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Monthly Archives: January 2025
Separate Lives
Separate Livesby Michael DoyleWhat we know is so littleAnd we’re feeling stuck in the middleIt’s said that is a perfect scoreFor life; we still want morePlaying chutes and ladders in the corporateFrom the outside, it seems something desperateThere’s some room … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplishment, Category, Chutes and Ladders, Company Policy, Consignment, Coporate, Coporations, Credence, Decide, Desperate, Done, Evidence, Feeling, Finished, Friends, Honesty, Improvement, Informal Chatting, Know, Life, Little, Lives, Management, Mandated, Manual, Means To the Ends, Microdata, More, New Life, Outside, Perfect Score, Picket Fences, Piracy, Poetry and Poems, Pose, Priaccy, Question, Question One, Replacement, Rule, Scatttergories, Separate Lives, Separated, Stuck In the Middle, The Great Divide, Wait, White Walls, Workaday World, World
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First Principles: If There Is A Form of Government, Then, Whose Principle and Foundation Is Virtue, Will Not Every Sober Man Acknowledge It Better Calculated To Promote the General Happiness Than Any Other Form
“If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?” – John Adams (1776), in Thoughts On Government
Thought For the Day: If We Are Not Careful, Our Colleges Will Produce A Group of Close-Minded, Unscientific, Illogical Propagandists Consumed With Immoral Acts. Be Careful Brethren! Be Careful Teachers!
“If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, ‘brethren!’ Be careful, teachers!” – Martin Luther King, Jr., in “The Purpose of Education,” The Maroon Tiger, 1947
Making It Do
Making It Doby Michael DoyleThe world’s painIs dipped in blueThinking I remember thatAbout me and youWalking in withMy life’s game faceIf you keep on running awayDoes it leave its traceMost of the living worldIs a bit under the weatherWe keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Behind, Better, Blind, Blue, Bound, Bribes, Game Face, Hard To See, Hope, Life, Living World, Making It Do, Me and You, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Remember, Running Away, Sound, Trace, Under the Weather, Walk, World, World's Pain
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Thought For the Day: The Ultimate Measure of A Man Is Not Where He Stands In Moments of Comfort and Convenience, But Where He Stands At Times of Challenge and Controversy
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tagged Challenge, Comfort, Controversy, Convenience, Lltimate, Man, Martin Luther King Jr., Measure, Stand, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: For My Part, Whatever Anguish of Spirit It May Cost, I Am Willing To Know the Whole Truth, To Know the Worst and Provide For It
“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. – Patrick Henry
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Tagged Anguish, Cost, First Pirnciples, Know, My Part, Patrick Henry, Provide, Spirit, Whole Truth, Worst
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Emptiness Revealed
Emptiness Revealedby Michael DoyleMomma says, “kneel and pray”The last words after a long dayLife finds its way, however unkindSometimes, I don’t know how I’ll findMy way to keep on standingThe forces that push me are demandingThat I be strong despite … Continue reading
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Tagged Art of Cruelty, Believe, Broken Society, Chase, Cling, Connection, Deceive, Deception, Edge, Embrace, Emptiness, Fooling Myself, Forces, Lifee, Living Years, Long Day, Miss, Momma Says, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Sensation, Serpent, Stand, Strong, Suffered, Surface, Temptation, Truth, Unkind, World
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First Principles: The Bravest Are Surely Those Who Have the Clearest Vision of What Is Before Them, Glory and Danger Alike, and Yet Notwithstanding, Go Out To Meet It
“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” – Thucydides
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Tagged Bravest, Clearest Vision, Danger, First Principles, Glory, Meet, Thucydides
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Thought For the Day: True Courage Is Being Afraid, and Going Ahead and Doing Your Job Anyhow, That’s What Courage Is
“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.” – Norman Schwarzkopf (An attempt to honor the firefighters fighting the blazes in Los Angeles County, California)
Shalom Charis
Shalom Charisby Michael DoyleJarred by the fires that burnBroken hearted as we learnThe sorrow of this seasonWe extend our love beyond reasonCalled to be holy through graceWe keep our eyes on God’s faceA spiritual gift is shown with careGod’s love … Continue reading
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Tagged Abounding, Abundant, Bible, Broken Hearted, Burn, Called, Care, Christianity, Community, Completeness, Darkest Hour, Devastation, Done, Embrace, Faith, Fires, Fix, Forgiven, God, God's Face, God's Family, God's Ways, Good News, Grace, Hang Tough, Head, Heart, His Will, Holy, Holy Conversation, Jarred, Jesus, Learn, Love, Marked By God, Overlfowing, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Power, Priority, Reveal, Serenity, Shalom Charis, Shape, Share, Sorrow, Spiritual Gift, Talk, Unashamed, Unmerited Favor, Walk, World's Strife
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