“If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.” – Leo Tolstoy
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Thought For the Day: If You Make It A Habit Not To Blame Others, You Will Feel the Growth of the Ability To Love In Your Soul, and You Will See the Growth of Goodness In Your Life
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In the Complexity of This World
In the Complexity of This World
by Michael Doyle
Anger and other toxic emotions
Can linger with all their commotion.
All of these feelings are indwelling,
And are in our control. God willing.
We grow up as boys in the hood,
But the hope is that we grow to be understood.
Each of us finds our own meaning,
Appreciated as we are, simply human beings.
Child or parent, we have opportunities to grow.
It all depends on the depth from which we know
Every step that we have ever walked,
And keep this in mind with the words we've talked.
A snapshot taken tells us where we've been,
In all of our goodness and every sin.
These elements compose the essence of our song,
Taken in harmony, we are where we belong.
Here in the living of tales yet untold,
One dream at a time, life unfolds.
If we only just learn to live out each day,
Our happiness will find its own way.
Even Mr. Rogers wasn't quite a saint,
But a grounding in the Bible removed the taint
Of all the little troubles that come for all.
It's the love of God each of us must recall.
As neighbors, we decide our neighborhood,
Less by design, but in being understood.
It's the lonely feeling that we share.
It brings us joy far beyond what we compare.
The normality of life comes with its feelings,
So many of which could send us spiraling and reeling.
It is these emotions that we learn to transcend,
And we share this in the comfort of our friends.
It's an amazing world filled with many asks.
We go about our tasks wearing many masks.
The masks required to face the challenges unfurled
There is safety in the complexity of the world.
(c) November 19, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Appreciation, Boys In the Hood, Commotion, Complexity, Control, Depth, Feelings, God Williing, Hope, Indwelling, Meaning, Mr. Rogers, Opportunities To Grow, Poetry and Poems, Saint, Snapshot, Step, Talked, The Bible, Toxic Emotions, Understood, Walked, Words
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Thought For the Day: The Purpose of Conservation: The Greatest Good To the Greatest Number of People For the Longest Time
“The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.” – Gifford Pinchot
First Principles: The Belief In A God All Powerful Wise and Good, Is So Essential To the Moral Order of the World and To the Happiness of Man
“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.” – James Madison (1825)
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Look At What The Shrewd Have Done
Look At What the Shrewd Have Done
by Michael Doyle
Oh, look with sadness on what the shrewd have done.
Didn't Jesus warn all to never hurt even a single one?
Say the words of innocence that we've come to despise.
Those on Epstein's Island will suffer from their lies.
Children come into this world loved as precious gifts.
This is true no matter how the world drifts or shifts.
Whoever hurts a child by sin would be better sunk by stone
Heavenly rumors have it that there is little way to atone.
Triggered memories bring those damaged to suicide.
What's the fit punishment? Let the courts decide.
Even if the evil doers escape the wrath of justice done,
God knows the names of all who have hurt the little ones.
There is no one untouchable for this kind of wrong.
The wrath of God will condemn them to where they belong.
Some may have come willingly to become part of the elite.
But like the worst of plans, this evil was born of deceit.
But now the victims have the power and the light
To use their voices screaming into the dark of night.
We together will change the structure of evil's power.
Today, solidarity will forge to win victory's hour.
Pushing back the house of destructive lies,
We stand together, giving voice to the victim's cries.
What kind of monsters, if any, offer any defense
For the cowards who hurt the children for sexual preference?
Rape and molestation must be held gravely accountable.
In no way is any part of Epstein's Island defensible.
I think of the harm done even to my sister, and how she was hurt
And know that we must always be vigilant and keep alert.
To all the wrongs that we have seen transpire,
Light to darkness, we'll set this world on fire.
To stand up for those who cannot -
There is a lasting effect that we choose to never forget.
My tears meet my anger at the exploitation.
How can this abuse have any rational explanation?
Children should not be hurt just because they are weak.
Those of us with able voices must stand up and speak.
Dark, shadowy secrets hid on the elite's island.
The truth to be told will be set right as we demand.
No one is above the law, and no one can hurt the young.
I'd be okay if they all end up unceremoniously hung.
(c) November 18, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Atone, Bible, Children, Christianity, Despise, Done, Epstein's Island, Faith, God, Hurt, Innocence, Jesus, Lies, Look, Poetry and Poems, Precious Gifts, Sadness, Sin, Single One, Triggered Memories, World
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Thought For the Day: Our Dilemma Is That We Hate Change and Love It At the Same Time; What We Really Want Is For Things To Remain the Same But Get Better
“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” – Sydney J. Harris
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First Principles: America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside. If We Falter and Lose Our Freedoms, It Will Be Because We Destroyed Ourselves
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
(Look at the election results in NYC, Seattle, Portland, and elsewhere. We are voting in people who are bent on the destruction of America and our value system. This cannot stand. If it does, we stand to lose our republic.)
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Fully Present In the Past
Fully Present In the Past
by Michael Doyle
Rage bait and other angry fills
Have long ceased being thrills.
No one has asked for my tainted advice,
But I think it's long past time to offer mine.
Let's not be rattled by our every whim.
Instead, let's look through the eyes of a child,
And speak as if we are speaking only to him,
Keeping smooth and calm instead of being riled.
Let's become fully present and fully feeling
About what the person is thinking instead of reeling.
That is the chaos of that person's present life.
In doing this, we find more peace and less strife.
It's something that we all need to know,
And it is best approached through authority, not show.
Looking at an unexpected profile takes courage.
It's these moments of bravery we should not discourage.
Sometimes goodness takes a lot of inner strength.
It's what gets us through a bad day's length.
Sometimes we can't help getting caught up in anger.
It's that look of love that removes the danger.
Sometimes life's struggles can be a fumble.
Despite our best efforts, we take our tumble.
The good and the bad are often what we do with it,
And no matter how hard we try, there are things we can't prevent.
It's like trying to right an angle meant to be bent,
Or perhaps hold on to currency that is already spent.
There are things that are near impossible to improve,
Even Atlas shrugged at a rock that he couldn't move.
There's a lot of truth to our maturity,
And no getting around it, if we will do it honestly.
We learn this from the roles in which we're cast
This and that, there is no escaping the past.
(c) November 17, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: We Are Made Wise Not By the Recollection of Our Past, But By the Responsibility For Our Future
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” – George Bernard Shaw
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First Principles: To Argue With A Person Who Has Renounced the Use of Reason Is Like Administering Medicine To the Dead
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” – Thomas Paine
(In this age where each of us are prone to believe all views opposed to our own are nonsense, maybe we’d do well remembering this sage advice at the holiday dinner table?)
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 