“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.” – Dolly Madison
Maybe we’d all be best advised to live more this way than to seek to undermine each other all the time?
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First Principles: It Is One of My Sources of Happiness Never To Desire A Knowledge of Other People’s Business
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Thought For the Day: We Should Ask Ourselves Three Questions Before We Speak: Is It True? Is It Kind? Does It Glorify Christ?
“We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?” – Billy Graham
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Her Song
Her Song
by Michael Doyle
A voice came to me from beyond my screen.
A brown-eyed beauty who loved what she had seen,
She smiled at me with growing anticipation
Suggesting with a smile that we write about creation.
I couldn't help but wonder where she had come from.
So, I asked without much fear of coming across as dumb.
I knew if I knew her life, I would fall into her grace.
I couldn't help but be mesmerized by her beautiful face.
She was a comfortable, familiar stranger
With a vibe of love and not danger.
She knew that I would go along
With anything she wanted in her song.
She loved the poetry in our emotions.
I was falling into her personal ocean.
I felt glad that she wasn't close enough to kiss,
For the fear of what that might cause us to miss.
I know only that I wanted to know her more.
We riffed on creation a little more.
With each note, the song got a little longer.
Honestly, I could only hope her heartbeat a little stronger.
She was a comfortable, familiar stranger
With a vibe of love and not danger.
She knew that I would go along
With anything she wanted in her song.
(c) November 6, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Commercial Policy Should Hold and Equal and Impartial Hand: Neither Seeking Nor Granting Exclusive Favours or Preferences
“Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.” – George Washington
Thought For the Day: Ninety-Nine Precent of the Failure Comes From People Who Have A Habit of Making Excuses
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver
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Community Thrived
Community Thrived
by Michael Doyle
A new day awaits the exploring soul.
It decides where and when to go.
Learning things as it openly dreams,
All its world bursting at the seams.
Becoming brave, it becomes itself,
Either through life or books on the shelf.
From this come questions of prosperity,
And how each day is lived with integrity.
Unwilling to accept the bad for the good,
And not losing hope, where it's understood.
That life thrives in the community
When it seizes on each new opportunity.
Who is to say who is to be excluded,
From the games of life, or be included.
The vitality of the neighborhood
Should be expanded to include all that's good.
Running to live where all belong,
If you listen close enough to the song,
You hear that every certain melody
Calls quietly like a chord for its harmony.
Made-up minds cannot be easily swayed,
This is regardless of negative games played.
The truth of life is for the truly living.
Any mistakes can wait for theeir forgiving.
We learn about community together.
We can join hands to make the world better.
Everyone has their vital role to play.
We Learn from this best by living well each day.
We must not allow for the dirty water
To disrupt the holiness of the Father.
Instead, we join hands to truly thrive.
It's in doing this, we are best alive.
(c) November 5, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: A Great Civilization Is Not Conquered From Without, Until It Has Destroyed Itself From Within
“A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.” – Will Durant
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First Principles: National Defense Is One of the Cardinal Duties of A Statesman
“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” – John Adams (1815)
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In Kalkota’s Slum
In Kalkota's Slum
by Michael Doyle
Even in the Kalkota ghetto,
You can see courage in the shadows.
Youths capture the waters of history
While finding hope for tomorrow's mystery.
Revolutionary optimists fetch the water
While knowing so little of mother or father.
Living life there in the filth of the street
Makes it hazardous to walk in bare feet.
Working early to come home late,
It's the curse of the caste consigned by fate.
The local politicians claim they are trying.
The best bet is that they're lying.
Clean water in the slums is a pity.
It will never be the case in a place so gritty.
Talk doesn't cure poverty in this community.
It never has in all of history.
The Kolkota slum community knows
That change comes as its children grow.
It takes courage, be it water or polio.
The children carry the message the world needs to know.
Life here, like any community, is for the brave.
It's a struggle to live from cradle to early grave.
A new day dawns as an old day is dying,
All around these slums, the world is caught sighing.
All around, even the children work hard.
They are given the scraps of so little to discard.
The kiln burns from morning into the night
While the laborers build and rebuild all that is in sight.
The children still dream as they work overly hard,
Learning that most of the world sees them as discard.
Still, they dare to break the world's unspoken rule.
They will make a better life by going to school.
Man is made to do more than labor since first born,
Ending his day's labor near to the next day's morn.
The costs of freedom are most hinted at as sublime,
But the truth of this takes a little time.
If life in the ghetto will have improvement,
Its truth must begin in its measurement.
There in freedom and pride in leaning to decide.
Yet, most of us just go along for the grand ride.
(c) November 4, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Let There Be No Change By Usurpation; For Though This, In One Instance, May Be the Instrument of the Good, It Is the Customary Weapon By Which Free Governments Are Destroyed
“If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.” – George Washington
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 