“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” – EB White
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Thought For the Day: Always Be On the Lookout For the Presence of Wonder
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Metrics of Consideration
I believe that one day we will look back at this time of creativity for the human race and see it as a time of near global renaissance.
Metrics of Consideration by Michael Doyle Tickled with the details of consideration Soaking it all up in drips of moderation We see the content of life sift and dangle In front of us with each brand new angle So much exists that we've yet to truly see In the inevitability of webbed creativity Not all of this has to come from introspection Quite a lot of this is accidental collaboration Around the world, people continue to conceive In ways so different it's hard to believe The different but similar things we perceive Shaped and observed depending on how we believe Spaces created and breathed as we let life flow Allow us to realize things before we truly know The connections we breathe in and see Opened up to all of this almost magically Finding reached edges we all but refuse to fall As we open ourselves and the universe calls Loose ends and constraints become best defined And becomes our new world as it becomes refined There in all of its awe and it blessed conceptuality We find our separate paths and ways into creativity Down the stairs into our mentally kept basements We access true freedom breaking free of encasement Navigating our way into an energized motivation As our awareness grows with vast infatuation Touched from somewhere deep in an infinite inside The metrics expand until they simply cannot hide (c) March 3, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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A Pirate’s Quest For More
Beyond the treasures of the bounding main are those of peace, love and connection.
A Pirate's Quest For More by Michael Doyle We cannot be thieves forever Said the first mate being clever Better to score one last prize And then make peace with the sunrise They would build their kingdom Daring all contesters to come There to their island's clean sand Where put upon, they would make their stand Pressed dry for hope and wanting peace Their pirate crew sought sweet release To settle down to sunny island life Where they might build a future with a wife Sailing the bounding main for perhaps too long Changes even the heartiest sailor's dread song To one like Ulysses' desperation for home And the brave dreams of no longer being alone Saying yes in true heart's affirmation Living the good life's needed confirmation These are the things we are truly born for Fighting for love, peace and just a bit more Beating the siren's call into plowshare Pursuing sweet dreams; forsaking nightmares We can build our noble pirates kingdom In a douse of sunlight and island rum There in the torchlight moments of night Spent holding on until the morning's light Are the dreams too often scuttled on the shore Ever urged on in that deadly quest for more From our black sails we'll forge our nation One of refuge as we find our final destination There where riches store deeper than our souls Just beyond our island's tranquil shoals (c) March 3, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Celebrate National Reading Month!!
As Frederick Douglas said, reading frees your mind and with a free mind all things are possible.
The importance of early literacy cannot be underscored. From this a child’s life is opened to that child’s maximum potential. Some ideas for promoting this invaluable skill are found here:
It seems rather charming to me that March was chosen in the United States as a way of honoring the work of Dr. Seuss. I have recently read a biography of this gentleman and cannot say enough good about his work and the imprint it has left on countless millions. You don’t have to be Horton to give a hoot! Here’s a list of 17 ways you can encourage literacy and otherwise celebrate this month:
Happy and good reading to one and all!
In the interim, please consider this. In the United States there is a worse epidemic to consider than the coronavirus. It is our mass failure to teach our children to read well or even adequately. The fundamental importance of this is expressed well here along with a look at what we may want to possibly do about it:
“In the preamble to his ‘Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge,’ Thomas Jefferson argued that a healthy natural rights republic needed ‘to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large.’ A ‘liberal education’ provided ‘without regard to wealth, birth or other accidental condition or circumstance’ would render Americans worthy of such a government and outfit them to be guardians of the ‘sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.’ ”
Please see the Hamilton Flourishing site’s report entitled Early Public School Literacy Failures: A Denial of Civil Rights at:
https://hamiltonflourishing.org/
P.S. Watch for the pending release of several volumes of poetry coming soon in an easy e-reader format and other publication possibilities soon-ish….
