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Monthly Archives: December 2017
WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Patina
Light blasts through the mental accumulation As we get in tuned with the new procrastination The patina grows through the memories of pain Flowing in our lives like moments spent in the rain We laughed so loud in voices meant … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Acceptance, Accumulation, Chance, Company, Daily Prompt, Extended Family, Life, Opportunity, Patina, Procrastination, Rain, Tears, Wordpress, Years
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Thought For the Day: Excessive Taxation Is Little More Than Extortion
“When more of the people’s sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free government.” –President … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Exacted, Extortion, Freedom, Government, Just, Obligations, Princples, Sustenance, Taxes, Thought For the Day, Violation
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First Principles: Preventing Crimes Is the Aim of Jurisprudence
“To prevent crimes, is the noblest end and aim of criminal jurisprudence. To punish them, is one of the means necessary for the accomplishment of this noble end and aim.” — James Wilson Such a simple proposition really. Looking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime, Crime Preventation, Criminal Jurisprudence, First Principles, Means, Noble, Punishment
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Winds of Change
Based on Acts 2:1-42: Winds of Change by Michael Romani There in the indefinable something Is the difference that love brings Changing lives and effective in mission Doing their part for the Great Commission In that sense of wondrous anticipation Is … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Book of Acts, Change, Great Comission, Heaven, Love, New Testatment, Pentecost, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Testiy, Winds
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Tenterhooks
Watching the worries of the world pass me by Lifting up our voices in a passion of hue and cry I see the tenterhooks of angst triangulate our world As my young children lay asleep slightly curled Powerless to really … Continue reading
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Tagged Angst, Broken, Choices, Daily Prompt, Dream, Followed, Hope, Pray, Rules, Sleep, Tenterhooks, Triangulation, Wordpress, World
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First Principles: Where There Is No Law, There Is No Liberty
“Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.” — Benjamin Rush, letter to David Ramsay, … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Rush, Community, Justice, Law, Liberty, Reasonable Man Standard, Universal
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Thought For the Day: Music Makes Us All A Little Immortal
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau This post dedicated to a blogger who made me … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day, Uncategorized
Tagged Danger, Fear, Harmony, Henry David Thoreau, Immortality, Music, Opposition, Peace, Thought For the Day, Vulnerability
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Momento Mori
Momento Mori by Michael Romani Remembrance of death is something I embrace Every morning when I look at my mirrored face Trying so hard, it is my struggle to find peace The preacher whispers, forgiveness brings release But, it’s been … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Death, Military, Morality, Mortality, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Witness
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Jataka Tales – Birth of Buddha
Although we at Aloha Promises Forever are unabashedly Christian in our paradigm, we also believe that we should understand and tolerate the perspectives of other world views. One of these is that of Buddhism. In that spirit and in keeping … Continue reading →