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Thought For the Day: Keep Your Dreams Alive Through Faith, Hard Work and Determination
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First Principles: We Must Take Care To Elevate Our Children’s Minds, Courage and Souls Encouraging Them To Excel In Every Capacity, Faculty and Virtue
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.” – John Adams (1756)
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Thought For the Day: No One Appreciates the Value of Constructive Criticism Better Than the One Giving It
“No one appreciates the value of constructive criticism more thoroughly than the one who’s giving it.” – Hal Chadwick
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Nestled
History is to learn from. Not to be dwelt on. But to take the lessons learned into today so that we might build a better tomorrow.
Nestled by Michael Romani Nestled behind an old chapel Rests with the bite of an apple The storied fables of Tidewater gentry Intermixed with familial history With this is found reference to a legacy That seems to some to center on brutality But the moonlight and magnolias were contrary But just as true as the truths about slavery Perhaps as always there are shades of truth These both are remembered and mistaken in youth Some there are that engender only benighted nobility And some that whisper only of false chivalry But there are other parts of Southern heritage That formed our country and provided gentile edge A look at history tells of men forced to live two sides Compromising with that which no compromise was had with pride The presence of paradox blinds our vision With banners on both sides screaming for revision Of how in this land born while proclaiming freedom Somehow slipped down the slopes of the Antebellum (c) July 19, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Tagged Antebellum, Apple, Benighted, Blind, Brutality, Build, Chapel, Compromise, Contrary, False, Family, Freedom, Gentry, History, Learn, Legacy, Lessons, Moonlight and Magnolias, Paradox, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Slavery, Southern Heritage, Tidewater, Tomorrow, Truth
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First Principles: It Is When the People Forget God That Tyrants Forge Their Chains
“Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.” – Patrick Henry
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Tagged Bad Men, Chains, First Principles, Forge, Forget, God, Good Citizens, People, Tyrants
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Thought For the Day: The Most Reliable Way To Predict the Future Is To Create It
“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
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Retribution For Frailty
Sadists like to kick people when they’re down. Turn to multiple forums from Facebook to otherwise and you see people constantly tearing at each other and doing this for the good of the other. Interesting how we convince ourselves of this, isn’t it?
Retribution For Frailty by Michael Romani In retribution for her frailty She strikes out with the utmost cruelty Believing herself to be doing good As if ritualized punishment ever could Although torture might make one cave It's doubtful it will ever save There can be no comfort in that community Founded as it is on brutality While there is power in knowing who has bled It's never quite as power as it is said Vulnerability betrayed by savagery's slide Makes the sting of a verbal whip a remover of pride It's for their own good, she speaks as she lies Though the truth of the opposite is seen with all eyes The damage done permeates its afflicting pain Revealing any pretense at piety as purely vain Repressed desires becomes the humiliation Unfit in pain festering into desperation It become a liberation of vengeance pretending to care She is draped in the corruption as it finishes its tear It has become a menace, quietly terrifying For all of those suffering the unsatisfying Broken before in a life one cannot refuse And one dare not even whisper at the abuse (c) July 18, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: Make Yourself Sheep and Wolves Will Eat You
“Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Thought For the Day: Only Light and Love Can Drive Out Darkness and Hate
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sunrise Calling
This planet of ours exists in just the right pocket for the life giving waters to be present in all of its necessary forms. Odd how some don’t see the miracle in that…
Sunrise Calling by Michael Romani Slippery as a sunrise calling Frozen sudden in a night time's falling Drips into drops like miracles known Sometimes within each day shown Climbing ice face is climbing water And then there's that something odder That each year's structure changes As life as we know it rearranges The ascent is unique as the new day's morrow With little to tell what will be tomorrow Melting into collapse with the tiniest heat Shape shifting constantly and then repeat We live and love in this paradise of water Like the newborn children of the ocean's daughter Each drop strained from steam to clearest stream We drink in the divinity of this world's dream (c) July 18, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Tagged Ascent, Call, Day, Divinity, Dream, Drink, Drip, Drop, Earth, Fall, Form, Frozen, Heat, Ice Face, Life Giving, Melt, Miracle, Newbprm, Nighttime, Ocean's Daughter, Paradise, Photograph, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Rearrange, Shape Shift, Slip, Steam, Stream, Structure, Sunrise, Tomorrow, Waters, World
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