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Thought For the Day: You Know You’re In Love When You Can’t Fall Asleep Because Reality Is Finally Better Than Your Dreams
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No Victim of My Circumstances
No Victim of My Circumstances
by Michael Doyle
On the mountains, in the sun rays
It's your name that I praise
In the green valley far below
It is all your creation, and I know
Sharing what I know of your grace
These are you living ways I embrace
I was born to live all my days
Holding your love up in my praise
From you, it is clear and I know
That you are the source of all blessings that flow
Wherever you decide to lead
I will follow with my heart and in my deeds
I am no victim of my circumstances
I claim the victory of the God of second chances
Whatever the world may show of harshness
Your light will remove the darkness
Holding my heart in good cheer
There is literally nothing that I fear
The blood of Jesus Christ runs in my veins
The mighty Lord of my life holds the reins
(c) February 13, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Blessings, Blood of Jesus Christ, Born, Cheer, Circumstances, Clear, Creation, Darkness, Days, Deeds, Embrace, Fear, Flow, Follow, Grace, Green Valley, Heart, Know, Lead, Light, Living Ways, Lord of My Life, Mountains, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Reins, Share, Source, Sun Rays, The God of Second Chances, Veins, Victim, Victory, World, Your Love, Your Name
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First Principles: Liberty Is Meaningless Where the Right To Utter One’s Thoughts and Opinions Has Ceased To Exist. That, of All Rights, Is the Dread of Tyrants
“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason… Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” – Frederick Douglass
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Tagged Dread, Exist, First Principles, Frederick Douglass, Liberty, Meaningless, Right, Thoughts and Opinions, Tyrants
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Thought For the Day: The Kind of Beauty I Want Most Is the Hard-To-Get Kind That Comes From Within – Strength, Courage, Dignity
“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.” – Ruby Dee
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Something Behind the Small Talk
Something Behind the Small Talk
by Michael Doyle
There is something raw behind the front lines
There, we hide behind the showoffs and mimes
Lost in the awkwardness that blocks our conversations
We stand aloof, hiding our secret sense of fascination
We wish we could shape away the sense of harshness
That comes out in broken blocks of too much darkness
We stand feeling dead in the lives that we lead
Wondering about the body language that we once read
Running in place, we feel puzzled over what's real
Penciling in notes based on what the next expert feels
Pushing hard in silent desperation as we quietly balk
Wondering why it's so hard to make our way in small talk
Praying to gods and idols that we no longer believe in
Stumbling along in fractured hopes again and yet again
We always feel we have said the wrong things in revulsion
Though the words streamed out as if through their compulsion
Ted Talks provide their own theater of broken paradise
Where so-called experts offer up a salad of lousy advice
There is a lot of social isolation in this lonely worldview
And you and I are always wondering what it is we might do
Running in place, we feel puzzled over what's real
Penciling in notes based on what the next expert feels
Pushing hard in silent desperation as we quietly balk
Wondering why it's so hard to make our way in small talk
We wish we were comfortable in the chilled vibe of silence
Instead, we are afraid of our next words and their violence
Hoping they won't cut away our tenuous ties or poke out eyes
These are the time thieves that squawk as closeness dies
Hiding in corners at the next event that passes for a party
Knowing inside that there is no one who really truly knows me
And thinking maybe that's alright as long as they don't hate me
Is this what has come to pass for 21st-century society?
(c) February 12, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Aawkwardness, Aloof, Balk, Body Language, Compulsion, Conversation, Darkness, Expert, Fascination, Feeling Dead, Feels, Fractured Hope, Front Lines, Gods and Iolds, Harshness, Lost, Poetry and Poems, Raw, Read, Real, Revulsion, Running In Place, Showoffs and Mimes, Silent Desperation, Small Talk, Something, Stream
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First Principles: We the People Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congress and the Courts, Not To Overthrow the Constitution But To Overthrow the Men Who Pervert the Constitution
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” – Abraham Lincoln
(The true story behind this attribution can be found here: Did Lincoln Say ‘We the People Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congress and the Courts’? | Snopes.com
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Thought For the Day: Nearly All Men Can Stand Adversity, But If You Want To Test A Man’s Character, Give Him Power
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (12 Feb 1809-1865)
(In Remembrance of Lincoln’s Birthday!)
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Adversity, Character, Lincoln's Birthday, Mankind, Nearly All, Power, Test, Thought For the Day
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Love In America
Love In America
by Michael Doyle
America's love can seem a bit of fecklessness
Filled as it is with a bit of recklessness
Teenaged angst of not wishing to cry anymore
The heartbreak is equitable among rich and poor
So many wish they could leave it where it can stay
Others wish they could refuse the love of Valentine's Day
Being in love can seem like some superhuman ecstasy
As you summon the strength to chase your fantasy
The problem with love in America is all the ways
We can approach it by living our passing days
Romance, with its impracticalities, can be so extreme
As we try to match the flair of our movie screens
There's a chronic man-to-woman sense of confrontation
A type of bewilderment that spreads across our nation
Love, like democracy, is a fine ideal for me, and you
They just don't work no matter how much we want them to
The desires of our hearts do not always match our reason
No matter how close it is to the approaching Valentine's season
Love's ashes crumble as they collide with life's compromise
Paradise becomes a living Hell as our nights reach their sunrise
The problems with love in America in all our living days
Is how unsettled it seems in the part that imperfection plays
Still, even if only in our dreams, love must end well
It's just part of the optimism of our American love tale
(c) February 11, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged All Ways, Angst, Bewilderment, Confrontation, Cry, Fantasy, Fecklessness, Fine Ideal, Heartbreak, Love In America, Movie Screen, Passing Days, Poetry and Poems, Recklessness, Rich and Poor, Romance, Stay, Strength, Superhuman Ecstacy, Valentine's Day, Wish
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Thought For the Day: Let Us Put Our Minds Together and See What Life We Can Make For Our Children
“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.” – Sitting Bull
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Tagged Life, Make, Minds, Our Children, Sitting Bull, Thought For the Day, Together, Us
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First Principles: We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary, Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious
“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” – Thomas Jefferson, in a Letter to William Ludlow Monticello, September 6,1824
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