“Your love of liberty — your respect for the laws — your habits of industry — and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.” – George Washington (1789)
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First Principles: National and Individual Happiness Comes From Love of Liberty; Respect For Laws; Habits of Industry; and Practice of Moral and Religious Obligations
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Thought For the Day: Forgiveness Is A Cancelled Note Never To Be Shown Against the Forgiven
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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Things We’ve Said
Woke up this morning, kicking myself hard. Nuff said about that other than…
Things We've Said by Michael Romani Teared face looks in the mirror Trapped disgrace lived out in error Struggling past feeble lines of poetry That still vivid voice deep inside of me Eyes drawn up to the distant stars Feeling you near, no matter how far I look and keep my promises I won't neglect Knowing that your heart is one I'll never forget Choking back my sorrow full of buried pain It's a shadow inside me holding the reins What might be the use of these fading eyes If I never see or feel your sweet surprise It's so much more than I'll ever truly see The thrashings I've suffered for my dignity A child's rhyme plays on inside my head As I say my prayers just before going to bed Playing on the precipice of my fears As curious as the music I still hear Deep inside my head, where my feelings led With too much regret over things we've said (c) June 30, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
First Principles: Nothing Impels Regard of Constituents As the Certainty of Participating In Their Burdens
“Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interests of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.” – George Mason
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Thought For the Day: Where the Light Is Brightest, the Shadows Are Deepest
“Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Be True
The Bard said and we’ve all felt it. The Bible says it too. Truth shall set us free, right?
Be True by Michael Romani There is a secret to life Where we persist through strife That is to always be true No matter what life throws at you Stay the course and be true Though all of life's trauma And despite all the drama Strive to always be true No matter what life throws at you Stay the course and be true Never believe that you're alone Though it may seem you're on your own To your own heart beat true No matter what life takes from you Stay the course and be true Though you might feel bound and gagged As though tied down and dragged Have the strength to remain true No matter the struggles given you Stay the course and be true Though it might be hard to smile And sometimes seem not so worth while Please always stay and remain ever true (c) June 29, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
Oxygen Reexamined
One of the little miracles of life that we too often take for granted is the level of oxygen on our fair planet and just what this does for us without much of an effort by most.
Oxygen Reexamined by Michael Romani Breath Natural and essential Without oxygen Death Barren without potential Devoid of life again Dallol, Ethiopia Sulphuric toxicity No innate ability to grow Yet, an astrophysical utopia For pinhead sized duplicity Is found in the bacteria that grows In this is the evidence Of life in a rugged environment Very different than we perceive Thankful for the hand of Providence That has allowed our life so different And yet, atheists do not believe We underestimate oxygen Almost ignoring its chemistry As it feeds and gives us power Mixing with tissue and food again It's an underestimated part of biology That both strengthens and empowers Without the presence of oxygen We could not have our complexity Yet, we take it for granted as we breathe Breathing in each breath again and again Hardly understanding the immensity That each breath taken allows life to conceive (c) June 29, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: The American Revolution Bonded Principles of Civil Government With Principles of Christianity
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” – John Adams
Thought For the Day: Music Can Make Us Feel Invulnerable and Related to All of Time
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Gasping At the Glimpses
Do you ever take a moment to realize how much we simply take for granted? All the miracles that make up every day life?
Gasping At the Glimpses by Michael Romani Life, so wonderfully unlikely Each moment, such a sight to see And yet, it is and stays here With nothing but everything to fear And yet, not to fear, because we alone Look out the capsule's window, seeing home As if someone turned the lights on Filled with too much wonder to ever be gone From up above and looking down on the land This provides a better way to understand The many connections that make us all one Terra Firma circled is circling the sun All the near misses and all the lucky breaks It is enough to make this man's soul shake Living deeply into this thing seen as infinity Gasping at the glimpses that bring eternity I've seen enough of things we call everything And that without which we are next to nothing To know that the strangest, most beautiful place Is this Earth that with each sunrise I embrace All of the things that are too often taken for granted All of the stories we're told and are often ranted We learn that without gravity, tears don't fall And learn to appreciate it all on this great blue ball (c) June 28, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Tagged Appreciate, Blue, Capsule, Connection, Earth, Embrace, Eternity, Gasp, Glimpse, Granted, Gravity, Home, Infinity, Life, Light, Miracles, Moment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Soul, Stories, Sunrise, Tears, Terra Firma, Window, Wonder
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