“I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesdays gray and Wednesday too. Thursday I don’t care about you, it’s Friday I’m in love.” – The Cure
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Thought For the Day: I Don’t Care If Monday’s Blue, Tuesday’s Gray and Wednesday Too. Thursday I Don’t Care About You, It’s Friday I’m In Love
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First Principles: The Eternal Difference Between Right and Wrong Does Not Fluctuate, It Is Immutable
“The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.” – Patrick Henry
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Investing In Old Age
Investing In Old Age
by Michael Doyle
It has become as sort of a joke
But one that makes me slightly choke
The youngest of chronological age
Says as if with the wisdom of a sage
That her dad, me, is growing a bit old
She laughs as her witticism is told
But I am not sure how to ease this
I just smile and tell her of my happiness
That it was good that I knew of this test
And wisely chose long ago to start to invest
Not in the money that cannot buy happiness
But in those things that make for this bliss
The funny thing about life from length to length
Is that the things of joy bring their strength
That this then is the purpose of my final days
To enjoy the blossoming of her and her sister's ways
(c) February 17, 2022 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Guard With Jealous Attention the Public Liberty
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” – Patrick Henry (1788)
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Thought For the Day: It Is Clear That Thought Is Not Free If the Profession of Certain Opinions Make It Impossible To Earn A Living
“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it impossible to earn a living.” – Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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Into Something More
Into Something More
by Michael Doyle
Strive and fight for a better life
Finding believed in utopia was naught
But disappointment with hints of strife
Ideals purchased with bloodied tears sought
Only to find these too lacking in the end
And while life goes on, we cannot pretend
That what is not right is indeed right
Nor that darkness can be mistaken for light
Finding ourselves on some foreign shore
Struggling to make our lives into something more
Putting on all of the feigned trends
And still seeking happiness in our ends
These pursuits lead as such often do
To finding ourselves opposed to the the views
That only yesterday felt as if something true
Which could and can be grasped only by a few
It is that something more of storied legacy
That we see ourselves in mirrors of hypocrisy
Comic operas that leave us with next to nothing
Thinking we have that something more that is everything
Judgments rushed into as if by infliction
Become indulgences of understanding in affliction
That perhaps the best of our found days
Link back to the ancient and tried ways
Lifted in prayers that God will always hear
Finding our voices beyond all sense of fear
Trust then in turning our backs on failed ways
As we found ourselves tempted in our jaded days
No matter where we go, there we indeed are
There is a humor in finding the near has been far
As we find ourselves full circle in our duty
And that in ourselves and God is the truest beauty
What is to be gained in seeking the something more
All that society deems rich, only leaves us poor
There in its dripping poison in words flittering by
We find the more in the less as our days go passing by
There is no need but the simple prayers of connection
As God knows the wisdom needed for our correction
The many follies of man have none of the best answers
And the traps of modern life spread like vicious cancers
Be penitent in returning to the faith that is needed
Where God always answers all of the prayers pleaded
The sufferings of life are but of a petulant season
While leaning on God's business shares purity of reason
God in all of His mercy ponders His long told tale
That we might choose wisely in what will best prevail
And if we then we should still find our lives a little strange
Remember God's something more and repent again to change
(c) February 17, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought of the Day: If Liberty Means Anything At All, It Means the Right To Tell People What They Do Not Want To Hear
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” —George Orwell (1903-1950)ople what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell (1903-1950)
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First Principles: In A Society Under the Forms of Which the Stronger Faction Can Readily Unite and Oppress the Weaker, Anarchy May As Truly Be Said To Reign As In A State of Nature
“In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.” – James Madison (1788)
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Thought For the Day: We Are What We Repeatedly Do. Excellence Then, Is Not An Act, But A Habit
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
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First Principles: Liberty..Justly Understood Is Sacred
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.” – Oliver Ellsworth (1787)
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