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First Principles: Matters of Belief Are Between A Person’s Soul and God
“Religion is ‘twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.” – Judith Sargent Murray
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Tagged Bound, Control, First Principles, God, Judith Sargent Murray, Religion, Sage, Saint, Soul, Thought
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Thought For the Day: Poetry Is A Light By Which We See Life
“In the end, the poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see–and what we see is life.” – Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (24 Apr 1905-1989)
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Tagged Capacity, Life, Light, Mankind, Meaning, Myth, Poem, Robert Penn Warren, See, Thing, Thought For the Day
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Kermode White In Blues
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 23 sets out a challenge to write a poem about an animal or animals: Kermode White In Blues by Michael Romani Two white tigers, not in biology More in a thing of Chinese astrology Set about that day … Continue reading
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Tagged Astrology, Balance, Berry, British Columbia, China, Creator, Douglass Channel, Embrace, Family, First Nation, Fish, Ghost Bear, Greed, Gribbell Island, Habitat, Haunt, Hippopotamus, Home of the White Bear, Human, Imagine, Kermode Bear, Kitasoo, Land of Plenty, Legacy, Loss, Magic, Na/GloPoWriMo, Niche, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Rain Forest, Raven, Tiger, Trickster, Vancouver, Walk, zoo
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Thought For the Day: There Is No Weapon As Formidable As Will and More Courage of A Free People
“No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged Arsenal, Aversaries, Formidable, Free People, Moral Courage, Ronald Regan, Thought For the Day, Weapon, Will, World
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First Principles: Americans Would Rather Die Than Live As Slaves
“The ever memorable 19th of April gave a conclusive answer to the questions of American freedom. What think ye of Congress now? That day. . . evidenced that Americans would rather die than live slaves!” – Mary Katherine Goddard If … Continue reading
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Tagged American Freedom, Answer, April 19, Congress, Die, Evidence, First Principles, Live Slaves, Mary Katherine Goddard, Question
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Hope In Love Becomes A Battlefield
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 22 challenges us to write a poem engaging another art form. For me, it took but a moment to realize I would take on Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture. Many reasons behind this I suppose, but, the largest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymity, Art, Aspiration, Attic, Battlefield, Category, Daddy, Danger, Design, Didone, Divorce, Dream, Dumpster Dive, Encourage, Family Man, Feeling, Happy, Hearts, Homeless, Hope, Little Girls, Live, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Paint by Number, Pattern, Photograph, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Princess, Reason, Robert Indiana, Scattegory, Sculpture, Season, Sing, Soul, Spring, Strong, Success
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Thought For the Day: We Are All Mortal Until the First Kiss and Second Glass of Wine
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.” – Eduardo Galeano
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Tagged Eduardo Galeano, First Kiss, Mortal, Second Glass, Thought For the Day, We, Wine
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First Principles: The Bulk of Mankind Have In Turn Been the Prey of Ambition
“The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.” – Mercy Otis Warren
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Tagged Ambition, Bulk, Countries, First Principles, Mankind, Mercy Otis Warren, Prey, Turn
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Thought For the Day: Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life
“Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?’” —John 11:25-26 … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Die, Happy Easter!, Her, Jesus, John 11:25-26, Life, Live, New Testatment, Resurrection, Risen, Salvation, Thought For the Day
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