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Monthly Archives: July 2018
First Principles: Freedom Is More Usually Taken Through Gradual and Silent Encroachments
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” – James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788 … Continue reading
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Tagged Abridgment, Encroachments, First Principles, Freedom, Gradualism, James Madison, People, Power, Silence, Usurpations
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Thought For the Day: Carve Your Name On Hearts, Not A Marbled Tombstone
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you will remember. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” – Charles Spurgeon
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Tagged Carve, Character, Charles Spurgeon, Hearts, Marble, Memories, Missed, Thought For the Day, Tombstone
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Four Verses For My Tulip
One day, she was just there and suddenly the world made sense.. https://flic.kr/p/27PCDVs Four Verses For My Tulip by Michael Romani Four verses of six lines each Still in search of your chorus I feel it when you’re in my … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Tale of Global Socialism Is One of Ruination
“The young Democrats swooning for Sanders appear unfamiliar with socialism’s century-long career, a dismal tale of ruination from Russia to Cuba to Venezuela. Indeed, are they even aware that China’s greatest reduction in poverty in human history correlates precisely with … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, China, Cuba, Democrats, Destruction, Distrust, Economic, Populism, Power, Recovery, Ruination, Russia, Socialism, Thought For the Day, Venezuela, Will
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First Principles: There Is A Direct Correlation Between Doing Good and Receiving Good
“[T]here exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantage, Duty, Economy, Felicity, First Principles, George Washington, Happiness, Honest, Maxim, Nature, Policy, Prosperity, Public, Reward, Union, Virtue
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Daily Prompt – Copper
Nothing can tarnish the mountains of copper canyon Except, perhaps, their memory if we abandon The beauty of this bronze mineral so malleable Flexed to the point we were no long able Thin stacks of this stamped into the pennies … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Blood, Bronze, Canyon, Copper, Daily Prompt, Desert, Eco-Friendly, Empire, Flex, Gold and Silver, History, Memory, Microcosm, Rivers, Sierra Madre Occidental, Tarnish
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Thought For the Day: Evil Is Powerless If the Good Are Unafraid
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged Conscience, Evil, Good, Powerless, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Unafraid
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First Principles: A Law Must Have Universal Operation On All Members of A Community To Preserve Liberty
“Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.” – Benjamin Rush (1788) … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Rush, Certain, Community, First Principles, Law, Liberty, Society, Universal
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Ever Increasing Faith
I’ve never really been one for a name and claim it sort of faith. But, I did listen to part of a sermon today that has at its core some good thoughts to share. So.. I am… Ever Increasing Faith … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abundance, Baby Steps, Exercize, Faith, Gratitude, Humility, Infinity, Jesus, Measure, Milky Way, Modest, Name It and Claim It, Needs, Our Father, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, the Word, Treasure, Visualization
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Daily Prompt – Tear
Sometimes marveling at the sheer inhumanity Trembling in fear from the fierce intensity Of things we humans do to each other Things so wrong, instead of loving one another Trapped in a tear of our making It leaves me petrified … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Prompt, Fierce, Golden Rule, Human, Inhumanity, Intensity, Love, Make, Peace, Prayers, Soul Shaking, Tear, Trapped, Trials, Wrongs
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 