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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Inhabit
Children of the World Hear my pleas My flag is unfurled In full confession, please To give Is the only way we live To forgive In a blessing we know and live Too much destruction Despite all of our instruction … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Confession, Daily Prompt, Forgive, Inhabit, Live, Love, Wordpress, World
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WordPress – #Weekly Photo Challenge – Angle
Further On Down A Winter Night’s Road To that place of warmth that I’m told Lies just beyond this wooded bend And you wait for me, my beautiful friend
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Angle, Further On Down, Photograph, Road, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter's Night, Wordpress
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First Principles: It Is Paramount To Distinguish Political and Social Opposition
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Criticism, Distinguish, First Prinicples, Free Market of Ideas, Free Speech, Free Thought, Government, Hate, Liberality, Overcoming, Pain, Personality, Positions
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Thought For the Day: Antifa and Other Violent Persons Are Not Heroes But Bigots
“Do not glorify the violent people who are now tearing down the statues. Many of these people, not all of them, many of these people are trying to tear down America. Antifa is a radical, anti-America, anti-free market, communist, socialist, … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Letters of Pliny the Younger
On August 24, 79 A.D., Pliny witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius. His uncle, Pliny the Elder, passed away attempting to both investigation this horrendous event but also in helping fellow refugees. In respect for that, we thought we should take … Continue reading
In Defense Of (Damage Done)
In Defense of Damage Done by Michael Romani Even after all the damage done The battle has only just begun Words will not win what must be won But with the courage needed as one One who can move beyond … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Anger, Battle, Bible Study Tools, Comission, Companionship, Conspiracy, Damage, Danger, Defense, Defiance, Omission, Perseverance, Photographs, Poem, Poetry, Stand, Strength, Walk the Walk
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WordPress – # Daily Prompt – Synchronize
In the synchronized march of the skeleton crew The mist rose up from the dead witch’s brew There will be trouble on this dark night Perhaps, your death before the morning’s light
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Tagged Bible Study Tools, Daily Prompt, Photograph, Poem, Skeleton, Syncrhonize, Wordpress
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First Principles: Federal Government Grows In Times of War and Danger
“The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.” – James Madison With this in mind, I believe … Continue reading
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Tagged Danger, Federal, Federalist Papers, James Madison, Operations, Peace, Security, State, Terrorism, War, Wise Governance
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Thought For the Day: Our Lives Are the Clay From Which We Create
“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artist, Better Place, Experience, Feelings, Jorge Luis Borges, Purpose, Raw Material, Thought For the Day, Writer
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – On the Sublime and the Beautiful – Edmund Burke
The full title for Edmund Burke’s philosophical exposition on separating the beautiful and the sublime into separate categories is A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. This major work was studied by … Continue reading
