“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” – Khalil Gibran
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Thought For the Day: One Day You’ll Walk Away Never Realizing You Were My Life
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Fades Away
Life leaves us all, eventually… or, do we really transform into something else? Time will tell.
Fades Away by Michael Romani Being somewhat civilized I kept my discontents to myself More probably cause I realized I'd find my better answers from a shelf Looking into the annals of human wisdom Paying penitence forward for the kingdom There are some things we don't forget Like a friend's last breath and the regret Deeply pitching to lasting exasperation Held onto with our best of intentions Least that friend's passing no longer matter Though at that moment we thought we'd shatter The chattering classes have it all wrong They'd be surprised at just how strong The weak can be in their last moments And how the strong some times give into torments Instead of wise words, it's too often just a gasp Struggling to hold on with one final grasp And that's how it was that dark, cruel day When I watched you silently fade away... (c) August 7, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Tagged Anna, Answer, Away, Chattering Classes, Civil, Cruel, Discontent, Exasperation, Fade, Forget, Friend, Gasp, Grasp, Intention, Kingdom, Last Breath, Matter, Moment, Passing, Penitence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Regret, Shatter, Shelf, Silent, Strong, Struggle, Torment, Weak, Wisdom, Wise Words, Wrong
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Ozone Care
Another of the Earth’s little protective systems is that fragile shield call the ozone layer.
Ozone Care by Michael Romani Gliding through the ozone with good care Minding the healing of this protective layer The Earth, she is a living, breathing thing Generously offering more than we humans bring Mankind found we could together Find a way to make this all the better And in this truth, we must turn to embrace That without the ozone layer, there'd be no human race As the ozone layer emerged back some 3 billion years Life arose from the waters to begin our parade of tears Oxygen was merely the waste product of the earliest days And with a turn became the protective layer in a daze That allowed land life to develop and then survive And in turn for that life to explore and thrive Taking the tentative steps onto dry land All in chain reaction to God's invisible hand (c) August 7, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Tagged Better, Care, Chain Reaction, Dry Land, Earth, Embrace, Glide, God, Heal, Human Race, Invisible Hand, Land Life, Layer, Mankind, Offer, Oxygen, Ozone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Protect, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Government Has No Right To Control Individual Liberty Beyond What Is Necessary To the Safety and Well-Being of Society
“Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state.” – John C. Calhoun
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Tagged Boundary, Citizen, Control, Government, Individual Liberty, John C Calhoun, Liberty, Necessary, Power, Right, Safety, Separates, Society, Thought For the Day, Well Being
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First Principles: The Abolition of Slavery Is the Great Object of Desire In Our Early Republic
“The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.” – Thomas Jefferson
On July 1, 2019, Charlottesville stripped it’s celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s birth from its holidays due to his involvement with slavery. Jefferson has a very complex history filled with seeming contradictions when seen through our eyes in our times. He worked tirelessly against slavery while having slaves. I think it’s horrendous that we are now applying our present standards against his legacy.
Stripped from the Declaration of Independence by delegates from South Carolina and Georgia was this language drafted by Thomas Jefferson:
“He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
(1776) The Deleted Passage of the Declaration of Independence
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Tagged Abolition, Colonies, Domestic, First Principles, Infant State, Introduce, Objective, Slavery, Thomas Jefferson
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Strong On Defense
The Sun is one part friend and one part foe. It’s amazing thinking of the ways the Earth protects us from this.
Strong On Defense by Michael Romani What is the strength of the solar flares To measure this, we look at Mars and fear That is to say that despite there being no doubt That the orbit of Mars is systemically further out Solar flares are the very thing of what set in motion As the cause of why Mars has lost every one of its oceans Earth has always been strong on defense With part acting in concert and impertinence From the edge of space to the deepest ocean All of the Earth acts in self protective promotion To protect us from the ravages of space Some of which comes from the sun's bright face Never look down into the nose of a volcano Unless you need to and are prepared for the show It is there that we can have our closest study That imparts lessons needed about our solar buddy Every step to be watched closely along the way Will get us all the answers found each day Fissures and vents provide the freshest supply By which to study the heated elements in reply Radioactive lava from the Earth's molten core Help provide explanations by which we may explore Teaching us the ways of our magnetic field As it deflects radiation with the power it yields Aurora Borealis offers its glowing satisfaction As a beautiful shield of protection we see in action A green and red mass shape shifting in its dance Visually offering a colorful curtain full of romance Seeing this through eyes and also felt by our hearts It becomes one with the observer each in their due part Deceptively weaponized is sun's precious gift of light It can be overpowering or seen as protector from the night When pressed at its zenith it is a deceptive assassin Ultra violet light causing its damage again and again Sizzling up in its inferno of burning sensation The UV rays can be murderous in their penetration (c) August 6, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Tagged Answer, Assassin, Aurora Borealis, Beauty, Burn, Core, Curtain, Damage, Defense, Earth, Edge, Fissures, Foe, Friend, Heart, Heat, Inferno, Lava, Light, Magnetic Field, Mars, Motion, Night, Ocean, Orbit, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Radioactive, Ravage, Shield, Show, Solar Flare, Space, Strong, Study, Sun, Ultra Violet, Vents, Volcano, Zenith
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First Principles: In A Representative Republic, the Education of Our Children Must Be of Utmost Importance
“In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!” – James Monroe
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Thought For the Day: A Clock’s Perfection Is In Its Accuracy, Not Its Speed
“The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.” – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, moralist and essayist (6 Aug 1715-1747)
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Those Who Have To Shower
How did the alleged party of the working man in my country become so elitist and based on class division? Go watch the last Democratic debates and see how many references were made to those who have to shower after work. I get that these folks are professional politicians but when did they get so intimidated by hard work? Or, so absolutely pandering?
For Those Who Have To Shower by Michael Romani There is a new sort of trope In which elitists see others as dopes The working class who have to shower After work to be presentable after hours They find this a way of signaling their touch I wonder if they're out of synch much What causes them to debase A significant portion of what was their base? Some do say cleanliness is next to prosperity But it seems a huge swipe at voter integrity To believe that some must hold their pride And let slip by such a moment of classist divide To embrace a populist flourish without the people Bespeaks of a different sort of steeple Where prayer is just a bargaining chip And common people are considered less than hip When people are ignored but for their belief And called clingers to guns and God and given grief That party so speaking has lost its voice And the people need to remind them, they have a choice (c) August 5, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Tagged Bargaining Chip, Base, Choice, Class Division, Cleanliness, Common, Debase, Elite, Grief, Hip, Integrity, Lost, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Populist, Present, Pride, Prosperity, Shower, Shower After Work, Signal, Steeple, Synch, The People, Touch, Trope, Vote, Working Man
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First Principles: Failing To Pay Attention To the World’s Details Prevents All But A Few From Seeing and Discovering God
“That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so very few, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.” – George Berkeley
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