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Thought For the Day: Life Is Too Short For Animosity Or Counting Wrongs
“Life appears to me to be too short to be spent with nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” – Charlotte Bronte
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Tagged Animosity, Charlotte Bronte, Counting, Life, Nursing, Short, Thought For the Day, Wrongs
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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 15: Dental Plan
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 15’s challenge is to attempt to take the perspective of a bad or evil character from a positive spin. I’ve never really thought of something like that as a subject for a poem. But, hey, why not, right? … Continue reading
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Tagged Dental Plan, Evil, Hell, Hell-Being, Lucifer, Minions, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Primeval, Sign On Bonus, Spell
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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 14: Sipping Tea From A Dirty Cup
The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 14 amounts to writing a poem based on the dream meanings of some or all of certain words chosen by the person who run this thing. The words we are to select from are: Teacup … Continue reading
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Tagged Ballet Slipper, Dentist, Dreams, Hammer, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photographs, Poem, Poetry, Renewal, Rowboat, Seagull, Shark, Teacup, Wobbly Table
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Song
Late at night, I remember when Back to the point of once and then Revealed as the song in my heart The words and tune do their part Keeping in mind where I belong Feelings like this cannot be wrong … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Daily Prompt, Feelings, Heart, Late Night, Memory, Reverie, Song, Tune, Wordpress, Words
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First Principles: True Law Is Certain and Universal On All of Society
“Nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.” – Benjamin Rush (1788)
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Tagged Benjamin Rush, Certainty, First Prinicples, Law, Operation, Society, Universality
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Thought For the Day: It Ain’t Braggin’ If You Can Back It Up
“It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up”. –– Dizzy Dean I tend to prefer humility. But sometimes,, there is a thing or two to learn from and think on stated by the brash among us. This is, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Baseball, Bragging, Dizzy Dean, Evidence, Humility, Straight Talk
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Thought For the Day: Dare To Reason And Escape Bigotry and Foolishness To Be Free
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” – Lord Byron, poet (22 Jan 1788-1824)
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Tagged Bigotry, Courage, Enslavement, Foolish, Freedom, Lord Byron, Reason, Thought For the Day, Wise
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First Principles: The Most Productive Finance System Will Always Be The Least Burdensome
“There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least … Continue reading
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Tagged Administration, Alexander Hamilton, Burdensome, Finance, First Principles, Government, Oppression, Political Economy, Revenue, Taxation
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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 13: In A New Day’s Saying
The Na/GloPoWriMo Day 13 challenge is to stand clichés on their heads and still make poetry out of the mess. In A New Day’s Saying by Michael Romani Like an old man in the well conformed barrens He was beginning … Continue reading
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Tagged Cliche, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Quirky, Wealth
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