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Thought For the Day: I Believe the Greatest Gift I Can Conceive of Having From Anyone Is To Be Seen, Heard, Understood, and Touched By Them
“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Person, Anyone, Believe, Conceive, Give, Greatest Gift, Have, Heard, Seen, Thought For the Day, Touch, Understood, Virginia Satir
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Inspired By Conversation
Inspired By Conversationby Michael DoyleLife has its hitsThat come along the wayThe Devil has his duesWe all have to payIt’s a slow paradeThe passage of these yearsFilled with ups and downsIts smiles and its tearsBut of all the thingsThat have … Continue reading
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Tagged Along the Way, Beauty, Belong, Caught, Come and Gone, Connections, Conversation, Dare, Dawn, Destination, Devil, Dream, Dues, Exchange, Fascination, Favorite Song, Feel, Fire, Hits, Hope, Inside Joke, Inspire, Life, Lyrics, Note, Passage, Pay, Poetry and Poems, Rainbow Constellation, Real, Shimmer, Slow Parade, Smiles, Smoke, Soul Shine, Time, True, Ups and Downs, Wish, Words
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Thought For the Day: Everybody Knows That the Family Is the Bedrock of Any Society
“Everybody knows that the family is the bedrock of any society because it is in the family that the child learns how to be — how to be cultivated, how to be mannerly, how to have values. And if we … Continue reading
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Tagged Bedrock, Child, Children, Cultivated, Family, Know, Learn, Mannerly, Meaning, Society, Thought For the Day, Values, Winsome Sears
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First Principles: Every Government Degenerates When Trusted To the Rulers of the People Alone. The People, Themselves, Therefore, Are Its Only Safe Depositories
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Degenerates, Every Government, First Principles, Rulers, Safe Depositories, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Trust
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A Desecration
A Desecrationby Michael DoylePolitics take a backseat to the ConstitutionYet some do not like this resolutionBut that doesn’t make it a wrongIt’s the restoration of where law belongsThere is a value that matters to all of lifeWhere we save the … Continue reading
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Tagged 62 Million Deaths, A Desecration, Agree, All Life Is Sacred, Altar, America, Bad Law, Better, Constitution, Decision, Deny, Ethical, Falter, Foundation, Guiding Light, House, Human Dignity, Law, Life, Life's Sanctity, Matters, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Protect, Reason, Recreational Choice, Republican Nation, Resolution, Respect, Restoration, Right, Right To Life, Sacrfice, Simply Put, Strife, Three Percent, Value, Whale, Wrong
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First Principles: The Care of Human Life and Happiness, and Not Their Destruction, Is the First and Only Legitimate Object of Good Government
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson (1809)
Thought For the Day: Pray, Verb. To Ask the Laws of the Universe To Be Annulled On Behalf of A Single Petitioner Confessedly Unworthy
“Pray, verb. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.” -Ambrose Bierce, writer (24 Jun 1842-1914)
Scaling the New Heights of the Dawn Wall
(Scaling the New Heights of the) Dawn Wallby Michael DoyleIn the dawn of winterWe scaled the face of the wallLearning to never pause in winterWe rose above Yosemite’s fallCapturing the dreams of our own storyFinding the way through until the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Achievement, Ambition, Baby Steps, Burning, Capability, Chance, Climb, Dawn Wall, Dead, Deliverance, Depressurized, Destination, Destiny, Doubt, Dreams, Extent, Fail, Fake, Fall, Flow State, Fortitude, Glory, Hardships, Heads, Learning, Moments, Mutuality, New Heights, Patches, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Rationality, Reason, Right Attitude, Right Intent, Scale, Season, Second Rate, Shaken, Silence, Story, Stride, Successes, Taken, Tectonic Shift, Thoughts, Transformation, Winter, Wonder, Yosemite
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First Principles: Wondrously Strange Then and Much To Be Regretted…Were We To Neglect the Means and To Depart From the Road Which Providence Has Pointed Us To So Plainly
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Earth, First Principles, George Washington, Means, Neglect, No Country, Pointed, Power, Providence, Regret, Road, Strange, United America
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Thought For the Day: The Right of Citizens To Bear Arms Is Just One More Guarantee Against Arbitrary Government, and One More Safeguard Against Tyranny
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used … Continue reading
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