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

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 →

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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 →

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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

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Counsel, Deetermination, Despair, Diligence, Few Things, First Principles, Fixed, Great Works, Impossible, Performed, Perseverance, Samuel Johnson, Skill, Strength | Leave a comment

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

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Thought For the Day: The True Measure of A Man Is How He Treats Someone Who Can Do Him Absolutely No Good

Posted on October 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Samuel Johnson

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First Principles: No Government, Any More Than An Individual, Will Long Be Respected Without Being Truly Respectable

Posted on October 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.” – James Madison (1788)

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If We Wish For the True Keys of the Kingdom

Posted on October 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

If We Wish For the True Keys of the Kingdomby Michael DoyleIt is said that in life’s great travestyThat it was the things of curiosityThat finally killed off the barn catBut I would bet that if we looked in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abeerration, Accepted Thought, Admission, Affiliiation, All Growth, Angle, Artists, Barn Cat, Blank Page, Cage, Captivity, Conquered, Constrict, Creativity, Curiosity, Dangle, Death, Declarative, Definitive, Disappear, Expression, Fear, Freely, Hat, Hidden, Hide, Ideological Tribes, Imagination, Imposition, Impressions, Intellectual Freedom, Keep, Kill, Kingdom, Life, Literacy, Looking In, Moralistic, Narrative, Nation, One Story, Orthodoxy, Outsdie, Path, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Self-Censorship, Shrink, Stridency, Submit, Tale, Thought, Travesty, True Keys, Unheeded, Unneeded | Leave a comment

First Principles: Law Is Defined To Be A Rule of Action; But How Can That Be A Rule, Which Is Little-Known, and Less Fixed?

Posted on October 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?” – James Madison (1788)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Define, First Principles, James Madison, Law, Less Fixed, Little Known, Rule, Rule of Action | Leave a comment

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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

Thought For the Day: The True Measure of A Man Is How He Treats Someone Who Can Do Him Absolutely No Good

First Principles: No Government, Any More Than An Individual, Will Long Be Respected Without Being Truly Respectable

If We Wish For the True Keys of the Kingdom

First Principles: Law Is Defined To Be A Rule of Action; But How Can That Be A Rule, Which Is Little-Known, and Less Fixed?

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