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Monthly Archives: February 2018
WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Imagination
On the well washed shores of my imagination I find images feeling like technicolor saturation Always, since my early days of playing Robin Hood To today, taking photos and writing, I’ve understood That it’s in the structures of depths of … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Daily Prompt, Discovery, Explore, Imagination, Mental, Photography, Playground, Saturation, Second Life, Shores, Tools, Uncharted, Understood, Wordpress, Writing
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First Principles: A Nation Should Strive For Wisdom and Virtue In Its Example
“Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 36, 1788
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Example, First Principles, Happiness, Honor, Human Nature, The Federalist Papers, Virtue, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Love Shows Itself In Timidity and Boldness
“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.” – Victor Hugo, poet, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)
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Tagged Boldness, Girl, Love, Symptom, Thought For the Day, Timidity, Victor Hugo, Young Man
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Daniel Defoe – The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
Born on September 13, 1660, the English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy Daniel Defoe fka as Daniel Foe became famous popularizing the writing form known as a novel with his works including Robinson Crusoe prior to his passing on … Continue reading
The Importance of Things Believed
Based on John 8:31,32 The Importance Of Things Believed by Michael Romani Abide in the Holy Word Lit by a light un-blurred The fire of eternal truth Setting us free from youth Or when we have seen While busily a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abide, Belief, Evidence, Faith, Freedom, Gravity, Holy Word, Human Beings, Levity, Paradigm, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sincerity, Test, Truth, Universal, Verfiable
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Congregate
In my life, I have seen many come to congregate Waiting with bated breath as it fascinates That only a handful gather to pursue wisdom While ignorance more often rules the kingdom It seems we need a smattering of deeper … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Blindman's Bluff, Congregate, Daily Prompt, Depth, Enemy, Foundation, Hot Air, Ignorance, Illumination, Insight, Observation, Ourselves, Problem, Procrastination, Recognition, Sight, Wisdom, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Never Let Your Schooling Get In the Way of Your Education
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
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Tagged Application, Education, Ignorance, Knowledge, Life Long Study, Mark Twain, Schooling, Thought For the Day, Uncertainty, Wisdom
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First Principles: Heavy Taxation Leads To Wretchedness and Oppression
“The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Samuel Kerchival, 1816 The correct thing to do about many of the issues touted as … Continue reading
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Tagged Amendment, Consitution, First Principles, Heavy Taxes, Misery, Oppression, Public Debt, Samuel Kerchival, Thomas Jefferson
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Sonic Gems: Neil Young – After the Goldrush
Born on November 12, 1945, Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Percival Young began his music career by moving to Los Angeles and forming Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others He then released two solo albums prior to joining Crosby, … Continue reading
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Tagged After the Goldrush, Buffalo Springfield, Country Rock, Grunge, Neil Young, Sonic Gems, Southern Man
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Shifting Dice
https://flic.kr/p/pC38by Shifting Dice by Michael Romani What exactly is behind the roll? Is it fate or probability? Belief in what controls Often shapes our reality To say that it depends on the nice Is to really not be very precise … Continue reading
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Tagged Chance, Fate, Myth, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Probability, Roll, Rome, Shifting Dice, Symmetry
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