ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Thought For the Day: When We Took Prayers Out of Schools, Guns Came Into Schools…Don’t Tell Me About No Separation of Church and State. State Is the Body. Church Is the Heart.

“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools. … Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies.” – New York City Mayor Eric Adams

First Principles: As We Are Running the Next Generation Into Debt, We Ought To Do the Work of It, Otherwise We Use Them Meanly

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully.” – Thomas Paine (1776)

First Principles: The Most Sacred of Duties of A Government Is To Do Equal and Impartial Justice To All Citizens

“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

Thought For the Day: One Does Not Advance the Swimming Abilities of Ducks By Throwing the Eggs In the Water

“One does not advance the swimming abilities of ducks by throwing the eggs in the water.” – Multatuli (pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), novelist (2 Mar 1820-1887)

Wonderland Needed

Wonderland Needed (the Mad Hatter)
by Michael Doyle

When you clear your mind
Of all the clatter and voices
What's left behind, are the choices
In our unwilling to be left behind

As we find in this hide and seek
Much of the world is mass confusion
Until, that is, we dare to peek
Through the veils of our illusion

Alice in Wonderland needed the Mad Hatter
With her sips of tea from her cup of tea
Desperately playing games that matter
With fear and hope and a bit of sympathy

Alice in Wonderland needed the Mad Hatter
To share her dreams over a cup of tea
Desperately feeling her world shatter
Without a loving dose of sympathy

When the game ends as all games do
What will we have earnestly learned
Spread before us in a field of clues
Are the seeds of dignity we have earned

With the final card played, the game is done
In the end, it only matters how we've played
And in the end, only the true hearts have won
No matter how many dragons we have slayed

Alice in Wonderland needed the Mad Hatter
To share life over cups of benign tea
The outcome you see, doesn't really matter
It we'd only open our fearful hearts to see

Alice in Wonderland needed her Mad Hatter
To dream with over shared cups of tea
Conversations of the heart are what matter
To put these sordid matters delicately

Fireworks light up the nighttime's sky
Here in remembrance and celebration
And in the end there is no wonder why
Only to live and love in endless fascination

In the end, all we truly need is that love
Happy in what life will gladly give to us
Not trapped by the envy but freed from above
There's no other secret than just because

(c) March 1, 2023  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

Luane's World - Le Monde Perdu - Spring -Flowered Patch Into the Horizon

Thought For the Day: It Is Not So Much Our Friends’ Help That Helps Us As the Confident Knowledge They Will Help Us

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” -Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)

First Principles: The Cause of America Is In A Great Measure the Cause of All Mankind

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

First Principles: The Same Prudence Which In Private Life Would Forbid Our Paying Our Own Money For Unexplained Projects, Forbids It In the Dispensation of Public Moneys

“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” – Thomas Jefferson (1808)

Thought For the Day: The Souls of Emperors and Cobblers Are Cast In the Same Mold. The Same Reason That Makes Us Wrangle With A Neighbor Creates A War Between Princes

“The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war between princes.” – Michel de Montaigne, essayist (28 Feb 1533-1592)

Thought For the Day: Talk Not of Wasted Affection, Affection Never Was Wasted

“Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow