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Thought For the Day: Patience Is Also Action
“Patience is also a form of action.” – Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917)
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Na/GloPoWriMo 6: Comprehending the Asylum
The challenge for day 6 is to compose a poem of uneven lines. Having sat through a standup comic’s routine and finding some tantalizing insights in his skits, I came up with this. Comprehending the Asylum by Michael Romani Outside … Continue reading
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Tagged Asylum, Blame, Game, Infinite Wishes, Innocence, Photographs, Pitch, Poems, Poetry, River of Life, Salesman, Understanding, Uneven Lines, Upending, World
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Na/GloPoWriMo 5: To Be me, Not You
Day 5 arrived yesterday about the same time that I upped my running (albeit at a very slow pace) to an hour of running. There’s my excuse and I’m keeping with it. It’s hard to write a new poem when … Continue reading
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Tagged Adapt, Challenges, Complexity, Crisis, Disease, God, Heaven, Identity, Life, Lithuania, Love, Overcome, Peace of Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Simplicity, Survive, The Greatest Artist, Thrive
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Haul
Taking a long view of it over all We find that we have had quite the haul But as long as we are dishing Let’s talk a little about overfishing Like all first takes at technology We overfished ourselves into … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Prompt, Fisheries, Haul, Intervention, Management, Overfishing, Recovery, Technology, Travesty, Wordpress
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First Principles: The Road That Providence Has Set For the United States Should Never Be Abandoned
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from … Continue reading
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Tagged Attainment, Blessings, Diligence, Dispensation, First Principles, George Washington, Neglect, Path, Providence, United States
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Thought For the Day: To Fully Live, We Must Apply Knowledge and Take Action
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Coda: A Eulogy For A King
Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4, 1968. In his honor and to memorialize in some small way his life and legacy: Coda: A Eulogy For A King by Michael Romani Born into a world of brutality In … Continue reading
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Tagged Brutality, Children of God, Coda, Dignity, Eulogy, Family, Forgiveness, Humility, Injustice, Justice, Living, Love, Martin Luther King Jr, Nonviolence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redemption, United States
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Frigid
Looking down into the heart of the frigid winter Hoping to find maybe some kind of hint there Why so many find the starkness of winter dead Perhaps it’s the quietness they hold in dread? The chill can ache deep … Continue reading
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Tagged Bleakness, Bones, Children, Chill, Daily Prompt, Dickens, Dread, Frigid, Play, Solitude, Star of David, Starkness, Winter, Wisemen, Wordpress
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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Man
“[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should … Continue reading
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Tagged Conduct, Essential, First Principles, George Washington, Habits, Learned, Moral Character, Reputation, Virtuous
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Thought For the Day: Hating Others Belittles Our Souls
“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.” – Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (5 Apr 1856-1915)
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Tagged Booker T Washington, Control, Hatred, Inability to Control, Love, Others, Self, Soul, Thought For the Day
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