“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.” – John Galsworthy, author, Nobel laureate (14 Aug 1867-1933)
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Thought For the Day: The Beginnings and Endings of All Human Undertakings Are Untidy
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Returned To the Sea
Returned To the Sea
by Michael Doyle
At the ends of bargains made
Stormy seas leave reason to be afraid
Wondering where it is that one stands
And if a day is as profitable as it demands
Profits are calculated as life's reward
As a new bay is marked to sail toward
By tomorrow, we might be too dead to care
This is the bargain a pirate wager is fair
These are the false moves a pirate fakes
With each next step that he takes
Each is made hoping to live another day
Knowing death will claim him either way
Hopes are manufactured out of thin air
And though fruition is in hand, there is care
That all that has been given has been given for not
Because with one's death, the treasure is forgot
There are no legacies to this life but the sea
There are no monuments but the water we see
There are no great truths, just a handful of tales
Of mermaids, treasures, and giant whales
There are the false moves a pirate fakes
With each step that he takes
Each is made hoping to live another day
Knowing death will claim him either way
The ocean pays us, claims us, swallowing us whole
This is a pirate's life, and its God-forsaken toll
Though it is that we may stand ten feet tall
Eventually, this life will swallow us all
There is a lot of sorrow in a pirate's happiness
None of it would an honest man ever manage to miss
Let there be no regrets nor any trace of bitterness
This razor's edge knows no taste of tenderness
These are the false moves a pirate fakes
With each step that he takes
Each is made hoping to live another day
Knowing death will claim him either way
(c) August 15, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: A Republic, By Which I Mean A Government In Which the Scheme of Representation Takes Place,…Promises the Cure…We Are Seeking
“A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.” – James Madison (1790)
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Thought For the Day: Without Deep Reflection, One Knows From Daily Life That One Exists For Other People
“Without deep reflection, one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” – Albert Einstein
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In A Pirate’s Night
In A Pirate's Night
by Michael Doyle
Behind walls, guns, and men
We knew our protection
As a conspiracy of pirates knows sin
In a violent world lived with instigation
Good souls should not live on this beach
Under these kinds of circumstances
Imperiled as Bermuda falls to the breach
And is lost with a toss of dice chances
Felt in whispered rumors under fire light
We dance the sacred darkness of the night
And in its shadows are held the questions
Pointing to those who kill without hesitation
We will take the risks and withstand the dangers
Here in this company of stranded strangers
To make such wrongs as we can turn to right
With a blind eye nearly returned to the captain's sight
It is a time when those who come to pretend
That one day they might just become friends
Know that the ideas of an ordered world falls apart
As a yoke of shame destroys the best of hearts
Brought to ruin as pirates on the open bay
Live in a world where even the righteous go astray
This is the pirates' world above all the forsaken
And all we hold sacred dangles as if shaken
Shaken to the root of the stinking core
Where a pirate howls and gives all for more
Dangling morals as if waiting for a soul's suicide
While desperation holds on for its final ride
This is the reason for which a pirate crew is signed
To hold fast and it is further agreed as if designed
They've joined ready for death and freedom's fight
As they lay down to die in the dream of every pirate's night
(c) August 14, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: If You Love Life, Don’t Waste Time, For Time Is What Life Is Made Up Of
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.’”– Bruce Lee
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First Principles: We Should Never Despair, Our Situation Before Has Been Unpromising and Has Changed For the Better, So I Trust, It Will Again
“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” – George Washington (1777)
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On Our Wedding Day
On Our Wedding Day
by Michael Doyle
We go much better together than apart
We feel as if we're one in our hearts
Giving our all and living the present
Always ready to give our 100 percent
I've leaned on the Lord to do this
Though I admit that I love your kiss
This love surpasses my understanding
Flowing so freely and never demanding
Sometimes this roller coaster of love
Has rocked as if somehow from above
We love each other, whatever comes our way
As we step closer to our wedding day
In each other's arms, we hold on tight
We'll live it always through all to alright
It feels like our song we're born to sing
We've got each other in this love we bring
We love each other in very little bit
It's just so real in the way we fit
I never thought I had what it took to love
Now it's as if I am guided from above
Sometimes this roller coaster of love
Has rocked as if somehow from above
We love each other, whatever comes our way
As we step closer to our wedding day
We love each other to the ends of never
Connected as we are until we reach forever
I'll roll with you until the end of the ride
As I look at you and know that you're my bride
On track with my brand and completing my style
You are the magic sparking in my smiles
You help me be the man that I need to be
As I look at you, my bride-to-be
Sometimes this roller coaster of love
Has rocked as if somehow from above
We love each other, whatever comes our way
As we step closer to our wedding day
Tell me that you feel the same
As I stand here to give you my name
I need you to be my best tomorrow
And to love me in happiness and sorrow
We've come together to build our dreams
Two-in-one we have become our own team
I feel good as we join to turn life's page
In keeping this real, we enter our new age
Sometimes this roller coaster of love
Has rocked as if somehow from above
We love each other, whatever comes our way
As we step closer to our wedding day
(c) August 13, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thyself
“The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.” – Felix Adler, professor, lecturer, and reformer (13 Aug 1851-1933)
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First Principles: Whoever Would Overthrow the Liberty of A Nation Must Begin By Subduing the Freedom of Speech
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 