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Monthly Archives: May 2020
Specter of A Well Aimed Gun
Between the chase scenes, I believe science fiction grapples on some of humanity’s biggest questions. Do you? Specter of A Well Aimed Gun by Michael Doyle Specters of a gun take aim Innocent of the perceptions slain Fooled by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Analogy, Analysis, Big Questions, Convention, Dare, Deception, Deduction, Dream, Electric Dream, Essential, Exact, Fact, Fantasy, Fiction, Fool, Glasses, Grapple, Gun, Hesitation, Humanity, Inception, Influence, Innocent, Interplay, Inventions, Lift, Operation, Paralysis, Perception, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Reach Out, Scene, Science, Science Fiction, Seen, Shake Down, Slay, Specter, Thought, Translate, Veils, World
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Rites of Passage
What might it be to see the rites of passage for a Viking daring to reach west not east and in so doing changes perceptions of possibility? Rites of Passage by Michael Doyle As odd as it may seem You … Continue reading
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Tagged Born, Confess, Dead Thigns, Depth, Die, Doorframe, Dragon Ships, Dreams, East, Edge, Eye, Family, Fight, Flavor, Give, Guard, Had, Knowledge, Life, Man, Mistress, Northern Lights, Odd, Odin, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Quest, Right, Rites, Sad, Satisfied, Sea, Seem, Seen, Seldom, Sight, Test, Tried, True, Viking, West, Worry, You
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Thought For the Day: The Difference Between the Impossible and the Possible Lies In A Person’s Determination
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
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Tagged Between, Determination, Difference, Impossible, Person, Possible, Thought For the Day, Tommy Lasorda
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First Principles: Having Lived Long, I Have Many Instances of Being Obligated…To Change My Opinions… I Thought Right But Found To Be Otherwise
“Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obligated, by better information or fuller consideration, to change my opinions even on important subjects, which I thought right but found to be otherwise.” – Benjamin Franklin, Speech on Sept. … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Better Information, Change, Experience, First Principles, Found, Fuller Consideration, Important, Instances, Lived, Long, Obligate, Opinions, Otherwise, Right, Subjects, Thought
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In Belated Honor of Armed Forces Day 2020!!
As a Veteran, it is just shameful that I missed posting something to honor our Armed Forces Day 2020 on May 16th (this past Saturday). My apologies to all active duty, reserve, retired and everyone who served. Aloha … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Duty, Aloha Promises Forever, Armed Forces Day, Free, Freedom, Gratitude, May 16 2020, Nation, Reserves, Retired, Salute, Thank you, Thought For the Day, Veteran
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Dancing Cheek To Cheek
Thinking on the Prohibition, flappers, gangsters and murder as she wrote… Dancing Cheek To Cheek by Michael Doyle Dancing cheek to cozy cheek Might bring us to ruin Libertine as it is It might lead to our undoing The habits … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Begin, Brave, Breath, Cheek To Cheek, Confess, Control, Cozy, Crime, Daddy, Dance, Darkness, Death, Deceptive, Escalation, Explain, Fear, Fiction, First Light, First Warning, Flapper, Gangster, Habit, Him, Home, Implore, Inhalation, Lead, Libertine, Mess, Murder, Partnership, Perfect, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Prohibition, Race, Real, Reveal, Roll, Ruin, Sad, Safe, See, She, Somewhere, Soul, Sublime, Time, Understand, Undoing, Volatile, Wrote
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Blowing Down the Walls
Based in part on 2 Corinthians 2:14-16: Blowing Down the Walls by Michael Doyle Blown away by righteousness and grace Profound joy takes down all my walls Mercy has taken me to this place I have found my peace in … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Authority, Badness, Blessed, Blow, Blown Away, Call, Child, Christ, Climb, Corinthians, Crush, Days, Depth, Earnest, Embrace, Exaltation, Extol, Fall, Fool, God, God's Ways, Golden Rule, Good, Grace, Grief, Head, Heart, His, Hunger, Influence, Invitation, Jericho, Joy, Knees, Life, Live, Longing, Mercy, Others, Peace, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Praise, Pray, Prayer, Presence, Relief, Reverence, Righteousness, Seek, Shout, Silence, Skin, Soul, Sovereignty, Squalls, Stand, Steps, Surrender, Tree, Turn, Understood, Walls
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Thought For the Day: Love Looks Not With the Eyes, but With the Mind, and Therefore Is Winged Cupid Painted Blind
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare
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Tagged Blind, Cupid, Eyes, Look, Love, Mind, Paint, Thought For the Day, William Shakespeare, Winged
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First Principles: State Governments Retain All Rights of Sovereignty Before Had and Not Exclusively Delegated To the United States
“But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to … Continue reading
Reconciled In My Forgiveness
Based in part on 2 Cor 5:17-21 : Reconciled In My Forgiveness by Michael Doyle Stepping off the heavenly throne For the sake of humanity’s own We are bought and covered in our sin Thankful that we are saved again … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Corinthians, Bought, Comfort, Console, Convict, Cover, Depth, Deserve, Fear, Forgiveness, Glory, Heaven, His, Holy, Humanity, Love, Part, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praisee, Reconcile, Sake, Save, Serve, Shadow, Sin, Soul, Step, Story, Submission, Thankful, Throne, Word
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 