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Thought For the Day: A Guitar Is A Very Personal Extension of the Person Playing It. You Have To Be Emotionally and Spiritually Connected To Your Instrument
“A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.” – Eddie Van Halen
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Tagged Connect, Eddie Van Halen, Emotionl, Extension, Guitar, Instrument, Person, Personal, Play, Spiritual, Thought For the Day
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The DJ Adds the Bassline
The DJ Adds the Basslineby Michael DoyleLay the basics downTo wear the DJ crownDo you feel meThe drip reveals meChurch bells ringIt’s a banger thingAnd you can’t come homeUntil you’re solid as a stoneThe DJ adds the basslineSealing it into … Continue reading
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Tagged Banger, Basics, Bassline, Blackmail, Church Bells, Compel, DJ, Drip, Feel, Home, Poetry and Poems, Pump, Real Time, Said, Sealing It, Solid As A Stone, Tracks, Work In Progress
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First Principles: There Is Nothing More Corrupting, Nothing More Destructive of the Noblest and Finest Feelings of Our Nature, Than the Exercise of Unlimited Power
“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.” – William Henry Harrison
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Tagged Corrupting, Destructive, Exercise, Feelings, Finest, First Principles, Nature, Noblest, Nothing, Unlimited Power, William Henry Harrison
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Thought For the Day: My Mission In Life Is Not Merely To Survive, But To Thrive, and To Do So With Some Passion, Some Compassion, Some Humor, and Some Style
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style” – Maya Angelou
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Tagged Compassion, Humor, Life, Maya Angelou, Mission, Not Merely, Passion, Style, Survive, Thought For the Day, Thrive
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Weight To Words
Weight To Wordsby Michael DoyleIn these, the end of daysI think of a million waysWe needed to attach weight to wordsAnd all of the misdeeds occurredLife’s constant motion gets the best of meWhen I think of all that might yet … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: That Government Is Best Which Governs the Least, Because Its People Discipline Themselves
“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Tagged Best, Discipline, Govern, Government, Henry David Thoreau, Least, People, Thought For the Day
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Damaged Memories of An Indiana Tornado
Damaged Memories of An Indiana Tornadoby Michael DoyleOminous clouds are captured in a photographThat suggests thunderclaps as the Devil’s laughAs lightning strikes down on a Hoosier cornfieldForked-tongued, it speaks of devastation revealedCracked wood is tossed across the creek’s bendAs a … Continue reading
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Tagged Clouds, Cracked Wood, Damaging Winds, Debris, Devastation, Devil's Laugh, Fallen Trees, Flooded Road, Forked-Tongued, Fragments of lives, Hoosier Cornfield, Human Voice, Indiana, Lightning, Long Growl of Wind, Memories, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Symphony of Survival, Thunder claps, Trapped, Wind
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First Principles: In the Discharge of Duties My Guide Will Be the Constitution, Which I This Day Swear To Preserve, Protect, and Defend
“In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.” – Zachary Taylor
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Tagged Defend, Discharge, Duties, First Principles, Guide, Preserve, Protect, The Constitution, Zachary Tayler
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Thought For the Day: All the World’s A Stage, and All the Men and Women Merely Players
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare, in As You Like It
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Tagged All, As You Like It, Men and Women, Players, Stage, Thought For the Day, William Shakespeare, World
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 