“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist and author (26 Jun 1916-1988)
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.” – Patrick Henry (1788)
The Mothman Cometh
by Michael Doyle
Graceful yet frightening
I saw him by lightening
With two red eyes glaring
I couldn't help staring
Pleading his wild eyed mystery
A part of West Virginian history
This mysterious sort of being
That the moonlight might bring
A chilling whisper finds its way
To shred the last courage of the day
Feeling lost with the mothman's sight
Here in the fog that comes late night
The mothman cometh as a late night stranger
To fill the air with fear and danger
He is not a prank or any sort of game
If you're feeling like running, he's to blame
In this cornfield, you still your breath
Hoping against hope to outrun your death
There beating are the wings that span
Spelling the doom at the talons of the mothman
(c) July 7, 2023 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“Conservatives are disappointed with man’s sinfulness, but proud of the founders’ ideals; many liberals are disappointed with the founders’ ideals, and proud of man’s sinfulness.” – Ben Shapiro
“It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness.” – James Wilson (1791)
Dunmore's Lamentation
by Michael Doyle
A seeming footnote on the journey
Was found about the struggle for liberty
We had gone to Point Pleasant to see
Another point of what is legendary
On to find that the struggle for this nation
Also began with Lord Dunmore's lamentation
As he sided with Cornstalk against Americans
Betraying them as only a turncoat can
Kanawha alongside the battles of Concord and Lexington
Belongs in the tales of the fight for our nation
As among the first bullets fired in the cause of freedom
And our fight to find the keys from the British kingdom
This battle ceded Kentucky and West Virginia lands
As part of the American victor's claims and demands
Among the first blood of America lost for the Revolution
Tecumseh and Dunsmore were among the lamentations
That come from bad decisions that bring about the good
It's a pattern of history that remains to be understood
That here among the steps of America's manifest destiny
Dunsmore's betrayal led the westward way of America's journey
(c) July 6, 2023 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.” – Ronald Reagan
“The People alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.” – John Adams
Wishing each and all of my American friends a very happy and blessed Independence Day 2023!! Rather today was spent in reverent quietude or in joyous celebration, I hope each of you has spent a moment’s contemplation on the principles of freedom and liberty!
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” – Ronald Reagan
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