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Happy St Patrick’s Day 2019
To all the readers and viewers of this blog and the accompanying Flickr photos, Aloha Promises Forever wishes you and yours: May the shamrocks be as soft as you please May your dogs never wake up with fleas May tomorrow … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, Dogs, Fine, Fleas, Happy St Patrick's Day, Love, Raise, Shamrock, Shine, Soft, Thought For the Day, Toast, Tomorrow, Yesterday
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On Outrunning Grief
You cannot outrun grief. On Outrunning Grief by Michael Romani It has been said And I assume it’s true Words from inside my head That same for me; the same for you You hide yours in a diary I keep … Continue reading
First Principles: Our Liberties Are A Gift From God
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Country, Firm Basis, First Principles, Gift of God, God, Just, Justice, Liberties, Liberty, Mind, Nation, Secure, Sleep, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violate, Wrath
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Thought For the Day: All That I Am, I Have Received From God
“I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God. – Saint Patrick
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Tagged All, Certain, God, Heart, I Am, Receive, Saint Patrick, Thought For the Day
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Tumbleweed Connection
Based in part on The Epistle to the Philippians 3:7-14: Tumbleweed Connection by Michael Romani You only have this life to live For its worse and what it might give But each of us lives each day One at a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Carpe Diem, Chisel, Connection, Curtain-Fall, Direction, Dress Rehearshal, Fate, Full, Glory, Gold Nugget, Hammer, Heaven, Highest Calling, Intentional Living, Journey, Kingdom, Life, Live, Number, Peace, Performance, Philippians, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Process, Procrastination, Road, Second Chance, Strife, Time, Tumbleweed, Way, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: It Is Better To Prevent Crimes Than To Punish Them
“It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.” – Cesare Beccaria, philosopher and politician (15 Mar 1738-1794)
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Tagged Cesare Beccaria, Crime, Criminal Justice, Prevent, Punish, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Power Is the Essence of Government and Ever Liable To Abuse
“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” – James Madison (1829)
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Tagged Abuse, Esesence, First Principles, Government, Human Hands, James Madison, Liable, Power
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Scorpion’s Sting
Danger is the stranger that leaves us curious enough to look closer… Scorpion’s Sting by Michael Romani We stain our souls In our house of pain Nothing left to console As we flail against the strain Venom of the scorpion … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Blunder, Broken, Case, Console, Curious, Danger, Deserve, Embrace, House of Pain, Looking Glass, Observe, Outgun, Outplay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Scorpion, Shatter, Shun, Soul, Spoke, Sting, Strain, Stranger, Trap, Truth of Claws, Vein, Venom, Wonder
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Hello Brother
Hatred stokes the fear that burns across our world in random outcroppings of rage and destruction. That being said, to take away the people’s right to bear arms and defend themselves seems like an ill thought out consequence, Madam Prime … Continue reading
Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)
I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai
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