“I think I was wrong … about the path that inflation would take.” – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
No kidding? In the country where I grew up (the United States) when a person failed this badly at their job and was in a position of public trust, the appropriate thing to do was and remains to resign. It is certainly not to keep pursuing the same failed policies.
“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.” – Thomas Paine
We Pretend To Have Forgot
by Michael Doyle
I don't like things
That are too touchy and feely
The reason why
Is these might reveal me
With the turn of the page
It's less in what we say
But the how that we rage
As night fights against day
These things have less meaning
Than in pretending what is real
As life moves beyond puzzles
That serve to seal the deal
We make the promises
That we know that we won't keep
And still we wonder
Why the willows weep
Until we no longer care
Forged by all the times we should not have
We are given flowers in our grief
And pluck the petals pretending to have forgot
(c) June 4, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” -St. Augustine (354-430)
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”- Cesare Beccaria
“The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State’s honey and avoiding the sting?” – C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.” – John Witherspoon (1776)
Weren't Those the Teenaged Years?
by Michael Doyle
The teenaged years
Of Saturday night solitude
Was a parade of smiles and tears
And many dramas
Waiting to intrude
Into the happiness that came
And that provided the frame
In moments of Shakespeare
That kept us awake
Making us braver than our fear
As our souls trembled
Into the edge of more
Than we thought we could take
Wars of love
Fought based on broken hearts
Unsure of what we were thinking of
Life offers us too many false starts
The garden variety
Of all of our shared issues
All of this seemed a complexity
Shedding our tears into tissues
So much unseen that is seen
As we grew into human beings
Fighting and blessing each step
Along the way
Not to be overly contemplative
But there were too many negatives
Though we tried to be positive
We looked at the world - inquisitive
Questioning even the questions
With the slightest hesitations
Hiding secrets that we found
In the walks taken around
We all have little secrets that we hide
The trick is knowing in whom to confide
As we get to the place of being older
And find ourselves growing less bolder
We went off to the important things
No longer just enjoying the moments life brings
Wanting to edit all things said
Still wobbling around inside our heads
Life finds itself passing by
Heartbreaks signaled away in a sigh
We become more aware of all we're losing
Wide awake to how little is our choosing
And we think back on our younger days
Smiling in wonder as if in a million ways
All those teenaged years were good...
...weren't they?
(c) June 2, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“So great is the wickedness of some men, and the stupid servility of others, that one would be almost inclined to conclude that communities cannot be free.” – Samuel Adams (1787)
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.” -Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (2 Jun 1840-1928)
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