” Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” – Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)
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Thought For the Day: Be Aware of Wonders While Living A Balanced Life
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Cultivating Kindness I
When life gets down to the fundamentals, isn’t kindness what we most need? Like so many say, be that change.
Cultivating Kindness I by Michael Romani In this world, filled with sin And perhaps too much blindness One clarion thought strikes again We need to be cultivating kindness Kindness is of the Holy Spirit We need to abide by and hear it This world needs a true friend Someone decent and true on which to depend This world has too much harshness Filled with selfishness, often compassionless What it needs is a spirit of forgiving A gentleness shown in the art of our living Tenderness and peace given to one another Remembering that we are here for each other Be ye kind always toward one another Remembering to be this for our sisters and brothers The indwelling Holy Spirit opens our eyes To be kind and it comes as no real surprise Friendly, generous and patient as our outflow Should be the light we always follow To be easy going and warmly hearted With selfishness being the path parted Every step taken as Christ's reflection Is the Biblical path of our truest connection (c) June 3, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Hot Sauce
Scribbled tales tell more than most would want to know, right?
Hot Sauce by Michael Romani Layers of texture Provide the details The hot sauce of conjecture Told in a scribbled tale It's a portrait of a community But also one of a family Though there is much commonality Power is felt in dirt and graffiti There in the half hidden revelation Hides the deeper things of fascination The Hood has never been the best destination Most at least to the outside indication Yet, there is the hope of nostalgic sisterhood There is also the grief of always seeking good In all the moments of the all too tragic This is still the seeking out of the simple magic Like being there to watch the sunrise And sharing it within each other's eyes A downtown shimmer is there in the distance Keeping in tact the impact of rugged resistance In all of this is that looming unseen presence That in each of us imprints its vital essence Staring into the blinking neon sign over an ancient bar Feeling the whispering secrets energize me like a twinkling star (c) June 3, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Tagged Common, Community, Conjecture, Deep, Destination, Downtown, Eseence, Eyes, Family, Fascination, Good, Graffiti, Grief, Hot Sauce, Layer, Los Angeles, Magic, Neon, Nostalgia, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Revelation, Scribble, Secret, Seek, Shimmer, Sisterhood, Star, Sunrise, Tale, Texture, The Hood, Tragic, Whisper
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First Principles: Liberty’s Enthusiasm Makes Humanity Rise In Acts of Bravery and Heroism
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”– Alexander Hamilton
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Thought For the Day: Follow Your Inner Moonlight, Don’t Hide the Madness
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”-Allen Ginsberg, poet (3 Jun 1926-1997)
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Sometimes Better Than the Memories
Six guns out and blazing was the dream …. maybe a little too much time thinking on the West these days?
Sometimes Better Than the Memories by Michael Romani Sometimes I can't remember The things that I've done Sometimes I can't remember How it is it all had begun Other times I just don't want to know And I can't explain my reasons why Other times It feels like a bad picture show And I just want to cry They say That I used to be A good boy grown to a man I'm not sure which It was to change my reality Now, I just do the best that I can I have killed So many men For my government It has chilled Me with this again To never really know what it meant I am certain That when I die I will got to Hell My heart and soul are hurting With the echoes of why When I burn, it may be just as well Sometimes I can't remember The things that I've done Sometimes I can't remember How it is that it had all begun Other times I just don't want to know And can't explain my reasons why Other times It feels like a bad picture show And I just want to cry (c) June 2, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: Liberty, Once Lost, Is Lost Forever
“But a constitution of government once changed from freedom can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.””– John Adams
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Thought For the Day: It Is Paradoxical When Parents and Teachers Fail To See the Connection Between Learning and Play
“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” – Leo Buscaglia, author (31 Mar 1924-1998)
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First Principles: Beware That Two Passions Strongly Influence Politics – Love of Power and Love of Money
“(T)here are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice—the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but, when united in view of the same object, they have, in many minds, the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Action, Ambition, Avarice, Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Honor, Influence, Love of Money, Love of Power, Politics, Profit, Two Passion
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Thought For the Day: To Meet, To Know, To Love and Then To Part, Is the Sad Tale of Many A Heart
“To meet, to know, to love and then to part, is the sad tale of many a heart.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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