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Thought For the Day: Music Makes Us All A Little Immortal
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau This post dedicated to a blogger who made me … Continue reading
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Tagged Danger, Fear, Harmony, Henry David Thoreau, Immortality, Music, Opposition, Peace, Thought For the Day, Vulnerability
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Egyptian Dawn
Egyptian Dawn by Michael Romani Mercury drips Leading to madness Shake of her hips Only leads to sadness Death Is not the end Evil held down To where it was meant to descend Out of time Out of place A … Continue reading
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Tagged Darkness, Egypt, Murder, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Priestess, Ravens, Set
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Sonic Gems: Miles Davis – Live Evil
Released on November 17, 1971, Live Evil is a mix of live and studio recordings by American Jazz musician Miles Davis. Part of this album consisted of edited, lengthy jams in a Fusion/ jazz-rock style from a concert at the Cellar … Continue reading
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Tagged Cellar Door, Fusion, Hermeto Parcoal, Jam, Jazz, John McLaughlin, Live Evil, Miles Davis, Sonic Gems
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Progress of Geology – Charles Lyell
Sir Charles Lyell lived from November 14, 1797 to February 22, 1875 and was a Scottish geologist who popularized the work of James Hutton. His best known work The Progress of Geology presented uniformitarianism. This is the theory that the … Continue reading
First Principles: The Ruin of Many Nations Comes Through Unjust Favoritism
“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Equality, Factions, Fairness, First Principles, History, Impartial, Oppression, Partiality, Ruin, United States, Unity
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First Principles: Moral Relativism Is A Quagmire of Moral Confusion
“If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?” –John … Continue reading
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Tagged Ethics, First Principles, John Adams, Moral Relativism, Morality, Sophistry, Truth
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Thackeray – Jonathan Swift
Interestingly, despite multiple searches, I came up empty on additional material about this essay written by Thackeray pertaining to Jonathan Swift. I will say that the essay was deemed sufficient to include it in the Harvard Classics and that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Essay, Harvard Classics, Humorist, Jonathan Swift, Satire, Thackeray
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Risky
A message for two princesses: It’s a risky business this forest we call life Filled with wonder and filled with strife But if you keep the path, I think you’ll find It’s better to step forward than be left behind … Continue reading
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Tagged Brave, Daily Prompt, Double Talk, Forest, Journey, Life, Photograph, Poem, Princesses, Risky, Step, Weary, Wordpress
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Burn It Down
Burn It Down by Michael Romani Trying to figure out What happens next Life lived with doubt Following dots that no longer connect It’s who I am, they say It will never again be right Swimming upstream just to get … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Death, Gunfight, Heartbreak, Life, Mean Street, Photograph, Poem, Poetry
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First Principles: Before A Standing Army Can Rule, the People Must Be Disarmed
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are … Continue reading
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Tagged Disarmed, First Principles, Government, History, Noah Webster, Second Amendment, Standing Army, The People
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 