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Monthly Archives: December 2025
Thought For the Day: Change Is the Law of Life. And Those Who Look Only To the Past Or Present Are Certain To Miss the Future
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
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First Principles: Stand At the Crossroads and Look; Ask For the Ancient Paths, Ask Where the Good Way Is, and Walk In It, and You Will Find Rest For Your Souls
“This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths,ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ – Jeremiah 6:16 NIV
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The Last Snow
The Last Snowby Michael DoyleThis Winter has been warmer than those I recall.I might have expected it after a lingering fall.The last snow Indiana saw fell for a full night.It kept falling through the passing morning light.Piles of slush lasted … Continue reading
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Tagged Blues, Fall, Full Night, Heat, Hik, Indiana, Morning Light, Morning Plans, Poetry and Poems, Slush, Snow, Spring, Warm, Warm Fronts, Winter
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Thought For the Day: If You Ask God For A Gift Be Thankful If He Sends Not Diamonds Pearls Or Riches But the Love and Trust of Friends
“Friendship is a precious gift that can’t be bought or sold. It’s value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the … Continue reading
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First Principles: It Will Be Of Little Avail To the People That the Laws Are Made By Me of Their Own Choice If the Laws Be So Voluminous That They Cannot Be Read, Or So Incoherent That They Cannot Be Understood
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” – … Continue reading
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The Footprints In My Soul
The Footprints In My Soulby Michael DoyleLove is not a monologue,Talking to myself gets me nowhere.Let’s get on with the dialogue,Moving beyond where I simply persevere.Under my empire of ashesLives a garden from my heart.Despite the doom of thrashes,This is … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginning, Betrayal, Beyond, Dialogue, Dream, Empire of Ashes, Empty Burn, End, Endless Torment, Fly, Footprints, Friend, Garden, Give and Take, Gone, Grave, Heart, Long-Distance Runaround, Love, Many Voices, Memory, Monolgue, Nowhere, Perfect Moment, Poetry and Poems, Rubicon, Snow, Solitary, Soul, Talking To Myself, Wings, Winter
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Thought For the Day: The Secret of Success Is To Do the Common Things Uncommonly Well
“The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
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First Principles: Unless the People, Through Unified Action, Arise and Take Charge of Their Government, They Will Find That Their Government Has Taken Charge of Them
“Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition … Continue reading
First Principles: For God So Loved the World, That He Gave His Only Begotten Son, That Whosoever Believeth In Him Should Not Perish, But Have Everlasting Life
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” – John 3:16 Merry Christmas, one and all!
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 