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Thought For the Day: When the Impossible Has Been Eliminated, All That Remains No Matter How Improbable Is Possible
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You Call My Name
You Call My Name
by Michael Doyle
Not me; my Lord.
I am so lame.
Standing with drawn sword
As I fight against my blame.
All while knowing my wrong,
And daring t know your love.
This is where I belong,
Walking under the blessings of above.
Walked out of Satan's game,
You fortify me, making me brave.
While I should wake in flame,
You have saved me from my grave.
Not me; my God above.
I fumble, feeling fear.
Yet, place my faith in the above,
And I pray that I won't disappear.
Doing my best to respond as you need,
I dare to go wherever you may lead.
I am your servant, and humbly obey,
Knowing I will forever follow your way.
(c)May 21, 2026 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: I Am Not Influenced By The Expectation of Promotion or Pecuniary Reward. I Wish To Be Useful, and Every Kind of Service Necessary For the Public Good, Becomes Honorable By Being Necessary
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.” – Nathan Hale
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Thought For the Day: Absorb What Is Useful, Discard What Is Not, Add What Is Uniquely Your Own
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.“ – Bruce Lee
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Oppenheimer’s Theory and History
Oppenheimer's Theory and History
by Michael Doyle
Behind the quantum world
There is still the real world.
Yet, no one asks why
Or when will we see the big reveal?
Physics in Yiddish held the hour,
And in that time loosened the power
That has horrified us since those days.
Still, it continues in how it sways.
From the things dreamed about
There would be no going back.
Without a shadow of any doubt,
There's nothing more than fade to black.
Light is both a wave and particle.
This is the truth found by how it works right.
Going against our sense, we find this paradoxical.
The math on the chalkboard brings this to light
We find that stars are powerful furnaces.
They fight to death against their own gravity.
Still, these twinkle and sparkle
As a matter of human amusement and levity.
It's a limit of its own
Measured in terms of its intensity.
A power burns out in its strength
That is only perceived as luminosity.
From early on, this prophet
Of physics and its evolution
Was only a mad believer
In the path of a communist revolution.
This you may vividly recall
Is the outcome of his soul's weak seed.
It led to Oppenheimer's downfall,
At least the complexity of his life reads.
When, not if, a star dies,
Like ideas that come to their tragic end,
The bigger the star, the bigger the demise,
In the rhetoric of power come to its end.
In a world constantly bereft,
So many struggle and conclude property,
And its ownership is theft.
Some have reached this again in our history.
(c) May 20, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Do Not Seek To Follow In the Footsteps of the Wise. Seek What They Sought
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.” – Matsuo Basho
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First Principles: It’s Not What We Profess, But What We Practice That Gives Us Integrity
“It’s not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.” – Francis Bacon
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Stepped Into the Light
Stepped Into the Light
by Michael Doyle
When God is for me,
I live a life of victory.
I am walking from the shadow,
And armed with the assurance I know.
Singing songs of praise in the night,
I live my life in the light.
In my darkest hour,
I remain witness to God's power.
Though I am faulty in my own eyes,
The closer I walk, the more that I realize,
Jesus as God is the source of life and life.
Aligned with Him, I live what is right.
Though there are times that I'll fear,
And there will be times that I tear.
God has always been, as understood,
The very essence of all that is good.
All the good things are understood,
As we know and just as we would,
That I recognize my creator,
Knowing that there is no greater.
Though I am faulty in my own eyes,
The closer I walk, the more that I realize,
Jesus as God is the source of life and life.
Aligned with Him, I live in His sight.
I have given my testimony,
About all the good He's done for me.
And I have bowed down before His feet,
Knowing that I will never know defeat.
Once broken as an earthbound vagabond lifted up,
I live in grace, sipping from a heavenly cup.
I give my all to the Lord, knowing I am His,
And that He is king of all that truly is.
Though I am faulty in my own eyes,
The closer I walk, the more that I realize,
Jesus as God is the source of life and life.
Aligned with Him, I live what is right.
(c) May 19, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Dream Your Dreams With Open Eyes and Make Them Come True
“Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.” – T.E. Lawrence
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First Principles: We Are Too Much Engrossed By the Story of the Present To Think of the Character and Anecdotes That Gave Interest To the Past
“How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.” – Washington Irving
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