“I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.” – William Whipple
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First Principles: I Wonder Much That A Court of Law Should Be In Doubt Whether A Resolution of Congress Can Supercede the Law of A Sovereign State
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Some Eyes Blaze
Some Eyes Blaze
by Michael Doyle
In some passing instances,
There is a reach of circumstances.
We let it pass amused
That it's customary to feel abused.
There's a sense of brutality
And it prevades our family.
We laugh at ourselves and cruelty,
Uncertain how these things become banality.
Some eyes blaze with intensity
As they look in the world's immensity.
A little conversation at the dinner table
Leaves us all feeling a little less capable.
Life is what scars us.
It's the same movie we feel stars us.
But we know that it's more than wrong,
Howevrer much that it feels strong.
Feelings happen that make us grow upset.
We might inch toward what doesn't fit.
Thought we struggle to be understood,
The sure hit is, it's just no good.
Some eyes blaze with intensity
As they look in the world's immensity.
A little conversation at the dinner table
Leaves us all feeling a little less capable.
(c) August 10, 2026 Michael Doyle
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An AI thing came up with a not half bad version of what I was actually thinking:
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Tagged Abused, Amused, Banality, Blaze, Brutality, Circumstance, Conversation, Customary, Eyes, Family, Immensity, Instance, Intensity, Laugh, Less Capable, Poetry and Poems, Uncertain
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Thought For the Day: If You Enjoy the Fragrance of A Rose, You Must Accept the Thorns Which It Bears
“If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.” – Isaac Hayes
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Tagged Enjoment, Fragrance, Isaac Hayes, Rose, Thorns, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Economic Depression Cannot Be Cured By Legislative Action or Executive Pronouncement. Economic Wounds Must Be Healed By the…Producers and Consumers Themselves
“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.” – Herbert Hoover
Or as FDR discovered by taking part in a huge world war.
Jonah’s Whale of A Tale
Jonah's Whale of A Tale
by Michael Doyle
Jonah and the Whale tells the story
Of how even reluctance comes to glory.
Jonah was a prophet that God spoke through
To teach the Israelites what to do.
Jonah's life was an illustration
Spoken of for its simple characterization.
To dive into the truth that was told,
Its lessons have played well from days of old.
It is truth compressed about humanity
That moves beyond our limiting vanity.
In the words of Jonah there is reach.
The words spoken into life have a lot to teach.
Lesson one, there is no escape from the Lord.
Wherever you go, you are always moving toward
The lessons and truths that are wisely needed,
And that are best heard and then heeded.
Hurled into the sea, the storm stopped its rage.
In a few words, consequences spill across the page.
Jonah fled to escape the Lord's ever presence.
Yet. he then did find himself confronting God's very essence.
Our first best step is in turning from our sinful ways.
We find this the turning point in our book of days.
When we confront ourselves in our deceits and lying,
The end of our running can seem extremely terrifying.
Uprooting those things that live in the shadow
And must often be abandoned so that we can follow
Our Lord and in giving these up, in our contemplation,
We find God's eternal sanctuary in our redemption.
Calling out to the Lord in our distress,
We find ourselves ready to then address
All the things that we must pass through.
In finding God, we live to do what we must do.
Our darkest night forces us into God's light.
It may seem troubled, but it's a lesson in God's sight.
Keeping our hearts open to the Lord's salvation.
Time will reveal God's truth in His explanation.
Life has its vehicles and passing seasons.
After their space we find the Lord's reasons.
All meant to be to take us to that where
That we are meant to be until we find ourselves there.
Our God is the loving God of grace and second chances
As our lives wind through all their shades and dances
We are called to live our lives for God's will.
In this truth is the essence we call the real deal.
In our repentance, we find God's foundational grace.
Everything done is something that God has put in place.
These are God's mic drop moments of purity and hope
For which Jonah and many others find hard to cope.
God's compassion acts to emotively form our hearts.
We see this in what is done and then never departs.
It's a pattern learned and kept in accepting grace.
We must let ourselves live and learn this in God's embrace.
Whatever happens, we do not know better.
It is God who forms our lives and even the weather.
The first and last in line gains the day's wage.
Lessons in generosity grace our living page.
(c) August 9, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Bible, Compression, Confrontation, Consequence, Escape, Faith, Glory, God, Hear, Heed, Humanity, Illustration, Israelites, Jesus, Jonah, Lesson One, Lessons, Poetry and Poem, Presence, Prophet, Reach, Reluctance, Sea, Storm, Tale, Teach, Toward, Truth, Vanity, Whale, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Adam Hid In the Garden of Eden. Moses Tried To Substitute His Brother. Jonah Jumped A Boat and Was Swallowed By A Whale…Man Likes To Run From God
Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale…Man likes to run from God. It’s a tradition. – Mitch Albom
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Tagged Adam, Boat, Brother, Garden of Eden, God, Hid, Jonah, Mankind, Mitch Albom, Moses, Run, Subsitution, Thought For the Day, Whale
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First Principles: To the Roots of the Mountains I Sank Down; the Earth Beneath Barred Me In Forever. But You, Lord My God, Brought My Life Up From the Pit
“To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, LORD my God, brought my life up from the pit.” – Jonah 2:6
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Spinning Wheel Spun
Spinning Wheel Spun
by Michael Doyle
When the wheel is spun
And you look at what you've won
You find the truth in what has been done
At the end of it, you're number one.
The crowd gets overly loud,
But you know that it's allowed.
You walk into your scene.
It's how we live the dream.
The street has its symphony
Where's there no time for sympathy.
So you roll your loaded dice
Knowing that you should never think twice.
The lights begin to go down low,
And it tells you more than you know.
Some say it's how you rock-n-roll.
It doesn't matter because it's part of the show.
Everyone has hustle to their game.
Every day of life is more of the same.
To some of us, it's one big rhyme.
To me, we're all destined to do time.
(c) August 8, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged "The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), Allowed, Done, Dream, Game, Hustle, Lights, Loaded Dice, Number One, Poetry and Poems, Rock-n-Roll Circus, Scene, Show, Spinning Wheel, Spun, Street, Sympathy, Symphony, The Crowd, Twice, Wheel, Won
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Thought For the Day: It Is Strange How Often A Heart Must Be Broken Before the Years Can Make It Wise
“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” – Sarah Teasdale
It is the anniversary of Sarah Teasdale’s birth.
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First Principles: Do Not Wait; the Time Will Never Be ‘Just Right.’ Start Where You Stand, and Work With Whatever Tools You May Have At Your Command, and Better Tools Will Be Found As You Go Along
“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert
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Tagged Command, First Principles, Found, George Herbert, Go Along, Just Right, Stand, Start, Time, Tools, Wait, Work
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 