ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

First Principles: Our Obligations To Our Country Never Cease But With Our Lives

“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” – John Adams (1808)

Happy 247th Birthday to the United States Navy!!

Autumn Skies
by Michael Doyle

To sail on Autumn's sky
To learn to love in fantasy
To love without questioning why 
To spend this love, just you and me...

These are the moments that I cherish
Spent in listening to your dreams
Memories of which will never perish 
As pristinely imprinted as nature's seams

(c) October 13, 2022  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

This Is the Baseline

Nightbrook Hollow - A Game of Serious Hangman's Noose

This Is the Baseline
by Michael Doyle

This
     This is the baseline
Missed
     The punchline that was a sign
That 
     That showed us the world
As 
     Every dream was found fetal and curled

Most stages of consciousness
Are degrees of insanity
Mirrored images of pretentiousness
Held to the light with vanity

The system plays the error
That reveals what's underneath
It couldn't be any clearer
Then to measure what's bequeathed

Passed down by generation
The half-truths painted in veneration
One bullet that we can't outrun
Pull the trigger, and it's done

This
   This is the baseline
Missed
    The punchline that was a sign
That 
    That showed us the world
As 
    Every dream was found fetal and curled

Extractions of memory recreated
Patterns otherwise situated
The system has lost all control
In which there is a faithful soul

Pressed into flesh, seeking what is real
Fidelity is the primary drive of think and feel
The stories behind our failed decisions
All the mistakes played out without precision

There are moments of definition
The skip past the memory's recognition
We hit the bottom, learning to hold our breath
We live the struggle, or we find death

(c) October 12, 2022  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

First Principles: Human Government Is More Or Less Perfect As It Approaches Nearer Or Diverges Farther From the Imitation of This Perfect Plan of Divine and Moral Government

“Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.” – John Adams, 1770

Thought For the Day: Nothing Astonishes Men So Much As Common Sense and Plain Dealing

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882

Thought For the Day: Few Are the Giants of the Soul Who Actually Feel That the Human Race Is Their Family Circle

“Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.” -Freya Stark, explorer and writer (1893-1993)

First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important of Republican Virtues, and Public Debt As the Greatest of Dangers To Be Feared

“I … place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. … Taxation follows that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.”– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Plumer, 1816

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 (1776)

First Principles: Wherever the Real Power In A Government Lies, There Is the Danger of Oppression

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.” – James Madison (1788)

ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

First Principles: Our Obligations To Our Country Never Cease But With Our Lives

Autumn Skies

This Is the Baseline

First Principles: Human Government Is More Or Less Perfect As It Approaches Nearer Or Diverges Farther From the Imitation of This Perfect Plan of Divine and Moral Government

Thought For the Day: Nothing Astonishes Men So Much As Common Sense and Plain Dealing

Thought For the Day: Few Are the Giants of the Soul Who Actually Feel That the Human Race Is Their Family Circle

First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important of Republican Virtues, and Public Debt As the Greatest of Dangers To Be Feared

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

Thought For the Day: A Profound Unmitigated Loneliness Is the Only Truth of Life

First Principles: Wherever the Real Power In A Government Lies, There Is the Danger of Oppression

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