ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Thought For the Day: Music Expresses That Which Cannot Be Said and On Which It Is Impossible To Be Silent

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”– Victor Hugo, From Hugo’s Work William Shakespeare (1864), Part 1, Book II, Chapter IV

Something Bleeding This Way Comes

Something Bleeding This Way Comes
by Michael Doyle

Word slithered along the corporate ground
Where all is ancient, and nothing new is found
Secrets told through half-truths revealed
Remind us all of the things better off concealed

Pregnant pauses signal latent twists in positioning
As corporate successions lament their transitioning
Tired dinosaur bones rise to the top of early graves
That even a space-age messiah rejects instead of saves

The birthright of the children remains in pain and misery
As we have seen too often through royalty's faded history
Stoically carried on, passed through to each generation
This is the tragedy of this journey's jaded penetration

Motherhood's dramatic endgame trickles the imagination
Yet, a mother's worse self is retained despite the maturation
Dramatic wrenches falter the heights of ambitious inclination
In a final countdown that hints at fundamental recrimination

In a world too rushed to slowdown and comfortably dine
There is only one way to continue a dynastic bloodline
Only the women of this life bleed and know true agony
Subjected as they are to the traces of patriarchal misogyny

The birthright of the children remains in pain and misery
As we have seen too often through royalty's faded history
Stoically carried on, passed through to each generation
This is the tragedy of this journey's jaded penetration

(c) May 31, 2023  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

Charge Carnivale Obscura - Mother & Child In Water

Thought For the Day: If We Have Lost Our Will As A Nation To Define What’s Right And To Do It, Then We Have Lost Our Way

“If we have lost our will as a nation to define what’s right and to do it, then we have lost our way in a world that is increasingly being dominated by China, whose president, Xi Jinping, may have correctly diagnosed us as a nation in ‘decline.'” – Cal Thomas

First Principles: Be In General Virtuous, and You Will Be Happy

“Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.” – Benjamin Franklin (1768)

Thought For the Day: War Is An Ugly Thing, But Not the Ugliest of Things

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” – John Stuart Mill

First Principles: Religion and Good Morals Are the Only Solid Foundation of Public Liberty and Happiness

“Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.” – Samuel Adams (1778)

First Principles: In the Supposed State of Nature, All Men Are Equally Bound By the Laws of Nature, Or To Speak More Properly, the Laws of the Creator

“In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.” – Samuel Adams, in a Letter to the Massachusetts State Legislature, January 17, 1794

Thought For the Day: The United States and the Freedom For Which It Stands, the Freedom For Which They Died, Must Endure and Prosper

“If words cannot repay the debt we owe these men, surely with our actions we must strive to keep faith with them and with the vision that led them to battle and final sacrifice.”

“Our first obligation to them and ourselves is plain enough: The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we—in a less final, less heroic way—be willing to give of ourselves.” – Ronald Reagan

Thought For the Day: We Love Those Who Know the Worst of Us and Don’t Turn Their Faces Away

“We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.” – Walker Percy, author (28 May 1916-1990)

ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Thought For the Day: Music Expresses That Which Cannot Be Said and On Which It Is Impossible To Be Silent

Something Bleeding This Way Comes

Thought For the Day: If We Have Lost Our Will As A Nation To Define What’s Right And To Do It, Then We Have Lost Our Way

First Principles: Be In General Virtuous, and You Will Be Happy

Thought For the Day: War Is An Ugly Thing, But Not the Ugliest of Things

First Principles: Religion and Good Morals Are the Only Solid Foundation of Public Liberty and Happiness

In Remembrance of Memorial Day

First Principles: In the Supposed State of Nature, All Men Are Equally Bound By the Laws of Nature, Or To Speak More Properly, the Laws of the Creator

Thought For the Day: The United States and the Freedom For Which It Stands, the Freedom For Which They Died, Must Endure and Prosper

Thought For the Day: We Love Those Who Know the Worst of Us and Don’t Turn Their Faces Away

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