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Monthly Archives: September 2017
First Principles: Good Government Protects Labor From Injury and Theft
“A wise and frugal government… shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. … Continue reading
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Tagged Enfranchisement, First Principles, Government, Improvement, Regulation, Safety, Thomas Jefferson, Worker Protection
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Thought For the Day: Happy Labor Day!
“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our … Continue reading
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Tagged Betterment, Happy Labor Day, Labor, Needs, Samuel Gompers, Thought For the Day, Wants
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Treaty with Great Britain (1783)
On September 3, 1783, the American Revolutionary War ended with the formal treaty recognizing the United States of America as a sovereign nation. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and our new republic. It … Continue reading
The Accountability of Responsibility
Today at Aloha Promises Forever, we will begin reading Paradise Lost by John Milton for those followers who are in Second Life. If you are interested in that work but are not in Second Life, take some heart. It will be … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accountability, Living, Matthew, Paradise Lost, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Responsibility, Stewardship
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Priceless
An old song meandered in on a thought About how the best of life cannot be bought Like the precious and few moments spent Those that a loving God has lent Even to a sinner like me Days of beauty … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Daily Prompt, Grace, Growth, Heaven, Lent, Lonliness, Love, Moments, Photograph, Poem, Precious, Priceless, Sent, Word Doodle, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: The Duty of the Artist Is To Send Light Into the Darkness
“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Robert Schumann If there were one overwhelming prayer in my heart with respect to my photographic art and word play it is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Crisis, Darkness, Duty, Illumination, Light, Opportunity, Pass On, Pay Forward, Prayer, Robert Schuman, Send, Shoulders of Giants, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: It Is Better To Die Free Than Live As Slaves
“With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: All For Love – John Dryden
John Dryden dominated the literary life of the Restoration Period of England so much so that some refer to this period as the Age of Dryden. He was an English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright. In fact, he was … Continue reading
A Kind of Sonnet of Blindness
A Kind of Sonnet of Blindness by Michael Romani Observed as an adage calling for an eye for eye It’s the way of the world until this world is blind You may think this as justice, but I – I … Continue reading
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Tagged Blindness, Eye For An Eye, Justice, Peace, Poem, Poetry, Sonnet, Switch, War
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Continue
Despite stacks and stacks of dog-eared books Well principled gestures, words, even dirty looks The quest for this thing called wisdom goes on and on It sometimes leaves me thinking it’s a once upon A beginning of mankind’s most convincing … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Continue, Daily Prompt, Fairytale, Learning, Photograph, Searching, Wisdom, Wishing Well, Wordpress
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 