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Thought For The Day: Stand Your Ground
“Well I know what’s right, I got just one life In a world that keeps on pushin’ me around But I’ll stand my ground And I won’t back down.” – Tom Petty, in I Won’t Back Down R.I.P. Thomas Earl Petty … Continue reading
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Tagged Deliver, One Life, One Love, Stand, The Heartbreakers, Thought For the Day, Tom Petty
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First Principles: Persons of Intemperate Minds Cannot Be Free
“Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of … Continue reading
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Tagged Appetite, Control, Edmund Burker, Enslaved, External, First Principles, France, Free, French Revolution, Intemperance, Internal, Passions, Society, Will
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Sonic Gems: Night and Day – Joe Jackson
David Ian Jackson was born on August 11, 1954. He grew up to become an English musician and singer/songwriter… and ohh to resemble Joe Cool aka Snoopy. On recognizing this in the midst of his early musical career, he picked … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Music, Thought For the Day
Tagged Cole Porter, Dissonance, Jazzy Pop, Joe Jackson, New York City, Night and Day, Sonic Gems, Steppin' Out
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
The Father of English Literature is widely reputed to be Geoffrey Chaucer. As author, philosopher and poet, he is distinguished enough to be the first poet buried in Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey. Of his many works, he is … Continue reading
In A Void of Grace
In A Void of Grace by Michael Romani There is a constancy to aging with grace While we watch the globe changing its face Names that reveal more about our yesterdays Telling more about our all too human ways Than … Continue reading
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Tagged Grace, Humanity, Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Vanity, Void
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Interest
Some folks love those big city nights Filled with fun chaos and bright lights My interest rests mostly in the country Where I can find peace and places of beauty
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Tagged Beauty, City, Country, Daily Prompt, Interest, Lights, Nights, Wordpress
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First Principles: Truest Civility Requires Following God’s Ways
“Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.” —James Madison (1785) I won’t sugar coat this one. The lack of adherence to God’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Christanity, Civil, Civility, Disorder, First Principles, God, James Madison, Society, Subject
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Thought For the Day: Be You
“If I try to be like him, who will be like me?” – Yiddish proverb There’s an open secret in life. If you listen very closely, you can hear it. Be you, says the wind, the rain, the sun and … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Life, Me, Proverb, Thought For the Day, Universal, Yiddish, You
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Sonic Gems: Ile Aiye – Canto Negro
Founded in 1974, the Afro-Brazilian group, Ile Aiye was founded by Antonio Carlos and Apolonio de Jesus in Bahia to raise the consciousness of their local community. Ile Aiyes literally means home life in Yoruba but may also be thought … Continue reading
A New Life Blessing
A New Life Blessing by Michael Romani More than just a guessing Life lived in it fullest blessing Lived out in His full story It’s a tale of love and glory Whose glory? His glory Whose story? His story Across … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Christianity, God, Love and Glory, New Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry
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