“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” – Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)
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First Principles: Mankind Is Born Free, Yet, Everywhere Is In Chains
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All the Beauty Heaven Bears
Probably one of the single most sad moments possible in a parent’s life is surviving the death of a child.
All the Beauty Heaven Bears by Michael Romani Against all sense In a world grown dense A child's life has ended Incandescent and surreal A moment far too real A child's life is ended A runaway sort of stumble As if falling brick crumble A child's life has ended Suddenly an everything Becomes worse than nothing Life is surreality blended A parent should not out live The dreams their child gives Life becomes surreality blended An overwhelming sense of grief Tortuous pain beyond belief A child's life is ended Coexisting with the sorrow Trying to be brave for tomorrow His child's life had ended All the beauty that Heaven bears Into the way of stars he stares His child's life has ended (c) May 21, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Tagged Bear, Beauty, Belief, Brave, Child, Child's Life, Crumble, Death, Dense, Dream, End, Everything, Grief, Heaven, Incandescent, Moment, Nothing, Out Live, Pain, Parent, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Sense, Sorrow, Stardust, Stars, Stumble, Surreal, Tomorrow
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Thought For the Day: A President Cannot Be Impeached Based On A Faction of Society Is Upset That He Was Elected
“You cannot impeach a President because you are upset he won an election.” – Charlie Kirk
So what then is the meaning of this nebulous language, “high crimes and misdemeanors” and how might it apply?
“The Framers meant for the phrase ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ to signify only conduct that seriously harms the public and seriously compromises the officer’s ability to continue. If the phrase is given a less rigorous interpretation, it could allow Congress to influence and control the President and the courts…” – Neil J. Kinkopf
Further, consider this please:
“When the Founders wanted to ensure accountability, they mostly relied on elections and the voters to hold government officials responsible for their actions…” – Keith E. Whittington
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Tagged Charlie Kirk, Election, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Impeach, President, Thought For the Day, Upset
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First Principles: It Is the Dearness of Freedom That Makes It So Valued and Valuable
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.” – Thomas Paine
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In Memoriam: Armed Forces Day 2019
Aloha Promises Forever is remiss in recognizing the men and women who serve both around the world protecting and serving us and those on the home front taking care of all the domestic things that are so very important in the support of those in the Armed Forces. This should have been posted on 05/18/2019, my humblest of apologies that it was not.
Thank you all for your service!!
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Here Am I
The Church is the people. There is nothing Biblical in the belief that approaching God requires the intercession of any other than Jesus and certainly not priests. If the Catholic church is going to rise from its present decline, it will need to rethink it’s approach to the people sitting in the pews.
Here Am I by Michael Romani Many a priest seated in a monastery Has sat silent clinging to the mystery The future comes forward invisibly But it does so within complete certainty There are those who separate themselves as "Holy" Yet, are void in morals and usurpers of piety Hierarchical power is not the church's authority It is the people of God who are its body Blaming the cracks in the now shredded veil On anyone but those charges approaches the surreal It is not a single generation's moral laxity That is responsible for the Church's lack of dignity Nor does that generation's unheavenly sway Have but little to do with so many walking away Clingers to power shore up in self-protection Thinking their sins avoid God's all seeing detection Or, that it might be restored by a world hating remnant Not realizing that doing so makes them globally irrelevant No predator priests will rip faith from me But, instead like Luther, I rebel against the monopoly The sacred heart of our faith is not in hierarchy It is in the living soul that is the laity It has always come down to the corruption of power And how it raises it's head again in this hour There is a need for anticlericalism's determination Internally reforming or to risk faith's extermination The record is clear that when shepherds hurt the flock It is to step back and allow restoration of the Rock This then is a universal declaration of a necessary war In which protection for everyone pushes for more Sitting in the back pews in conscientious persistence The truly faithful will prevail in their resistance Sacramental in their intentional works of mercy Who might dare to call them or three gathered as heresy We arise to cleanse and purify the altars of the temple Returning back to the Book to keep it true and simple (c) May 20, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Tagged Bible, Church, Corruption, Decline, Dignity, Faith, Hierachy, Jesus, Luther, Moral Laxity, Pews, Photograph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Power, Predator Priest, Priests, Rebel, Reform, Restoration, Rise, Sacred Heart, Simple, Sin, The People, True
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First Principles: There Has Never Been A Bad Peace or A Good War
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.” – Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Josiah Quincy, September 11, 1783
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Thought For the Day: Life Becomes Simpler Without Mirrors
“How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.” – Daphne du Maurier, novelist (13 May 1907-1989)
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Even To This Day
Based in part on a life lived between worlds and still finding hope and dreaming dreams…
Even To This Day by Michael Romani It was a dark night The darkest night And you were crying And I was crying And it was raining Like the whole world was crying Not to sound as if complaining But, I would be lying If I didn't say That every day feels like I'm dying Even to this day I know that I should have listened AS the rain poured down and glistened I know that I wish I had found my voice And that I had felt as if I had a choice Though I always live as though free willed That night I felt totally compelled By loans and mortgages to be paid I know that I should have stayed But I didn't, I would push on through Because a man has to do what a man must do But, if I had stayed and a different hand given I would not be on my knees wishing to be forgiven Here I kneel as if lost in madness Swept under and overwhelmed by sadness They say the smoke killed her first But thoughts of the flames drives my thirst A thirst never quenched by bottle's end With each new bottle seeming as a new friend I pray to God for mercy or this to end Never sure which would be better and depend On your eyes to see in your kindness Having drunk myself half to blindness Sometimes you cannot change things that come So, I feel better off drunk until numb Everyday I look deep into my dark box Chained within my soul by these locks Wishing that I might be some kind of better man Seeking after some way to understand But as I look into the depths of my soul I only see a man who has lost control That is to say without you here by me Holding out your hand with thoughts so holy How is it, Lord, that no matter where I've gone You still offer your cross for me to lean on No matter how far or wide that I've been driven It's by your love that I am still forgiven (c) May 19, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: Kindness and Love Are the Sum of My Philosophy
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” – Dalai Lama
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Tagged Brain, Dalai Lama, Heart, Human Being, Kindness, Philosophy, Simple Religion, Temple, Thought For the Day
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