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Monthly Archives: March 2018
WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Faceless
Have you ever woken up feeling a bit like maybe yesterday Is something that shouldn’t have happened no how, no way? Where when all the good intentions have led to a mistake And even as you make it, you have … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Apology, Blunder, Cut and Paste, Daily Prompt, Faceless, Forgive, Mistake, Sleepless, Wordpress, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: The True Heroes of This World Share Responsibility For Caring For Our Children
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Community, Fred Rogers, Heroes, Issues, Problem Solvers, Responsibility, Responsive, Thought For the Day, World
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First Principles: From Youth We Must Strive To Be Learned and Virtuous
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Character, Conduct, Effort, Endeavor, Essential, First Principles, George Washington, Habits, Indelible, Learned, Life, Moral, Virtuous, Wise
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Daddy’s Girl
Daddy’s Girl by Michael Romani To be marginalized and oppressed Cannot be ever overestimated To be considered less than Had left her endlessly frustrated It didn’t make it any better To be considered part of the family Not in the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Amusement, Brain, Contribution, Conversation, Daddy's Girl, Davastation, Deeply Rooted, Experience, Family, Found Nickel, Frustration, Institutional, Integrity, Marginalized, Negligence, Oppressed, Patriarchy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preference, Racism, Respect, Sexism
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Foreign
Sworn to fight against enemies Both foreign and domestic It’s hard to tell the frenemies And quite often erratic You want to give that chance But when you do that You dance that deadly dance It’s just where it’s at … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged America, Daily Prompt, Endless, Enemies, Foreign, Fort Hood, Friends, Honor, Military, Wordpress
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First Principles: Without Free Thought There Cannot Be Free Speech, Public Liberty Or Wisdom
“Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin (1722)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Free Government, Free Speech, Free Thought, Freedom, Pillar, Public Liberty, Tyranny, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: To Understand Is Not To Condone
“Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.” – Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980)
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Tagged Accept, Accusation, Condone, Discernment, Erich Fromm, Judgment, Others, Thought For the Day, Understanding
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Talisman
As near as I can remember and is recollected There are visions that are too often connected When expecting the somewhat unexpected There is often a talisman of sorts to be expected With expanded horizons we find a cosmic dream … Continue reading
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Tagged Connection, Daily Prompt, Dream Catcher, Dreams, Illusion, Memories, Paradigm, Reality, Subconcious, Talisman, Visions, Wordpress
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First Principles: Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
“There is a just God who presides over the destines of nations … who will raise up friends to fight our battle for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, … Continue reading
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Tagged Chains, Courage, Death, Destiny, First Principles, God, Just, Liberty, Nation, Patrick Henry, Slavery, Vigilant
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Thought For the Day: Write Faster To Know the End of the Story
“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter — who was a child at the time — asked me, “Daddy, why are you writing so fast?” And I replied, “Because I want to see how the … Continue reading
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Tagged Childhood, Imagination, Lous L'Amour, Rapid, Story, Thought For the Day, Unfold, Writing
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 