“Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.” – James Madison (1788)
Installation
by Michael Doyle
In this race of recurrence
May we run it with endurance
The baton passes in every generation
There is a strategy in this veneration
Laying hands to pass authority
This is the way of the legendary
Time passes in legs of this race
Making changes that we must embrace
We hope for the best, not disaster
In those we choose to come after
Joined together as if one of the family
Reflecting the love of God's invincibility
Looking to the future brightly
This change of power is not taken lightly
We raise this man in our prayers
As his life takes on another layer
(c) September 25, 2022 Michael Doyle
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“But Joseph said to them, Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.” – Genesis 50:19-20
“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” -William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)
On the Tipping Point of Stupid
by Michael Doyle
Of all the thoughts on thought contributed
There it is on the tipping point of stupid
The calling of names that should bring shame
Yet, there it is in politics as if a game
Speaking of trickle down idiocy as if that's smart
What happened to the thinker's stop at the start
To take a moment to find the right words to say
Alinsky called on ridicule, now the Left has lost its way
Baited to the ill-fated click, acting media-slick
The talking heads have lost their minds as they pick
Choosing to play the unwinnable role of hateful fools
Instead of arguing facts, rhetoric has lost its rules
It is at best the most questionable sort of strategy
To play on the hands of times and senseless tragedy
To gain election points instead of discussing an issue
And it makes a mockery of bleeding hearts in the milieu
When instead of talking reason, a verbal grenade is lobbed
And there is the evidence needed of the people robbed
No one wins when all that is said goes against the grain
Of the political dialogue needed and all pontiffs are insane
The People are we, not them, and we know so much better
That we are all in this process and in it together
If we are to get through this stormy weather and season
We must insist that those who allegedly lead us do so with reason
(c) September 24, 2022 Michael Doyle
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“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.” -Jeremy Irons, actor (b. 19 Sep 1948)
“They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please…Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect.” -Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on a National Bank, 1791
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” -Stephen King, novelist (b. 21 Sep 1947)
“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)
Together We Praise
by Michael Doyle
We look together toward the future
Thinking on those things to nurture
Like spending time in full devotion
We live lives deeper than the ocean
Walking together as our tribe of life
Walking together toward peace, away from strife
Hand in gentled hand and side by side
This is true worthiness in which we confide
Jesus's name is blessed in our salvation
Eyes opened wide embracing all of creation
There is in very song that we ever sing
His word is the there in the blessing we bring
Filling our hearts with His goodness and love
Surrendered to the foundations of Heaven above
Walking the steps that are not those mistaken
In our faith, we are firm and won't be shaken
In all that we are together facing
This is the praise that we're embracing
In the surety of blessing that we praise
The glory is known and shines in our days
(c) September 22, 2022 Michael Doyle
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