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Monthly Archives: December 2017
First Principles: Political Conversion Is Best Done Through Persuasion
“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1, 1787 Federalist No. 1 may be read … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Battle To Be Yourself Is the Hardest, Best Battle Fought
“To be nobody but myself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Conformity, ee cummings, Individual, Self, Struggle, Thought For the Day
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Ever Increasing Joy
Ever Increasing Joy by Michael Romani Living in an Age of Materiality If you don’ have this or that You’re relegate to marginality Or at least it’s how we act But the truth is that we need Is to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abundance, Blessing, Darkness, Faithfulness, Grace, Joy, Lights, Materiality, Opportunity, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Rejoice, Soul, Strength, Victory
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Sonic Gems: A Classical Crossover Christmas
Between my computer’s keyboard having issues and being busy with all the hectic days of Christmas activities, we have been a little busy and not as productive in our number of posts as usual. Still, I have tried to post … Continue reading
Christmastide (12 Days of Christmas)
Christmastide (The Twelve Days of Christmas) by Michael Romani Now are the days of Christmastide These twelve days of mirth without mischief Lead in a path of symbolic gifts To the day the wise men visited That most sacred of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Days of Christmas, Adoration, Candy Cane, Christmas Carol, Christmastide, Epihany, Evidence, Gifts, God, Manger, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ressurrection, Sacred
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Silent
Maybe it’s just that time of year When memories roll around I close my eyes and I’m there Still marveling at what I found Raining down in frozen white Alone in my thoughts that silent night Thinking that just once … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Bridge, Christmastide, Daily Prompt, Future, God, Love, Memories, Night, Past, Present, Silent, Snow, Wordpress
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The Proof Is In The Evidence
“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.” – Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (13 Apr 1949-2011) Even a wide awake drunk is right sometimes… 😉
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Argumentation, Assertions, Christopher Hitchens, Conclusions, Deduction, Evidence, Faith, Premises, Proof
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Refractive Lens
Refractive Lens by Michael Romani Each story that we weave Rather story or verse We come to believe As its own hermetic universe The hows and the whys That define our fiction As we half realize Our best depiction Can … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Cosmological, Lens, Paradigm, Perception, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Writing
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Meager
Life can be so hard that at times its hard to speak You search for beauty but it’s hard to see through the pique And you know, I really don’t want to seem over eager Because I know life comes … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Choices, Daily Prompt, Irritation, Peace, Prayer, Ugliness, Voices, Wordpress
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 