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What One Bullet Can Do
What One Bullet Can Doby MichaelIt’s funny,What one bullet can do,Taking away peace…As it stunned me.Watching time run out for youAnd taking from me, my peace.Replacing peace with strife,Removing what had been bliss.What’s left is a gaping hole.It should have … Continue reading
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First Principles: A Strong Defense Is the Surest Way To Peace. Strength Makes Detente Attainable. Weakness Invites War
“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation – my generation – knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America’s will for peace is second to none, so … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Armed Forces, Bitter Experience, Detente, First Principles, Forbearnce, Gerald R. Ford, Nation, Peace, Power, Resolve, Security, Strength, Strong Defense, War, Weaknesss
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Thought For the Day: But You Have To Give Your Whole Life To A Cello. When I Realized That, I Went Back To the Guitar and Just Turned the Volume Up A Bit Louder
“But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.” – Ritchie Blackmore
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Tagged Cello, Guitar, Louder, Realize, Ritchie Blackmore, Thought For the Day, Volume, Whole LIfe
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First Principles: We Cannot Learn From One Another Until We Stop Shouting At One Another, Until We Speak Quietly Enough So That Our Words Can Be Heard
“In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Deliver, Difficult Years, Discontent, Fever, First Priinciples, Hatred, Heard, Lean, One Another, Posture, Promise, Rhetoric, Richard M. Nixon, Shout, Speak Quietly, Voice, Words
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Hula Memories
Hula Memoriesby Michael DoyleThe modern age has its share of complexity.But not enough to warrant Hawaiian anxiety.The sacred duty held with great veneration,Is the sacred duty felt by each generation.Hula is the language of the Hawaiian heart.It has remained so … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestors, Art, Beauty, Call and Response, Chant, Choice, Complexity, Connection, Courage, Dance, Dancers, Direction, Express, Fear, Feel, Found, Generation, Gourd, Grave, Ground, Guard, Harmony, Hawaiian Anxiety, Heart, Heiau, Heritage, Hula, Language, Loosen the Key, Love, Memory, Million Stars, Modern Age, Move, Musician, Night, Peace, Pig Roast, Poetry and Poems, Polynesian, Postion, Real, Return Home, Sacred Duty, Save, Slack Key Guitar, Spirituality, Step, Strife, Symbolic, Tale, Temple Stone, The Islands, Travel, Ukuleles, Unison, Way of Life, Writing
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First Principles: Yesterday Is Not Ours To Recover, But Tomorrow Is Ours To Win Or Lose
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Tagged First Principles, Lose, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Ours, Recover, Tomorrow, Win, Yesterday
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The World Changes (Waiting On You)
The World Changes (Waiting On You)by Michael DoyleThere’s no doubt about it,Whether we whisper or shout it.It’s always so good to be home,Even when we’re there alone.You share your love among fans and friends,Quietly or loudly until the music ends.You … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Alone, Broken Love, Change, Crazy Ways, Desire, Direction, Dissagree, Doubt, End, Faith, Fans and Friends, Feeling, Fire, Free, Good, Grave, Heats of Darkness, Home, Know, Left Standing, Life, Loud, Love, Music, On the Road, Poetry and Poems, Quiet, Reel, Rreason, Sad and Deep, Seasons, Share, Shout, Show, Song, Sorrow, Spotlight, Tomorrow, Too Long, Truth, Wait, Whisper, Wonder, World, Writing
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 