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War Changes A Man
While paying attention to something else, I started to think on PTSD. War Changes A Man by Michael Doyle It came on without any warning Half past two in the morning And suddenly, it was show time Landing hard like … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Backfire, Best, Booby Traps, Boys, Came On, Can, Change, Crawling, Door, Emotional Crime, Face Down, Facedown, Ghosts, Ground, Hip Deep, Home, Hug, Landing Hard, Left Behind, Loud Noise, Loud Sound, Made It Out, Man, Mind, Morning, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Show Time, Struggle, Times, Trip Wires, Visit, War, War Changes A Man, Warning
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Thought For the Day: Your Value Doesn’t Decrease Based On Someone’s Inability To See Your Worth
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown
First Principles: If Individuals Be Not Influenced By Moral Principles; It Is In Vain To Look For Public Virtue
“If individuals be not influenced by moral principles; it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Distributive Justice, Duty, Enforce, Example, First Principles, Indviduals, Influence, James Madison, Legislature, Look, Moral Principles, Necessity, Precept, Public Virtue, Rules, Utility, Vain
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The Moral Imagination
It is not enough to give to our children and our society definitions of right and wrong or normless stories and books leading to an inability to make the profound decisions needed for the better world we so desperately need. … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Accountability, Act, Action, Address, Bad, Banality, Best Selves, Better Path, Better World, Blame, Blur, Books, Build, Capable, Capacity, Character, Childhood, Children, Churn, Clean Cut, Commanding, Could Be, Cultivation, Deeper Truth, Defeat, Depart, Desire To Do, Difference, Earn, Education, Embrace, Emulation, Encourage, Experience, Explanation, Fascination, Form Habits, Game, Go, Good Morals, Grown, Hate, Head, Heart, Heavy Hand, Heroes, High Ideals, Home, Humanity, Ideal, Illustration, Imagination, Important, Ingrain, Innate, Just Quality, Know, Laws, Learn, Learning, Light, Love, Manner, Me and You, Mind, Moral, Moral Components, Morality, Nation, Need, Nice, Nobility, Not Enough, Obligation, Older, Onward, Open Eyes, Parents, Passing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Poverty, Reach, Read, Reliable, Require, Richness, Right, Rules, Shelves, Should Be, Shown, Social Good, Society, Soul, Stir, Surface, Systematically, Tales, Taught, Teach, Teachers, Tending the Heart, The Rub, Train Up, Turn, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfed, Upright, Vice, View, Virtue, Virtuous Character, Vision, Wardrobe of Images, Ways, Worth Holding On To
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Thought For the Day: Open Discussion of Many Major Public Questions Has For Some Time Now Been Taboo
“Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so … Continue reading
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Tagged Denounced, Designate, Fascist, Imperialist, Major Public Questions, Media, Misogynist, Open, Open Discussion, Racist, Saul Bellow, Supremacist, Taboo, Thought For the Day, Trash
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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Canker, Constitution, Degenarcy, Eat, First Prinicples, Heart, Laws, manners, People, Preserve, Republic, Spirit, Thomas Jefferson
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Wildness Into View
Another in the series on photography. This one focuses on capturing animals and plants. There is so much to see in this fascinating world of ours. Wildness Into View by Michael Doyle Staying hidden in order to see Is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Aperture Priority, Balance, Best Lesson, Best Photos, Better, Build, Capture, Close, Connection, Conservancy, Day, Embrace, Expression, Fauna, Flora, Flow, Flower, Freeze, Gratification, Habitat, Hidden, Hike, History, Impression, Improve the Odds, Intimacy, Lenses, Light, Macro, Memory, Natural, Opportunity, Patience, Patience and Time, Pay, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Preplanned, Radio Control, Rare and Few, Reception, Repeated Access, Research, Richness, Right Opportunity, Satisfaction, See, Serenity, Shallow Depth of Field, Shape, Sharp, Shutter Speed, Subject, Trick, Trigger, View, Weather, Wildlife Photography, Wildness, Work Around, zoo
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Thought For the Day: Stab the Body and It Heals, But Injure the Heart and the Wound Lasts A Lifetime
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” – Mineko Iwasaki
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Tagged Body, Heal, Heart, Injure, Lasts, Lifetime, Mineko Iwasaki, Stab, Thought For the Day, Wound
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Dictate, Evidence, Facts, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Passion, State of Facts, Stubborn, Wishes
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 