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Monthly Archives: October 2020
God Revealed In the Smallest Details
God Revealed In the Smallest Detailsby Michael DoyleThe eyes might be the windows of the soulBut it’s the little things that elude controlWhere through the lenses of macrophotographyWe become consumed with our use of technologyIt all opens up a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Autofocus, Background, Best Friend, Best Hour, Color, Composition, Consume, Created, Deep, Definition, Details, Elude Control, Embrace, Enhance, Extraordinary, Eyes, Face, Flower, Found, Friend, Gaze, God, Heartbreaks, Hint, Lense, Light, Little Things, Macrophotography, Masterpiece, Mistakes, New World, Ordinary, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Simple, Small, Soft, Soul, Tale, Tear, Technology, The Greatest Artist, Three Dimensions, Trace, True, View, Windows
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First Principles: No Subject Shall Be Restrained…For Worshipping God In the Manner Most Agreeable To the Dictates of His Own Conscience
“It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agreeable, Conscience, Dictates, First Principles, God, John Adams, Manner, No Subject, Own, Restrained, Thoughts On Government, Worship
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Thought For the Day: Life Is Mostly Froth and Bubble, Two Things Stand Like Stone, Kindness In Another’s Trouble, Courage In Your Own
“Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another’s trouble, / Courage in your own.” -Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870)
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Tagged Adam Lindsay Gordon, Another's Trouble, Bubble, Courage, Froth, Kindness, Life, Mostly, Stand Like Stone, Thought For the Day, Two Things, Your Own
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Story Book Connection
Story Book Connectionby Michael DoyleWe met in a moment of quiet conversationOur talking led to smiles without hesitationAnd with every further touch I now findYou are the one that will never be left behindTo me there never really was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Beauty, Born, Busy, Child, Connection, Dream, Feeling, Feelings, God, Guitar, Happiness, Heart, Heitation, Hesitation, Joy, Magic, Met, Never Left Behind, Photogrpah, Poem, Poetry, Question, Quiet Conversation, Reveal, Sharing, Show, Smiles, Song, Story Book, Talking, The one, Time, Today, Token of My Affection, Tomorrow, Touch, Touching You, True Loe, Twice, Week, Your Heart
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First Principles: Natural Liberty Is A Gift of the Beneficent Creator To the Whole Human Race
“The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms and false reasonings is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, All Errors, Civil Liberty, Creator, Entitled, False Reasonings, First Principles, Fundamental Source, Gift, Justice, Manifest, Mankind, Natural Rights, Nature, Parity of Privileges, People, Sophisms, Total Ignorance, Violation, Whole Human Race, Wrest
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Thought For the Day: What I Like In A Good Author Isn’t What He Says, But What He Whispers
“What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers.” -Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (18 Oct 1865-1946)
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Tagged Author, Good, Logan Pearsall Smith, Says, Thought For the Day, Whispers
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The Chicago Seven and Liberty
The Chicago Seven and Libertyby Michael DoyleThe American soul was in desperate measurePoisoned and depleted of blood and lost treasureFor the sake of a war that people didn’t understandOur republic’s principles died for in a foreign landThe Vietnam draft and … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American Pride, American Soul, Audience, Blood, Bobby Seale, Breakdown, Brew, Certainty, Chicago Seven, Chicken Foot, Content, Crossing the Line, Damage, Dead, Democratic Convention, Depleted, Desperate Measure, Determine, Die, Done, Draft, Dream, Enormously, Fateful Day, First Amendment, Foreign Land, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech and Thought, Grown Up Values, Heart, Ill Intent, Incite, Irate, Issue, Land of Liberty, Lawless, Liberty, Life, Little Doubt, Little To Be Won, Martin Luther King Jr., Matters, Minds, National Security, Non-Coformity, Overnight Bag, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Poisoned, Police State, Pressure Cooker, Principles, Protest, Question, Rebels, Relent, Relevance, Restless Mind, Rise, Say, Serious, Significant, Society, Some Times, Stage, State Lines, Steeple, Storm, Strife, Stupor, Temperature, The American People, The Left, Threat, Treasure, Truth, Truth On Both Sides, Unambiguous, Understand, Vietnam, Violence, Voice, War, Watch, Wonder, World
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Thought For the Day: Success Is No Accident. It is Hard Work, Perseverance, Learning, Studying, Sacrifice and Most of All, Love of What You Are Doing Or Learning To Do
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
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Tagged Doing, Hard Work, Learn, Learning To Do, Love, No Accident, Pele, Perseverance, Sacrifice, Study, Success, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, and Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Capacity, Care, Children, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, Excel, First Principles, Grovel and Creep, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Minds
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The Twinkle In Your Eyes
The Twinkle In Your Eyesby Michael DoyleLooking into the twinkle in your eyesTruth is told simply without any alibisI love the way you hold me close at nightAnd even closer with the morning’s lightTwo hearts learning to beat as our … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat, Chance, Deeper Relationship, Easy, Eyes, God, Hear, Hold Me Close, Hypnotized, Lifetime Spent, Look, Love, Love Songs, Loving Example, Melt, Moments, Morning Light, Near, Night, One, Passing Sun, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Simple, Sing, Sweet, Tender, Trance, Truth, Twinkle, Two Hearts, You Laugh, Your Eyes, Your Heart
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