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Author Archives: alohapromisesforever
A Little Bit Country
A Little Bit Countryby Michael DoyleRolling down the back roadGoing places, I’ve been toldHold to the roots of this nationBeyond the small towns lay my destinationMom-and-pop stores dotting the placesFinding myself in these pleasant tracesI found myself looking easy halfway … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Road, Destination, Dot, Empathy, Even Flow, Every Note, Every Note and Word, Expressed Plainly, Heart, Little Bit Country, Look, Lot of Life, Melody, Mom-and-Pop Stores, Nation, Noon, Places, Pleasant Traces, Poetry and Poems, Radio, Rolling Down, Roots, Sentimental, Singing Along, Small Town, Small Towns, Smooth Truth, Songs, Spotify, Told, Tune, Turn, Turning, Words
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First Principles: Without Freedom of Thought There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom; and No Such Thing As Public Liberty, Without Freedom of Speech
“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” – Benjamin Franklin (1722)
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Tagged Bound, Check, First Principles, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Thought, Liberty, Overthrow, Public Liberty, Right of Every Man, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: What Power Has Love But Forgiveness?
“What power has love but forgiveness?” – William Carlos Williams, poet (17 Sep 1883-1963)
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Tagged Done, Forgiveness, Intervention, Love, Power, Thought For the Day, Undone, William Carlos Williams
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Children Jumping Shadows
Children Jumping Shadowsby Michael DoyleI listened to a whisper barely heardAbout separating myself from the herdIt wasn’t the desire to stand outAs much as it was living in worldly doubtI look around me, unable to truly seeWhat difference each can … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Begged Question, Better, Cast Out by Life, Children, Continent's Strife, Darkened Night, Desire, Difference, Dreams, Fallen, Fast Forward, Felt, Few, Glacial Melt, Gurus, Handful of Pixels, Heard, Herd, Hope, Hunger, Hungry Children, Jump, Myelf, Oceans, Poetry and Poems, Reach, See, Separate, Separately, Shadows, Shallows, Sorrow, Stand Out, Struggle, Sunlight, Together, Tomorrow, Unknown, Whisper, Worldly Doubt, Worn-Out Shoes, Yesterday
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First Principles: The States Can Best Govern Our Home Concerns…I Wish Therefore…Never To See All Offices Transferred To Washington
“The States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore … never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly … Continue reading
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Tagged All Offices, Bought and Sold, Eyes, First Principles, General Government, Govern, Home Concerns, Market, Secret, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Washington, Wish, Withdrawn
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Thought For the Day: God’s Reasons For Communicating With Man Must Be Subsumed Under His Reason For Communicating To Him His Account of His Creation of the World – and Man
“God’s reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world – and man.” – Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist and ethnologist
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Tagged Account, Claude Levi-Strauss, Communciate, Creation, God, Man, Reason, Rreason, Subsume, Thought For the Day, World
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First Principles: In the Supposed State of Nature, All Men Are Equally Bound By the Laws of Nature, Or To Speak More Properly, The Laws of the Creator
“In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.” – Samuel Adams (1794)
Thought For the Day: We All Have Our Time Machines. Some Take Us Back, They’re Called Memories. Some Take Us Forward, They’re Called Dreams
“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.” – H.G. Wells, in The Time Machine
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Tagged Back, Dreams, Forward, H.G. Wells, Memories, The Time Machine, Thought For the Day, Time Machines
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Fiery Cinders
Fiery Cindersby Michael DoyleHourglass sands spell tales of brutalityWhispering that most pirates keep their humanityThat is until they can only no longer see fitWhich mostly comes down to the matter of profitIn these moments, and when it’s a Hell of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Bravado, Brutality, Captain, cinder, Dead Men, Die, Escape, Fiery Cinders, Fit, Hell, Hourglass Sands, Humanity, Jolly Rogers, Last Man, Less-Than-Clever, Loose Lips, Moments, Never, Pirates, Plan, Plundering Pirates, Poetry and Poems, Prize, Profit, Sea, Strictly Logic, Survive, Tale, Tales, Watch Change, Whisper, Witnessing Eyes
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 