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Between A Cookie and A Cake
December 8th is set aside by some and somewhat unofficially as National Brownie Day! That’s alright by me. When I was a kid I always thought brownies and chocolate chip cookies should be their own separate food group with still … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacon, Bake, Bite, Cake, Calories, Chocolate, Chocolate Chip, Confection, Cookie, Count, Day, December 8th, Dream, End, Favorite, Head, Homage, Hot Fudge Sundae, Milk, National Brownie Day, Perfection, Photograph, Pillow, Poem, Poetry, Sleep, Smooth, Work Out
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First Principles: Many Observe Christ’s Birthday; Few Follow His Precepts
“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Birthday, Christ, Commandments, Easy, Few, First Principles, Holidays, Keep, Observe, Precepts
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Thought For the Day: The Wise Teacher Leads You To the Threshold of Your Mind, Not Theirs
“If (the teacher) is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Kahlil Gibran
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Tagged Bid, Enter, House, Kahlil Gibran, Lead, Mind, Teacher, Thought For the Day, Threshold, Wisdom, Wise
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Urban Christianity
A Sunday sort of poem… Urban Christianity by Michael Romani Fully formed in my Christianity I have come to belief quite rationally But, also find it credible emotionally Bit by bit, I have been ratifying These things of belief, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Agrarian, Alive, Answer, Axiom, Belief, Big Questions, Christianity, Claim, Community, Conclude, Contemporary, Controversy, Credible, Cross, Deceive, Define, Earn, Emotionally, Equality, Essence, Evidence, Evil, Faith, Fight, Form, Gift, God, Grief, Human, Injustice, Is, Job, Just, Leap of Faith, Legacy, Life, Live, Logic, Mentality, Mercy, Moment, Morality, Nature, Office Hours, Ought, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proof, Ratify, Rational, Reality, Reason, Receive, Relief, Respect, Satisfy, Science, Season, Sincere, Soul, Standard, Strong, Suffer, Sunday, Supernatural, Survive, Transcendent, Truism, Trust, Truth, Tussle, Understate, Understood, Urban, Youth
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Like Sand Becomes A Pearl
On December 7, 1941, the then Japanese Empire attacked America killing some 2,400 people and bringing the US into World War II. Today is remembered in the US as National Pearl Harbor Day of Remembrance. Like Sand Becomes A … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Attack, Avoid, Beauty, Begun, Brave, Brilliant, Circumvent, December 7 1941, End, Events, Eye, Fight, Forge, Friends, Gallantry, Give, God, Hate, Infamy, Inspiration, Irritation, Japan, Legacy, Lesson, Light, Lives, Memory, Nations, Oyster, Pearl, Pearl Harbor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Recognize, Remember, Remembrance, Right, Sand, Soul, Tragedy, Tragic, Transform, Two, War, Wise, Won, World, Yamamoto
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Thought For the Day: True Wisdom Comes At Realizing How Little We Understand About Life, Ourselves and the World Around Us
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” – Socrates
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Tagged Life, Ourselves, Realize, Socrates, Thought For the Day, True Wisdom, Understand, Us, We, World
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First Principles: Never Consider A Difference of Opinion In Politics, In Religion, In Philosophy, As Cause For Withdrawing From A Friend
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”– Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Cause, Consider, Difference, First Principles, Friend, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, Withdraw
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First Principles: Whenever the Pillars of Christianity Are Overthrown, Our Republican Government and All Blessing From It Will Fall With Them
“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness, which mankind now enjoys…Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government – and all blessings which … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Christianity, Civil Freedom, Enjoy, Fall, First Principles, Flow, Government, Happiness, Influence, Jedidiah Morse, Kind, Mankind, Overthrown, Pillars, Political, Republican, Social
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Thought For the Day: Though We Have Nothing Left To Give Away, Let’s Not Forget It’s St. Nicholas Day!
“Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won’t be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Frank, Fear, Find, Free, Fun, Give Away, Happy Day, Hideaway, Optimism, Safe, Shoe, Something, Sound, St Nicholas Day, Thought For the Day, Win, Year
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On This St Nicholas Day 2019
Happiest of St Nicholas’ Days 2019! This is the day that I will forever and a day celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season. Though honestly, I believe the world would be all the better if we kept Christmas in … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, Beautiful, Believe, Birth, Celebrate, Child, Christmas Season, Creed, Custom, December, Deeds, Door, Doubt, Faith, Faraway, Favor, First Light, Fortune, Gifts, Gladness, Good Deed, Good Name, Good News, Heart, Jesus, Legend, Live, Nicea, Night, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Respect, Same, Santa, Seal, Shiver, Shoe, Sound, St Nicholas Day, Summer, Toys, Truth, Wolf
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