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Thought For the Day: Once You Learn To Read, You Will Be Forever Free
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglas
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First Principles: To Restore Harmony As One People Acting As One Nation Should Be the Object Of Every Patriot
“To restore … harmony … to render us again one people acting as one nation should be the object of every man really a patriot.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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My Thorny Crown
War never truly ends for some.
My Thorny Crown by Michael Doyle It's said and it's true As a lesson learned by me and you That only the dead Know the end of war For the rest of us, it's in our heads Cutting deep and then a bit more In knowing death so intimately We find comfort and yet infinitely It's there in all of our small spaces Unforgettable in all of our embraces The traces of our forsaken yesterdays When we were surer in all of our ways That we knew the line between wrong and right The veil that drops between day and night All of the things that I would keep from you As unneeded and unheeded however true To keep your soul untainted, pure and good The things that I can't unknow are understood As the harbingers of my own bring down And I wear this torment as my thorny crown (c) March 2, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Web Store Grand Opening Announcement For Fine Art America Presence
I want to share with the readers here that my presence on Fine Art America has been upgraded to premium as I relaunch my product lines there. The store is now open and functional for business but will be further refined in the coming days. Please know that these items are available around the world and shop from five different locations. The following is the announcement that I released to my family and friends on Facebook.
To my family and friends, please know that if you’re looking for that decorative piece for your home or elsewhere, that my new premium Fine Art America site has opened for business as of today.
There will be numerous design choices available for a large range of products, cards, even things like shower curtains for your purchase from this site. There are 25 basic designs currently available now and many, many more will be added shortly. Also please know that if you take a look at my Flickr account and see anything you like there that hasn’t been added to the Fine Arts America site, that can be easily and happily remedied.
Please take a look at the product line so far. I am open for input from this select crowd (those whom I have valued for a lifetime it seems or as long as I’ve known you) as to pricing and any other constructive input. I welcome all constructive input and ask that you at least please take a look and consider making your design/decorative purchases here:
https://14-michael-doyle.pixels.com/
Thanks in advance for all consideration!!
As Sinners Saved By Grace
Based in part on the Book of Matthew:
As Sinners Saved By Grace by Michael Romani Let there be no kind of mistake We must move beyond heartbreak For the good of God's and our sake To give as much forgiveness as we take We are the finished work of the cross Given the grace by our Father's loss Prayers of being who we're meant Inspired by the spark of God's sent A son given for the sake of the world's hurt Ever compassionate and on highest alert To show our love as our Holy God has done Though I doubt I would ever give daughter or son The fire within us brings the world's creation It's what understanding gives in destination Seeded to do the things to spread right action And in so doing harvest our life's satisfaction Walking in the experience of grace we understand Holding tightly to the love felt hand in hand Salt of the earth and the shine of the candle's light That provides the path through the darkest night Not in always finding fault but in setting example Given little by little and offered in best sample Impressive by the lack of ideas of presentation For a total lack of external falsity of pretension It's best to keep away from the snap judgments That are too often perceptions slightly bent By the distortions that we live as we so often give Caught so often at being wrong as we daily live Our filters and thoughts are not very objective In point of fact, these are mainly subjective Almost always conclusion is often interpretation When so much around us is open to manipulation Even if we had the ability to truly fairly discern We ourselves have not lived the lives that earn The right to judge those as if we're without sin Maybe that point is worth repeating again So it is that we must go and try to sin no more Sin is sin, again and again, flooding past our door Into the need for God's healing and loving grace It's just the truth that we do well to so embrace The only thing that will matter on judgment day It's the sobriety of the Lord's touch given our way We need to walk in humble judgment of our mistakes Mindful toward the mending of our own heartbreaks With each other make the choice to be ever kind Extending the grace that we must not leave behind To see the world through Jesus' eyes of love And in so doing making life more like heaven above (c) March 2, 2020 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: God Governs In the Affairs of Men
“I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth – that god governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?” – Benjamin Franklin
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