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Monthly Archives: December 2019
First Principles: Do Not Squander Time, For That Is the Stuff Life Is Made Of
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Thought For the Day: New Year Resolutions Allow Us To Affectively Start Fresh
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a … Continue reading
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Tagged Effective, Fresh, Gilber K Chesterson, New Ears, New Eyes, New Soul, New Year, Object, Resolution, Thought For the Day
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Shelf Life
Today Is National Fruit Cake Day!! (run….) Shelf Life by Michael Romani Raise a glass of eggnog in good cheer Blessed by this holiday time of year But what do we do about this one gift One that creates sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, Bless, Brandy, Cheer, Christmas Time, Crime, Cup, Fill, Food, Fruit, Gift, Grandma, Guilty Pleasure, Holiday, Improve, Mayhem, National Fruit Cake Day, Nuts, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poke, Pretend, Regret, Reject, Revile, Rib, Rift, Roman, Rubber, Sages, Sculpture, Sentence, Shelf Life, Shudder, Sight, Smile, Sweet, Taste, Treasure, Treat, Unique, Waste
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Thought For the Day: Year’s End Is Neither End Nor Beginning But A Going On With All the Wisdom Experience Can Instill In Us
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” – Hal Borland
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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, Pepare, Subservience, Suffocate, Thomas Jefferson, Tools, Venality, Virtue
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The Hunting of the Wren
Around the world there are nations that share a thread of British heritage. From this heritage, these nations still keep some semblance of International Boxing Day. This day itself is preceded by the earlier tradition of the Hunting of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Bird, Caged, Charity, Children, Christmastide, Duty, Enchantress, Gather, Glory, Heaven, Holy Days, Hunting of the Wren, International Boxing Day, Lord, Mummers Play, Mysterry, Octave, Penny, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Revelry, Sacred, Salvation, Sing, Trick, Tuppence, Wisdom, Wren, Wrenboys
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Thought For the Day: The Three Constants of Life Are Change, Choice and Principles
“There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.” – Stephen Covey The new year is swiftly approaching. As is my practice, from my birthday on 12/23 forward, I look back over my past year and years and then determine … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Moral Principles and Precepts Contained In the Scripture Ought To Form the Basis of All Our Civil Constitutions and Laws
“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.” – Noah Webster
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In The Fullness of Time
A poem for this, the day celebrated as symbolizing Christ’s birth. Merry Christmas! Christmas… Christ Mass… A mass for Christ. Then then does that or might it actually mean? Is it really only about the birth of Christ? Or, … Continue reading
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Please Have A Merry and Blessed Christmas 2019
To all my friends, family and even enemies, especially enemies, may you have the happiest and most blessed Christmas ever in reflection of the many gifts our heavenly Father has given to each and every one of us. May we … Continue reading
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