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Monthly Archives: August 2017
WordPress – # Daily Prompt – Synchronize
In the synchronized march of the skeleton crew The mist rose up from the dead witch’s brew There will be trouble on this dark night Perhaps, your death before the morning’s light
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Tagged Daily Prompt, Photograph, Poem, Second Life, Skeleton, Syncrhonize, Wordpress
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First Principles: Federal Government Grows In Times of War and Danger
“The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.” – James Madison With this in mind, I believe … Continue reading
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Tagged Danger, Federal, Federalist Papers, James Madison, Operations, Peace, Security, State, Terrorism, War, Wise Governance
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Thought For the Day: Our Lives Are the Clay From Which We Create
“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artist, Better Place, Experience, Feelings, Jorge Luis Borges, Purpose, Raw Material, Thought For the Day, Writer
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – On the Sublime and the Beautiful – Edmund Burke
The full title for Edmund Burke’s philosophical exposition on separating the beautiful and the sublime into separate categories is A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. This major work was studied by … Continue reading
Temptation Frustration
Based On Matthew 4:3-4 Temptation Frustration by Michael Romani It’s all of the persuasion That mighty temptation Oh, the frustration Of falling for that deception The price invested When we are bested By the glitter of lies Such convincing alibis … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Contemplation, Frustration, Glitter, Matthew, New Testament, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Preach, Pride, Self Reflection, Teach, Temptation
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Viscreal
In a heated passion of words Feeling flowed through me Thoughts too often blurred Spill out in visceral fury
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Tagged Daily Prompt, Fury, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Viscreal, Wordpress
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First Principles: Our Constitution Was Made Only For A Moral and Religious People
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, First Principles, Government, John Adams, Moral, Religous
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Two Years Before the Mast – Dana
We have previously discussed this work to some degree and that post is worth reviewing in reference to the below provided reading and/or audiobook. This post will serve to flesh out some further details. But keep in mind that there … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Horn, Dana, Harvard, Harvard Classics, Measles, Two Years Before the Mast
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Ooze
Nada with respect to ooze… but primordial we got…. How about some nice Primordial Soup?
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 