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Thought For the Day: If You Live To Be A Hundred, I Want To Live To Be A Hundred Minus One Day
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne
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First Principles: When the Government Violates the People’s Rights, Insurrection Is the Most Sacred of Rights and Most Indispensable of Duties
“When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.” – Marquis de Lafayette
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Tagged Duty, First Principles, Government, Indispensable, Insurrection, Marquis de Lafayette, Rights, Sacred, The People, Violate
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Ten Generations Lesson
This poem is based in part on Genesis 6:5-14 and the lessons derived from the life of Noah and the ten generation curse that walked us from the Garden of Eden to the great flood. Ten Generations Lesson by Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged Blame, Flood, Garden of Eden, Generations, Genesis, Journey, Lesson, Poem, Poetry
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First Principles: Virtue, Morality and Religion Are the Armor That Renders Us Invincible
“. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so … Continue reading
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Tagged Armor, Conquer, Danger, First Principles, Invincible, Lose, manners, Morality, Patrick Henry, Principles, Religion, Sound, Study, Tactics, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: Where There is Hatred, Let Me Sow Love
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” – Francis of Assisi
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Further Reaches
There’s magic in the stardust that goes beyond the physical world we live in. This is a bit half inspired by a tale of two worlds and of course blended with thoughts about my recent past… Further Reaches by Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach, Blend, Bright, Chain, Charm, Cheek, Chorus, Conscience, Desire, Distance, Dream, Dreams, Enchant, Far, Feeling, Felt, Field, Fingertips, Fire, Good, Harm, Hesitation, Human, Intention, Kiss, Light Years, Lips, Love, Mean, Melt, Moment, Night, Passion, Philosophy, Photograph, Pity, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Ponder, Pursuit, Push, Put Up, Question, Reach, Science, Shore, Silent, Snowdrop, Stardust, Stars, Swirl, Time, Time Waster, True, Twinkle, Woke, Wonder, World, Yield
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Angel Falls (Recalls)
There’s a lot of power in the water that flows on this planet of ours. Like the sun .. but a lot cooler.. it is a bringer of both life and destruction…. Angel Falls (Recalls) by Michael Romani Angel Falls … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel Falls, Backbone, Beauty, Chemistry, Complexity, Consistent, Crumble, Cycle, Death, Destruction, Earth, Echo, Electric, Energy, Ethereal, Flow, Force, Found, Fright, Heat, Hour, Hydrothermal, Island, Kinetic, Ledge, Life, Lightning, Loop, Mystery, Newborn, Ocean, Organic, Peak, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Power, Primordial, Rock, Sky, Soul, Soup, Stardust, Storm, Strife, Sun, Surge, Synergy, System, Warm, Water
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First Principles: United We Stand, Divided We Fall
“United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.” – Patrick Henry
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Thought For the Day: Faith Is to Believe What Do Not See
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” – Saint Augustine
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Between Heaven and Earth
A whisper of a prayer… Between Heaven and Earth by Michael Romani Between Heaven and Earth There is a gate Between light and dark There falls a shadow Between faith and sin A whisper speaks a prayer My deepest confession … Continue reading
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Tagged Between, Birth, Confession, Dark, Death, Earth, Faith, Fall, Gate, God, Happiness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven, I, Know, Lie, Life, Light, Live, Love, Miracle, Mistake, My, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Remorse, Right, Self, Shadow, Sin, Sorrow, Strength, Weakness, Whisper, Wrong
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