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15,001 Photographs
Just reached number 15,000. Kind of proud of that. Despite my ex wife destroying 14,000 plus photographs taken mostly of nature and destroying my cameras, I have now more or less made up for that through of use of experimenting … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Second Life
Tagged Art, Digital, Photographs, Sailing, Second Life, Topographic Oceans, Virtual Reality
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Locksley Hall – Alfred Tennyson
Based on an Arabic work called Mu’allaqat, in 1835, Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote himself a dramatic monologue in a set of 97 rhyming couplets. It is a stream of consciousness work with it’s protagonist caught up in in an interior … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Civilization, Harvard Classics, Jealousy, Locksley Hall, Mu'allaqat, Poetry, Steam of Conciousness, Tennyson, Utopia
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Shimmer
Shimmetry In Motion:
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Tagged Abstract, Daily Prompt, Photograph, Second Life, Shimmer, Wordpress
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Together We Are Better
With a wink and a nod to Jack Johson and of course Reverend Brett, from the House of Prayer Church on Second Life, today’s Sunday morning poem is based on Ecclesiastes 4:9-10New International Version (NIV). Ecclesiastes 4:9-10New International Version (NIV) 9 Two … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acceptance, Appreciation, Attention, Deep, Eccelesiastes, Family, Fellowship, Gratitude, Holy, House of Prayer, Jack Johnson, Open Secret, Photograph, Poetry, Quality, Relationship, Sermon, Service, Sunday, Together
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First Principles: Resist the Tyranny That Would Attempt To Take Inalienable Rights
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual…continue steadfast and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” – John … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Christian Duty, Dependence, First Principles, Inalienable, John Hancock, Resist, Rights, Social Duty, Tyranny
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Thought For the Day: Have the Courage To Do Right
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.” – Chester W. Nimitz
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Tagged Attitude, Chester W. Nimitz, Courage, Fortitude, Hope, Hopeless, Right, Thought For the Day
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Cotter’s Saturday Night – Robert Burns
On August 5, 1788, Robert Burns married Jean Armour. It seems only fitting that we might take a look in on a verbal picture he paints of Scottish home life on this anniversary. Funny how times change and yet so … Continue reading
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Tagged Criticism, Dialect, Harvard Classics, Kilmarnock Volume, Poetry, Robert Burns, Rustic, Scot, The Cotter's Saturday Night, Voices
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Casual
A Casual Sort of Operatic Rock Star:
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Tagged Casual, Crocodile, Daily Prompt, Rock Star, Second Life, Wordpress
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A Sort of Jazzy Sonnet
A Sort of Jazzy Sonnet by Michael Romani Lost in an abstraction of truth I spent the morning with the jazz That I loved so much in my youth A rhythmic kick of funky pizzazz Filled with that subtle incongruency … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abstraction, Alive, Incongruent, Jazz, Phrasing, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, So What, Sonnet, Take Five
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 