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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Thought for the Day: Enjoy the Moments of Every Day
“Honestly, I never really understood the glorification of Fridays & weekends. I don’t want to build a life and career, where I spent five days a week waiting for the weekend. No! I want to enjoy my life, and don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Akilnathan Logeswaran, Build, Create, Enthusiasm, False Glory, Life, Love, Make Every Day Matter, Thought For the Day
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Tides – Lord Kelvin
“Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides; Go measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun;…” – Alexander Pope, Essay On Man Who would have ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Harvard Classics, Lord Kelvin, Math, Physics, Thermodynamics, Tides, Victorian Age
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Shadow Poetry
As a second Rispetto, I used a different form common to this type of poetry. From it came a brief look at the poetry itself: Shadow Poetry by Michael Romani The shadow poetry of old Tuscany Delights in the night … Continue reading
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Tagged Italy, Photograph, Quatrain, Rhymes, Rispetto, Second Life, Short Form Poetry, Tuscany
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Short Form Poetry Workshop – Rispetto – Making America Great Again Rispetto
How remiss of me, I forgot to post that I attended the Short Form Poetry Workshop this past Tuesday. The form studied this week is the Rispetto: How do you write a Rispetto • 8 lines broken into 2 stanza … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Faith, Healing, Ideals, Poem, Prayers, Rispetto, Short Form Poetry, Stanza, United
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Inhabit
Children of the World Hear my pleas My flag is unfurled In full confession, please To give Is the only way we live To forgive In a blessing we know and live Too much destruction Despite all of our instruction … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Confession, Daily Prompt, Forgive, Inhabit, Live, Love, Wordpress, World
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WordPress – #Weekly Photo Challenge – Angle
Further On Down A Winter Night’s Road To that place of warmth that I’m told Lies just beyond this wooded bend And you wait for me, my beautiful friend
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Tagged Angle, Further On Down, Photograph, Road, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter's Night, Wordpress
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First Principles: It Is Paramount To Distinguish Political and Social Opposition
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred … Continue reading
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Tagged Criticism, Distinguish, First Prinicples, Free Market of Ideas, Free Speech, Free Thought, Government, Hate, Liberality, Overcoming, Pain, Personality, Positions
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Thought For the Day: Antifa and Other Violent Persons Are Not Heroes But Bigots
“Do not glorify the violent people who are now tearing down the statues. Many of these people, not all of them, many of these people are trying to tear down America. Antifa is a radical, anti-America, anti-free market, communist, socialist, … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Letters of Pliny the Younger
On August 24, 79 A.D., Pliny witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius. His uncle, Pliny the Elder, passed away attempting to both investigation this horrendous event but also in helping fellow refugees. In respect for that, we thought we should take … Continue reading
In Defense Of (Damage Done)
In Defense of Damage Done by Michael Romani Even after all the damage done The battle has only just begun Words will not win what must be won But with the courage needed as one One who can move beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Battle, Comission, Companionship, Conspiracy, Damage, Danger, Defense, Defiance, Omission, Perseverance, Photographs, Poem, Poetry, Second Life, Stand, Strength, Walk the Walk
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