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First Principles: Mankind Must Be Governed By God Or They Will Be Ruled By Tyrants
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” – William Penn
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Thought For the Day: Never Look Back Unless You Are Planning To Go That Way
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” – Henry David Thoreau
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First Principles: Be Frugal of Your Time. It Is One of the Best Jewels We Have
“Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.” – Matthew Hale
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A Side of Forgiveness
Love, life and laughter all take forgiveness to be best lived.
A Side of Forgiveness by Michael Romani She smiles as she whispers Speaking directly as to what occurs To her mind when it listens to her heart About the truth of things fallen apart That imperfection can be beautiful And introspection is often wonderful Holding my hand she tells me 2020 Will be a good year seen in its clarity That the best of the world isn't seen But felt inside the hearts gently being And then she seals her message with a kiss Promising the world I would not miss Her eyes tell me that truth, forgiveness and love Can make this shared earth like heaven above One that is filled with best of imagination Constant in its striving toward our creation That to be peaceful and utterly lost in forgiving Releases the selfish burden into truly living I smile at her pleasantries and sweet touch Feeling not quite as certain but needing much To know that when judgment meets acceptance There is less need to feel guilty repentance And to live more deeply into that abundance That offers the shelter of its resplendence No longer gossiping about people but of things And dreams and hopes and souls that openly sing This world of ours suddenly made into a better place The moment my eyes rested upon her beautiful face (c) January 31, 2020 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: A Bureaucrat Is the Most Despicable Person – Often Petty, Dull and Not To Be Trusted
“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?” – Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
This is too often completely true, says a man soon ending his career with the Federal Government…
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Thought For the Day: The Best and Most Beautiful Things In the World Cannot Be Seen Or Even Touched – They Must Be Felt With the Heart
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
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Somewhere In A Hobbit’s Town
The whole creative process behind the making of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies and the original tales has and have always fascinated me. How about you?
Somewhere In A Hobbit's Town by Michael Romani Somewhere in Switzerland begins the journey That will end on New Zealand's shore There into a Tolkienian mash of fantasy Where Hobbits are believed in just a bit more Tales that have regaled my fanciful generation And are and were held dear with great veneration Lord of the Rings and Hobbiton are in the north Their ruins stand there today for what it's worth These are the stories that flow fascinatingly deep That make us smile and in turn also make us weep All of these like some magical tea left to steep All of these worthy the memories that we keep The road of this life goes endlessly on and on With so much to discover and then dream upon So many adventures woven into the words we read Even more bits of imagination becoming truly freed From 2D to 3D, it's there for all openly to see All the little gardens from Tolkien's fantasy There in a world of recreated beautiful detail Are our school daze daydreams made close to real Small drawings sketched that have persisted Until it is made as if it has always existed It's as if one was walking around in one's head Being able to touch the alchemy of things said Look, look and then I say, look yet again To and at so much beauty that never seems to end New Zealand's wilds share much with Mid-Earth All of the mystery, magic and some of its mirth When fantasy becomes inspired by reality The fusion that results is masterful in conceptuality It's an immersion that blending and lending into the feeling Of an artist's soul that conceals, veils and is revealing Coming home a little colder, damper and wiser in part With all the things seen somehow a bit closer in heart The Rings saga has a feel of something nature saturated Protected and kept and yet the artist's pencil has penetrated In telling its wordless story layer by layer in drawing While the pantheons of the created hear that God is calling All of this a fragmentary blessing in traces of the created That grip our hearts and always keep us fascinated (c) January 30, 2020 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: The First Duty of A Newspaper Is To Be Accurate
“The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it is accurate, it follows that it is fair.” – Herbert B. Swope (1882-1958)
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First Principles: The Battle Is Not Just the Strong; But, to the Vigilant, Active and Brave
“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” – Patrick Henry (1775)
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