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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Glimmer
In a curtain of glimmer I was watching you Watching you shimmer In everything that you do If I was a pirate I’d be shivering my timber Going for gold, not iron pyrite Gotta keep lose, keeping it limber In … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold Heart, Daily Prompt, Fool's Gold, Glimmer, Heartbreak, Loss, Pirate, Remember, Shimmer, Timber, Winter, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Always Do Today What You Will Wish You Had Done Tomorrow
“If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.” – John Lubbock (1834-1913)
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Tagged Actions, Choices, Conduct, Consequences, Doubt, John Lubbock, Rules, Thougth For the Day, Today, Tomorrow
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Disrupt
I don’t really want to interrupt But, whose idea was it to disrupt The explorations of childhood Are second guessed and not understood Free range kids at risk of intervention Based on the government’s interpretation And where parents rights are … Continue reading
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Tagged Childhood, Daily Prompt, Disrupt, Exploration, Family, Free Range Kids, Freedom, Interpretation, Interrupt, Let Go, Let Grow, Nanny State, Parental Rights, Wisdom, Wordpress
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Na/GloPoWriMo 12: Pukka Shell Haibun
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 12’s challenge is to write a Haibun based on the environment we grew up in. I came up with this: Pukka Shell Haibun by Michael Romani A shark’s tooth attached to pukka shell necklace becomes replaced by a … Continue reading
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Tagged Califoria, Coastal, Culture, Dependent, Geography, Global, Haibun, Hawai'i, Military, Na/GloPoWriMo, Ocean, Poem, Poetry, Pukka Shell, Scotland
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Thought For the Day: The Founders of the United States Believed Our Leaders Would Always Be Honest and Honorable
“The drafters of the Constitution had made on simple but far reaching error. They’d assumed the people selected by the People to manage the nation would be as honest and honorable as they’d been. One could almost hear the “Oops!” … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Error, Founding Fathers, Governance, Honest, Honor, The People, Thought For the Day, Tom Clancy
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First Principles: At Times, Honesty Requires the Willingness To Offend
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”– Thomas Paine, in The Forester’s Letters, April 24, 1776 The Forester Letters may be read here: http://thomaspaine.org/essays/american-revolution/the-forester-s-letters.html
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Tagged Courage, Dare, First Principles, Honesty, Integrity, Offend, The Forester's Letters, Thomas Paine, Truth
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Na/GloPoWriMo 11: Solo Deo Gloria
The Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 challenge is a nebulous subject of what might my state of the union be about my life in the future. I live a lot in the moment. I suppose that I nearly always have. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged Daddy, Daughters, Family, God, Living A Prayer, Na/GloPoWriMo, Phototgraph, Poem, Poetry, Solo Deo Gloria, Tomorow, Yesterday
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Froth
Sometimes life feels like the flared froth of the longest wave Like I’m living in chaos, spinning round and round to my grave Caught up in the bubbled surface of simply too much turbulence Believing myself lost within the newest, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloha, Break, Bubble, Daily Prompt, Endless Mile, Froth, Moment, Ride, Serenity, Smile, Stillness, Turbulence, Wave, Wordpress
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A Light For the Nations
Based on Isaiah 42:6-8 A Light For the Nations by Michael Romani Words in the right places Together in intended phrases To say just what they mean To seen as meant to be seen With all the glory given Our ways … Continue reading
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Tagged A Light For the Nations, Beacon, Book of Isaiah, Glorifcation, Glory, Intention, Light, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Words
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First Principles: There Is A Danger In Judges Yielding To the Popular Passions of The Day
“The danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defense of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices … Continue reading →