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Monthly Archives: November 2024
Never Want To Say Good Night
Never Want To Say Good Nightby Michael DoyleThe bossa nova moved us to the dance floorWith the Brazilian beat, we couldn’t ignoreMy plunging heart was flown in from aboveEvery moment spent with you calls me to loveThe shine in your … Continue reading
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Tagged A Little More, Above, Aim To Please, All the Same, Always Love, Back Again, Black Dress, Bliss, Book of Life, Born To Please, Bossa Nova, Brazilian Beat, Breath, Burn, Caress, Close, Connection, Dance Floor, Desire, Drift Away, Drive Deep, Every Moment, Every Touch, Explore, Eyes, Fire, Flame, Glide, Heart, Ignore, Inch By Inch, Infatuation, Inspiration, Kiss Me, Laugh, Life, Lose Control, Love, Love Games, Loving Lips, Make Love, Mind, Moon, My Name, Never Want, Passion, Perfection, Play of Eyes, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pulse, Reasons, Reasons Why, Satisfaction, Say Good night, Seductive Spirt, Shaking Knees, Shine, Sigh, Smile, Smooth Skin, Sould, Sweet Kiss, Tantalize, Tell You Please, Thinking Of, Wife, Writing, Your Eyes, Your Time
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First Principles: A Wise Man Proportions His Belief To the Evidence
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” – David Hume, Section X of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) …… In Section X of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume argues that the evidence for miracles needs to … Continue reading
Overcoming the Adversary
Overcoming the Adversaryby Michael DoyleI’m glad to say that I believeIn God’s promise, not a devil who deceivesLife’s storms come, but I have strengthEnough to last the day’s lengthWith the Bible as my swordI rest on the strength of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Belief, Believe, Believer, Belssing, Bible, Christ's Blood, Circumstances, Confidence, Contrary, Darkness, Day, Deceive, Devil, Doubt, Fear, Glad, God of Second Chances, God's Promise, Going, Grow, Guess, Harshness, His Light, History, Holy Spirit, Joy, King, Legacy, Life, Lord, Name, Overcome, Overflow, Poetry and Poems, Show, Storm, Strength, Sword
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Thought For the Day: If A Man Loves the Labour of His Trade, Apart From Any Question of Success or Fame, the Gods Have Called Him
“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894) — Individuals deeply devoted to their professions without … Continue reading
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Tagged Achievement, Agency, Call, Calling, Consideration, Enjoy, Existence, Existential Responsibility, Fame, God, Gods, Gratitude, Heart, Income, Individuality, Intrinsic Motivation, Labor, Man, Mankind, Marker, Meaning, Motivation, Personal Satisfaction, Psychology, Purpose, Question, Recognition, Right Attitude, Significance, Society's Boundaries, Success, Thought For the Day, Trade, Transcend, True Value, Work
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First Principles: It Is To Be Regretted That the Rich and Powerful Too Often Bend the Acts of Government To Their Own Selfish Purposes
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.” – Andrew Jackson, in his Veto Message to Congress regarding the Bank of the United States (July 10, … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts of Government, Andrew Jackson, Bank of the United States, Bend, Charter, Clean Up the Swamp, Congress, Economic Privileges, Equal Opportunity, First Principles, Political Interferece, Powerful, Preference, Public Money, Regret, Rich, Risk, Selfish Purposes, Stability, State Banks, Trump, Veto, Violation
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Rodin’s Artistry
Rodin’s Artistryby Michael DoyleSome pursue the fine arts for immortalityThat makes a degree of sense thoroughlyAfter all, you start with a marble blockBut see what you will transform from rockLike water, the shape begins to conformThe chisel drips patiently to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Appetite, Artist's Heart, Artistry, Atone, Behind, Better Days, Bronze, Chisel, Complication, Conform, Contemplation, Creativity, Depth, Deserved, Drip By Drip, Feeling Right, Fine Arts, Finish, Fool, Genuine Spark, God's Home, Guided Hand, Immortality, Just So, Knowledge, Marble Block, Movement Observed, Nature, Plaster, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Reality, Reflection, Rock, Rodin, Sculptor, See and Know, Sense, Shape, Start, Stone, Terra-Cotta, The Artist, Thinker's Mind, Tortured Heart, Transform, Truth, Vision, Water, Words
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Thought For the Day: Patience Is Also A Form of Action
“Patience is also a form of action.” -Auguste Rodin, sculptor (12 Nov 1840-1917), attributed to Rodin in Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection, p.124, by Leonard William Doob — Action is most commonly thought of as being proactive and doing something tangible. … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Art, Auguste Rodin, Challenge, Consideration, Delayed Gratification, Deliberation, Endeavors, Fast Paced Society, Form, Long-Term Results, Outcome, Patience, Proactive, Sculptor, Sculpture, Strategic Choice, Strength, Tangible, Thought For the Day, Water
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First Principles: It Is My Constant Anxiety and Prayer That I and This Nation Should Be On the Lord’s Side
“I am not at all concerned about that…. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.”– Abraham Lincoln, cited in F.B. Carpenter’s Six Months At the White House , … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Anxiety, Constant, First Principles, Lord's Side, Nation, Prayer, Side of the Right, The Lord
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Fiona’s Bee
Fiona’s Beeby Michael DoyleThere by the grace of April’s sleetWas a bumble bee at Fiona’s feetIt was good to start her morning pleasantlyCaught up in a childhood memoryHer father had taught her to pet them gentlyFiona did so then very … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Adult, Affection, April, Bee, Bees, Bombus Tetris, Boundary Line, Bumble Bee, Buzz, Capability, Childhood Memory, Coincidence, Comfort, Communication, Copernican Revolution, Erase, Father, Fellow Creatures, Fiona, gardening, Gentle, Harbor, Human, Kinship, Kitchen Box, Lock, Morning, Nature, Palm, Poetry and Poems, Practicality, Preen, Queen, Recall, Respldence, Sensibility, Serenity, Sing, Sip, Sleet, Sugar Water, Urgency, Wing
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 
Thought For the Day: The Plain Fact Is That Education Is Itself A Form of Propaganda – A Deliberate Scheme To Outfit the Pupil…With A Simple Appetite For Gulping Ideas Ready-Made
“The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to … Continue reading →