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In Remembrance of Veterans Day
From one Veteran and his lady to all other Veterans and active duty members and the wives who served and continue serve on the home-front, we wish you each the very best of Veteran’s Days and thank you all for … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Force, Army, Battle Front, Coast Guard, Duty, Gratitude, Home Front, Honor, Navy, Service, Thank You For Your Service, US Marine Corps, Veterans Day
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Top Violinists In Popular Music
The following is a compilation I put together of 100 of the top and most popular violinists in popular music through the 20th and 21st Centuries. This compilation represents a broad cross section of talent that has presented itself in … Continue reading
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Tagged Blues, Classical Cross Over, Country, Education, Fiddle, Folk, Jazz, Music, Popular Music, Rock, Violin
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American Lion: Speaker of Truth
Frederick Douglass was a Republican. I love when I read the Left try to work its way around that with lies and pretense and then try to make the case anything but than it was. The Republicans formed in … Continue reading
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Tagged American, American History, American Lion, Believer, Chains, Change, Color, Confederacy, Contradiction, Craftwork, Democrats, Derision, Division, Equality, Frederick Douglass, Freedom, Hero, Humanity, Identity, Jim Crow, Liberty, Life, Marxist, Mock, Mortal Sin, Nation, Nuances, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Republican, Reverse Discrimination, Skin Color, Speak, Tales, Tension, Truth
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First Principles: Love of Truth and Veneration of Virtue Are the Sparks of Discernment of Right and Wrong and True and False
“A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the ‘latent spark’… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what … Continue reading
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Tagged Difference, False, First Principles, John Adams, Latent Spark, Love of Truth, Mankind, Passions, Principle, Right, True, Understand, Veneration of Virtue, Vice, Virtue, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: Worrying Doesn’t Stop the Bad, But, It Does Ruin the Good
“Worrying won’t stop the bad stuff from happening; it just stops you from enjoying the good.” – Charlie Brown
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Tagged Bad Stuff, Charlie Brown, Enjoy, Good, Happen, Stop, Thought For the Day, Worry
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First Principles: Let Us Rely On the Goodness of Our Causes and the Aid of God
“Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.” – George Washington, in his General Orders (1776) … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Aid, America, Enourage, First Principles, George Washington, Goodness of the Cause, Noble, Rely, Supreme Being, Victory
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Thought For the Day: Treat People As If They Are What The Should Be and Help Them Become All They Capable of Being
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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Tagged Being, Capable, Help, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ought To Be, People, Thought For the Day, Treat
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Stranger To Myself
Little something picked up on watching a horror show and thinking. I’m often guilty of thinking way too much. 😉 Stranger To Myself by Michael Romani Purest instincts undone A stranger to myself As divorced from me as from anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adieu, Alone, Annihilation, Cast Down, Crack, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Distant, Doubt, Eternal, Evil, Face, Ghost, Glass, Gone, Goodbye, Hope, Hound of God, Inside, Instinct, Left, Life, Man In the Mirror, Me, Mirror, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Self, Shelf, Strain, Stranger, Time, Whisper
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Thanks In Everything
There are times when it seems awfully hard to find gratitude for the things and situations God puts into our lives. Here’s a little something on that topic and to make up for not having my mid-week Christian poem yesterday. … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Bible, Bliss, Christian, Circumstance, Commandment, Commission, Contemplation, Cope, Dark Threads, Days, Dependent, Fear, Glory, God, Gratitude, Happenstance, Hear, Hesitation, Obey, Peace, Persevere, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Release, Sovereign, Spirit, Stillness, Story, Submission, Thankful, Understand, Unfolding Revelation, Woven
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Thought For the Day: Great Men Cultivate Love Only Little Men Cherish Hatred
“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.” – Booker T Washington
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Tagged Booker T Washington, Cherish, Cultivate, Great Men, Hatred, Little Men, Love, Thought For the Day
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