“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.” -Edward R. Murrow, journalist (25 Apr 1908-1965)

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.” -Edward R. Murrow, journalist (25 Apr 1908-1965)


Saltwater Traces
by Michael Doyle
Looking out from the edge of the ocean's shore
There is a vast expanse we've yet to explore
We know so little about our Mother Ocean
And yet, fools like me are filled with devotion
Limited as we are by human perceptions of length
Breadth, time, and space, and believe in our strength
But measure it as so little against the pounding waves
And are so quickly taken to our humbled graves
The salt in our blood, sweat, and in our flowing tears
Link us to the oceans through all of mankind's years
And as we gaze out feeling calm and yet reflective
There are so many colors and emotions in this perspective
All of which adds up to patches of sunlight and shadow
Each is a reminder of how little it is that we truly know
I am often baptized by these feelings of windswept emotion
Dancing along the shore on my board along Mother Ocean
There is something of majesty mixed with torrid brutality
Life felt and kept, in its repetitions of immortality
Kept in a scale that stands outside our human contemplation
But with every moment, I feel nothing less than fascination
Dipping my toes from the sands into the shallows of the sea
I find myself knowing only a little of touching eternity
There is a beginning without an ending and an ending that begins
I feel in my hair when the saltwater traces it with the winds
(c)April 24, 2024 Michael Doyle
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“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.” – Anthony Trollope

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare” – James Madison.

“Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind than on the externals in the world.” – George Washington

“This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.” – William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (23 Apr 1564-1616)


However Hard
by Michael Doyle
However Hard the wind blew
We knew we'd make it through
He who wears the victor's crown
Would never let us drown
With our strength of will
We depend on Him, and still
God will allow to prevail
Our faith is shown in our tale
We live to live only by the good
Following God's ways as are understood
Joining hands as one with Gods family
This then is how we build our community
Each of us part of God's gift to one another
We learn strength by supporting each other
When the dust is settled with this crowd
We are mixture of the humbled and yet proud
Holding strong when others might shatter
In the end, we know this doesn't matter
Our only course is to follow God's holy ways
And so we do throughout our busy days
(c) April 22, 2024 Michael Doyle
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“Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.” – Alexander Hamilton (1793)

“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does”. -Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (21 Apr 1818-1885)

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