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Happy Halloween 2023
Happy Halloween 2023by Michael DoylePumpkin, ghosts, and black catsCoffins, ghouls, and witches hatsIt’s a dizzying juxtapositionOf death in a freeform composition Each holiday has its own marked placeThat helps society’s children embraceThe traces of life that we all knowThat shift … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Black Cats, Children, Coffins, Composition, Death, Dormancy, Embrace, Fall, Fear, Freeform, Frivolity, Ghost, Ghouls, Grow, Halloween, Happiness, Happy Halloween 2023, Holiday, Horror Tales, Juxtaposition, Know, Laughter, Life, Magic, Marked Place, Mean, Memento Mori, Mortality, Movies, Nonsensical, Pieces, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkins, Reminder, Saint, Scare, Scares, Scattered, Shift, Smile, Society, Soul, Stitches, Teach, Trace, Whimsical, Winter, Wish, Witches, Witches Hats
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First Principles: If We Can Prevent the Government From Wasting the Labors of the People, Under the Pretence of Taking Care of Them, They Must Become Happy
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” – Thomas Jefferson (1802)
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Tagged Care, First Principles, Government, Happy, Labor, Pretense, Prevent, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Waste
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Thought For the Day: There Are Three Things I’ve Learned Never To Discuss With People: Religion, Politics, and the Great Pumpkin
“There are three things I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” – Linus, in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
First Principles: There Must Be Associations of Men of Unshaken Fortitude. A General Dissolution of Principles & Manners Will More Surely Overthrow the Liberties of America Than the Whole Force of the Common Enemy
“…(T)here must be Associations of Men of unshaken Fortitude. A general Dissolution of Principles & Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole Force of the Common Enemy.” – Samuel Adams, in a letter to James Warren, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Association, Common Enemy, Dissolution, First Principles, Fortitude, James Warren, Liberties, manners, Men, Overthrow, Principles, Samuel Adams, Whole Force
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Thought For the Day: The Only Thing One Can Give An Artist Is Leisure In Which To Work. To Give An Artist Leisure Is Actually To Take Part In His Creation
“The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.” – Ezra Pound, poet (30 Oct 1885-1972)
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Tagged Artist, Creation, Ezra Pound, Leisure, Take Part, Thought For the Day
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In the Shoes of Humanity
In the Shoes of Humanityby Michael DoyleToo many are missing the vocabularyNecessary for living well in God’s familyThese things should be known and taughtFor God’s messages to be truly caughtThe time to win a fight is before it startsSetting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caught, Contemplation, Gentle Correction, God's Family, Heal, Humanity, Laws of Christ, Mindful, Poetry and Poems, Restore, Right Intention, Shoes, Soul Revealing, Taught, Vocabulary, Win
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Thought For the Day: In A Series of Acts of Kindness There Is, At Last, One Which Makes the Heart Run Over
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts, Drop By Drop, Fill, Form, Friendship, Heart, James Boswell, Kindness, Precise Moment, Run Over, Series, Tell, Thought For the Day, Vessel
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First Principles: Bear One Another’s Burdens, and So Fulfill the Law of Christ
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” – Galatians 6:2 (NIV)
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