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Thought For the Day: The Library Is An Arena of Possibility, Opening Both A Window Into the Soul and A Door Onto the World
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Dinkʼinesh
Dinkʼinesh
by Michael Doyle
In mankind's efforts to stand upright
Turning from darkness toward the light
We've contended a few bones along the way
Just enough really for the right to say
From tree dwelling to learning to walk
On two legs, we became positioned to talk
Chipped bones became a confused religiosity
As the faithful unfold their humanity
Still, we wonder at all the tales told
While the wisest wink at beliefs sold
Knowing the cross-stitched pieces of wood
Could have built an ark where it stood
All in making bones of mankind's dignity
Much of our story is simply legendary
Stories told are made to fit the history
Made up with leaps of fancy to fill in the mystery
Marvelous Lucy, she learned to walk
As footprints stepped into the story we talk
Each step telling how mankind came to be
While whispers reveal this fable's complexity
Impossible monsters lost in a sea of chaos
Pave the road home through humanity's loss
In the chains of changes that map the consequence
As some find God's place is one of obsolescence
Bishop books were said to be replaced by dinosaur bones
While God and angels were removed from thrones
And now as the twenty-first century has fallen apart
We learn once again we need God to have a whole heart
Haunted by our darkness, we are lost, yet not lost
As with every moment we painfully pay the hidden costs
Of turning our backs to truth by playing our own gods
The holy persons and repentant sinners both this odd
Glassy eyes stared into the abyss and shamefully found
Society's transformation couldn't have been more profound
Throwing away age-old truth based on half-missing fragments
Waiting on judgment day, we know these simple sentiments
(c) August 30, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: The Only Advice Anybody Can Give Is, If You Wanna Be A Writer, Keep Writing. And Read All You Can, Read Everything
“The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.” – Stan Lee
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First Principles: A Democracy Is A Volcano Which Conceals the Fiery Materials of Its Own Destruction. These Will Produce an Eruption and Carry Desolation In Their Way
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.” – Fisher Ames
I really dislike when I hear any American political leader mislead the public into believing we live in a “democracy”. We live in a republic under the rule of law.
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All the Wicked Men (A Dickinson Poem For Peace)
All the Wicked Men
by Michael Doyle
So many times I have searched for peace
Looking for peace in the faraway
All the wicked men – have thoughts of war
As the Centre of their Maps –
Myself a struggled slacker- set out to prove
That it’s not so hopeless as I –
If only we let go of greed for foreign shores –
And stay in the safe harbors of love
(c) August 29, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Our Liberty Depends On Our Education, Our Laws, and Habits…It Is Founded On Morals and Religion Whose Authority Reigns In the Heart
“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.” – Fisher Ames
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Thought For the Day: Silence Is Not Always A Sign of Wisdom, But Babbling Is Ever A Mark of Folly
“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.” – Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate (29 Aug 1862-1949)
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Light And Darkness
Light and Darkness
by Michael Doyle
I approach my inner self with intimation
Looking for deeper thoughts of origination
So much of who I am comes from ancestral care
Then living life as bold as I might dare
Wheels spin inside on subjects of light and sight
Hoping enough vitality resides to get this right
Lashing out at times in this world's harshness
Living inside the thoughts of light and darkness
The truth of impractical hopes is their surprise
As I look at the world through your beauty and eyes
Self-examined I find that I again lack the mastery
To express myself through what passes for poetry
Indulging enough in failure to find some success
I put pen to paper as I struggle for my very best
Boundless feelings surge to stretch my imagination
And I find myself accepting I will never reach perfection
(c) August 28, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: To Model Our Political System Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility, Is To Calculate On the Weaker Springs of the Human Character
“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
Thought For the Day: When You’re Traveling, You Are What You Are Right There and Then. People Don’t Have Your Past To Hold Against You. No Yesterdays On the Road
“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)
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