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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Strategy
Somewhere in this world lives the girl for me She has turquoise eyes; reflections of a tropical sea Somehow she’ll know the touch that calms me With a voice soul sweet it nearly kills me With a love in her … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach, Comfort, Daily Prompt, Friend, Love, Lover, Ocean's Child, Smile, Soul Sweet, Strategy, Turquoise, Wordpress
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First Principles: Where There Is No Law, There Is No Liberty
“[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Rush, Certain, Community, First Principles, Law, Liberty, Order, Society, Universal
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Thought For the Day: Human Doings Are Messy
“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.” – John Galsworthy, author, Nobel Laureate (1867-1933)
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Tagged Beginning, Ending, Human, Humanity, John Galsworthy, Messy, Thought For the Day, Undertakings, Untidy
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Mercury In Retrograde
Mercury In Retrograde by Michael Romani With a nose outside of my usual encyclopedia I took a look out into the social media It seems that astrology has become a meme But, I ask myself, what does that really mean … Continue reading
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Tagged Astrology, Knowledge, Meme, Mercury In Retrograde, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promenade, Sideshow, Social Media
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Sonic Gems: Air – Air Lore
Founded in 1971, Air was a Chicago based free jazz trio founded in 1971. It’s founding members include Henry Threadgill on sax, Fred Hopkins on double bass and Steve McCall on drums. This unique combo blended radical free improvisation with … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Air Lore, Free Jazz, Improvisation, Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin, Sonic Gems, Threadgill, Trio
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Keats – Eve of St Agnes
Born on October 31, 1795, the English Romantic poet, John Keats, was among the main poets of the Romantic Era. Initially, during his lifetime his poetry was not well received among critics. But, by the end of the 19th century, … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvard Classics, John Keats, Martyr, Patron Saint, Poetry, Romantic Era, Rome, Spenser, St Agnes, The Eve of St Agnes, Virgins
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Horizon
In those quiet hours as the sun begins to set I find myself looking out to where my soul’s met With a moment’s rest as darkness creeps into the horizon I smile to myself at the feeling in which I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged Cherish, Daily Prompt, Dreams, Hope, Horizon, Life, Peace, Quiet, Realization, Sunset, Treasure, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Those Who Build Must Also Maintain
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
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Tagged Build, Flaw, Human Character, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Maintain, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: A Nation Should Promote the Minds and Morals of Its Children
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
Gestures To Hope
Gestures To Hope by Michael Romani A shadow hangs over the dinner table In a manifestation of what we are capable As our fixation on intolerant ideology Marks the vandalization of our history Peace and good will for a few … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddleia, Dark, Fragile, Gestures, History, Hope, Humanity, Intolerance, Life, Mood, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Shadow, Urban Decay
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