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First Principles: There Must Never Be A Separation of Religious Values From the Lives of Public Servants
“We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Blance, First Principles, Free Men, God, Heart, Lives, Lyndon B Johnson, Power, Public Servants, Religious Values, Remember, Separation of Church and State, Serve, Tyrants
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A Humble Path Past Conflict
Part of living a life with more gratitude might include less fight and conflict and greater humility. Poem #2 for this season of thankfulness: A Humble Path Past Conflict by Michael Romani With gratitude not as demanding Toward the God … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alienation, Allow, Angle, Blame, Build, Co-Creative, Communicate, Conflict, Crucial, Demand, Destination, Divinity, Ear, Either/Or, Eye, Fascination, Find, Form, Gain, God, Grace, Grateful, Gratitude, Heal, Heart, Humble, Humility, Invite, Live, Need, Openness, Pain, Path, Peace, People, Petty, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Polarization, Power, Reframe, Reject, Relate, Relationship, Release, Ritual, Share, Something, Spark, Strive, Stumble, Thankfulness, Theology, Thing, Three, Triangle, Tribe, Unity, Worship
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Thought For the Day: I Shut My Eyes In Order To See.
“I shut my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gauguin
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Tagged Eyes, I, Paul Gauguin, See, Shut, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: We Are As A People Opposed To Secret Societies, To Secret Oaths and To Secret Proceedings
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.” – John F. Kennedy President Kennedy would be ashamed … Continue reading
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Tagged First Principles, Free, Historic, Inherent, John F Kennedy, Open, Oppose, People, Repugnant, Secrecy, Secret Oath, Secret Proceedings, Secret Society, Society
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Fields of Kindness
As this season of thankfulness and gratitude begin, I am examining thoughts about intention, kindness and even picking up a book tomorrow morning about having humility in discussions to increase peacefulness and argue less when dealing with others who have … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abundance, Attention, Blind, Differ, Dreams, Earnest, Examine, Eyes, Feelings, Fields, God, Godliness, Good, Gratitude, Hope, Human Beings, Humility, Integrity, Intention, Kind, Kindness, Love, Meaning, Mutality, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polarize, REalizze, Right, Seams, See, Share, Side, Surmise, Thankfulness, Useful, Wisdom, Work Together, World
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Thought For the Day: Socialism Proposes No Adequate Substitute For the Motive of Enlightened Selfishness Which Is the Basis of All Labor, Effort, Enterprise and Activity
“Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.” – William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
First Principles: Beware of the Passion That Wrests the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison, Federalist 55
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Tagged Assembly, Character, Compose, Fail, Federalist Paper No. 55, First Principles, James Madison, Passion, Reason, Scepter, Wrest
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Run of the Mill Hayride Halloween
Halloween Poem #31: Run of the Mill Hayride Halloween by Michael Romani From the first snowflake that fell that day It was a near certainty that the tricks at play Would make every headless horseman see and know That this … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, All Hallow's Eve, Best, Brim, Candle, Candy, Candy Lovers, Child's Play, Chill, Day, Day of the Dead, Extraordinary, First Snow, Fun, Ghost, Glow, Goblin, Halloween, Handy, Hayride, Head, Headless Horseman, Hoodwink, Jack-O-Lanterns, Joy, Moment, November, Parents, Phototgraph, Play, Plunder, Poem, Poetry, Prankster, Pumpkin, Run of the Mill, Scare, Shake, Shiver, Show, Thrill, Trick, Trick or Treat, Tricks, Trickster, Way, Wink, Witch
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Ghosts of Bedlam
Halloween Poem #30 (the blog got messed up yesterday and I had to get it fixed by WordPress help – special thank you to the nice person who helped me!!) Ghosts of Bedlam by Michael Romani Sometimes staying the course … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Bedlam, Behind, Bleed, Brave, Burn, Conspire, Contrive, Course, Cure, Dignity, Discover, Doctor, Dollars, Doom, Dose, Dream, Fire, Ghosts, Gone, Halloween, Hallucinate, Hell, Help, Hope, Impure, Leech, Lie, Life, Mad, Medicate, Medicine, Mind, Muddle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Procedures, Recover, Remorse, Sake, Score, Soul, Strong, Survive, Truth, Wish, Wordpress, Wrong
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Happy Halloween 2019!!
To all the spooky scary ghouls and guys out there, may your Halloween 2019 be the very best!! “It’s Halloween! It’s Halloween! The moon is full and bright And we shall see what can’t be seen On any other night. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, Broom, Duel, Full, Ghouls, Goblin, Halloween, Happy Halloween!, Haunt, Jac Prelutsky, King and Queen, Mask, Moon, Night, Scary, Spooky, Thought For the Day, Tomb, Trick or Treat, Werewolves, Witch
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