“Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.” – Roger Ebert
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Thought For the Day: Dogs Remember Every Favor You Ever Do Them And Store Those Events In A Memory Bank Titled “Why My Human Is A God”
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About Trees
About Trees
by Michael Doyle
Driving through the forest
It can be a bit like a test
To know that they please
As you examine all the trees
From saplings up to the heights
A million reasons offer delight
Some live through the centuries
All offer their sweet legacies
Branched out in living memory
The woodlands offer life to me
Lived out in timeless regeneration
Defined as these are by generations
Places like Indiana and Kentucky
Call us out if we are that lucky
Their living spaces breathe in our hearts
As old growth patches find their start
Mankind finds its restorative ecology
More a matter of spirituality than biology
Root systems create an illusion of infinity
As numberless as the stars finding divinity
Travelers like me realign our relationship
Finding in God's creations a form of worship
All of life has it's own niche and space
Filled with grace for us to love and embrace
(c) June 18, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Nature Intended Me For the Tranquil Pursuits of Science, By Rendering Them My Supreme Delight
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight.” – Thomas Jefferson, in his Letter to DuPont de Nemours as cited in Benson, 1971)
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Thought For the Day: Man Must Evolve For All Human Conflict A Method Which Rejects Revenge, Aggression, and Retaliation. The Foundation of Such A Method Is Love
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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An Appetite With Explanation
An Appetite With Explanation
by Michael Doyle
In all the new world that I'm constantly meeting
I have an appetite for all I see as if eating
A plate of works that bring me inspiration
With a flick of the internet, I find aspirations
That may be are not so discernible at the beginning
But a chase down the rabbit holes starts winning
The crumbs of my attention beyond my best retention
And I find what I wouldn't with my vapid abstention
After a few thousand songs, music begins lacking a self
Like a book of endless words from a timeless shelf
Until it becomes necessary to find what will constrain
A person to seek defining limits to avoid the strain
Of learning too much and seeing too much in what can be
Discipline secretly finds its ways to finally set me free
Too much of plenty finds a way of my living in empty misery
My best hope is to be inclined toward boxing in the category
It's a moon spell lost within an ineffable shadow gallery
Too much of anything proves itself a monochromatic lullaby
Lost inside with too much echoing in my hollow little mind
Too much knowledge and experience leaves us all a bit blind
Life outside in the fresh air will return real life's pulse
Too many hours caged in screens has started to deeply repulse
All the best that cannot be thought on but must be felt deeply
This is what it will take to sincerely free the best of me
(c) June 17, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: The Right of the Citizens To Keep and Bear Arms Has Justly Been Considered As the Palladium of the Liberties of A Republic
“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.” – Joseph Story
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Thought For the Day: Silence Will Save Me From Being Wrong (and Foolish), But It Will Also Deprive Me of the Possibility of Being Right
“Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.” – Igor Stravinsky, composer (17 Jun 1882-1971)
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Air Quoted Balance
Air Quoted Balance
by Michael Doyle
With our focus on our decisions
We learn from our imprecisions
Often growing despite what we decide
That the Lord Himself will guide
The gift of each and every new day
Shows us about what we'll pray
In our attempts at articulation
However focused we are on our destination
Keeping our eyes on what to do
Walking for God is the situation of you
Kicked dirt rewinds us to our humility
And is reminding us that only God has divinity
The targets of life aren't stationery
As we process leaning-in to the contrary
Only change exists as some part permanent
We need to keep a balanced temperament
Spending our lives for the known best
The gift of time is our maximized test
Pushing for the possible, we do our best
It's our decisions that drive this test
How we spend time in our life's walk
Shows up in the words we choose as we talk
We find that we are in control of absolutely nothing
In considering the span of God's everything
Our time living is a thing filled with brevity
We must face this with levity and, yet, urgency
Every moment of life is spent between two eternities
And this fact gives us a sense of our urgencies
We must decide how to spend each moment wisely
While, also deciding these things strategically
And somehow, in this rush, we must live contently
Following the Lord's purposes, with our consistency
Our numbered days limit our fragmented time
Word by word, we walk as if living life's rhymes
Knowing wisdom only comes through experience
It's best to learn faithfully by preference
Managing ourselves in keeping our discipline
In the pursuit of the principles that underpin
The reality of life as we approach our destination
This is the largest part of how we determine our decisions
Life is lived by the verbs that we keep
Core values decide our joy or if we weep
Our love and intentionality show our core values
These are the lasting course in making good works from you
The signature of the Lord should be respected
With His stewardship never being something neglected
This is the journey we have yet to live
To take from life all that God intends to give
Being content with the joy of the Lord, all our days
Let this be manifested to all by all our ways
Unconditionally loved in our Lord's constancy
And then lived by us, fully, and relentlessly
Break by break, life finds itself how it connects
Determined by God as He chooses and then directs
Life seems unpredictable as we live in our joy and sense
All else is little more than a set of pretenses
Contentment is found in our God-derived submission
And the ways of the Lord provide us with our mission
All that matters in our day-by-day lived out years
Is to live our lives strategically and in full gear
Footprints in the sand that last require work boots
It's all in the decision to assert what will contribute
As a watching world waits to see what we will do
The eternal centerpieces of our lives are up to me and you
We decide how long we forge each every generation
By what we hold in life's strength and our veneration
In our moments lived, we should live by love and kindness
By embracing this, we remove a bit of the world's blindness
(c) June 16, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Happy Father’s Day 2024!!
To all the fathers out there who realize being a daddy isn’t just to bring a child into the world. It is to raise them. It is to love them. It is to teach, clothe, and help them blossom into the persons they will become. Being a daddy is the greatest privilege God has given us men. We must be good and abiding shepherds to our best ability and to the nth degree of our love.
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First Principles: What Makes You A Man Is Not the Ability To Have A Child – It’s the Courage To Raise one
“What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child – it’s the courage to raise one.” – Barak Obama
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 