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Writer, poet, musician, surfer, father of two princesses.

First Principles: Take My Yoke Upon You and Learn From Me, For I Am Gentle and Humble In Heart, and You Will Find Rest For Your Souls

Posted on February 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” – Matthew 11:29-30

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A Nephilim Hypothesis

Posted on February 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Nephilim Hypothesisby Michael DoyleThere were legends of giants in those daysWho walked the earth living beside manThe Bible explains their different waysAs sons of God from the daughters of manJust who were the NephilimWho lived in a past that … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on February 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson (1809)

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Thought For the Day: We Never Get To the Bottom of Ourselves On Our Own. We Discover Who We Are Face To Face and Side by Side With Others In Work, Love, and Learning

Posted on February 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.” – Robert N. Bellah

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Against All Hope

Posted on February 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Against All Hopeby Michael DoyleAll alone, by myselfI searched on the shelfFor the words to knowJust how I might growTo start over in this testTo come through with the restIn a crash of my identityI lived my life renewing sincerityThere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Against, Alone, Attention, Burn, Come Through, Conspire, Corrupt, Crash, Crowd, Fake, Fire, Fools, Grow, Hope, Humanity, Humility, Identity, Know, Lie, Look Down, Lost, Madness, Mean, Meek, Mercy, Outcasts, Poetry and Poems, Pretension, Search, Self, Shelf, Sincerity, Test, Truth, Unaware, Vanity, Weakest Length, Weakness, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: The More Man Meditates Upon Good Thoughts, the Better Will Be His World and the World At Large

Posted on February 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” – Confucius

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Thought For the Day: Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To None

Posted on February 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare

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Left Behind

Posted on February 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Left Behindby Michael DoyleThere is a coziness to all our liesWhispers the darkness in this monster’s eyesThere is peace in settling the scoreVengeance knows the warmth of its pourLike a blended whiskey that burns down slowSo is our lack of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Angel, Anger, Awareness, Beginning, Blended Whiskey, Brimstone and Sulfur, Burn, Cause, Consciousness, Cozy, Creation, Cure, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Design, Desire, Dream, Dwell, Equal, Escape, Exist, Eyes, Fight, Fractional Lineage, Fumbles, Future, God's Favor, God's Will, Heaven's Door, Hell, Humanity, Hunger, Imagination, Isolation, Jesus, Know, Lack of Wisdom, Law, Left Behind, Lesser Beings, Lies, Linear Time, Little More, Living God, Lucifer, Misguided Past, Monster, Odds, Pain, Peace, Pentinents, Persist, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Pride, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Requisite Saor, Rest, Satan, Score, Self-Created, Selfishness, Sin, Slow, Sorrow, Soul, Spiritual Synapses, Sublime, Subtle, Suffer, Test, Time, Universe, Vengeance, Warmth, Whisper, Win | Leave a comment

First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government. It Is the End of Civil Society

Posted on February 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison (1788)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Bounds of Authority, Civil Society, Constitution, End, Exigency, First Principles, Government, Ijury, James Madison, Justice, Justisy, Liberty, Lost, Obtain, Powers, Pursue, Pursuit, Standard, The People, Tyrannical Use | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Education Perverts the Mind Since We Are Directly Opposing the Natural Development of Our Mind By Obtaining Ideas First and Observations Last

Posted on February 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Take My Yoke Upon You and Learn From Me, For I Am Gentle and Humble In Heart, and You Will Find Rest For Your Souls

First Principles: The Care of Human Life and Happiness, and Not Their Destruction, Is the First and Only Legitimate Object of Good Government

Thought For the Day: We Never Get To the Bottom of Ourselves On Our Own. We Discover Who We Are Face To Face and Side by Side With Others In Work, Love, and Learning

Against All Hope

First Principles: The More Man Meditates Upon Good Thoughts, the Better Will Be His World and the World At Large

Thought For the Day: Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To None

Left Behind

First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government. It Is the End of Civil Society

Thought For the Day: Education Perverts the Mind Since We Are Directly Opposing the Natural Development of Our Mind By Obtaining Ideas First and Observations Last

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