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Monthly Archives: April 2018
WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Frigid
Looking down into the heart of the frigid winter Hoping to find maybe some kind of hint there Why so many find the starkness of winter dead Perhaps it’s the quietness they hold in dread? The chill can ache deep … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Bleakness, Bones, Children, Chill, Daily Prompt, Dickens, Dread, Frigid, Play, Solitude, Star of David, Starkness, Winter, Wisemen, Wordpress
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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Man
“[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 Conduct, Essential, First Principles, George Washington, Habits, Learned, Moral Character, Reputation, Virtuous
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Thought For the Day: Hating Others Belittles Our Souls
“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.” – Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (5 Apr 1856-1915)
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Booker T Washington, Control, Hatred, Inability to Control, Love, Others, Self, Soul, Thought For the Day
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The Eyes of the Lord
Based on Psalms 34:15-17 The Eyes of the Lord by Michael Romani Over and over the Bible tells What the eyes of God reveals Every way that we might turn There in every lesson learned All of His children are … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bible, Children, Christianity, Cross, Favor, Grace, Humility, Integrity, Kindness, Legacy, Measure, Omnipresence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psalms, Shelter, The Eyes of the Lord, Treasure
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First Principles: All Slavery Should Be Held In Abhorrence
“Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States. … I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in … abhorrence.” – John Adams (1819) The … Continue reading
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Tagged Abhorrent, Existing Slavery, Extirpation, First Principles, George Washington, John Adams, Prudence, Slavery, United States
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Thought For the Day: Familiarity With Other Countries Teaches Us We May Be Friends
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou, poet (4 … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigotry, Countries, Familiarity, Friendship, Maya Angelou, Similar, Thought For the Day, Travel, Understanding
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Na/GloPoWriMo 3: Comes In Threes
The Day Three challenge is to compose a poem based in some way on a list. Someone suggested things that come in three. Why not? Comes In Threes by Michael Romani Like three books in a triology I read as … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Coins, Comes In Threes, Faith, Haiku, Lady, Na/GloPoWriMo, Neapolitan, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Three Penny Opera, Three Point Landing, Trilogy, Trinity, We, Zen
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Truth In All Ill Repute
Truth In All Ill Repute by Michael Romani Arguments in the guise of truth Set a bad example for our youth The world has tilted off its axis The question left, I have to ask is When we’ve broken this … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arguments, Bad Example, Complexity, Constructs, Cynicism, Gossip, Hope, Hues, Leadership, Moral Relativity, Pessimism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sea Change, Social Contract, Social Distortion, Society, Weaponized Facts
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