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Monthly Archives: October 2017
Sonic Gems – Yes – The Yes Album
Yes is an English progressive rock band that helped pioneer that genre. The band formed in 1968 with members Jon Anderson (vocalist), Chris Squire (bassist), Peter Banks (guitarist), Tony Kaye (keys) and Bill Bruford (drums). Since then, there have been … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Machiavelli – Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay was born on October 25, 1800. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, General Maxims, Harvard Classics, India, Lord Macaulay, Machiavelli, Thomas Babington, Whig
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WordPress – # Weekly Photo Challenge – Rounded
The spirals of time curve in circles spinning back Karmanic moments that often fade into black I wish that I could remember the half I’ve forgotten Or could return half of the good and bad that I’ve gotten Accelerants that … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Approximate, Choked, Circles, Forgiveness, Memories, Photograph, Rounded, Sorrow, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wordpress
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Identity
What is the identity you might ask That lies behind that mystic mask What thing sacred might be unveiled If the fogs of confusion lifted and revealed The purpose behind our transition Too often lost in mankind’s attempted translation That … Continue reading
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Tagged Confusion, Contempt, Daily Prompt, Identity, Mystic, Photograph, Sacred, Salvation, Translation, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Writing Is the Great Invention of the World
“Writing—the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye—is the great invention of the world…—great, very great in enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and of space.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Communication, Conversation, Learning, Thought, Writing
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First Principles: Moral Relativism Is A Quagmire of Moral Confusion
“If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?” –John … Continue reading
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Tagged Ethics, First Principles, John Adams, Moral Relativism, Morality, Sophistry, Truth
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Agamemnon – Aeschylus
The ancient Greek Aeschylus is often called the father of tragedy. He is also credited by, among others, Aristotle with bringing more characters into theater to allow for the conflicts that lead to character development. Among the most famous poems … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Betrayal, Greek Tragedy, Harvard Classics, Justice, Loyalty, Mycenean, Oresteia, Revenge, The Eumenides, The Libration Bearers, Trilogy
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This Then Is Alaska
This Then Is Alaska by Michael Romani America’s last frontier Half a million square miles Wilderness to explore there A land filled with as many smiles Where there’s one thing serious The seasons run fast and furious Opportunities are often … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alaska, Attitude, Beauty, Bold, Ice, Last Frontier, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Seasons, Snow, Wilderness
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Trademark
Now, I don’t mean this with any real snark But when I think about some such trademark I usually think of one of Ally’s signature looks The kind that makes me search through books Hoping for some kind of way … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloha Promises Forever, Breath of Life, Clever, Daily Prompt, Humor, Love, Signature Look, Snark, Trademark, Wordpress
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First Principles: Our Liberties Are Secured As A Gift From God, Not Government
“God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, First Principles, God Given, Government, Justice, Liberty, Thomas Jefferson
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 