“I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law.” – Barack Obama
Seven pages of quotations from Mr. Obama and this is the closest that I could find comporting to the founding principles of our nation.
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Memories In An Elephant’s Trunk
A poem of gratitude #11:
Memories In An Elephant's Trunk by Michael Romani With gratitude I share my words While overhead there are flying birds Puzzling along these thoughts contemporary Wondering how much is too temporary Unlike elephants who read your soul Too much of our day to day is out of control As we have lost our way into our days Having lost touch with nature's ways Somewhere in a distant memory The stars shine over a nursery Where life can begin again And each honest hearts meets its friend Life brings its pleasant surprises Found in love and new sunrises As we walk a new path of seeing Comfortably deep within our being Sharing a picnic by an old waterhole Finding the wildness of wilderness that makes us whole Finding our way along as we reach to define All the possibilities we've yet to refine As long as an elephant's memory We have learned together how to be Falling stars whisper their miracles above And in these, we find our way to love Without change there'd be no butterflies Without this truth, we'd never realize That despite how much things rearrange We can still find the good in every change Always bravely moving forward and beyond The harder we hold on, the more we find it gone Nothing cannot keep for the passing of a night And world will become its better by morning's light (c) November 11, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Happy Veterans Day 2019!
Aloha Promises Forever is taking this moment to memorialize and honor all veterans around the world and their families, but particularly those in the United States and Canada for their valor, sacrifices and duty in the service of freedom and liberty!
It is thanks to the likes of you and yours that freedom continues to reign as the beacon of light and hope that it is in this world of ours. Thank you!
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Thought For the Day: Valor Is Stability of Courage and the Soul
“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” – Michel de Montaigne
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First Principles: America Flourishes Due To Our Commitment To Good Character and Dedication to Liberty and Justice For All
“Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.” – George W. Bush
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Collect Call
In humble gratitude, I offer this poem for those moments we feel most challenged in trying to understand the necessary balance of things as a poem of thankfulness #10:
Collect Call by Michael Romani It's moments like these When I'm feeling less than confident Spiritually, I want to please And nothing I say is meant less than reverent But Father will you accept this call I'm your servant as you might recall Tonight I have to make this call collect But, I do this with the utmost respect You see there are so many things That I have a hard time understanding I know your holy word and what it brings So, I hope this is not too demanding See, it seems I'm wondering about Some things and it's not that I doubt It's just that I need some clarity And I'm asking this with in all sincerity In your intention all is by your will Even how it is that we think and feel So, please help me have nerves of steel As I try my best to be open and not conceal You are God and you are the mover of love I understand you want earth as is above So, please tell me why we have to hate And please accept this call though it is late It seems all of my less than holy life Has had less peace than being filled with strife And so many humans demand that we hate others While you're clear we are to love our brothers And that no worship amounts too all that much If we can't get this right, yet I've a hunch All of this is according to your holy plan I'm just never sure that I'm good enough to be your man I wear your label with all of my best integrity I am your child and I mean that with all sincerity But please would you please just accept this call collect I am certain that you are the source of what's correct Where does it come from all this hatred and all this war I have fought to hard and don't want to fight no more Too many of our brothers and sisters keep on dying My eyes fill with tears that I keep on keeping on crying But Father will you please accept this call I'm your humble servant as you might recall Tonight I have to make this call to you collect And I do this with the utmost respect Please tell me why so many suffer And why so many sleep without supper What is it that you would have me do Please tell me as I pledge myself to you There are moments when I feel so confused Please clarify my mistakes so I'm disabused I want to live my life in humble thankfulness Please show me to the way to always keep this bliss (c) November 10, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Happy Birthday US Marine Corps 2019!
Semper fidelis to all who served in Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children and everyone who loves someone who did!!
In honor of the Marine Corps, 244 years after it was formed, according to tradition, at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia on November 10, 1775:
“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.”
― President Reagan
First Principles: Just As War is Freedom’s Cost, Disagreement Is Freedom’s Privilege
“Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.” – William J. Clinton
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Thought For the Day: You Can Preach A Better Sermon With Your Life Than With Your Lips
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” – Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (10 Nov 1730-1774)
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The Paradox of Being
A poem of gratitude #9 for all that God has brought into my life, all the lessons learned and the love felt as blessings along the way.
The Paradox of Being by Michael Romani It's there in our perspective Being less about you and me But in our humbled collective As you and I become more solidly we It's less about the right or wrongness And more about the belongness A paradox of intertwined humility Brings us full circle into closeness with divinity With no need left to try and out compete We love, rinse and keep this cycle on repeat In doing this we keep places for peace and mystery As we allow the moments that make up possibility We wake to the truth that these moments allow us And rejoice in this, trusting and knowing that because The living in honest moments is what allows us to reach trust And that to truly live and love this is what we must I have met you in that field beyond all right and wrong Finding in this meeting where it is that I exactly belong Suddenly, I have become newly aware of choices of possibility Finding in this moment the mustard seed of God's divinity (c) November 9, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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