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Dragged Into the Streets
Thinking a lot on education and civilization and why and how there seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to how each is allegedly to work out. Fairly serious stuff and yet how can a person not … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ability, Alienation, Ancient, Avoid, Backside, Bad Advice, Belong, Bowl, Capable, Chase, Civility, Civilization, Confusion, Convenience, Convenient, Cruelty, Curious, Darkness, Days, Deal, Desire, Different, Done, Doubt, Drag, Drink, Education, Fish, Flag, Gin, God, Good, Happy, Head, Humor, Interest, Lazy, Life, Luck, Manage, Mentally, Miserable, Monkeys, Moral Courage, Mortals, New Life, None, Now, Ought, Photograph, Pit, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Problems, Puzzles, Raps, Reverent, Run Away, Sail, Set Out, Sink, Sit, Solemn, Somehow, Sought, Street, Struck, Sun, Taught, Tell Me, Then, Think, Thought, Time, Trappings, Tree, Turn, Tutor, Unteachable, Want, Wince, Wish, Wonder, Workings, Wrong, You
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On the 1619 Project
An ahistorical work that seeks to repudiate the founding principles of America won the Pulitzer Prize today. In my eyes, all luster is now gone to both the Nobel prizes and the Pulitzer with this move. It’s not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahistorical, Alienation, All Against All, Allege, America, American History, Arbitrary, Assert, Attempt, Balkanization, Bill of Goods, Capricious, Compromise, Conceived, Consideration, Constitutional Convention, Content, Core, Curriculum, Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Discern, Division, Do Away, Enough, Equal Under Law, Fabric, Fairy Tales, False, Fiction, Founding Principles, Good, Grapple, Group Rights, Groups, History, Hit Piece, Identity Politics, Ill-Liberal, Ill-Liberalism, Illiteracy, Individuals, Integrity, Intent, Invention, Issue, Journalists, Lack, Legitimacy, Liar's Club, Liberty, Loud, Love, Meander, Mentality, Miscreants, Mob Rule, Nation, Nonsense, Notes, Oversold, Overtern, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Privilege, Promise, Propaganda, Proposition, Public Good, Pulitzer Prize, Purpose, Real, Repubican Values, Repudiation, Repudicate, Reveal, Right Path, Said, Sake, Self Loathing, Self-Serving, Sincere, Social Justice, Socialists, Struggle, The 1619 Project, Told, Tool, Toxic, Trotskyite, True, Truth, Tryanny, Unalienable Rights, Unity, Untrue, Value, Victimhood, Virtue Signaling, Want, Won't Do, Wrong Minded
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A Humble Path Past Conflict
Part of living a life with more gratitude might include less fight and conflict and greater humility. Poem #2 for this season of thankfulness: A Humble Path Past Conflict by Michael Romani With gratitude not as demanding Toward the God … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienation, Allow, Angle, Blame, Build, Co-Creative, Communicate, Conflict, Crucial, Demand, Destination, Divinity, Ear, Either/Or, Eye, Fascination, Find, Form, Gain, God, Grace, Grateful, Gratitude, Heal, Heart, Humble, Humility, Invite, Live, Need, Openness, Pain, Path, Peace, People, Petty, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Polarization, Power, Reframe, Reject, Relate, Relationship, Release, Ritual, Share, Something, Spark, Strive, Stumble, Thankfulness, Theology, Thing, Three, Triangle, Tribe, Unity, Worship
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Time Well Spent
In this age of global interconnection, we face a modern paradox. At the same time that we are more connected than ever, we are also increasingly polarized and alienated from one another. What might have been and can still be … Continue reading
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Tagged Algorithm, Alienation, Alternative, Balance, Belong, Biometric Sensor, Common, Communicate, Community, Conception, Connect, Dialog, Disconnect, Dividing Line, Ethics, Facebook, Family, Focus, Fogot, Free Speech, Friends, Gatekeeper, Generation, Global, Global Community, Google, Happy, Humanity, Imperative, Inform, Interconnection, Interface, Internet, Isolate, Learn, Life, Local, Modern, Monologue, Narcissism, Offer, One, Opinion, Paradox, Peel, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polarization, Profit, Profit Motive, Reach, Repent, Screen Time, Self, Skin, Social Media, Strand, Time, Transform, Twitter Revolution, Tyranny, Unintended Consequence, Virtual Onion
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Chance Encounter
For most of us, it seems from time to time that life is often a string of circumstances in which we try our best to make sense of it all… Chance Encounter by Michael Romani Like anonymous walls Meeting in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibis, Alienation, Alone, Association, Blue Dollar, Chance, Circumstances, Connection, Encounter, Gap, Heart, Life, Love, Mourn, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Resonance, Scars, Squalor, Stars, Stumble, Telephone, Together, Wall
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Thought For the Day: Illiberalism Breeds the Conditions Ripe For Mob Rule
“The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women — of all classes — detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion — mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob … Continue reading
First Principles: May We Ever Endeavor To Be Friends Despite Our Differences
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Alienation, Difference, First Principles, Friendship, Inquiry, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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First Principles: The Right To Freedom Is God Given and Cannot Be Given Up
“If men … give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the … Continue reading
Alien Invasion
I thought I’d try something a little different. Let me know what you all think, please? Alien Invasion by Michael Romani We look up into the skies Beholding the infinite stars And we believe we are alone We need to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Alienation, Earth, Infinite, Invasion, Natural Rights, Negative, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Stars
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