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Thought For the Day: What Happens When the Actual Evidence Doesn’t Match Up With the Public Narrative That Everyone’s Already Decided On?
“What happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?” – Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker Derek Chauvin was deliberately railroaded. He MUST be released via Habeas Corpus or some … Continue reading
First Principles: Wish Not So Much To Live Long As To Live Well
“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.” – Benjamin Franklin (1746)
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In Healing Hymn
In Healing Hymnby Michael DoyleTo be human is to fantasizeMore than can be seen with naked eyesWorried about what ghouls might beAfter death’s last-breath tragedyWe keep our eyes on what is nextAnd all the riddles that do connectCaught in our … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrogance, Bittersweet, Blasphemy, Breath, Burn, Bury, Climb, Conceal, Courage, Cure, Death, Desceration, Die, Dream, Endure, Fadeaway, Faithlessness, Fantasize, Flowers, Fluidity, Ghouls, God, Grave, Grow, Heal, Health and Sickness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven's Gate, Hesitation, Human, Hymn, Know, Lives, Lullaby, Measure, Memories, Mortal Love, Mountain, Mourn, Mystic, Naked Eyes, Offense, Pockets of Desolation, Poetry and Poems, Pursue, Question, Remembered, Resurrection, Riddles, Sacred Reason, Save, Sin, Sorrow, Sympathy, Timid Souls, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Treasure, Yesterday
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First Principles: Freedom of Speech May Be Taken Away, and, Dumb and Silent We May Be Led Like Sheep, To the Slaughter
[I]f Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Remember, We All Stumble, Every One of Us. That’s Why It’s A Comfort To Go Hand In Hand
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (23 Oct 1899-1989)
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The Artful Conflict
The Artful Conflictby Michael DoyleHumanity is invariably drawn to the good fightAnd it is unorthodox when it is brought to lightThat a southpaw stance taken can bring true valueTo all of us sinners, even me and youBlessed are the peacemakers … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Art, Ask, Avoid, Best Follow, Best Time, Biting and Breaking, Blessed, Breakers, Build Up, Cause, Complicate, Concept, Conflict, Contribution, Cut, Desires Within, Destroy, Drawn, Enjoy, Even Flow, Fakers, Fix, Follow, Forgiveness, God, God's Shadow, Good fight, Grow, Hard Work, Harsh Elements, Hearts, Humanity, Humility, Impact, Learn, Light, Makers, Me and You, Movers and Shakers, Natural, Neighbors, One Family, Path, Peaceful, Peaceful Resolution, Peacemakers, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Quarrels and Fights, Realize, Redundant, Relationship, Retribution, Right Attitudes, Rightful Worship, Said and Done, Selves, Show, Sideways, Sin, Sinners, Skill Set, Skills, Sleepless Nights, Soul, Southpaw Stance, Start, Strive, Tendencies, The Son, Think, True Value, Unorthodox, Valuable Contributions, Wars Around Us, Wars Within, Win, World
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First Principles: Blessed Are the Peacemakers, For They Will Be Called the Children of God
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” – (Matthew 5:9)
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Thought For the Day: What’s Terrible Is To Pretend that Second-Rate Is First Rate
“What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.” – Doris Lessing
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Tagged Better, Capable, Doris Lessing, First-Rate, Love, Need, Pretend, Second-Rate, Terrible, Thought For the Day, Work
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A Mother’s Wrath (A Ghost Story)
A Mother’s Wrath (A Ghost Story)by Michael DoyleFor her, forever started in 1673With what once was a happy familyA child was left alone wanderingWith love disturbed and ,wonderingFor three hundred yearsLost inside a veil of tearsThere is no safety in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Bittersweet, Candlelight, Child, Cries, Deaht, Destroy, Disturbed, Drowned Heart, End, Forever, Ghost Story, Happy Family, Harm, Innocence, Mirror, Nightmares, Poetry and Poems, Safe, Safety In Numbers, Scream, Silently Shrieking, Slumbers, Sorrow, Third Eye, Three Hundred Years, Veil of Tears, Violent, Wander, Widow, Wondering, Yesterday and Tomorrow, Yeterday
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Thought For the Day: Art Is A Man’s Nature; Nature Is God’s Art
“Art is a man’s nature; nature is God’s art.” – Philip James Bailey
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