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Thought For the Day: The Trail Is the Thing…
“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.” – Louis L’Amour, in Ride the Dark Trail Like the happiness within it, life is a journey, not a … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, End of Trail, Fast, Kindness, Life, Louis L'Amour, Love, Miss, Notice, Ride the Dark Trail, Slow, Thought For the Day, Trail
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Flavorful
Two flavors of beauty that are so wonderful With my toes dipped into two kinds of flavorful The painting on the wall calls to me of spring While outside is a winter that makes me sing All of those wished … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Believe, Conceive, Daily Prompt, Flavorful, Life, Magic, Photograph, Seasons, Spring, Winter, Wordpress
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Penchant
Speak to me in our electric penchant Where you never cease to move and enchant You know that I will never recant these words No matter how the electrical flow occurs The spark between us is my everything As I … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Daily Prompt, Electricity, Enchant, Forever, Habit, Love, Penchant, Photograph, Spark, Wordpress
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Essays and English Traits – Emerson
On Sept. 9, 1832, Ralph Waldo Emerson retired from ministry. But, he will never retire from the literary tradition and memory of Western Civilization. Among his many famous essays is that which is called Nature. In 1836, Emerson set out in the … Continue reading
Spring Thing Fling
From the Short Form Poetry Workshop on Weather Genre Poetry Spring Thing Fling by Michael Romani Waking from the cold winter’s snow It’s time for me to get into my flow Blooming flowers across my stage Painting the future across … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Bloom, Joy, Photographs, Poetry, Short Form, Spring, Urge, Weather
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Thought For the Day: Love of Beauty and Reverence for Tradition Make for the Best of Art
“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty, the reverence for tradition, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Beauty, Classicism, Discipline, Individualism, Kenyon Cox, Rigor, Self Control, Thought For the Day, Tradition
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A Passage For Trumpet
In the continuing effort to keep my promise to my eldest princess, this poem is based on The Twilight Zone, Season 1: Episode 32: https://flic.kr/p/uzJxST A Passage For Trumpet by Michael Romani Somewhere beyond that mystic infinity A trumpet swells out … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Dreams, Gabriel, Heartbreak, Horn, Jazz, Life, Poem, Poetry, Promises, Second Chances, The Twilight Zone, Trumpet
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Priceless
An old song meandered in on a thought About how the best of life cannot be bought Like the precious and few moments spent Those that a loving God has lent Even to a sinner like me Days of beauty … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Daily Prompt, Grace, Growth, Heaven, Lent, Lonliness, Love, Moments, Photograph, Poem, Precious, Priceless, Sent, Word Doodle, Wordpress
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – On the Sublime and the Beautiful – Edmund Burke
The full title for Edmund Burke’s philosophical exposition on separating the beautiful and the sublime into separate categories is A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. This major work was studied by … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Ugly Duckling – Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish poet and author who lived from 1805 to 1875. One of the stories he wrote is the classic The Ugly Duckling (Den Grimme Aelling). This is the tale of a seemingly homely little bird who … Continue reading
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