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Back Chat of Eternal Insomnia
So many of us spend countless hours into the we hours of the night staving off the limited hours until the morning light. Insomnia and its accompanying sleep exhaustion have claimed many of us and leading into less good than … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Apartment, Audacity, Bed, Believe, Belong, Burn, Change, Chat, Clock, Company, Complexity, Connect, Control, Countless Hours, Cup of Coffee, Data, Do, Drone, Empty, End, Eternal, Eyes, Feel, Fellowship, Flex, Fog, Forget, God, Gone Wrong, Gothic, Gravestone, Gray, Guile, Hours, Humanity, Indignity, Infernal, Insomnia, Insomniacs, Keep, Late, Left Behind, Life, Lose, Lost Souls, Maniacs, Mind, Mistake, Mystical, Need, Night, Numb, Odd, Photograph, Piercing Mind, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Reasonable, Red, Relationships, Restoration, Rise, Rooftops, Seek, Shimmer, Sleep, Sleep Exhaustion, Sleeplessness, Slice, Sorrow, Sour, Surge, Tide, Time, Toast, Today, Tomorrow, Too Little Time, Torments, Tortured Souls, Trace, Unwilling, Virtual, Wake Up, Will, Words, World Peace, Yourself
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Happiest of Fathers Day!!
Wishing every father out there that they know the love of being a daddy who is richly blessed by the love of his children!! As for me and mine, I think we’re heading out for a short road trip!! … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessed, Children, Daddy, Happy Fathers Day!, Love, Road Trip, Thought of the Day, Wish
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First Principles: My Rule…Is…Go Straight Forward In Doing What Appears To Me Right AT the Time, Leaving the Consequences With Providence
“My rule in which I have always found satisfaction, is never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest, but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: When It Rains On Your Parade, Look Up Rather Than Down. Without the Rain, There Would Be No Rainbow
“(W)hen it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tagged Down, Gilbert K Chesterton, No Rainbow, Parade, Rain, Thought For the Day, Up, Without Rain
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Brand Me
Watched a Ted Talk with my princesses on branding. Brand Me by Michael Doyle Thinking back on life Through all of the joy and strife There has been one question Held back with some hesitation What then is my story? … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, All I'll Ever Be, All-American, All-Star, American, Any, Bed, Believe, Best of Life, Body, Books, Brand, Branding, Care, Choir Boy, Conversation, Crazy, Destiny, Devote, Dream, Dreams, Echo, Eighteen, Family, Fine Enough, First Chorus, Glory, Gratefully, Grave, Grindstone, Head, Hell, Hesitation, Humble, Joy, Just As Well, Laughter, Life, Love, Many, Me, Military Man, Moment, Nose Held Down, One Question, Open Door, Passion, Photograph, Place, Placed, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, President, Pride, Pride and Joy, Princesses, Privilege, Put Away, Read, Song, Story, Stride, Strife, Study, Sunbeam, Team, TED Talk, Thank God, Thinking Back, Time, Tombstone, Trust, Two, Wounded, Years
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Thought For the Day: A House Is Made With Walls and Beams; A Home Is Built With Love and Dreams
“A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Having just spent the day in the company of my two princesses grown into big girls, I can attest to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beams, Built, Dreams, Home, House, Love, Made, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thought For the Day, Walls
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First Principles: An Honest Man Can Feel No Pleasure In the Exercise of Power Over His Fellow Citizens
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens….There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my … Continue reading
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Tagged Exercise of Power, Feel, Fellow Citizens, First Principles, Honest Man, No Pleasure, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: All Change Is Not Growth, As All Movement Is Not Forward
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” – Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
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Tagged All, Change, Ellen Glasgow, Movement, Not Forward, Not Growth, Thought For the Day
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