“When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: “Only stand out of my light.” Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.” – John W. Gardner, author and educator (8 Oct 1912-2002)
Shoreline Levee Abstraction
by Michael Doyle
Without the world's imposed inhibitions
You find life without so many limitations
Waiting for you below the surface, we keep
The sands of time as these start to seep
Pouring through our hands as these flow
Is a new depth for each of us to know
About ourselves and those we hold near
The inner depths seen as these do appear
It is there that we find the dreams lurking
If only we might peep inside and keep looking
Pressing onward to the point where they reveal
All the needed secrets that keep our souls still
Waiting and wondering sometimes in the worrying
We find little need to do all this great deal of hurrying
And there before the levee breaks is the dream
Where the Big Easy merges into ocean serene
(c) October 7, 2020 Michael Doyle
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“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.”– Niels Bohr, physicist, Nobel laureate (7 Oct 1885-1962)
“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.” – James Madison (1786)
“The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.” – Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
“Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.” – Thomas Jefferson (1817)
A Birthday Week
by Michael Doyle
Solid as it is with just a look
2020 was a hard one for the history books
But, as those pages have turned
There was one thing that I have learned
My love was born a Libra on her scale
And it is one that weighs justice to prevail
Ruled with a sense of unity and passion
And dare I say, her love of fashion
Still, there is one more thing of which to speak
And that is her insistence on a birthday week
Spoken quietly of after a time of contemplation
She reveals her strong desire and love of celebration
Now I have never been the kind to deny fun
Yet, when it comes to a birthday, it seems there is but one
Still, that seems agreeable enough in its simplicity
And a request without any need for anxious complexity
We shall celebrate with much love and relaxation
Her with her golden heart reflected in our connection
And me with my mumbled words of love's sincerity
It seems a birthday week is a great gift of easy clarity
(c) October 5, 2020 Michael Doyle
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“Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? – that it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? – that it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?” – John Quincy Adams
“We are not just flesh, bone and blood, we are human beings with souls. Our republic was formed on the basis that freedom is not a gift from government but that freedom is a gift from God!” – President Donald J. Trump
“We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to Unite All Parties For the General Welfare” – Alexander Hamilton
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