“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce, novelist (2 Feb 1882-1941)
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Thought For the Day: Mistakes Are the Portals of Discovery
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Cobblestoned Memories
Cobblestoned Memories
by Michael Doyle
Cobbled together in our memories
Are the pictures of our communities
The pages drying out as histories
We will one day look on as our legacies
Talking in our circled tomorrows
Finding drops of happiness in our sorrow
Learning from each other to live again
Until looking in the mirror, we find a friend
Each new beginning wipes the slate
Starting afresh instead of accepting fate
This is how we find our way to our feet
Rising hard to victory instead of keeping our seat
It's about taking in all the sunrises
Without apologies for the surprises
That come along to make our days
Complete and fulfilling in a million ways
It's the things that make life right
That turns the darkness into light
There it is played across the splash screen
All the exploration behind all that we mean
(c) February 1, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Kindness In Ourselves Is the Honey That Blunts the Sting of Unkindness In Another
“Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.” – Walter Savage Landor (30 Jan 1775-1864)
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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course, and That Is To Seek Truth And Pursue Steadily
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” —George Washington (1795-
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A Song of Thanksgiving
A Song of Thanksgiving
by Michael Doyle
A song of thanksgiving
Sung to be brave
In need of forgiving
I claw my way from my grave
With apprehension
I am reaching out
Beyond comprehension
My thoughts are filled with doubt
Still, I dance
In your rain of kindness
Taking this chance
Despite my innate blindness
I raise my voice
Given up in praise
Hoping to live a better choice
I live again in these days
Caught up as I see
Learning again to love
Lived as my theology
As if in Heaven above
Rising above circumstance
To do those things for good
Set eyes on true relevance
Living the prayer I've understood
(c) January 31, 2023 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Public Virtue Cannot Exist In A Nation Without Private, and Public Virtue Is the Only Foundation of Republics
“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.” – John Adams (1776)
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Thought For the Day: Do Not Be Too Quick Too Assume Your Enemy Is A Savage Just Because He Is Your Enemy. Perhaps He Is Your Enemy Because He Thinks You Are A Savage
“Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy.” – Thomas Merton, monk, writer (31 Jan 1915-1968)
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Inside A Glass Onion
Inside A Glass Onion
by Michael Doyle
It's a dangerous thing
To speak without thinking
It's what the red pill brings
That leaves us drunker than drinking
Bringing the system down and broken
By being violently visible and outspoken
Willing to stab a friend in the face
For the fifteen minutes, you then embrace
That's the real disruption
That jades beyond corruption
As the victim golf claps the charade
Having moved beyond this masquerade
Crossing the lines, hour by hour
Bringing blossom to death's flower
Who knows the passion behind the smile
That makes the Mona Lisa worthwhile
The truth trips beyond all illusion
Crystalline clear yet clouding confusion
A napkin holds the sketch drawn
While the desperate push for the clawn-in
Splashing anxiety in idled paradise
The circumstances roll like loaded dice
Death shows us an unexpected dinner guest
It's the question of intentions that is the test
(c) January 30, 2023 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important of Republican Virtues, and Public Debt As the Greatest of the Dangers To Be Feared
“I … place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Thought For the Day: It Is Wrong and Ultimately Self-Defeating For A Nation of Immigrants To Permit the Kind of Abuse Our Immigration Laws We Have Seen
“All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That’s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more, by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.” – Bill Clinton, 1995 State of the Union
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