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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Silent
Maybe it’s just that time of year When memories roll around I close my eyes and I’m there Still marveling at what I found Raining down in frozen white Alone in my thoughts that silent night Thinking that just once … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Bridge, Christmastide, Daily Prompt, Future, God, Love, Memories, Night, Past, Present, Silent, Snow, Wordpress
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The Proof Is In The Evidence
“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.” – Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (13 Apr 1949-2011) Even a wide awake drunk is right sometimes… 😉
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Argumentation, Assertions, Christopher Hitchens, Conclusions, Deduction, Evidence, Faith, Premises, Proof
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Refractive Lens
Refractive Lens by Michael Romani Each story that we weave Rather story or verse We come to believe As its own hermetic universe The hows and the whys That define our fiction As we half realize Our best depiction Can … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Cosmological, Lens, Paradigm, Perception, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Writing
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Meager
Life can be so hard that at times its hard to speak You search for beauty but it’s hard to see through the pique And you know, I really don’t want to seem over eager Because I know life comes … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Beauty, Choices, Daily Prompt, Irritation, Peace, Prayer, Ugliness, Voices, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: The Work of Science Has Nothing To Do With Consensus
“The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are … Continue reading
First Principles: Resolve To Do What You Must; Then Do It
“Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.” — Benjamin Franklin (1771) The new year is coming just around the corner. It’s time for my annual reflection on where I am and where I want to … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Goals, Perform, Resolutions, Resolve, Succeed
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A Conversation In Draft
A Conversation In Draft by Michael Romani Milliseconds play like mental logistics Traffic signals defining our linguistics Tiny words and pauses in our interaction Help push us past our points of distraction A single unit found in cooperation Social cognition … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Appropriate, Code, Conversation, Coordination, Interaction, Linguistics, Messy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rules
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Legend
Dixieland, Dixieland Music blares from the bandstand And the passing marching band Alexander’s Ragtime Band The saints march down Basin Street We’re in for a Southern treat Here in this Dixieland revival A musical trace has its survival As part … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Basin Street, Daily Prompt, Dixieland, Improvisation, Jazz, Legend, New Orleans, Ragtime, Wordpress
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First Principles: Assimilation Is Best Encouraged
“The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the Language, habits and principles (good or bad) which they … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Adapt, America, Assimilation, Blend, Encourage, First Principles, George Washington, Government, Grow, Immigration
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