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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Infect
In life, if we stop just long enough to inspect We find so little is needed to reflect and infect Just a little bit of color brings a nice touch One that is often needed and needed much Like a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bright, Color, Daily Prompt, Darkness, Flowers, Healing, Hope, Infect, Joy, Light, Love, Magic, Needs, Reflection, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Windstorms Carve the Beauty of Canyons
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (8 Jul 1926-2004)
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Tagged Beauty, Canyon, Carve, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Shield, Thought For the Day, Windstorm
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First Principles: The Harder the Conflict With Tyranny, The More Glorious Is the Triumph
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” — Thomas Paine, American Crisis, No. 1, 1776
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Tagged American Crisis, Conflict, Conquered, Consolation, First Principles, Glory, Hell, Thomas Paine, Triumph, Tyranny
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Quiet Time
https://flic.kr/p/qoGFZn Genesis 32:32-34 Quiet Time by Michael Romani Taking a little time to be alone In a devotional heart like stone Just the Lord and little ole me Taking moments so quietly Alone in the Word in devotion Getting right … Continue reading
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Tagged Atone, Attitude, Contemplation, Devotion, God, God's Will, Lord, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quiet Time, Quietude, Reflection, Sin, Snippets
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Thin
There’s a thin line between thunder And the lightning that strikes, she thought Between the water that pulls you under And the gasping breath reached for and sought There’s a thin line between love and what’s mine Selfishness and desire … Continue reading
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Tagged Breath, Daily Prompt, Family, Grumble, Lightning, Love, Mumble, Possession, Pulled Under, Thin, Thunder, Valentine, Water, Wordpress
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First Principles: Never Abandon Reason
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the spot of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdiities, First Principles, Guard, Guillibility, Mankind, Mind, Reason, Rudder, Surrender, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Nature Never Betrays Those Who Love Her
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” – William Wordsworth (7 Apr 1770-1850)
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Tagged Heart, Light, Nature, Nature Lovers, Teach, Thought For the Day, William Wordsworth
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Dancer’s Guillotine
Dancer’s Guillotine by Michael Romani It’s a denunciation of distinction A singularity calling out its fascination The deepest feeling, reeling in my heart The point from which surrealism departs This world is a chaotic scene of violence Shown to you … Continue reading
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Tagged American Tragedy, Benevolence, Broken Window, Compassion, Dancer, Empathy, Experience, Guillotine, Impact, Introspection, Irony, Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Singularity, Soul, Sway, Tyranny, Violence
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Pedigree
In the name of my heritage, I have been to hell and back In all ways fighting for the light and never fading black In the name of my jaded pedigree, golden cause of legacy I often cite my family’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Daly Prompt, Fading Black, Family, Hell and Back, Heritage, History, Legacy, Pedigree, Wordpress
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First Principles: The Constitution Is the Standard We Must Cling To and Measure Our Opposition By
“The present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes.” – Alexander Hamilton (1802)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Bona Fide, Cling, Constitution, First Principles, Poltical Foes, Standard, Uphold
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