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Thought For the Day: Returning Hate For Hate Only Multiples Hate
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Admonitition, Annihilation, Chain Reaction, Darkness, Descend, Evil, Hate, Impasse, Jesus, Light, Love, Love Your Enemies, Martin Luther King Jr, Modern World, Night, Returning Hate, Spiral, Stars, Thought For the Day, Toughness, Violence, War
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Broken Sparrow Down
A few couplets were spotted dancing across the page….Dedicated to those who recognize that suicide is among the top reasons for death in the United States and work so diligently to lower these numbers and give up to the tired, … Continue reading
Heartbreaks Forgiven
I wrote this poem just now. Please forgive the typos. It’s sort of a word flow thing…. Heartbreaks Forgiven by Michael Romani I watched you kill your child today I held your hand and did not look away You told … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Answer, Beautiful, Call, Child, Christian, Conspiracy, Cry, Daughter, Despite, Different, Fogive, Forgive, Forsake, Forty Years, Found, God's Plan, Goodbye, Grateful, Halo, Hand, Hard, Heartbreak, Heathen, Hell, Horrible, Hours, Hug, Hurt, Laugh, Left, Life, Live, Looking Out, Love, Man, Mistake, Morning Light, Patience, Phone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prayer, Project, Promise, Reason, Regret, Remember, Right, Risk, Satan, Season, Secret, Shake, Shoe, Silent, Smile, Soul, Sparkle, Stay, Taught, Tears, Time, Tonight, Watch, Wild Man, Years, You, Young, Your Way
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Thought For the Day: Counseling Is Best Approached As Reminding the Person of Things Forgotten, Not Unable To Be Seen
“When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.” – Baltasar Gracian, writer and philosopher (8 Jan 1601-1658)
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Tagged Appear, Baltasar Gracian, Counsel, Forgotten, Light, Remind, See, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: It Is Unlawful To Take Away the Liberty of Others Simply Through Superior Power
“[I]t is certainly unlawful to make inroads upon others . . . and take away their liberty by no better means than superior power.“ – John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Tagged Deprive, First Principles, Inroads, John Witherspoon, Liberty, Means, Others, Superior Power, Unlawful
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The Truth of Loving Consequences
Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. So goes the title and theory of an now old book that attempted to explain our differences in communication. But, wake up guys. This is the 21st Century and the women have … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Adoration, Cherish, Communication, Consequences, Detail, Dirty, End, Expectation, Friend, Game, Good Enough, Good Stuff, Guy, I, Innocent, Large and In Charge, Long Hours, Love, Mars, Men, Misdeed, Nicety, Party Favor, Perish, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Propose, Recall, Reply, Roses, Savor, Truth, Venus, Why, Wife, Window, Women, Zing
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Ladies In White
It always astounds me when national leaders get something so entirely wrong. In this example, we see a group of women in Congress with so little understanding of the history of our nation that while they intended to mock President … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920, Blame, Brinksmanship, Congress, Democratic Record, Dressed, Equal, Equal Wages for Equal Work, Freshman Class, History, History Buff, Immaturity, Ladies, Lady Sufferagettes, Learned, Lesson, Liberty, Olive Branch, Photograph, Photographic Evidence, Poem, Poetry, Politcal Game, President Trump, Republican, Republican Record, Seneca Falls, State of the Union, Symbol, Vote, White, Women's Rights, Woodrow Wilson
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Thought For the Day: United States Will Never Be A Socialist Country
“Tonight we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” – Donald Trump Bernie Sanders, the most vocal pick pocket, the US has ever allowed to remain in Congress, didn’t like that line in the State of … Continue reading
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First Principles: Power Is of An Encroaching Nature and Must Be Restrained
“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Assigned, Encroach, First Principles, James Madison, Limits, Nature, Power, Restrain
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Purveyors of Doubt
This is not aimed at all counselors out there. More sort of a response to a show I’ve started to watch. To those who do excellent work in helping folks sort things out, a huge thank you! For those … Continue reading
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Tagged Breadown, Circumstance, Clarity, Comedy, Counselor, Doubt, False World, Fractals, Fragments, Happenstance, Muddle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purveyor, Reality, Self Assert, Self Confession, Self Denial, Shutdown, Sophisticate, Theory, Therapy, Tragic, Volume, Whisper
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