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

Thought For the Day: A True Artist Is Not One Who Is Inspired But One Who Inspires Others

Posted on October 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others.” – Salvador Dalí

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First Principles: The President of the United States Should Strive To Be Always Mindful of the Fact That He Serves His Party Best Who Serves His Country Best

Posted on October 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.” – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States

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A Gathering of Understanding

Posted on October 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

In honor of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous PeoplesA Gathering of Understandingby Michael DoyleThe time has come for the Red Nations to riseAgain, and bring healing before the world’s eyesWith promised blessings that will cure the separationsBy and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessings, Crippled Nations, Cure, Darkest Corners, Eyes, Families, First Nations, Gathering, Gifts, Glory, Gratitude, Green, Healing, Hope, Integrity, Intention, Lands, Learn, Light, Linger, Memories, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Reciprocity, Red Nations, Rise, Separation, Sick World, Story, The Creator, The Great Spirit, Time, Tradition, Understanding, World | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Spirit of Resistance To Government Is So Valuable On Certain Occasions, That I Wish It To Be Always Kept Alive

Posted on October 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abigail Adams, Atmosphere, Exercise, First Principles, Government, Kept Alive, Occasions, Rebellion, Spirit of Resistance, Storm, Thomas Jefferson, Value, Wish | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It’s Good To Have Money and the Things That Money Can Buy, But It’s Good, Too, To Check Up Once In A While and Make Sure That You Haven’t Lost Things That Money Can’t Buy

Posted on October 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” – George H. Lorimer, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Check Up, George H Lorimer, Good, Lost, Money, Money Can't Buy, Sure, Things That Money Can Buy, Thoght For the Day | Leave a comment

Rage Land and TerraMerhyem’s Something Else

Posted on October 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

There is a tremendous amount of artistic talent found on the virtual platform known as Linden Lab’s Second Life. Two of these incredible artists are my friends, and the friends of many other artistic types, Rage Darkstone and TerraMerhyem. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Study Tools | Tagged Anarhana, Artistic Talent, Backdrop, Bible Study Tools, Chiona, Creations, Crew, Damien, Deyanira Yalin:, Dragon, Elena, Events, Expotential, Hemes, Hermes, Ilyra, Immersive, Kondor Art Center in Second Life, Lexandra, Light, Linden Labs, Metaverse, Michael Romani, Parcel, Particles, Persefone, Prims, Rage Darkstone, Rage Land, Redi, Roxy Particles, Second Life Endowment For the Arts, SLEA, Something Else, Space, Stars, Talent, TerraMerhyem, The Grid, Tithrit, Tsu, Twister, Vritual Platform | Leave a comment

Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Remembering When Kindness Was in Fashionby Michael DoyleWe live in a time of self-limited imaginationWhere people cannot dream of outside creationBut mysteriously believe in writing only experienceSuch as found in personal and depraved dalliancesRather than dreaming of the bigger conceptionsToo … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, America, Appalling, Attacks, Authoritarianism, Awe, Believe, Bewilder, Bigger Conception, Bold, Brink, Bulldoze, Change, Closing Down, Coarseeness, Compassion, Confide, Connections, Counter-Atacks, Creation, Culture, Dalliance, Debate, Decline, Discerning, Dream, Edge, End, Exceptional, Experience, Fashion, Forget, Freely Told, Friend, History, Hold Back, Identity, Imagination, Individual Strands, Kindness, Learning, Liberate, Literature, Live, Love, Moral Courage, One-Sided, Orthodoxy, Peace, Peculiar Sense, Personal, Plurality, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pride, Progress, Refine, Regress, Remember, Responses, Self-Limited, Shadows, Shock, Society, Stories, Strife, Strong, Think, Time, Too Far, Tribes of America, Truth, Unity | Leave a comment

Since the Days that Eden Fell

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Since the Days that Eden Fellby Michael DoyleEver since the dark days that Eden fellMankind has cast pennies down the wishing wellHoping to find some bright point of lightTo get us through our darkest times of nightEver since the dark … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Avoid, Awaken, Barbarism, Best Selves, Blight, Blurred, Boundaries, Cast, Curiosity, Dance, Dark Days, Days, Deposition, Disposition, Dwell, Eden, Enlightenment, Eyes, Fact-Checked, Fail, Fanaticism, Feelings, Fell, First Steps, Fruitless, Frustrated, Get It Right, Healing, Heart, Hell, Human Nature, Improvement, Incredulity, Indwell, Intellect, Light, Manage, Mankind, Night, Own, Peace and Love, Pennies, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pursuit, Radiance, Right, Rootless, Sense, Shaken, Somehow, Soundrel, Step, Stirred, Struggle, Temperament, Unknown God, Wishing Well, Working | Leave a comment

First Principles: If Your Determination Is Fixed, I Do Not Counsel You To Despair. Few Things Are Impossible To Diligence and Skill

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

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Thought For the Day: We Swallow Greedily Any Lie That Flatters Us, But We Sip Only Little By Little At A Truth We Find Bitter

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” – Denis Diderot

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bitter, Denis Diderot, Flatter, Greed, Lie, Little By Little, Sip, Swallow, Thought For the Day, Truth | Leave a comment

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Thought For the Day: A True Artist Is Not One Who Is Inspired But One Who Inspires Others

First Principles: The President of the United States Should Strive To Be Always Mindful of the Fact That He Serves His Party Best Who Serves His Country Best

A Gathering of Understanding

First Principles: The Spirit of Resistance To Government Is So Valuable On Certain Occasions, That I Wish It To Be Always Kept Alive

Thought For the Day: It’s Good To Have Money and the Things That Money Can Buy, But It’s Good, Too, To Check Up Once In A While and Make Sure That You Haven’t Lost Things That Money Can’t Buy

Rage Land and TerraMerhyem’s Something Else

Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion

Since the Days that Eden Fell

First Principles: If Your Determination Is Fixed, I Do Not Counsel You To Despair. Few Things Are Impossible To Diligence and Skill

Thought For the Day: We Swallow Greedily Any Lie That Flatters Us, But We Sip Only Little By Little At A Truth We Find Bitter

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