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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Things Shared
Things Shared by Michael Romani Maybe it’s as silly as it seems Telling you of all of my dreams Spelled out in a songster’s serenade As we dance of old fashioned promenade But what good is a life, babe, If … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Care, Dreams, Holding Hands, Joy, Life, Love, Poem, Poetry, Promenade, Rain, Serenade, Share, Smile
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First Principles: To Right Our Republic’s Course We Must Restore Our First Principles
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Montesquieu, in … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Corruption, Evils, First Principles, Government, History, Jefferson, Montesquieu, Remedy, Removal, Republic, Restoration, Spirit of the Laws
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Thought For the Day: The Fullness of Joy Must Be Divided
“To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Divide, Give, Joy, Love, Share, Someone, Thought For the Day, Value
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Great American Eclipse
Great American Eclipse by Michael Romani Monumental crowds wait in expectation Joined in the sensational celebration Excited smiled curve on all the lips In a once in a lifetime total eclipse There is a path of projected totality It is … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Blot, Moon, Path of Totality, Poetry, Science, Solar, Sun, The Great American Eclipse
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Confessions of St. Augustine, Book Eight
There are many ways to tell a story. This is true even if the story is an autobiography. No greater proof of this could be found than the 13 books that form Confessions. At the age of 40 or so in … Continue reading
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Tagged Autobiography, Christian, Harvard Classics, Repentence, Sin, St Augustine, The Confessions, Theology
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WordPress – # Daily Prompt – Lurch
A Better Mouse Trap .. or a Roller Coaster Ride?
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Daily Prompt, Lurch, Mouse Trap, Roller Coaster, Shark, Wordpress
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First Principles: Science Opens Eyes To Truth
“All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles … Continue reading
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Tagged First Principles, Inquiry, Investigation, Rights of Man, Science, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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Thought For the Day: The Reappearance of Light Is the Survival of the Soul
“Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, Dawn, Eclipse, Reappearance, Resurrection, Retun, Soul, Survival, Thought For the Day, Victor Hugo
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Icelandic Fibonacci
Icelandic Fibonacci by Michael Romani It’s Sad The day Thrown away Life lived different Life should be held reverently No One Pro-Life Wishes pain In a mother’s heart Held so close in our calm prayers In Fair Tragic Icelandic Culture, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Down Syndrome, Fibonacci, Forgive, Iceland, Poem, Poetry, Reveence For Life, Sacred, Sin
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Paradise Lost – John Milton
John Milton was a 17th Century English poet. He is considered one of greatest of the English poets ever. His major work is said to be Paradise Lost. It is an epic poem written in blank verse and consists depending on … Continue reading
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 