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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 26: Fisherman’s Wharf
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 26 challenge is to write a poem “that includes images that engage all five senses. Try to be as concrete and exact as possible with the “feel” of what the poem invites the reader to see, smell, touch, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcatrazz, Chocolate, Cioppino, Death, Ferry, Fisherman's Wharf, Hyde Street, Love, Memories, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Pier 39, Poem, Poetry, San Francisco, Sausalito, Sea Food, Sea Lions
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Notable
There’s a rumor that it’s notable And perhaps even noticeable That fame comes to those who strive And not often to those who are merely alive There remains just one thing you see How to be famous and yet keep … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Daily Prompt, Dignity, Fame, Gratitude, Humility, Notable, Perspective, Platitude, Potable, Rumor, Strive, Wordpress
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First Principles: Guard Against the Impostures of False Patriotism
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged Against, False, Farewell Address, First Principles, George Washington, Guard, Imposture, Patriotism
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Thought For the Day: The Truest Beauty of A Woman Shines From the Inside Out
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797)
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Tagged Adornment, Beauty, Body, Freedom, Gilt Cage, Infancy, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mind, Prison, Soul, Taught, Teach, Thought For the Day, Women
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Thought For the Day: Words Are Skins of Living Thoughts Subject To Change
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.” – Oliver Wendell … Continue reading
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Tagged Circumstances, Living Thought, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, Skin, Thought For the Day, Time, Transparent, Unchanged, Usage, Vary, Word
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First Principles: All Laws Must Have The Right of Reciprocation
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” – Thomas Jefferson (1782) … Continue reading
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Tagged Arbitrary, Conscience, First Principles, Force, Fundamental, Law, Reciprocation of Right, Rules of Conduct, Thomas Jefferson
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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 25: Handle With Care
The Na/GloPoWriMo Day 25 challenge is to write a poem that takes the form of a warning label. Handle With Care by Michael Romani There in all that subterfuge misspoke Are the mirrors of the hearts we broke Token glimpses … Continue reading
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Tagged Graceless Games, Handle With Care, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Subterfuge, Warning Label
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Girding My Heart
Based on the Book of Psalms: Girding My Heart by Michael Romani With my whole heart I seek Him Guarding my life by the decision That is not just a frivolous whim But one made from the precision Of guarding … Continue reading
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Tagged Girding, Heart, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psalms, Rebuke, Repentence, the Word
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Elaborate
Life, in all of its many details, Offers much that compels From the simple to the elaborate There is so much to celebrate So much to stimulate No need to complicate But to breath in as you breathe out Ends … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Breath of Life, Compels, Daily Prompt, Details, Elaborate, Good Things, Joy, Life, Proclaim, Simple, Stimulate, Wordpress
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First Principles: Sovereign Power Tends To Be Hostile To Those Seeking Restraint Of Its Operations
“There is in the nature of sovereign power an impatience of control, that disposes those who are invested with the exercise of it, to look with an evil eye upon all external attempts to restrain or direct its operations.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Animus, Control, Direction, Federalist Papers, First Principles, Hostile, Impatience, Nature, Restraint, Sovereign Power
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