“Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method…is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community…Yes , love-which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for one’s enemies-is the solution.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
There seems to be many similar statements to this from Martin Luther King, Jr. I could not find an image that repeated the same words.
Hanging out on an oak limb Beneath the canopy's shadow, The moves we made brought us safety. Empty words ring kind of hollow.
Left on their own, kids flourish. It's the way we allow them to nourish The decision-making and resiliency That allows independence and life fluency.
Our scars generally only run skin deep However many tears we're caused to weep. But they serve to remind us we do survive And build up our souls as we stay alive.
Rock bottoms become our firm foundations. It's a life well-lived without explanation. Sometimes those we love hand us darkness, It's how we rise above it that removes the harshness.
Better sooner than later, so that we learn Life's lessons we surely need to discern. Free life and play have become something of the past, We need its return, if our children are to last.
Children need to behave less than to explore, It's how they push past boundaries, to life's more. Turning over every rock in that free-flowing stream, It's how they learn their limits and begin to dream.
If we want our children to become close to brilliant, We need to allow the hurts that make them resilient. Falling down just to get back up once again Is how life moves forward without any tragic end.
We learn to build our lives through compassion, That comes from learning lessons after a fashion. Meaningful purpose is found through our experience, The sooner then later, we put down to preferences.
(c) July 12, 2025 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.” – Franklin Pierce
The Empirical Arbitrator is who decides. The rest of us are along for the ride. Whatever happens, happens as it does. Past or present, it is as it never ever was.
Our revelations are preordained, However easy or however strained. It isn't ours to interfere. But it is our sacred duty to persevere.
Construed as blasphemy, it might be war. Seen as something else, it adds up to more. It seems hypotheticals do not truly matter. But with a little music, the bindings shatter.
Soothing notes are a code for harmony. The difference that brings peace is the frequency. In a circle of fifths, we complete life's song. As it plays out, we find where we belong.
Music is just a language that we have not yet learned. From it are life's lessons yet to be discerned. It's there in our need for the simplest translation That the Maestro finds hidden truths for his explanation.
It's the gambles that we must take, The ones that make what it is they make. These reshape the world for our mystic good. This is the truth of planetary music understood.
Simple water is the greater bringer of life. It washes away fear and takes away strife. As we begin to explore the reaches of space, There touch of eternity are God's embrace.
Cryptic messages adrift from the future Become the ways that we learn to nurture. One after one, we lean in to simply listen, Caught up as we are, we watch starlight glisten.
Fate is what we make through our choices, Made as it is by choosing which of the voices We choose the choices that bind and lead Where they lead through our songs and deeds.
(c) July 10, 2025 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.” – John Hancock, in his oration following the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1774)
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 