“I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” – Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970)
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Thought For Today: I Have Come To the Conclusion That Politics Is Too Serious A Matter To Be Left To the Politicians
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Blessed Are We In Our Stumble
Blessed As We Are In Our Stumble
by Michael Doyle
Blessed as we are in our stumble
Doing our best to never crumble
It keeps us grateful and humble
To know we are not alone in this trouble
Christ will carry us across the shore
As we weep, pray and implore
Keeping faith in what it is in store
Though our grief feels to heavy to ignore
A legacy of faith serves as inspiration
Knowing that Heaven is our destination
Forever keeping strong in our gratitude
We set our hearts straight in right attitude
Keeping eyes fixed on our dreams
Even when it seems our world is torn at its seams
It is how we will walk this hard time through
Focused on what the Lord would have us do
2020 might be taken as its seeming tragedy
But it has also pointed us to our priority
As it should be in the hearts of our family
It is in this, God builds His great legacy
(c) January 4, 2021 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Do Not Anticipate Trouble or Worry About Things What May Never Happen. Keep In the Sunlight
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”― Benjamin Franklin
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First Principles: The Greatest Good We Can Do Our Country Is To Heal Its Party Divisions and Make Them One People
“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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First Principles: Remember Not Only To Say the Right Thing In the Right Place, But Far More Difficult Still, To Leave Unsaid the Wrong Thing At the Tempting Moment
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”– Benjamin Franklin
Thought For the Day: Every New Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning’s End
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Seneca
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Split the Difference
Split the Difference
by Michael Doyle
Kicking back with my girls on the holidays
Sharing life with them in a million ways
When we happened on a soulful snip of movie
With a lot of heart that played out groovy
There in the middle of a ink dab plot
Was a lesson to be learned and not forgot
That everyone doing anything has their dreams
Played out in a million types of screens
In the present, future and the great before
Is the meaning of life waiting to explore
Played out with a twist of lyric repartee
If we'd only take the moment to hear each other say
Nature and nurture it's all a part of culture
And in the end the only thing known for sure
Is that even if by the slightest inference
Life is how we make it in splitting the difference
The wonders of life displayed with plausibility
Demonstrated with the force of subtle punditry
Contrary to Lennon's infamous postulation
Studied in depth with a pseudo-intellectual's fascination
We do not need to live life as super stars
To understand our meaning to others in so far
As the lessons we teach as our stories preach
By example keeping hope and joy right in reach
There's a celestial concept of possibility
That shadows our dreams into greater probability
When we realize the jazz of living our soul
Brings each of us to our greatest needed role
There is it stated abstract in it fluff-ness
In a 3-D panorama that never knows enough-ness
But sure as the streets have their toughness
Life comes at us as it will even in a tangled mess
Waiting for each of us to get jazzy with it
In doing our improvised part of sum of every bit
That comes out greater than our complicated hearts
Each beat of which play out the soul of their parts
(c) January 3, 2020 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Without Continual Growth and Progress, Such Words As Improvement, Achievement and Success Have No Meaning
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Thought For the Day: Your Success and Happiness Lies In You. Resolve To Keep Happy, and In Your Joy and You Shall Form An Invincible Host Against Difficulties
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller
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First Principles: Be At War With Your Vices, At Peace With Your Neighbors and Let Every New Year Find You A Better Man
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
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