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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Identical
Perhaps it is a bit much too parenthetical To point out how the technique is identical In that which the skaters do employ And in bad taste to say so as they enjoy Spinning in so many circles that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Cherish, Daily Prompt, Ice Dance, Ice Skate, Identical, Romance, Symmetrical, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Our Hearts and Not the Opinions of Others Form Our Honor
“Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions, form our true honor.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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Tagged Consensus, Heart, Honor, Opinion, Popular, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thought For the Day, Truth
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First Principles: Tyranny and Oppression Will Come To America In the Name of Fighting Some Foreign Enemy
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” -James Madison, fourth US president (16 Mar 1751-1836) Power corrupts, right? There is no greater time that those in power have … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Enemy, First Principles, Foreign, James Madison, Oppression, Tyranny
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How Darkness Wins
How Darkness Wins by Michael Romani Sometimes it feels like “it’s a bad day” Has somehow become our last best way It’s hard to move forward with the feeling That our whole world keeps on reeling Life lives with way … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Bad Day, Clarity, Community, Faith, Feeling, Madness, Nation, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reeling, Sadness
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Blush
There was a sort of blush to that roseate looking sky It was the sort of sunset that would have caught my eye Even without the dissent of dissonance and chaos of disorder Out there seen slightly edgy and oddly … Continue reading
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Tagged Blush, Chaos, Daily Prompt, Dissonance, Roseate, Silver Lining, Sky, Storm, Surf, Surfer, Waves, Wordpress
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First Principles: Increasing Debt Leads To Sorrow
“He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.” —Benjamin Franklin (1758)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Borrow, Debt, Debtor, First Principles, National Defecit, Sorrow
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First Principles: The Power of the People To Establish Government Presupposes the Duty of Individuals To Be Good Citizens
“The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.” – George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 You may read the entirety of this address … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Citizenship, Farewell Address, First Principles, George Washington, Government, Power, Right
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Thought For the Day: Better To Silent Than Speak and Be Thought A Fool
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Maurice Switzer, in Mother Goose, Her Book I do not know that I fully agree with this adage. Maybe, I think, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Doubt, Foolish, Maurice Switzer, Mother Goose, Remove, Silence, Thought For the Day, Vocal
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