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Monthly Archives: August 2019
Angel Falls (Recalls)
There’s a lot of power in the water that flows on this planet of ours. Like the sun .. but a lot cooler.. it is a bringer of both life and destruction…. Angel Falls (Recalls) by Michael Romani Angel Falls … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel Falls, Backbone, Beauty, Chemistry, Complexity, Consistent, Crumble, Cycle, Death, Destruction, Earth, Echo, Electric, Energy, Ethereal, Flow, Force, Found, Fright, Heat, Hour, Hydrothermal, Island, Kinetic, Ledge, Life, Lightning, Loop, Mystery, Newborn, Ocean, Organic, Peak, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Power, Primordial, Rock, Sky, Soul, Soup, Stardust, Storm, Strife, Sun, Surge, Synergy, System, Warm, Water
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First Principles: United We Stand, Divided We Fall
“United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.” – Patrick Henry
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Tagged Destroy, Divided, Factions, Fall, First Principles, Patrick Henry, Split, Stand, Union, United
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Thought For the Day: Faith Is to Believe What Do Not See
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” – Saint Augustine
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Tagged Believe, Faith, Reward, See, St Augustine, Thought For the Day
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Between Heaven and Earth
A whisper of a prayer… Between Heaven and Earth by Michael Romani Between Heaven and Earth There is a gate Between light and dark There falls a shadow Between faith and sin A whisper speaks a prayer My deepest confession … Continue reading
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Tagged Between, Birth, Confession, Dark, Death, Earth, Faith, Fall, Gate, God, Happiness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven, I, Know, Lie, Life, Light, Live, Love, Miracle, Mistake, My, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Remorse, Right, Self, Shadow, Sin, Sorrow, Strength, Weakness, Whisper, Wrong
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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Ambition, Dependence, Design, First Principles, Germ, Prepare, Subservience, Suffocate, Thomas Jefferson, Tool, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Deception Men Suffer Is From Their Own Opinions
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” – Leonardo da Vinci
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Tagged Deception, Great, Leonardo da Vinci, Mankind, Opinions, Own, Suffer, Thought For the Day
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What Is Art?
I was sitting on a swing in a virtual world and thinking on how beautiful the build was that had been designed to evoke and memorialize my dead family members and close friends who had died before their time and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ars, Art, Axiology, Balance, Beauty, Build, Circumstance, Comfort, Concept, Craft, Define, Deny, Determination, Dread, Dream, Effort, Era, Escape, Evidence, Evoke, Expression, Eyes, Fail, Fear, Form, Formal Quality, Hang, Harmony, Heart, Hue, Imiate, Know, Meaning, Memorial, Mimesis, Mind, Organic, Origin, Originality, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Rendition, Representation, Response, Rhythm, Show, Skill, Soul, Spill, Truth, Ugly, Unity, Value, Views, Virtual, Wall, Way, World
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Thought For the Day: Weak People Seek Revenge; the Strong Forgive; the Intelligent Ignore
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.” – Albert Einstein
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First Principles: It Is the Influence of Christianity That Has Brought Civil Freedom and Social Happiness Which Mankind Enjoys
“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys…. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Christianity, Civil Freedom, Fall, First Principles, Flow, Government, Happiness, Influence, Jedidiah Morse, Kind, Mankind, Overthrown, Pillars, Republican
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