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Born In the Rockies (Part I)
Born In the Rockies (Part I)by Michael DoyleSpring has come with this mornAs another young life is bornEach step in the Rockies must be solvedAt every turn, there are tests to be resolvedEvery opportunity is used to hone skillsIn Mother … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby, Born, Child, Decade, Destiny, Diligence, February, Flight, Flock, Generations, Journey, Light, Morn, Morning's Light, Mother, Mother Nature, Opprtunity, Poetry and Poems, Resolve, Rocky Mountain, Sandhill Crane, Security, Skill, Solve, Spring, Springtime, Thousand, Vigilance, Wild
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The Get To of the Got To
The Get To of the Got Toby Michael DoyleHeroes of faith that give what they canThat’s every woman and then every manDaring to give what they are givenThese cheerful hearts are those forgivenWorking the work of giving in lightLiving open … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Believers, Cheerful Hearts, Child, Confusion, Dreams of Hope, Encouragement, Engagement, Eye Contact, Get To, Got To, Health, Heroes of Faith, Illusioin, Joy, Light, Live Right, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Recognition, Smile, Truth, Wealth
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Thought For the Day: To Be Ignorant of What Occurred Before You Were Born Is To Remain Always A Child
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestors, Born, Child, Human Life, Ignorant, Life, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Occurred, Records of History, Thought For the Day, Worth, Woven
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Currents of the Riptide
Currents of the Riptideby Michael DoyleOn the tip of the continent’s ledgeI stand and touch the water’s edgeIn the memory of those who came beforeAnd will never surf any moreThe rides that they once soughtAll of the battles that they … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrenaline, Battles, Child, Confident, Content, Continent, Currency, Currents, Emotion, Face of Waves, Feet, Fought, Ledge, Legacy, Memories, Memory, Neptune, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Powers, Reveries, Rides, Riptide, Sorrow, Sought, Surf, Tame, Tomorrow, Water's Edge, Wild
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Thought For the Day: This Triangle of Truism, Father, Mother, and Child, Cannot Be Destroyed; It Can Only Destroy Those Civilizations Which Disregard It
“This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.” – G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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Tagged Child, Civilizatin, Destroy, Destroyed, Disregard, Father, G.K. Chesterton, Mother, Thought For the Day, Triangle, Truism
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Thought For the Day: What A Child Doesn’t Receive He Can Seldom Later Give
“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.” -P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James), novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)
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Tagged Child, Doesn't Receive, Give, Later, P.D. James, Seldom, Thought For the Day, What
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Thought For the Day: Everybody Knows That the Family Is the Bedrock of Any Society
“Everybody knows that the family is the bedrock of any society because it is in the family that the child learns how to be — how to be cultivated, how to be mannerly, how to have values. And if we … Continue reading
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Tagged Bedrock, Child, Children, Cultivated, Family, Know, Learn, Mannerly, Meaning, Society, Thought For the Day, Values, Winsome Sears
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Thought For the Day: A Book, Once It Is Printed and Published, Becomes Individual
“A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book “means” thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, Book, Child, Cut Off, Grammar, Individual, James Branch Cabell, Meaning, Means, Parent, Parturition, Printed and Published, Publication, Reader, Sever, Thought For the Day
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Inseparable
Inseparableby Michael DoyleA black orphanGrown to be an honest intellectualChild of the Jim Crow SouthHe sought after what’s effectualEmancipation is what makes America uniqueThe 1619 ProjectIs one of breathtaking ignoranceSlavery does notAnd did not bring prosperityAnd the fight against this … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Backward, Better, Black Orphan, Blame, Bravery, Breathtaking Ignorance, Child, Effectual, Emancipation, Fight, Fingers, First Step, Forward, Future, Honest Intellectual, Inseparable, Intellectual Honesty, Jim Crow South, Joint Legacy, Married, Outlier, Poetry and Poems, Popularity, Prosperity, Reality, Reconcile, Rhetoric, Slavery, Solutions, Sought, The 1619 Project, Together, Truth, Unique, Worse
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