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Lessons of Sadie Hawkins
Life in its myriad of dances has it’s meaning sometimes coming in multiples of delusion… Lessons of Sadie Hawkins by Michael Doyle Sock hop memories wake the school Where twists in plot are the rule All of life is filtered … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All of Life, Astray, Attraction, Awake, Bread, Changing Seasons, Common Man, Connection, Costs, Dances, Days, Daze, Derision, Desperation, Directions, Distraction, Dread, Dream, Ease, Effort, Empty Rage, Eyes, Fadeaway, Feel, Filter, Growth, Ideas, Implausible, Impossible, Last, Laughter, Lessons, Life, Life Lived, Life Unfolds, Long Division, Lost Love, Memories, Morbid, Myriad, One By One, Pain, Pass Out, Passing Through, Persevere, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Reason, Roman Circuses, Rule, Sadie Hawkins, Sarcastic, School, Screens, Shake, Sides, Sock Hop, Song Titles, Spent, Spin, Split, Stuff Away, Subject, Symptom, Television, Themes, Time, To Live By, Try, Turn of Page, Turns, Twists In Plot, Wonder
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Winchester I. The Arrival
There is a famous house in California built the widow of the same Winchester who invented the famous rifle of the same name. Winchester I. The Arrival by Michael Doyle The bell tolls in the dark of night While the … Continue reading
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Tagged Always, Arrival, Awakes, Bell, Blood, Blow, Build, California, Cause, Chaos, Cheer, Confusion, Control, Creak and Groan, Cycles, Dark of Night, Death, Desperation, Doctor, Doubt, Drapes, Drip, Endless, Endless Rooms, Escape, Expansion, Falls Into Place, Fear, Fire, Fools, Gloom, Grief, Haunted, Hope, Horror, House, Hundred Rooms, Husband, Illusion, Journey, Last Breath, Life, Man, Mansion, Medium, Mind, Mirror, Mother, Move Past, Nearer, Need, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pointless, Reaches Out, Recall, Reclusive, Regain, Relief, Repeating, Respect, Reveal, Rifle, Rules, Self-Inflicted, Shadow, Son, Soul, Spiritualist, Stagger, Stairs, Suffer, Survey, Take Back Control, Tempest, Time, Tire, Tolls, Too Great A Price, Wall, Whisper, Widow, Winchester, Wind, Window, Wish, Wounded Heart
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Thought For the Day:
“It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” – Noel Coward (1899-1973)
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Tagged Deceit, Discourage, Few, Honesty, Noel Coward, People, Shocked, Think, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: I Hate Deception, Even Where the Imagination Only Is Concerned
“I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.” – George Washington (1779)
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Tagged Concern, Deception, Even, First Principles, George Washington, Hate, Imagination, Where
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Voices Cry
Watched a bit of a show that reminded me of the folks out there who suffer from PTSD. From that I got this: Voices Cry by Michael Doyle The voices crying into the night Its hard to take this light … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Than the Rest, Bleed, Block, Change, Clown, Cry, Dead, Did My Best, Done, Echo, Far Behind, Friends, Hard To Take, Haunt, Head, In the End, Know, Light, Medal, Memory, Mind, My Name, Never Change, Night, No Good, Normal, Normally, Photograph, Pin, Poem, Poetry, PTSD, Said, Sentences, Shame, Some Things, Stranger, Things Went Down, Thought, Tortured, Trouble, Unfinished, Voice
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Living As Ambassadors of Christ
Based in part on 2 Cor 5: 20: Living As Ambassadors of Christ by Michael Doyle Are we out argued in our role As ambassadors who are to extol The virtues of our Christian life To be the peace and … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Corinthians, Ambassadors, Ample, Case, Christ, Christian Life, Commission, Divinity, Embrace, Evidence, Example, Extol, Glory, God, Good, Gospel, Hell, His, Liberty, Living, Lord's Will, Love of God, Made Up Story, Out Argued, Path, Peace, Perish, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preach, Present, Reach, Real, Role, Strife, Teach, Tell, True Born, Truth, Virtues, Yoke
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Thought For the Day: I’ve Got A Right To Say and Believe Anything I Please, But, I Haven’t A Right To Press It On Anybody Else
“I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it’s a limit that’s very seldom mentioned. It’s the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don’t think there are any … Continue reading
First Principles: In A Public Life, A Man Whose Political Principles Have Any Decided Character and…Energy…To Give Them Effect Must Expect Political Hostility
“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.” – Thomas Jefferson … Continue reading
Stuck With the Blahs
Talking to a friend who was feeling in a rut and then the same theme showed up in a song and then a show. From this came two things. First wow.. if you don’t like what you’re doing or how … Continue reading
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Tagged Better, Betwixt and Between, Blah, Change, Day After Day, Despite, Doing My Best, Down In the Dumps, Feeling, Finding Me, Finding Out, Flaw, Friend, Good Cause, Hope, Human Beings, Humanity, Keep It Together, Know, Lumps, Matters, Mean, Meaning, Morning, Muddle, Muddling Through, No One, One Foot Forward, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Promise, Running Away, Rut, Seek, Spinning, Story, STuck, Stuck With the Blahs, Sudden, Talk, Tatters, Test, The Man, Theme, Together, Until Then, Want, Warning, Winning, World
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Thought For the Day: Out of Every Crisis, Every Tribulation, Every Disaster, Mankind Rises With Some Share of Greater Knowledge, of Higher Decency and of Purer Purpose
“Out of every crisis, every tribulation, every disaster, mankind rises with some share of greater knowledge, of higher decency and of purer purpose.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Tagged Crisis, Disaster, Franklin Delano, Greater Knowledge, Higher Decency, Mankind, Out of, Purer Purpose, Rises, Roosevelt, Share, Thought For the Day, Tribulation
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