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Depth of Field
A photographer’s mind doodle: Depth of Field by Michael Doyle F-stops along the way Effect the sharpness of the day Owed all to the depth of field Is the clarity with which you yield Layers of composition Provide the focused … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambient Light, Bemuse, Big, Chaos, Clarity, Clutter, Composition, Depth of Field, Edge, Exclusion, Eyes, F-Stop, Focus, Frame, Hole, Image, Intrusion, Layers, Lens, Lyrical, Mutter, Mystical, Notes, Photo, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pop, Shallow Depth, Sharpness, Shutter Speed, Soft Focus, Story, Tantalize, Tell, Tool, Touch, Wax
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First Principles: We Must Not Let Our Rulers Load Us With Perpetual Debt
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” – Thomas Jefferson, in Letter to Samuel Kercheval (July 12, 1816) All of these trillions of dollars of debt we are currently incurring… When does the payment come … Continue reading
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Tagged First Principles, Let, Load, Must, Perpetual Debt, Rulers, Thomas Jefferson, Us, We
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Thought For the Day: One Secret of Success…Lies In the Ability To Get the Other Person’s Point of View and See Things From That Person’s Angle As Well As Your Own
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” – Henry Ford
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Tagged Ability, Angle, Henry Ford, One, Other Person, Point of View, Secret, See, Success, Thought For the Day, Your Own
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How To Live the Bible
Based in part on Deuteronomy 11:18-21: How To Live the Bible by Michael Doyle Thank you Father for our salvation Certain of our coming final destination Please hear our prayers on Palm Sunday As we worship and praise all of … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Bible, Carve, Comfort, Console, Destination, Deuteronomy, Devotional, Distraction, Emotion, Encourage, Faith, Flock, Focus, Follow, Foundation, Fuel, Guidance, Habit, Health, Holy, Home, How-To, Lesson, Life, Live, Look, Lost Sheep, Me, Palm Sunday, Paryers, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Praise, Prayer, Principles, Proverbs, Psalms, Restoration, Rock, Rules, Salvation, School, Scripture, Sky, Soul, Spiritual, Stillness, Stone, Struggle, Thank you, The Book, Troubled, Verse, Walk, Wealth, Widom, Wilderness, Word, Words, Worship
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The Death of Empires and America Marches On
American history continues through the beginning of the Great Depression. The Death of Empires and America Marches On by Michael Doyle The end of the Great War brought down empires from prior Redrawing Europe’s map by 14 Points down to … Continue reading
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Tagged 14 Points, 1920, American History, Assembly, Black Thursday, Business, Calvin Coolidge, Depression, Economy, Empire, Europe, Great Depression, Great War, Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, Jazz Age, League of Nations, Mellon, Normalcy, Nye Commission, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ratification, Recession, Referendum, Regulation, Riots, Silent Cal, Sovereignty, Spanish Influenza, Supply Side Economics, Tax, Veterans, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson
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Thought For the Day: Persons of Courage Are Also Full of Faith
“A man of courage is also full of faith.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Tagged Cicero, Courage, Faith, Full, Mankind, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: No People Will Tamely Surrender Their Liberties…When Knowledge Is Diffused and Virtue Preserved
“Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, First Principles, Inculcated, James Warren, Knowledge, Liberty, Minds, Moral Sense, People, Principles of Virtue, Public, Purpose, Reality, Samuel Adams, Surrender, Vice, Virtue, Wise
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