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Game of Hearts
Some say the grass is always greener. I don’t. Game of Hearts by Michael Doyle Don’t make my heart Into another game of homes Or, you’ll soon see me depart I’d rather just be alone I’ve seen the trades made … Continue reading
First Principles: It Is Better That Ten Guilty Persons Escape Than That One Innocent Suffer
“For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.” – Sir William Blackstone (Commentaries on the Laws of England, 9th ed., book 4, chapter 27, p. 358 (1783) It is seldom … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Better, Escape, First Principles, Guilty, Hold, Innocent, Law, Person, Sir William Blackstone, Suffer, Ten
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First Principles: It Is Better To Be Despised For Simplicity Than To Be Tormented By Continual Hypocrisy
“Virtue runs no risk of becoming contemptible by being exposed to view, and it is better to be despised for simplicity than to be tormented by continual hypocrisy.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) Bloomberg’s dismissive statements against farmers … Continue reading
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Tagged Better, Contempt, Continue, Despise, Expose, First Principles, Hypocrisy, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Simplicity, Torment, View, Virtue
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Sidewalk Communication
The city is a place of connection in its own way. Fusions of thought and experiences blend into that special something that helps the creative process. Sidewalk Communication by Michael Romani Hustled and bustled to the point of hassled The … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat, Better, Blend, Blur, Bounce, Busy, Cacophony, Change, City, Communication, Complex, Connection, Conversation, Creative, Deficit, Endless, Experience, Feet, Flow, Fusion, Graffitti, Heart, Hustle, Ideas, Ignore, Insinuation, Integrate, Interpretations, Lead, Life, More, Notice, Overheard, Photograph, Pinball, Pique, Poem, Poetry, Process, Recall, Sidewalk, Sights, Simple, Soul, Sound, Speak, Speed, Street, Sublime, Subway, Swim, Time, Touch, Trinket, Whisper, Window, Word, Wrestle
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Tilting Mental Windmills
On bad days, I awake wondering if maybe Don Quixote wasn’t on to something in his belief of pursuing impossible dreams. Other days, I dare to dream these. Tilting Mental Windmills by Michael Romani Captured frames from your window Map … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Awake, Better, Beyond, Blink, Blur, Bound, Brain Fog, Brave, Brave New World, Cherish, Collaborator, Cornucopia, Corridor, Curious, Cut, Dare, Daze, Deception, Decisions, Don Quixote, Door, Early, Embrace, Everyone, Experience, Fear, Feeling, Feign, Flow, Fragments, Frames, Glory, Grip, Hands, Hope, Humanity, Impossible Dreams, Join, Kung Fu, Last, Late, Learn, Life, Life After Death, Lose, Map, Mental, Mind, Moment, Musician, Pain, Perception, Photograph, Plead, Poems, Poetry, Pose, Preference, Puzzle, Riff, Story, Subject, Surly, Tears, Thrill, Tilt, Time, Together, Too Far, Twenty First Century, Walk, Will, Win, Windmills, Window, Wonder, World
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Kid Lost In Story
What’s the difference between a kid at play and an artist lost in art? Give up? Maybe me too…. Kid Lost In Story by Michael Romani Hand sketched And mentally stretched The artist knows her caper Put down as it … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artist, Awkward, Belogn, Better, Blocks, Burn, Caper, Children, Construct, Energy, Escstacy, Fantasy, Flow, Glory, Grow, Instruct, Kid, Learn, Lost, Meant, Paper, Percussion, Photograph, Pieces, Playground, Poem, Poetry, Rocks, Sculpture, Sketch, Smile, Story, Stretch, Understood, World, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: Our Lives Get Better By Change Not Chance
“Our life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
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Tagged Better, Chance, Change, Jim Rohn, Life, Our, Thought For the Day
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Forgotten Presents
Let’s call this one for the missed one on December 22nd and Happy Chanukah to all who celebrate this! Forgotten Presents by Michael Romani To all the kids who learned How not to believe All of those who have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Begun, Belief, Believe, Better, Carol, Celebrate, Christmas, Church, Core, Cross, Cure, Dark, Deceive, December 22 2019, Desire, Dream, Drift, Elves, Endure, Eyes, Faith, Fall, Family, Feelings, Float, Forgotten, Found, Full Drill, Full Stop, Ground, Hall, Happy Chanukah, History, Hold, Holy Night, Hope, Hug Out, Humanity, Hurt, Kid, Learn, Lessons, Letters, Life, Loss, Love, Memory, Miracle, Photograph, Plight, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Prescience, Present, Relief, Santa, Snow, Stranger, Stream, Sum, Together, True Believer, Truth, Turn, Words, Workshop, World
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Sweater Weather Dues
Originally meant for December 20th, National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day! Sweater Weather Dues by Michael Romani Tell me now Was it just a trick of the light That led me somehow To see things differently that night They tell me … Continue reading
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Tagged Anticiption, Better, Celebration, Convention, Cross, Destiny, Dream, Dues, Eyes, Fit, Gone, Guitar, Happiness, Holiday, Joy, Judgment, Knit, Melody, Menaing, Mood, National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day 2019, Neck, Nervous Wreck, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rudolph, See, Smile, Soul, Strings, Surprise, Sweater, Tacky, Touch, Tradtiion, Trick of the Light, Weather
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