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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Profuse
Time bleeds profusely across my lost page Senses felt, sometimes love; others empty rage Dancing on the ends of pierced second hands Pivoting with leaping conclusions that sometimes land You speak to me of patience as time slips away With … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Bleeds, Conclusions, Daily Prompt, Defiance, Eyes, Fairy Tale, Kidney Punches, Page, Profuse, Second Hands, Tears, Time, Wish, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Rising Wages and Unemployment Claims At A 45 Year Low.. Are Good Things……
“[Our economy has] created 2.4 million new jobs, including 200,000 new jobs in manufacturing alone. … After years and years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages. Unemployment claims have hit a 45-year low. … African American unemployment … Continue reading
First Principles: A Certain Amount of Resisting Government Should Be Kept Alive
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.” – Thomas Jefferson (1787)
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Tagged Duty, First Principles, Government, Injustice, Justice, Resistance, Thomas Jefferson, Valuable
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Super Blue Moon
Super Blue Moon by Michael Romani There’s an extraordinary promise To be found in the super blue moon So she says and in introspection, I compromise Basking in the glow and say we’ll see soon Internally thinking blood moon, blue … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Beginning, Belief, Blood Moon, Compromise, Doors, Eclipse, Ending, Freeing, Introspection, Love, Magic, Poem, Poetry, Shackles, Stardust, Super Blue Moon, Super Moon, Trust
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Conveyor
In a sense more than innocence The written word is a conveyor Without any sort of pretense It’s a vivid sort of displayer Teaching use what we need Providing us with mental feed We cannot know the future If we … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Conveyor, Daily Prompt, Future, Learn, Nurture, Past, Present, Wisdom, Wordpress, Written Word
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Thought For the Day: Hire and Friend Those Who Are Different Than You
“If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don’t particularly like..” -Soichiro Honda, industrialist (17 Nov 1906-1991) … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiration, Best Practices, Differences, Diversity, Hire, Skill Sets, Soichiro Honda, Thought For the Day, Understanding
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First Principles: When War Becomes Necessary, Immediately Set Out the Terms of Peace
“To render the justice of the war on our part the more conspicuous, the reluctance to commence it was followed by the earliest and strongest manifestations of a disposition to arrest its progress. The sword was scarcely out of the … Continue reading
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Tagged James Madison, Just War, Justice, Peacemaker, Prevention, Reluctance, Terms of Peace, War of 1812
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Sonic Gems: Gilbert & Sullivan – The Mikado
The Mikado or The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts featuring the music of Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. Gilbert. It was the ninth of the 14 operatic collaborations by these two gentlemen and opened … Continue reading
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Tagged Comic Opera, Gilbert & Sullivan, London, Savoy Operas, Sonic Gems, The Mikado, The Town of Titipu
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Sophocles – Antigone
Tradition states that Sophocles perished on January 30, 405 B.C. We have previously discussed the life and legacy of Sophocles elsewhere. We have also discussed the Thebes tragedies. Antigone was written in or about 441 B.C. and is part … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeschylus, Ancient Greece, Antigone, Harvard Classics, Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles, Thebes, Tragedy
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The Man In the Bottle
Continuing with my daughter’s challenge to me, we have a poem based on The Twilight Zone, Season 2, Episode 2: The Man In the Bottle by Michael Romani A couple infinitely patient and quite gentle The Castles have lived life … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abstract, Consequence, Genie, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, The Man In the Bottle, The Twilight Zone, Wise, Wishes
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