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Thought For the Day: You Don’t Get To Choose How You’re Going To Die. Or When. You Can Only Decide How You’re Going To Live. Now.
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.” – Joan Baez, American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist (b. January 9, 1941)
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Tagged Choose, Decision, Die, Joan Baez, Live, Now, Thought For the Day, When
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About A Death
About A Deathby Michael DoyleToday, I watched a show about deathI have to admit, it took away my breathAs I try to write this bit of poetryIt’s weird to think how much it’s hitting meIt’s hard to write with tears … Continue reading
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Tagged About A Death, Abyss, Admit, Alone, Anguish, Breath, Certain, Death, Disguise, Each of Us Starts, Eternity, Eyes, Favorite Human Being, Harder, Hold, Hope, Jaded, Jaded Heart, Lost, Meant, Miss, My Smile, Near, Only Yesterday, Our Woods, Passing Years, Photographs and Memories, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Puddle of Tears, Real Meaning, Show, Solitude, Stage, Standing Here, Stood, Sum, Talking, Tears, Today, Traces of You, Walking, Weird, Wish, Woods, Words On My Page, World, Write, Yeterday
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First Principles: It Is Not Easy To Be Wise For All Times. Not Even For the Present ; Much Less For the Future: and Those Who Judge the Past Must Recollect That When It Was Present, the Present Was Future
“It is not easy to be wise for all Times. Not even for the present; much less for the future: and those who judge of the past must recollect that when it was present, the present was future.” – Gouverneur … Continue reading
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Tagged All Times, Easy, First Principles, Future, Gouverneur Morris, Judge, Past, Present, Recollect, Wise
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Thought For the Day: There Is Nothing So Confining As the Prisons of Our Own Perceptions
“There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.” – William Shakespeare
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Tagged Confine, Nothing, Own, Perception, Prison, Thought For the Day, William Shakespeare
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Dark Sources
Dark Sourcesby Michael DoyleThe optics make me cringe.Almost every newscast is on the fringeIt seems that we’re invited into the conspiracyWhile they really don’t care about historyEveryone vents and is set on blamingIt’s that PR game known as framingTruth, it … Continue reading
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Tagged :Profound, Blame, Captains of America, Care, Complexity, Connective Tissue, Conspiracy, Constitution, Cringe, Dark Sources, Downed, Endangered, Every Night, Explanation, Fleshed Out, Foundation, Framing, Fringe, Gangrene, Groove, Hide, History, Honest Brokers, Huddle, Invitation, Life, Looking In, Media, My Side, Neighbors, Newscast, Nowhere, Objective, Optics, Optimism, Original Sin, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Polluted Air, Power, Public Relations, Quizzically Smile, Roots, Rumors, Runaway, Shots, Society, Souls, Stay, Strategic, Subjective, Systemic Racism, Team, Television, Texts, Truth, Vent, Walls, Your Side
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First Principles: The Virtues of Men Are of More Consequence To Society Than Their Abilities; and For This Reason, the Heart Should Be Cultivated With More Assiduity Than the Head
“The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.” – Noah Webster (1788) (Virtues to be cultivated are courage, patience, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Assiduity, Consequence, Cultivation, First Principles, Head, Heart, Mankind, Noah Webster, Reason, Society, Virtues
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Thought For the Day: Action Is the Great Restorer and Builder of Confidence. Inaction Is Not Only the Result, But the Cause of Fear…Any Action Is Better Than None
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” – Norman Vincent Peale
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Tagged Action, Adjustment, Builder, Cause, Confidence, Fear, Inaction, Norman Vincent :Peale, Restore, Successful, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Powers Delegated By the Proposed Constitution To the Federal Government Are Few and Defined. Those Which Are To Remain In the State Governments Are Numerous and Indefinite
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” – James Madison, Federalist 45, 1788 (For those who do not understand that the … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Yesterday We Obeyed Kings and Bent Our Necks Before Emperors. But Today We Kneel Only To Truth, Follow Only Beauty, and Obey Only Love
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” – Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (6 Jan 1883-1931)
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 
Pushback On A Throw Away Life
Pushback On A Throw Away Lifeby Michael DoyleWords are frequently flungLike bells that can’t be un-rungThere remains work to be doneWe can’t turn away before it’s wonFor those with caring heartsThis is off to a rough startPeople who deserve next … Continue reading →