Here’s hoping that each and every mother out there is having a happy, joyously beautiful and blessed Mothers’ Day!!
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Happy Mothers’ Day 2020!!
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Happy Mother’s Day, Too
My ex-wife could never gracefully receive a present. Not just from me but from our daughters, they tell me. Still, despite all, there is one gift I would yet give her on this day particularly after the reminders received over this weekend of how wonderful our little girls have been so far and are turning out to be even more so. That is my gratitude for her part in this and my forgiveness for the past wrongs done. There is not a moment in talking to the beautiful, kind hearted little ladies that are my daughters, that I don’t see their grace under fire and the beauty that they bring to this world of ours.
Happy Mother's Day, Too
by Michael Doyle
It's a sweet sort of fascination
The girls and I in our conversation
While on a road trip across the state
After getting bumped off the inter-state
Slowing down on a long country road
Telling our tales that need to be told
It's easy to listen and easier still to see
The best parts of their loving company
So often mirroring the good, bad and ugly
Of the things they reveal about their family
It's said apples don't fall far from the tree
And from what I've seen, I hardily agree
Sure each of us needs God's grace and forgiveness
But I'd never choose other than to live this
Looking into their eyes, I feel God's nearness
While the road goes on forever, it brings me bliss
Tomorrow comes with a wake up bringing Mother's Day
I think on that as I watch the them sing and play
It's hard to forgive someone who has done me so much wrong
But that's nearly forgotten as I hear their song
Quietly thinking on how their mother keeps it together
While a pandemic is going on that may not get better
Thinking of how the girls are vibrantly happy and whole
To that extent, I am grateful for their mother's soul
After a day's drive and a couple short hikes
On the way back, I am think on the things that they like
As they kid and joke around, even laughing at some of mine
I find some grace from their mother in how they still shine
The youngest is in the back asking for the radio
So that we can listen and sing along as we go
Back on the highway, we are returned again
It's easy to marvel at them as my daughters and friends
With a click of a button in search of stations
We're heading back homeward to our destinations
When suddenly Christmas songs begin to joyfully play
The youngest jokes about how we make history every day
This Mother's Day eve has been among the best
As we burst out laughing, I realized we are blessed
At least part of that is to their mother her own due
And so today, I wish her a happy Mother's Day, too!
...and I forgive her for the damage she's done
(c) May 10, 2020 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: God Could Not Be Everywhere and Therefore He Made Mothers
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First Principles: Securing Peace Is One of the Most Powerful Instruments Is Our Rising Prosperity
“If we desire to insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.” – George Washington, in his Annual Message (December 1793)
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Depths of Me and You
It’s all about connection. The deeper I dig in, the deeper I want this to go. Every moment is a new revelation to cherish.
Depths of Me and You by Michael Doyle Taking our time To build our foundation It would be a crime To make this about infatuation Getting to know The real you It's been starting to show Our love is true Can't help thinking about The depths of me and you You know that I don't doubt Our love is true Focused on our zone A world of me and you Times spent alone It feels so true Laughter we share You're as special as my sun Living as we share Without you I am alone Two hearts together Forming closely into one Your heart makes me better You are my moon and sun Can't help thinking about The depths of me and you You know I don't doubt Our love is true Focused on our zone A world of me and you Times spent alone It feels so true (c) May 9, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Consent of the Governed
Continuing in a series of poems about the establishment of our republican form of government and life under the rule of law as set out in our constitution:
Consent of the Governed by Michael Doyle The standards are set by the Declaration of Independence In all of its truths and its just transcendence That a just government depends on the People's consent And the People's rights are unalienably permanent Both of these can be held in a state of tension This is why these so urgently require our attention Slavery for example was just such a deep subject In which we found and find these to be rather abject Publius pointed out the historical sense of our lesson That there is nothing new and even less to guessing That self-government can indeed work for the People Gathered together under the dome of freedom's steeple Past vacillation of the extremes of democracy Kept so many imprisoned between tyranny and anarchy In re-examining the classics, we begin to discern That the order of society depends on what we learn This is the thing about learning from the past It must be decided what will work and will last Things that we need to know and their just improvement Are what must be added to the science of government Such things as do make up man's finest hour Are the distribution of the balance of power The checks and balances of patent ambition And representation with it's own inhibitions Another component which is almost legendary Is the necessity of an independent judiciary All of these are improvements on the old A bit of the best on which we must be told To be the powerful and needed political means By which a republican government of human beings Is best kept despite all of our human imperfection Avoiding all the deficiencies of our detection This then is what it means to be republican In turn, this is what it means to be American Unchecked power is an invitation to defeat The very means by which we lose our seat There at the table of freedom and liberty Under the rule of law this must always be Kept in the ways of legislative representation And an executive also voted in for our nation (c) May 9, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: Love Is Friendship That Has Caught Fire
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
First Principles: Mankind Has A Natural Right To Property, Character, Liberty and To Safety
I am first to show, that a man has a natural right to his property, to his character, to liberty, and to safety.” – James Wilson, in Of the Natural Rights of Individuals
A Star Wars Lesson In Liberty
May 4th has become, for some, a day of tribute to Star Wars as “May the 4th Be With You” day. When the day passed recently, it gave me some cause to think about how we around the planet so willing and willfully surrendered at least for a time our civil liberties in the cause of health security.
A Star Wars Lesson In Liberty by Michael Doyle Good versus evil plays on the silver screen This then is what Star Wars really means In a time as old or older than Father Time The movie's shallowness is yet sublime There in the treasured original trilogy Was a story laid bare with moral ambiguity There is a stark truth in black and white Why not reveal the truth in plain sight Democracy becomes as it is a useful tool In turning Anakin into Vader, reel to spool Persuaded that Jedi good is bad in quest for power Darkness creeps in to steal the Empire's hour In a strained quest for a manipulated need for security The Republic loses it soul and all of it's liberty In this we watch a people enchained and overturned In the oldest lesson man continues never to learn (c) May 8, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Awed By Living
Life is for the living. Let’s do it well!
Awed By Living by Michael Doyle Counting the things of needed gratitude Instead of too often taking an attitude At and of those things of circumstance Forgetting to realize each moment's chance Living life by bumper sticker mentality We accept the platitudes of sentimentality But somehow miss out on life's rightness Too often blinded by moments of brightness There is an awesomeness in all of life's wonder Stumbling headfirst into too many blunders Cliché ridden in an endurance of the rat race Instead of enjoying the sacredness of each embrace Living as though a child fully blessed Spontaneously engaged without being second guessed Not letting life's bring downs destroy openness Let's instead realize that life has its blissfulness Let the light appear cutting through the darkness Let smiles erase the drag of gravity's harshness Let dreams soar until too large to pretend to ignore On reaching this bliss, let's dare to ask just a little more (c) May 8, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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