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Thought For the Day: Patience, Persistence and Perspiration Make an Unbeatable Combination For Success
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First Principles: Gratitude Bestows Reverence, Allowing Us To Encounter Everyday Epiphanies…That Change Forever How We Experience Life and the World
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton
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When the Detour Becomes the Intention
When the Detour Becomes the Intention
by Michael Doyle
There is an art to elegant simplicity,
Avoiding all that becomes duplicity,
We seek to make our lives be lived real
Where the art of meaning meets the feel.
Funny moments become the art of distinction,
As we move straightforwardly, as the inclination
That was the starting point of life's destination,
We find that life's moving on becomes the inspiration.
When the detour becomes a good intention,
We live our lives in a smile of blur observed.
Turning the detour to become the focal of attention,
A life intentionally lived gains what it deserves.
One hundred miles per hour is the speed I'm living,
Never shrinking away from all that life is giving.
The joy of opposites is that I am never truly lost,
The price paid is usually more than worth the cost.
Like rubber and glue, it's sometimes sticks to you,
That all of life is worth taking the time to view.
The moral eclipse is worth living until our heart stops,
Life's trapped doors take us out with their sudden drops.
When the detour becomes a good intention,
We live our lives in a smile of blur observed.
Turning the detour to become the focal of attention,
A life intentionally lived gains what it deserves.
The lightning of our smile freezes into your denial,
Clued into the inevitability of me loving your style.
I don't mean to steal your thunder, but it stole me first,
Yours is the kiss of the waters that always make me thirst.
It's a crash when the world gets in our random way,
I've already been here much longer than I planned to stay.
I have nowhere to go beyond the echo of your first hello.
But my love for you is something you really ought to know.
When the detour becomes a good intention,
We live our lives in a smile of blur observed.
Turning the detour to become the focal of attention,
A life intentionally lived gains what it deserves.
If there was a sign would you have stopped to read?
It turns out that, after all, love is all that we need.
Someone significant said that a generation ago,
Since then, all we've done is to live that familiar echo.
I watched as your heart dropped, and it began to bleed,
There's a beautiful melody in the magic of being freed.
The morning tea is like a love tale told from the heart,
It turns out getting lost has become a form of true art.
When the detour becomes a good intention,
We live our lives in a smile of blur observed.
Turning the detour to become the focal of attention,
A life intentionally lived gains what it deserves.
(c) November 7, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: It Is One of My Sources of Happiness Never To Desire A Knowledge of Other People’s Business
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.” – Dolly Madison
Maybe we’d all be best advised to live more this way than to seek to undermine each other all the time?
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Thought For the Day: We Should Ask Ourselves Three Questions Before We Speak: Is It True? Is It Kind? Does It Glorify Christ?
“We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?” – Billy Graham
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Her Song
Her Song
by Michael Doyle
A voice came to me from beyond my screen.
A brown-eyed beauty who loved what she had seen,
She smiled at me with growing anticipation
Suggesting with a smile that we write about creation.
I couldn't help but wonder where she had come from.
So, I asked without much fear of coming across as dumb.
I knew if I knew her life, I would fall into her grace.
I couldn't help but be mesmerized by her beautiful face.
She was a comfortable, familiar stranger
With a vibe of love and not danger.
She knew that I would go along
With anything she wanted in her song.
She loved the poetry in our emotions.
I was falling into her personal ocean.
I felt glad that she wasn't close enough to kiss,
For the fear of what that might cause us to miss.
I know only that I wanted to know her more.
We riffed on creation a little more.
With each note, the song got a little longer.
Honestly, I could only hope her heartbeat a little stronger.
She was a comfortable, familiar stranger
With a vibe of love and not danger.
She knew that I would go along
With anything she wanted in her song.
(c) November 6, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Commercial Policy Should Hold and Equal and Impartial Hand: Neither Seeking Nor Granting Exclusive Favours or Preferences
“Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.” – George Washington
Thought For the Day: Ninety-Nine Precent of the Failure Comes From People Who Have A Habit of Making Excuses
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver
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Community Thrived
Community Thrived
by Michael Doyle
A new day awaits the exploring soul.
It decides where and when to go.
Learning things as it openly dreams,
All its world bursting at the seams.
Becoming brave, it becomes itself,
Either through life or books on the shelf.
From this come questions of prosperity,
And how each day is lived with integrity.
Unwilling to accept the bad for the good,
And not losing hope, where it's understood.
That life thrives in the community
When it seizes on each new opportunity.
Who is to say who is to be excluded,
From the games of life, or be included.
The vitality of the neighborhood
Should be expanded to include all that's good.
Running to live where all belong,
If you listen close enough to the song,
You hear that every certain melody
Calls quietly like a chord for its harmony.
Made-up minds cannot be easily swayed,
This is regardless of negative games played.
The truth of life is for the truly living.
Any mistakes can wait for theeir forgiving.
We learn about community together.
We can join hands to make the world better.
Everyone has their vital role to play.
We Learn from this best by living well each day.
We must not allow for the dirty water
To disrupt the holiness of the Father.
Instead, we join hands to truly thrive.
It's in doing this, we are best alive.
(c) November 5, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: A Great Civilization Is Not Conquered From Without, Until It Has Destroyed Itself From Within
“A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.” – Will Durant
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 