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Monthly Archives: June 2019
First Principles: Let Us Trust In God Rather Than Put Confidence In Princes
“To submit and resign their charter would be inconsistent with the main end of their fathers’ coming to New England…. [Although resistance would provoke] great sufferings, [it was] better to suffer than sin. Let them trust in the God of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charter, Confidence, First Principles, God of Their Fathers, Good Cause, Increase Mather, Mankind, New England, Prince, Provoke, Resign, Resist, Sin, Suffer, Trust, Will, Will of God
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Thought For the Day: Out of Love and the Quarrel With Ourselves, We Make Poetry
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” – William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (13 Jun 1865-1939)
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Tagged Others, Ourselves, Poetry, Quarrel, Rhetoric, Thought For the Day, William Butler Yeats
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Woken Facade
There are times and places filled with spaces when you see there is a lot of darkness behind smiling faces…Sometimes in those places, you make mistakes you wish you could take back and cannot. Woken Façade by Michael Romani As … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Belong, Bleed, Charm, Dance, Dante's Inferno, Dark, Deception, Devil, Dream, Everyone, Facade, Fail, Fear, God, Harm, Heartbreak, Heresy, Infinite, Mask, Mercy, Mistake, Myself, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Relent, Repent, Seem, Soul, Task, Trick, Woke, Wrong
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Nick of Time
Continuing in my promise to my oldest daughter, this is a poetic retelling of The Twilight Zone, Season 2, Episode 7): Nick of Time by Michael Romani Traveling somewhere without exact precision On the outskirts of the twilight dimension Where … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Ask, Blessed, Cafe, Coin, Couple, Curious, Devotion, Events, Faith, Gizmo, Hesitate, Honeymoon, Jukebox, Learn, Life, Lunch, Mystic Seer, New York City, Nick, Outskirt, Penny, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Promotion, Question, Slow Dance, Stress, Table, Tale, Talisman, Task, The Twilight Zone, Time, Time to Kill, Travel, Walk, Wife, Worry
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First Principles: Our Liberties Come Not From Some Parchment But From God
“Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but come from the King of Kings and the Lord of all the earth.” – John … Continue reading
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Tagged Charter, Declaration, First Principles, God, John Dickinson, Liberty, Pre-Existing
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Thought For the Day: Focus On Your Ideals and Believe That People Are Good At Heart
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” – Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (12 Jun 1929-1945)
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Tagged Anne Frank, Believe, Good At Heart, Ideals, Keep, People, Spite, Thought For the Day
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On the Importance of Forgiveness
Turns out that forgiving is the healthy thing to do, not just for others, but for yourself as well: On the Importance of Forgiveness by Michael Romani Emotional blockages put us ill at ease And this manifests itself in physical … Continue reading
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Tagged Acid, Anger, Animosity, Blame, Brain, Burdent, Communicate, Confession, Cycle, Disease, Drama, Emotional Blockage, Fire, Forgive, Forgiveness, Fright, Game, Give, God, Heal, Heart, Ill At Ease, Inflammation, Inner Child, Judgment, Learn, Let Go, Letting Go, Live, Mercy, Moment, Path, Pause, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Serenity, Soul, Strain, Stress, Take, Temple, Trauma
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Nuzzle and Nudge
Father’s Day is approaching. Due to lack of funds, I’ve not seen the girls but twice since June 10 of last year. We won’t even really get into the 73 times that the Court ordered telephonic visitation has been interfered … Continue reading
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Tagged Altar, Calvary, Children, Chocolate, Comfort, Cradle, Daughters, Embrace, Fairy Dust, Falter, Father's Day, Fort, God, Humanity, Humility, Imagination, Interstellar Sailor, Love, Moments, Moonbeam, Nudge, Nuzzle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redeem, Sacrifice, Serve, Sincre, Space, Time, Tomorrow, Transform, Vanity
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First Principles: Honor, Justice and Humanity Makes It Our Duty To Pass Liberty On To Our Children’s Children
“Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestors, Call, Children, Duty, First Principles, Honor, Humanity, John Dickinson, Justice, Liberty, Posterity, Transmit, Wealth
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Thought For the Day: Be The First To Apologize, Forgive and Forget and Be the Best
“The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest… True story.” – Anonymous
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Tagged Apologize, Be First, Brave, Forget, Forgive, Happy, Strong, Thought For the Day, True Story
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