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Monthly Archives: December 2021
Have A Happy and Blessed Christmas Eve 2021!!
We have all made it through another year of challenges and loss. Time to take a deep breath and rejoice in this! Also, this should be a time of contemplation and gratitude for the much that we have despite these … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Goodness Is the Only Investment That Never Fails
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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First Principles: The Virgin Will Be With Child and Will Give Birth To A Son, and They Will Call Him Immanuel – Which Means, “God With Us”
“The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” — which means, “God with us.”– Matthew 1:23 (New International Version)
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First Principles: Experience Is the Oracle of Truth; and Where Its Responses Are Unequivocal, They Ought To Be Conclusive and Sacred
“Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.” – Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (1787)
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Thought For the Day: I Look To the Future Because That’s Where I’m Going To Spend the Rest of My Life
“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.” – George Burns
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Self Awareness Penned In Resurrection
Self Awareness Penned In Resurrectionby Michael DoyleA dull cubicle’s existence jabsLeaving the feel of bruising hopelessnessPondering the future’s uncertaintyLife’s lemons squeezed with a twist of darknessIt’s an endlessly looped sense of stuckTrapped inside a mental simulationWith crushing inertia’s dominant luckSetting … Continue reading
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Tagged Adoration, Backward, Bliss, Charm, Chemistry, Clickbait, Corporate World, Creativitiy, Cubicle, Cynicism, Darnkness, Disarm, Distraction, Emotional Hooks, Exhaustion, Existence, Foundation, Free Agency, Hoplessness, Inertia, Intense, Introspection, Legacy, Looped, Lore, Mental Simulation, Millennials, Pen, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Pretenses, Provocative, Reboot Culture, Resurrection, Savagery, Self Awareness, Sentimental, Slate, Stain, Stake, Torment, Treadmill, True Affection, Uncertainty, Unending Din
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Thought For the Day: For My Part I Know Nothing With Any Certainty, But the Sight of the Stars Makes Me Dream
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
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First Principles: The Tree of Liberty Must Be Refreshed From Time To Time With the Blood of Patriots and Tyrants
“The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” – Thomas Jefferson
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What About Joseph?
What About Joseph?by Michael DoyleFollowing the Lord God means obedienceBut when push comes to shove, she grew in diligenceWhile Joseph played out his part unsungHolding his head upright and not hungTrusting in God even when it was hardWilling to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Audience, Empathy, Faith, Follow, Glory, Holy, Joseph, Journey, Light, Lord God, Love, Mary, Mother of God, Night, Obedience, Old Testament Law, Poetry and Poems, Question, Righteous, Son, Stoned To Death, Test, Trust, Truth, Unsung, Upright
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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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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 