“Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.” -Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, preacher, journalist, and activist (12 May 1802-1861)
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Thought For the Day: Neither Genius, Fame, Nor Love Show the Greatness of the Soul. Only Kindness Can Do That
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Pragmatic Inferences
Pragmatic Inferences
by Michael Doyle
Pragmatic inferences
Have all the meaning
To communicating
As a human being
Systematic rules
To all that we are saying
Laid out
Like cards that we are playing
Garden paths
Of quiet accident
Show a map
Of living inside this incident
We fill out and in
Our partial perceptions
Blind spots
That trigger false reception
In a duality of patterns
Arbitrary symbols
Given out in smatterings
Of meanings we might yet share
(c) May 11, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Accident, Arbitrary Symbols, Blind Spots, Cards, Communicating, Duality, False Reception, Fill In, Garden Paths, Human Being, Incident, Inferences, Laid Out, Map, Meaning, Meanings, Partial Perceptions, Patterns, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pragmatic, Say, Share, Smatterings, Systematic Rules, Trigger
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First Principles: The Sacred Rights of Mankind…Are Written…In the Whole Volume of Human Nature, By the Hand of the Divinity Itself
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” – Alexander Hamilton (1775)
Thought For the Day: The Difference Between False Memories and True Ones Is the Same As For Jewels: It Is Always the False Ones That Look the Most Real, The Most Brilliant
“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.” -Salvador Dali, painter (11 May 1904-1989)
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Tagged Briliant, Difference, False, Jewels, Look, Memories, Real, Salvador Dali, Same, Thought For the Day, True Ones
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In Ceremony
In Ceremony
by Michael Doyle
Beyond money and fear
There is an underlying trust
This is the path of loyalty
And without that currency, it is bust
Once broken, there is a penalty
Even among the underground's royalty
it is the price that must be paid
Or all that is stood for begins to fade
In the inner life's flow
One must abandon ego
To reach the state of harmony
There are many paths to this singularity
In which the past doesn't matter
And the ties that bind all shatter
It is only in living this present moment
That detachment becomes permanent
In this quiet moment of grace
It is the way of the warrior to embrace
Until all defects become needed victory
The forms practiced are only a ceremony
(c) May 10, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Abandon, Broken, Bust, Ceremony, Currency, Defects, Detachment, Ego, Embrace, Fade, Fear, Flow, Forms, Grace, Inner Life, Living, Money, Paid, Past, Path of Loyalty, Paths, Penalty, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Practice, Present Moment, Price, Quiet Moment, Royalty, Shatter, Singularity, State of Harmony, Underground, Underlying Trust, Victory, Way of the Warrior
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Thought For the Day: The Higher Up You Go, the More Mistakes You Are Allowed. Right At the Top, If You Make Enough of Them, It’s Considered To Be Your Style
“The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.” – Fred Astaire, dancer, actor, singer, musician, and choreographer (10 May 1899-1987)
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First Principles: Among the Natural Rights (of the People) Are There: First, A Right To Life, Secondly, To Liberty; Thirdly to Property
“Among the natural rights [of the people] are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.” – Samuel Adams (1772)
A Silent Genesis
A Silent Genesis
by Michael Doyle
My new obsession
Has a silent genesis
In the maelstrom
Of ghosts and typhoons
Beyond our bodies
We rest in eupnea
Pure reason's revolution
Flies on the wings of a dead butterfly
Lost in the fathoms
Between the hammer and anvil
Is the dark third
Of poetry filling a void
The bright ambassadors of morning
Serves as apprentices to the universe
In an aeropause of exact color
Hidden among the trembling willows
You can try to reveal the magic
But only the believers will see
In this world of bulitts dominae
Only the stronger do better than to survive
(c) May 9, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Ambassadors, Apprentices, Believers, Between, Beyond, Bodies, Butterfly, Color, Dark Third, Eupnea, Fathoms, Genesis, Ghosts, Hammer and Anvil, Maelstrom, Magic, Morning, Obsession, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pure Reason, Revolution, Silent, Stronger, Survive, Typhoons, Universe, Void, Willows, Wings, World
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First Principles: The Best of All Government Is That Which Teaches Us To Govern Ourselves
“The best of all government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832
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Tagged All, Best, First Principles, Govern, Government, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ourselves, Us
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Thought For the Day: Remove All Periods. They Are Scars Made By Words I Couldn’t Bring Myself To Say
“Remove all periods / They are scars made by words / I couldn’t bring myself to say/” – Charles Simic, poet (b. 9 May 1938)
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Tagged Bring, Charles Simic, Myaelf, Periods, Remove, Say, Scars, Thought For the Day, Words
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