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Monthly Archives: August 2019
Bond of Carbon
There in the center of all life is that bit of stardust that we know as carbon. From it all that is considered organic is formed. Bond of Carbon by Michael Romani Carbon ash returns to source By cremation turns … Continue reading
First Principles: Our Motives To Act In Life Should Be the Relief of the Distressed; the Detection of Frauds; the Defeat of Oppression; and the Diffusion of Happiness
“Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Defeat, Detect, Disfuse, Distressed, First Principles, Fraud, Happiness, Life, Motive, Nathanael Greene, Oppression, Relief
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Thought For the Day: I’d Rather See A Sermon Than To Hear One Any Day
“I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.” – Edgar Guest, poet (20 Aug 1881-1959)
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Tagged Any Day, Edgar Guest, Hear, Rather, See, Sermon, Tell, The Way, Thought For the Day, Walk
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Like Brothers
The things done in the military grows most men’s units in whatever force into something like family. Most of us ended fighting for our brothers and sisters more than ideals or nations. Some of us carry the memories of our … Continue reading
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Tagged Back, Battles, Beer, Brothers, Caution, Count On, Crime, Danger, Day, Distance, Do It, Done, Doubt, Fallen, Family, Fight, Forever Faithful, Friend, Giving up, God, Head, Joke, Laugh, Live, Longer, Memory, Miles, Military, Mother, Movie, My Time, Need, Nothing to Say, Odds, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Push Past, Race, Remember, Resistance, Ring, Semper Fi, Sigh, Sisters, Smile, Sonds, Stronger, Tears, Toss, Twin, Weight, Years
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Thought For the Day: If You Live To Be A Hundred, I Want To Live To Be A Hundred Minus One Day
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne
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Tagged A.A. Milne, Hundred, Hundred Minus One, I, If, Live, Never, Thought For the Day, You
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First Principles: When the Government Violates the People’s Rights, Insurrection Is the Most Sacred of Rights and Most Indispensable of Duties
“When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.” – Marquis de Lafayette
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Tagged Duty, First Principles, Government, Indispensable, Insurrection, Marquis de Lafayette, Rights, Sacred, The People, Violate
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Ten Generations Lesson
This poem is based in part on Genesis 6:5-14 and the lessons derived from the life of Noah and the ten generation curse that walked us from the Garden of Eden to the great flood. Ten Generations Lesson by Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged Blame, Flood, Garden of Eden, Generations, Genesis, Journey, Lesson, Poem, Poetry
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First Principles: Virtue, Morality and Religion Are the Armor That Renders Us Invincible
“. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so … Continue reading
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Tagged Armor, Conquer, Danger, First Principles, Invincible, Lose, manners, Morality, Patrick Henry, Principles, Religion, Sound, Study, Tactics, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: Where There is Hatred, Let Me Sow Love
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” – Francis of Assisi
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Further Reaches
There’s magic in the stardust that goes beyond the physical world we live in. This is a bit half inspired by a tale of two worlds and of course blended with thoughts about my recent past… Further Reaches by Michael … Continue reading
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