“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.” – John Jay (1784)
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First Principles: The Bible Teaches Us the Way To Be Happy In This World and In the Next
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Thought For the Day: Success Is Finding Something You Love To Do, Getting Paid To Do It and Finding Someone To Share It With
“Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.” – Dick Clark
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First Principles: If We Mean To Have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, We Should Have Learned Women
“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.” – Abigail Adams
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Thought For the Day: One Child, One Teacher, One Book and One Pen Can Change the World
“One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
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The Metrics of Notoriety
Social media. .. is it a blessing or a bane?
The Metrics of Notoriety by Michael Doyle Looking over your shoulder For a glimpse inside your mind Feeling so much bolder Often surprised by what I find Interaction at design Finding the core we improvise Playing together toe to the line Finding an us in our compromise It's a bottomless scroll In an never-ending loop So much lies out of our control As we talk together on the stoop Though we're miles apart We aren't that very far You're there in my heart Emblazoned as my guiding star I'm not wanting to define your choice As to if and when you've had enough I'm giving to you your path and voice Yet, still playing at life off the cuff Are we stuck in meters of popularity Or can we be just who we are I don't want to know your notoriety I just want to love you for who you are (c) March 7, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Souls On the Line
Ever had that moment when you suddenly knew that however scary love is, you had met your forever in the eyes of the one you love?
Souls On the Line by Michael Doyle My soul is on the line Wanting to believe you are mine At times, I'm feeling so broken Over words carelessly spoken Wondering if we are just marking time Or, will we end up being sublime My heart's on the line Dreaming you want to always be mine Each of us wanting badly to trust Because it is that we know that we must To take this beyond the feel And dare together to make it real Tell me, baby, do you find That the best of love is blind Form all these ties that bind Both of us choosing to be kind Wanting to be our forever Soul surreal and quite as clever I want to learn to love you better As we live the love of our together Puzzled at how life unravels I want to live our life's travels As our hearts reach out and touch I only know that I love you so much So, beautiful inside and out There not room in my heart for doubt Thankful in mind for our happiness I know we both want this to be our bliss (c) March 7, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: Rebellion To Tyrants Is Obedience To God
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Thought For the Day: Fill Your Mind With Prayer Or It Fills With Anxiety, Worry, Temptation, Resentment and Unwelcome Memories
“If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.” – Scott Hahn
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Laurel Canyon Vibe
The 60s Los Angeles music scene was a very special time. I would love to have been there to seen all that talent in one place.
Laurel Canyon Vibe by Michael Doyle There was an avalanche of sound That echoed down the canyon Harmonies in and out of bounds Loved felt with sheerest abandon Souls stopped at the cornered start Super grouped into a collaboration of heart There was something happening there That fifty years later is a little clearer Talked in a dream that grew into fantasy Trading guitar licks blended into melody A million questions wrapped into a feeling That on a good day leaves my head reeling It seems that the sense that you've asked That all of my urgencies have been tasked It was mind blowing as it sonically rained With all the rock-n-roll children unrestrained There in the love that needed no urging Were street corner studios in all their versions Never would come a time of tired association True love caught in all its tinted reverberation All of these cascading notes the spilled in flow Spending each moment wishing we'd never let go The geometry of it all has it's spherical vibration Laurel Canyon in all of its golden reiterations Street light poets bold enough to spread the word Until it became more than a little blurred As to who said what and exactly was that when We need to find our way back to this garden again (c) March 6, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Simply Do Unto Others
Based in part on Matthew 7: 12: