Monthly Archives: April 2018

Na/GloPoWriMo 11: Solo Deo Gloria

The Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 challenge is a nebulous subject of what might my state of the union be about my life in the future.  I live a lot in the moment.  I suppose that I nearly always have.  This is … Continue reading

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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Froth

Sometimes life feels like the flared froth of the longest wave Like I’m living in chaos, spinning round and round to my grave Caught up in the bubbled surface of simply too much turbulence Believing myself lost within the newest, … Continue reading

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A Light For the Nations

Based on Isaiah 42:6-8 A Light For the Nations by Michael Romani Words in the right places Together in intended phrases To say just what they mean To seen as meant to be seen With all the glory given Our ways … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: You Have All the Time You Need Until the Day You Die

“I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die.” – William Wiley, artist (b. 1937)          

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First Principles: National Morality Cannot Prevail When Belief Is Excluded

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality … Continue reading

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Na/GloPoWriMo 10: Freedom of Thought

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 10.. a third of the way through.  The challenge to throw down two opposing thoughts simultaneously going on at the same time. I went to a Short Form Poetry Workshop featuring someone’s made up form called a “Street … Continue reading

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Na/GloPoWriMo 9: In the Big of the Small

The Na/GloPoWriMo Day 9 poetry challenge, the goal is to write a poem that either joins the big with the small or the small with the big.  I propose to do both using the bringing of comic books to the … Continue reading

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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Luminescence

Childhood walks in the deepness that we lived in Kept us living present in a peacefulness like Zen Luminescence peered down through the leaves Seemingly wafted along on the chill of the breeze In these secret gardens in which we … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Life Memories Are Built On the Small Details

“It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.” – Barbara Kingsolver, novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 8 Apr 1955)        

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First Principles: Self Defense Is A Natural Right

“Self-defence is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.” – John Locke (1632-1704)          

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