“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” – Melody Beattie
“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”– James Madison (1798)
“For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.” – John Winthrop
“Life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.” – Alice Munro, short-story writer and Nobel Prize winner (b. 10 Jul 1931)
Seen from space all of this is one shared place of revolving interconnection. I bet it’s like that in God’s eyes as well.
All In All Contribution by Michael Romani An ice face collapses into sea With a familiar popping melody That sparks a certain sort of frenzy Until it becomes famine's familiarity Marine snow falls across the ocean floor Building growing mass impossible to ignore As it grows to become a future desert This is the cycle of life meant without hurt A desert will in turn one day come to bloom The blooms that only day fades into gloom All of this then joins into on continuing link When properly observed, I agree and think Both sides and all that is around Are all one and absorbs and surrounds Whether above or below, this blue sky Contains the oxygen that causes us to sigh Yet, it is the thinnest of delicate blue lines With gravity pulling it close under the sunshine Like a plucked string that will eventually stop Our atmosphere plays its song until it drops Where in place we can walk to, oxygen runs out Towns like up in the Andes remove all real doubt Of what it means to be depend on our blessed oxygen Reminding me of my own troubles yet again There on the sky's rim we see and we learn Of the hypoxia that we must recognize and discern Too much or too little presents its dangers As life becomes that flame shared with familiar strangers A tightrope walk walked with death on both sides There is a bounce in balance in which all life collides As a mysterious something equalizes our need for stability Consistent with all life's nuanced need for reliability All of this is inter-related in one singular connection And it makes me wonder how this has eluded our detection All in all everything is needed in it's shared contribution Perhaps in finally recognizing this we find our best solution (c) July 9, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
Sometimes it seems…
Sometimes It Seems by Michael Romani Sometimes it seems It's a life of broken dreams Falling apart at the seams Dams busted, flooding streams I just can't find my way Back to our yesterday That I lived for becoming tomorrow I've got a heart full of sorrow Seems like I do nothing right All of my sunshine is gone I can't find a ray of light Darkness keeps falling on And memories, they keep calling The moonbeams rising just for falling And I know that I'm not just stalling Or falling for that ole stonewalling When I fall on my knees and pray That your heart will be the one that stays Please stop looking for false reasons And tell me that you're not just teasin' You're there in every breath that I breathe Always present in the best that I conceive So, please stop breaking my heart I just can't stand when we're falling apart Sometimes it seems that I've nothing but the blues As I press forward, soul's shaking in my shoes Daring your lightning, however frightening But more than this, every moment enlightening As you bring me deeper than deep Inside the flame of my spirit's keep Building invincible castles in our sand You know you have my heart held in your hand Baby, please stop hurting me for no reason Look deep inside my eyes and know I'm not teasin' I have been ever true since the real of me and you Praying the Lord, help your sinner, tell me what to do (c) July 9, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.” – Fisher Ames
“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.” – Jean de la Fontaine, poet and fabulist (8 Jul 1621-1695)
Mankind’s monsters are a touchstone for the destruction we wage against ourselves and all of nature at times.
Monsters As Metaphors by Michael Romani Monsters as metaphor creates the drama In a society's psyche riddled with trauma Impulsively, completely aware of capacity For evil and deception in our loss of integrity There is a touchstone of and for destruction Given by mythical conquerors of compunction It doesn't get more American than this A modern day Judas betrays with his kiss Replete with motifs and emotional buttons Small town hero served up like mutton Mimicking the glaring neon of the night Are the brave souls who push into the light Given that there is no safe place Even in the eyes of a friendly face Who is to say that strains of delusion aren't true I've seen it exist in the failures of upside down you (c) July 8, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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