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Monthly Archives: August 2018
Long Knife
I watched part of a Western tonight after not having watched one for years. So far two poems from it and over an hour more to go. Isn’t it interesting how there is a poem in just about everything. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged Bleeding Heart, Burn, Cure, Death, Distress, Drink, Felt, Hesitation, Hours, Long Knife, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Storied Life, Think, Western
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Daily Prompt – Engineer
I wish I was an engineer Rolling along year after year I wish I was an engineer Moaning out my living tears Somewhere along that line Between yours and mine There’s a blues train rolling Where we were strolling Seems … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Blues, Coal, Daily Prompt, Engineer, Fear, Line, Refrain, Tears, Today, Track, Train, Yesterday
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First Principles: Allowing Only the Judiciary To Decide What Is Constitutional Leads To Despotism
“[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Better To Be Politically Dead Than Hypocritically Immortalized
“I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.” – Davy Crockett, frontiersman, soldier, and … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Courage, Davy Crockett, Hypocrisy, Independence, Measures, Politcs, Principles, Thought For the Day
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Musical Afterthoughts
Music is a universal language that speaks to each of our souls. In all of my life, I have never someone whose heart cannot be reached through music. I started my study of music via classical music at a very … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alpha, Audience, Chaos, Concert Hall, Fleeting Moments, Heights, Icarus, Imagination, Immediacy, Maestro, Mood, Mozart, Music, Omega, Paradox, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Relevance, Rest, Serenity, Silence, Soul, Symmetry, Universal Language
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Daily Prompt – Lantern
Seated there on our blanket by the waterside We looked up and watch the lanterns glide Holding you close and safe we took this all in As I listened to our love blossom and begin You told me of how … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Anticipation, Blanket, Blend, Blossom, Comedy, Daily Prompt, Dear, Fantasy, Grace, Illumination, Imagination, Lanterns, Light, Love, Magic, Night, Seat, Waterside
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First Principles: Every Sensible Person Chooses Liberty
“No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.” – Alexander Hamilton (1774)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Choice, First Principles, Free, Hesitation, Mankind, Sanity, Slavery
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Thought For the Day: Yours Is the Light By Which My Spirit’s Born
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born. You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – e.e. cummings https://flic.kr/p/29VbZLC
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Tagged Born, e.e. cummings, Light, Me, Moon, Spirit, Stars, Sun, Thought For the Day, Tiggy, You
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The Squishy Sound of Democracy
The suppression of free speech is a leading indicator of fascism not freedom and certainly not the small r republican values our Founding Fathers advocated in their classical liberalism. I for one refuse to bend to tyranny from any camp… … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acceptance, Authoritarian, Bridges, Censorship, Classical Liberalism, Communicate, Conflict, Dangers, Democracy, Disagreeable Voices, Diversity, False Morality, Fascism, Founding Fathers, Free Speech, Freedom, Fundamental, Gaffes, Internet, Margin, Messy, Negotiation, New York Times, Objectivity, Opposition, Perversity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Points of View, Reason, Resolution, Riot, Self Responsibility, Social Control, Society, Strangers, Suppression, Times Square, True, Twitter, Tyranny
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Daily Prompt – Tourist
Out under the summer’s beating sun There are moments of such brilliant fun But none so fun as watching tourists on parade As they pantomime their crazed charade Leaving their footprint traces in the sand While watching lovers hand in … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Bay, Charade, Daily Prompt, Dream, Fade Away, Footprints, Fun, Hand In Hand, Life, Lovers, Moment, Naive, Pantomime, Parade, Sand, Sand Dollar, Sandcastles, Summer, Sun, Sunset, Tourist, Wash, Yesterday
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