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Monthly Archives: January 2019
First Principles: Every Effort Should Be Made To Encourage and Exalt the Children To Become Their Best Potential
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Activity, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, First Principles, Grovel, Industry, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Mind
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First Principles: Federal Law Must Be Equitable To All Parts of Our Nation
“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamn Franklin, Error, Favor, First Principles, History, Law, Measure, Policy, Prejudice, Prosecution, Ruin
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Thought For the Day: We Not Only Want To See Beauty But To Become Part of It
“‘We do not want merely to see beauty… we want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bath, Beauty, C.S. Lewis, Part, Pass, Receive, See, Thought For the Day, Unite, We
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Questioning Prayers
From time to time, a soul is shaken into questioning things even convictions firmly held. Questioning Prayers by Michael Romani Questioning prayers Questioning the Divine Caught in emotional snares Laid like cerebral landmines Poems to all its owed To dreams … Continue reading
Ruin and Salvation
Sometimes we find our strengths are our weaknesses and our weaknesses our strength. Who is to say which is which? Only in the blackest points of our lives do we ever really know. Ruin and Salvation by Michael Romani Out … Continue reading
First Principles: Persons In Places of Public Trust Must Be of Immaculate Character
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams (1775)
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Thought For the Day: Commitment Builds Hope; Kept Promises Builds Trust
“When you make a commitment, you build hope. When you keep it, you build trust.” – John C. Maxwell
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Tagged Build, Commitment, Hope, John C Maxwell, Keep, Make, Promise, Thought For the Day, Trust
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Time Awaits A Hero
Joseph Campbell might have something to say on this journey… Time Awaits A Hero by Michael Romani Long before the dawn of written history Mankind has sought to build community Combined with free will, it’s not easy to do this … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Arrival, Community, Connect, Destination, Free Will, God, Hero, History, Human Being, Intention, Joseph Campbell, Journey, Kiss, Mankind, Meaning, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Reflect, Search, Shadow, Survive, Time, Unbroken, Word
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Upside Down Emu Love
Written on a bet that I couldn’t write a poem about emus that also was a love story. The person betting this hadn’t the poem about the goats in love, did they? 😉 Upside Down Emu Love by Michael Romani … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient, Arid, Australia, Breeze, Bushland, Confusion, Delusion, Do, Dream, Emu, Eyes, First Light, Flightless, Love, Love At First Sight, Name, Outback, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Sand, Scratch, Secret, Tree
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First Principles: To Preserve Liberty, It Is Necessary That People Keep Arms and Are Trained In Using These
“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-republican, Arms, Essential, Federal Farmer, First Principles, Guard, Liberty, Possess, Preserve, Richard Henry Lee, Select Militia, The People, Trained
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 