“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (16 Dec 1901-1978)
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Thought For the Day: One of the Oldest Human Needs Is Having Someone Wonder Where You Are When You Don’t Come Home At Night
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In Great Expectation
In Great Expectation
by Michael Doyle
Joy is conceived in every season
God's miracles rise without reason
Giving birth of great expectation
We must rejoice without exception
Meant as an ask fully requesting
We want to know what we're expecting
Though at times it feels we're drifting
We keep right attitude in our shifting
All in the name of the good that grows
Into all the good only God truly knows
We are preparing for our ending revelation
All that's coming and awaits good explanation
I say this with the greatest reverence
All God's changes bring the difference
Without closing our paths to tomorrow
We know our joy will someday replace sorrow
God's calling is different for us all
Leading us through sorrow to joy we'll recall
Each of us used for God's purposes every way
It is worth the price paid in these passing days
Christ endured the pain of the rugged cross
So that all of us would gain through this loss
Every step holds life in parallel production
That comes to each of us without introduction
Every finish come from God's chosen beginning
We must preserve, stay the course, and keep winning
Whatever the troubles to come, we need to keep steady
With every step, we get the help as we're ready
Into our spirit we receive God's holy seal
Delivered as it is and knowing that it is real
Closing our eyes in devotion to deepest prayer
Knowing our God is and will always be there
In our moments of patience and in open discernment
We seek after questions and God's holy encouragement
To receive the address that will bring us true joy
God only waits for us to gracefully assent and deploy
(c) December 20, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Ideas Are Indeed the Most Dangerous Weapons In the World
“Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.” – Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Thought For the Day: Those Who Profess To Favor Freedom and Yet Depreciate Agitation, Are People Who Want Crops Without Ploughing the Ground
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
First Principles: They Define A Republic To Be A Government of Laws, and Not of Men
“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams (1775)
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Thought For the Day: Above All, Every Member of the University Has An Obligation To Permit Free Expression In the University
“Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.” -Historian C. Van Woodward (1908-1999)
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First Principles: The Army (Considering the Irritable State It Is In, Its Suffering and Composition) Is A Dangerous Instrument To Play With
“The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.” – George Washington (1783)
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Jack’s Winter Glory
Jack's Winter Glory
by Michael Doyle
Once upon a winter's snowflake
There was a Christmas wish to make
There in that distant time and place
There was magic for all to embrace
As tyranny suppressed simple peasants
Until they could not afford Christmas presents
The czar took every fraction of every penny
Each coin was seized from those who once had plenty
It was there on the late fall's chilled breeze
That there was a sound that would please
Announcing Jack Frost would soon come to arrive
Bringing his joy to all who managed to survive
With a tinkle of bells and a magical sound
Jack began leaving traces of his love on the ground
Ice frozen in place in overflowing fountains
To be sliced into ice coins, spent between the mountains
There in the countryside dusted in white flowing snow
It brought its own smiles for all to live and know
Painted like a wonderland of richest imagination
Sometimes that's the only joy in a downtrodden nation
Love it seems can bring the best blend of daydreams
As Christmas approaches stitched up between the seams
It's in these worst of times that magic is most needed
It warms the heart of the young and should be heeded
As wonderful as it is to play within one's mind
It can still be lonely in the being of one of a kind
This is the worst of the truth of Jack Frost's story
With the snowstorms come winter's truest glory
(c) December 16, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Crime Is Contagious. If the Government Becomes A Law Breaker, It Breeds Contempt For the Law
“Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.” – Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
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