“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (12 Jan 1729-1797)
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First Principles: There Is No Greater Mistake Than Doing Nothing Because Only Little Could Be Done
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Kid Lost In Story
What’s the difference between a kid at play and an artist lost in art? Give up? Maybe me too….
Kid Lost In Story by Michael Romani Hand sketched And mentally stretched The artist knows her caper Put down as it on paper A kid lost in her story Lost in playground of glory Sculptures of fantasy Adrenaline in ecstasy Building blocks Played on the rocks This is how children learn In an oceanic energy burn Too much of the world preconstructed In ways imposing rules instructed Restrictive and a bit of percussion Hellbent toward creativity's destruction It can't be understood Any other way It's just no good To get in our way Part and pieces fit together Never worse, always better When we let these things flow And this, my child, is how we grow It's okay to do it all wrong It's how we find where we belong There in those awkward moments That make us smile at all that's meant (c) January 22, 2020 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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A Victorian Legacy
Have you ever read all of the Dickens works? I know most of us are familiar with A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and perhaps a few more. But, what a time and age to live through with all of its issues in giving voice to the lives lived then. In one part magical and another tragic – all of it bears on the world we live today.
A Victorian Legacy by Michael Romani Snow falls on the city street While a carriage comes to meet Two who know love and travails Only certain that love must prevail Even in squalor and poverty There is found cause for joy in its delicacy An orphaned boy is taught the value of a penny While house is not a home when its empty No longer filled by the soul of the hearth Who once inhabited it fully and in mirth Hearts won and lost in this cold city Know the meaning of deep winter's pity Death comes to demand its respect With Christmas Eve refusing its own neglect All of this is consumed inside a library That holds its treasured Dickensian legacy All of debt kept close in Scrooge's ledger Is diminished into contempt hungering and eager That its demands must be circumspected As long as society finds itself lost and neglected (c) January 22, 2020 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: Praise God That Believing Souls Give Light In Darkness, Comfort In Despair
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.” – William Shakespeare
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Finished Ideas
To design for toying or for play allows the imagination to stray. Does it not?
Finished Ideas by Michael Romani Finished ideas Have no place In the imagination All idylls To embrace With our fascination The only limitation Is that elimination Of things that have been Until when and then Designed for play In and along the way Circumstances arrive Objects kept alive From the very start Deep within our hearts Every abstraction Becomes its own distraction (c) January 21, 2020 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: We All Agree In the Obligation of the Moral Principles of Jesus and Nowhere Will They Be found Delivered In Greater Purity Than In His Discourses
“We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and Nowhere Will They Be Found Delivered In Greater Purity Than In His Discourses.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: An Armed Society Is A Polite Society
“An armed society is a polite society.” – Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
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Counting Blessings
Based in part on Ephesians 1:3 –
Counting Blessings by Michael Romani As this new year has begun My eyes focus clearly on the One The One who is all knowing And whose love is ever flowing The ways of Heaven and God are higher Then ours and He knows our every desire The greatest blessings of all are already ours Moved past the material things into the stars It is from Heaven that spiritual blessings flow God's purposes dispensed that we might know All the conditions requisite of the Beatitudes That bring us to purely our right attitudes Before the foundation of the Earth was past Our destination was already eternally cast As an invitation given to us all in prayer Kept in the promises of God wherever we fare Our present blessings in our redemption Are made known, forgiven in our contemplation Though born into the debt and bondage of sin God restores the riches of His grace again and again Prophecy holds that future blessings will come When Christ makes all things right for His Kingdom We, as His Children, are predestined and kept Secured in our salvation we've already met (c) Janurary 20, 2020 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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In Remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
May each of the readers of Aloha Promises Forever have a blessed day of service and communion on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 20, 2020. May we always join together with such clarity!
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ … I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. … And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I have a dream that my children will one day be judged by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Democratic Party has become a party of hate and division based on the very things that Dr. King spoke out against. This world we live in must never be allowed to be a place of skin against skin but instead one of inclusion in. This inclusion must be based on meritorious conduct, striving to achieve, to act with our greatest character in love and for the betterment of ourselves surely, but, never to achieve more by treating others as deserving of less. Think on this in our coming election and realize that lies do not create a better truth by which our children and their children should live.
Can I get an amen out there? … please?
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