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Paddington Opens the Street Fair
Love this classic story. Paddington Opens the Street Fair by Michael Romani Pop up stories Filled with glories Hold there place Like a warm embrace A life’s perfection Is found in that connection Where a single book Provides the hook … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alright, Applause, Bear, Belief, Children, Connection, Decent, Drivel, Embrace, Expect, Find, Fire, Glory, Goodness, Hire, Hook, Human Being, Kind, Paddington Bear, Paws, Perfect, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polite, Pop Up Book, Shrivel, Street Fair, Suspect, Tickle, Truth, zoo
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First Principles: Every Effort Should Be Made To Encourage and Exalt the Children To Become Their Best Potential
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Activity, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, First Principles, Grovel, Industry, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Mind
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Thought For the Day: Life Is Either A Daring Adventure Or It Is Nothing
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” – Helen Keller … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Adventure, Avoid, Children, Danger, Daring, Exposure, Helen Keller, Life, Long Run, Mankind, Nature, Nothing, Safe, Security, Thought For the Day
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The Dreams We Need
As a society, we spend too much time trying to stifle the dreams of both children and the inner most child in all of us. We misplace our values, thinking that dreams are merely wants. We dream to dream. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Agreed, Awake, Ballet Slippers, Bliss, Care, Child, Child's Heart, Children, Dance, Dreams, Edge, Fabric, Find, Give, Glow, Happy, Kiss, Laugh, Light, Light Show, Love, Memory, Mind, Money, Moonbeam, Music, Need, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Razzle Dazzle, Safe, Serenade, Share, Sleep, Smile, Society, Style, Surprise, Take, Universe, Verse, Vision, Waking Moment, Wish
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First Principles: We Should Do All We Can To Elevate Our Children’s Minds and Character
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Courage, Elevate, Excel, First Principles, Industry, John Adams, Mind, Virtue
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Still the Monkey Grins
The world has a monkey on its back. It’s the darkness inside us all. Still the Monkey Grins by Michael Romani Born innocent Victims to the sins The sins of the father Eden’s fall set the precedent Banished, cast before … Continue reading
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Tagged Amorality, Bitten, Blame, Bled, Born, Cast, Children, Collateral Damage, Crime, Cut, Darkness, Eden, Evil, Exile, Father, Fault, Flesh, Grin, Hell, Innocent, Inside, Life, Lightening, Mephisto's Waltz, Monkey, Monster, Paid, Pawns, Peace, Photograph, Plans, Poem, Poetry, Question, Science, Scream, Selfish, Sin, Societal Stress, Strife, Tombstone, Truth, Victim, Voices, Wisdom, World, Wrong
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Luna Love
If you happen to look at the moon just right, you can see L O V E on its face… no really.. see this Astronomy Picture of the Day provided by NASA: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181103.html Luna Love by Michael Romani Sitting here … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Celebration, Children, Craters, Divinity, Dream, Energy, Flicker, Hold, Honesty, Immortality, Intoxicatioin, Life, Light, Love, Lovers, Luna, Moon, Moon Beams, Moon Maiden, Myth, Night, Old Man On the Moon, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Secret, Shadow, Soul, Synergy, Tapestry, Touch, Whisper, Wish
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Daily Prompt – Grimace
The chains that bind us to our dark embrace Are the chains that make me stop and grimace Is there even a ghost of a chance at second glance Bringing all of this back into some balance? Tell me now, … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Uncategorized
Tagged Balance, Chains, Chance, Children, Cost, Daily Prompt, Dark, First Duty, Grimace, Innocent, Let Them Be, Lost, Love, Protect, Second Glance, Tug of War, Wrath
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