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Doomscrolling the Past Time Lore
Doomscrolling the Past Time Loreby Michael DoyleIt’s a twisted blade to the knife That makes a struggle for our lifeInto a battle to hold off deathUntil the very last draw of breathSo much deception when truth becomes liesWhile we look … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Battle, Belief, Bite, Breath, Cost, Cure, Death, Death by Death, Deception, Dignity, Doomscrolling, Drag, Dreams, Endure, Eyes, Faint-Hearted, Families of Choice, Government Laboratory, Halloween, Holding On, Hope, Humanity, Isolated, Knife, Legends Bred, Lies, Life, Lived Through, Lost, Love, Mude, New Mythology, Past Time Lore, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Relief, Scratch, Struggle, Survivors, Tears, Thirst For Blood, Tribe, Truth, Unproven Authority, Walls of Defense, Whispered Story, Zombie Virius
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First Principles: Go Confidently In the Direction of Your Dreams. Live the Life You Have Imagined
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Tagged Confident, Direction, Dreams, First Princioples, Henry David Thoreau, Imagine, Life, Live
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Thought For the Day: I’m So Glad I Live In A World Where There Are Octobers
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L. M. Montgomery, in Anne of Green Gables
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Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Glad, L.M. Mongomery, Octobers, Thought For the Day, World
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Garrulous Excess Canonized
Garrulous Excess Canonizedby Michael DoyleThe poet fought against fame againThinking only of peace found in ZenSeeking quiet life in a monastery But the truth faced turned out contraryDeath on two legs stole no small amountLeaving Cohen with nothing in his … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Amount, Angel, Archangel, Bending Words, Breath, Broken and Lame, Canonized, Catalog, Cohen, Collide, Contrary, Creatures, Dark, Deal, Death, Death On Two Legs, Deity, Disallowed, Emotions, Essence of Fame, Ethics, Excess, Experience, Fame, Game, Generational Divide, Guard, Guitar, Hand, Healer, Heart's Song, Hollywood, Image, Induced, Insight, Light, Monastery, Muse, Numbers, Peace, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Prefrence, Private Failures, Produce, Quiet Life, Reality, Recall, Reduced, Role, Seduce, Songs, Star, Stardom, Sympathy, Symphony, Tall, Truth, Understood, Unwanted Fans, Wealth, Zen
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First Principles: America’s Present Need Is Not Heroics But Healing; Not Nostrums but Normalcy; Not Revolution But Restoration
“America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.” – Warren G. Harding
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Tagged America, First Principles, Healing, Heroics, Need, Normalcy, Nostrums, Present, Restoration, Revolution, Warren G. Harding
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Thought For the Day: Once You Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, It’s Hard To Go Back To Sleep
“Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.” – Fran Drescher
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Tagged Coffee, Fran Drescher, Once, Sleep, Smell, Thought For the Day, Wake Up
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Giving Our Best Attitude
Giving Our Best Attitudeby Michael DoyleWe find our safety and securityIn what brings us true libertyTo live our lives as we want to beThis is the path of living freeWe pass some things on as a legacyThe Bible reflects this … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Attitude, Bible, Books of the Law, Childlike Attitudes, Christianity, Complexity, Faith, Family Rules, Forward, Fredom, Future, Give, God, God's Ways, Gratitude, History, Jesus, Legacy, Living Free, Love Letter, Myster, Path, Poetry and Poems, Real Good, Relationship, Rules and Guidance, Safety, Securit, Servants of God, Teach, The Bible, True Liberty, Understood, Unit, Worship
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Breaker of Chains
Breaker of Chainsby Michael DoyleBreaker of the chainsYou have freed my soulHeard in the refrainsIt’s you that I extolYou are the LordSubject to my praiseYour Bible is my swordThroughout my daysHeld in our venerationFrom first to last generationsHeld in holy … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Bible, Blessing, Breaker, Chains, Christ's Own, Connection, Days, Direction, Extol, Free, Generation, Guess, Lord, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pride, Refrain, Soul, Sword, Together, Trust, Veneration, Ways, You and I
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Thought For the Day: For God So Loved the World That He Gave His One and Only Son, That Whoever Believes In Him Shall Not Perish But Have Eternal Life
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16 (NIV)
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Tagged Believe, Eternal Life, God, John 3:16, Love, Perish, Son, The World, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Rid Yourselves of All Malice and All Deceit, Hypocrisy, Envy, and Slander of Every Kind. Like Newborn Babies, Crave Pure Spiritual Milk
“Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.” – Peter … Continue reading
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Tagged Deceit, Envy, First Principles, Good, Grow, Malice, Newborn Babies, Peter 2:1-2 (NIV), Rid, Salvation, Self, Slander, Spiritual Milk, Taste, The Lord
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 