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Monthly Archives: April 2018
WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Rivulet
There are moments in life never meant to forget Like the moments spent out on peaceful rivulets Like the time I saw the swans in a family way The smiles that brought really made my day They say swans mate … Continue reading
WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Cur
This is to the cur Who lives like a blur Given up in love As messenger from above Always one of a kind Always unique in mind Flexible to adjust Always certain to trust Up to the competition Accepting of … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Blur, Competitive, Cur, Daily Prompt, Flexible, Healthy, Love, Unique, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Work Is the Greatest Pancea
“The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic — in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea — known to medical science is work.” – Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (15 Apr 1920-2012) … Continue reading
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Tagged Greatest, Medical Science, Panacea, Stimulant, Thomas Szasz, Thought For the Day, Tranquilzer, Work
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First Principles: The Most Important Role of the Executive Is to Preserve, Protect and Defend the Constitution
“The duty imposed upon him to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will ‘preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.’ The great object of the executive department … Continue reading
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Tagged Defend, Duty, Executive, Faithful, First Principles, Governance, Joseph Story, Oath of Office, Preserve, Protect
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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 26: Fisherman’s Wharf
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 26 challenge is to write a poem “that includes images that engage all five senses. Try to be as concrete and exact as possible with the “feel” of what the poem invites the reader to see, smell, touch, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alcatrazz, Chocolate, Cioppino, Death, Ferry, Fisherman's Wharf, Hyde Street, Love, Memories, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Pier 39, Poem, Poetry, San Francisco, Sausalito, Sea Food, Sea Lions
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Notable
There’s a rumor that it’s notable And perhaps even noticeable That fame comes to those who strive And not often to those who are merely alive There remains just one thing you see How to be famous and yet keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Prompt, Dignity, Fame, Gratitude, Humility, Notable, Perspective, Platitude, Potable, Rumor, Strive, Wordpress
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First Principles: Guard Against the Impostures of False Patriotism
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged Against, False, Farewell Address, First Principles, George Washington, Guard, Imposture, Patriotism
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Thought For the Day: The Truest Beauty of A Woman Shines From the Inside Out
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797)
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Tagged Adornment, Beauty, Body, Freedom, Gilt Cage, Infancy, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mind, Prison, Soul, Taught, Teach, Thought For the Day, Women
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Thought For the Day: Words Are Skins of Living Thoughts Subject To Change
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.” – Oliver Wendell … Continue reading
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Tagged Circumstances, Living Thought, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, Skin, Thought For the Day, Time, Transparent, Unchanged, Usage, Vary, Word
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First Principles: All Laws Must Have The Right of Reciprocation
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” – Thomas Jefferson (1782) … Continue reading
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Tagged Arbitrary, Conscience, First Principles, Force, Fundamental, Law, Reciprocation of Right, Rules of Conduct, Thomas Jefferson
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