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Thought For the Day: I Shut My Eyes and All the World Drops Dead; I Lift My Lids and All Is Born Again
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.” – Sylvia Plath, poet (27 Oct 1932-1963)
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The Morning Only Brings Bad
The Morning Only Brings Badby Michael DoyleFor some, the morning only brings badThese are those who are persistently sadIndulging only those things that will kill themAs if they missed the call of life’s good hymnInstead, they hear nonstop voices in … Continue reading
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Tagged Another, Bad, Bring, Call, Coins, Deep, Dowry, Fail, Good, Haunted, Hymn, Indulge, Kill, Life's Test, Morning, Neglected, Nightmares, Nonstop, Other, Poetry and Poems, Rejected, Rest, Sad, Sleep, The Dead, Trouble, Voices, Warning, Wicked, Wonder, Words
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Persistence
Persistenceby Michael DoyleWe create our locked prisons by choiceWhere our creatures find their voiceThe point of origins might be our schoolOr wherever we learned life’s rulesWindow shopping as we were thenPursuing our visions and our sinsPaying our price as we … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Bone, Choice, Create, Creature, Dreams, Experience, First Level, Further, Good God, Hungry, In the Beginning, Knowledge, Learn, Life's Food, Life's Rules, Lock, Mercy, Mock, Moved Along, Own, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Point of Origins, Price, Prisons, Pursue, School, Sharpen, Sins, Stay Alive, Survive, Test, Visions, Voice, We, Will, Window Shopping, Wisdom
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First Principles: A Morsel of Genuine History Is A Thing So Rare As To Be Always Valuable
“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.” – Thomas Jefferson (1817)
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Tagged First Principles, Genuine, History, Morsel, Rare, Thomas Jefferson, Valuable
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Thought For the Day: Every Child Is An Artist. The Problem Is How To Remain An Artist Once He Grows Up
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (25 Oct 1881-1973)
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Tagged Artist, Child, Grows Up, Pablo Picasso, Problem, Remain, Thought For the Day
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Healing the Brokenness
Healing the Brokennessby Michael DoyleWe are all part of the brokenness of humanityWe must seek to bravely move into responsibilityBeing part of the solution, to relieve our strifeBy lessening our own sins in this thing we call lifeThe Garden of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blame and Shame, Blame Shifting, Brokenness, Capable, Conflict, Contemplation, Dominion, Eyes, Fix, Garden of Eden, Heal, Humanity, Lean'In, Life, Losing Game, Planks, Poetry and Poems, Redemption, Resolve, Responsibility, Responsible, Scapegoating, Sin, Solution, Strife, Stuggle, Thrive, Work
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First Principles: If the Policy of the Government Upon Vital Questions Affecting the Whole People Is To Be Irrevocably Fixed By Decisions of the Supreme Court…The People Will Have Ceased To Be Their Own Rulers
“[I]f the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court…the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Affect, Cease, Decision, First Principles, Fixed, Government, Hands, Policy, Resign, Rulers, Supreme Court, The People, Tribunal, Whole People
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Thought For the Day: Since You Are Like No Other Being Ever Created Since the Beginning of Time, You Are Incomparable
“Don’t always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. “I will not Reason and Compare,” said Blake; “my business is to Create.” Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginning, Being, Brenda Ueland, Created, Incomparable, No other, Since, Thought For the Day, Time, You
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The Static of Electricity
The Static of Electricityby Michael DoyleFrom the dark agesAre turned the pagesLit with electricityIn its spark of majestyIt fills up the nightWith the brilliance of lightThough dark only moments beforeElectricity conquered this forevermoreWhile another cup of coffeeBrings the morning timeSeeing … Continue reading
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Tagged Before, Brilliance, Chamber, Coffee, Come Alive, Conquer, Cupf, Dark, Dark Ages, Door, Eccentricity, Electrictiy, Explor, Facination, Fill, Forevermore, Freedom, Illumination, Light, Lock, Magic, Majesty, Mind, Morning Time, Night, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Question, Secret, See, Spark, Static
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