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Monthly Archives: January 2025
Quenching the Fires of Los Angeles
Quenching the Fires of Los Angelesby Michael DoyleI saw a wise old hippy on the stageSinging about clouds as she turned the pageStaring out with love at the approach of deathShe sang her heart to her last breathIt seemed like … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Approach, Ash, Blessings, Cane, Clouds, Death, Doors, Encourage, Faith, Families, Fight, Fire, Fires, Gateways To Love, Graceless City, Heart, Hearts, Hippy, Joined Hands, Keeping Tim, Last Breath, Live, Living Memories, Los Angeles, Loss, Love, Madness, Meant, New and Pretty, Page, Poetry and Poems, Press On, Quench, Rare Courage, Rebuild, Rubble, Rusty Wire, Sense of Sadness, Shine, Shoulder to Shoulder, Show, Special Trace, Stage, Stand Firm
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Thought For the Day: There Is Nothing On This Earth More To Be Prized Than True Friendship
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
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Tagged Earth, Nothing, Prize, Thomas Aquinas, Thought For the Day, True Friendship
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First Principles: Laws, To Be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right; That Without This, They are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct, Founded In Force, And Not In Conscience
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” – Thomas Jefferson (1782)
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Tagged Arbitrary, Conscience, First Principles, Force, Fundamental, Just, Law, Reciprocation of Right, Rules of Conduct
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I Thought Myself An Eagle
I Thought Myself An Eagleby Michael DoyleI thought myself an eagleAnd built me a nest in solitudeAbove where I could watch beautyAnd very few might intrudeThe disappointments I’ve knownHave dried up my springs of hopeI retreat to that comfort shownAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence of Love, Atone, Beauty, Broken, Comfort, Complement, Connection, Cope, Decision, Defect, Disappointments, Discovery, Eagle, Heart, Hope, Hypertensive World, Imagination, Inside Myself, Intrude, Jouney, Known, Leap of Faith, Life, Moments, Music, My Love, Nest, Notes, Own, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Private Sins, Pulled Apart, Refuge, Retreat, Revea;, Right Direction, Rote, Search, Secrets, Shattered, Shelter, Shown, Solitude, Soul, Spoken, Springs of Hope, Steady Eyes, Surprise, Survive, Talk, Thought, Times, Walk, Watch, Wordless Words, Would-Be Travelers
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First Principles: By Our Form of Government, the Christian Religion Is the Established Religion
“Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Religion, Equal Footing, Established Religion, First Principles, Form of Government, Government, Happiness, Peace and Good Order, Protection, Public Concern, Religion, Religious Liberty, Runkel v. Winemiller (1799), Safety, Samuel Chase, Sects and Denominations of Christians, The People
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Thought For the Day: Creativity Is A Wild Mind and A Disciplined Eye
“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” – Dorothy Parker
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Tagged Creativity, Discipline, Dorothy Parker, Eye, Thought For the Day, Wild Mind
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The Truth of Why We Fight
The Truth of Why We Fightby Michael DoyleIn different timesHow might it end?Could it have beenWe might have been good friends?Your job and mineHere on the frontlineIt’s a killing job to be doneYet, you are somebody’s sonThere is the truth … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Guys, Beware, Courtyard, Death, Die, Different Times, Done, End, Enemy Territory, Fight, Frontline, Glory, Good Friends, Good Guys, Hard, Jumping, Killing Business, Killing Job, Life, Mine, Moral, My Story, Name, Old, Poetry and Poems, Question Why, Rubble, Shame, Somebody's Son, String Quartet, Told, Truth, Wrong or Right, Your Job
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Happy Lunar New Year!
January 29, 2025, marks the new year for the lunar calendar for China and many other Asian nations. It is also referred to as the Spring Festival. This is the Year of the Snake. We have to love a tradition … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptability, Asia, Astrology, Change, China, Chinese New Year, chinese-astrology, chinese-zodiac, Diversity, Elegance, Element, Emphasis, Growth, Healing, Introspection, Intuition, January 29 2025, Lateral Growth, Lunar Calendar, Lunar New Year, Month, Old Habits, Opportunity, Spirituality, Spring Festival, Thought For the Day, Wisdom, Wood, Wood Snake
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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Man
“[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man…It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous. ” – George Washington (1790)
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Tagged Character, First Essential, First Pirnciples, George Washington, Good, Important, Learned, Mankind, Moral, Virtuous
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Thought For the Day: Wealth and Rank Are What Man Desires, But Having Contentment Is the Greatest Wealth and Highest Rank
“Wealth and rank are what man desires, but having contentment is the greatest wealth and highest rank.” – Confucius
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Tagged Confucius, Contentment, Desire, Greatest Wealth, Highest Rank, Mankind, Rank, Thought For the Day, Wealth
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