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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Gratitude
Let every day be a day of humble gratitude Filled with love and giving each other latitude As we look around us in our moments of every day I do not know about you, but, I find that in every … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Daily Prompt, Gratitude, History, Legacy, Thankfulness, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Fascism Has Come To America In the Name of the Progressives
“If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism.” – Ronald Reagan And it apparently has. I am getting truly discouraged as I look out on what is happening in America. Marxism is having a … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Antifa, Facsism, Liberalism, Marxism, Progressives, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781) The entitlement programs of America have come to be taken for granted. And now, as we watch … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Dependence, First Principles, Subservience, Thomas Jefferson, Tools, Venality, Virtue
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Prefer
There’s a lot of talk out on the street About what gentlemen prefer and don’t I can think of pros and cons we’ll meet In what will prove important and what won’t But if you ask me, this attempted gentleman, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Daily Prompt, Forever Love, Gossip, Humility, Inside, Lessons, Prefer, Vanity, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: The Loudest Voices For the Alleged Public Welfare Are Not Always The Truest
“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.” — Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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Tagged Charlatans, Edmund Burke, Government, Machivellian, Popular Error, Public Welfare, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Countries Like People Should Keep Their Word In All Agreements
“States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.” —Alexander Hamilton (1790), In Report On Public Credit The Report On Public Credit may be read here: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_2s5.html … Continue reading
Sonic Gem – Frank Zappa – The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
The double disc The Best Band You Never Heard In your Life was released in 1991. It is devoted mostly to covers. Much of it was from the back catalogue for the Mothers of Invention. There is a cover of Stairway to … Continue reading
Curious Destiny
Curious Destiny by Michael Romani Destiny is a curious thing Complications that life brings Broken moments perilously collected Bits of truth quietly detected How obvious does it have to be When the blind know more than those who see Banded … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind, Collect, Complication, Curious, Darkness, Destiny, Light, Photographs, Poem, Poetry, See, Truth, Wisdom
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Orange
Sections of orange dance in the light show As particles move from one color to the next Shades of all the colors found in a rainbow Phase through shades as each color connects A fantasy of shapes and transformations Mirrored … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Prompt, Illuminate, Imagination, Light Show, Music, Orange, Particles, Photograph, Poetry, Virtual Reality, Wordpress
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