suit
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Reflections on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke
In November, 1790, British statesman, Edmund Burke published a political pamphlet as an intellectual attack against the excesses of the French Revolution. This work is called Reflections On the Revolution In France. It remains as a defining tract of modern … Continue reading
A Frame for Life
A Frame For Life by Michael Romani Most of our lives Are spent within walls Where we find what drives The lives of us all Interior designs Are not just a visual thing It’s a skill to refine All that … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Second Life
Tagged Comfort, Frame, Interior Design, Life, Lives, Photographs, Poetry, Vanity
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Happy Bastille Day!
In remembrance of the assistance France gave to the United States in securing our freedom and that we have been allies and friends since then, I wish the people of France and the lovers and admirers of France, a… Saluting … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Second Life, Thought For the Day, Uncategorized
Tagged Baber, Bastille Day, Celebration, Eiffel Tower, France, Freedom, Liberty, Oppression, Triumph
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First Principles: The Unlimited Power To Tax Is the Power to Destroy
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” – John Marshall, in McCullough v. Maryland, 1819 This landmark decision may be read … Continue reading
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Tagged Decision, Destruction, John Marshall, Limits, McCullough v Maryland, Power, Property, Supreme Court, Taxes
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Coffees For Two
Coffee For Two by Michael Romani Coffees for two And a good morning kiss Time spent, me and you The one that I will miss Another hug and cuddle Will surely help me muddle Through beginning this day Coffees for … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Poetry and Poems, Second Life
Tagged Coffee, Cuddle, Delight, Good Mornng, Kiss, Photography, Poem, Two
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Thought For the Day: Wisdom Frames Knowledge Into Being Useful
“Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.” – Northrop Frye, in Fearful Symmetry: … Continue reading
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Tagged Assimilation, Contact, Facts, In Fearful Symmetry, Knowledge, Material, Meaning, Northrop Frye, Position, William Blake, Wisdom
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Plutarch’s Lives – Pericles
As discussed previously, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives is an important work not only because of the insights provided with respect to subject of the various persons who are discussed in the biographies but also due to the information provided about the times … Continue reading
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Tagged Athens, Democracy, Harvard Classics, Parallel Lives, Pericles, Persian Wars, Plutarch, Populist, Taxes
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Neon Communion
A look back at a part of the 90s – Neon Communion by Michael Romani In a time when even clowns have classes All the really hot girls wore glasses Sleeping away half or more of the day Working hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Brain Food, Chaos, Communion, Disheveled, Grime, Grunge, Hipster, Neon, Nineties, Photograph, Poetry, Tattoo
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Thought For the Day: True Friendship Rests On Understanding and Being Understood
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca The more that things change; the more they stay the same. This is just as true today as it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Friendship, Qualities, Seneca, Truth, Understanding, Understood
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 