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Road Trips With My Daughters 2024

Road Trips With My Daughters 2024by Michael DoyleThere’s a sort of magic I learned as I grewThat traveling with children reveals anewThe wonders and enchantments there are to findAlong with the souvenirs that serve to remindOne of the places gone … Continue reading

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Shape Shifting Ideologies

Shape Shifting Ideologiesby Michael DoyleIn this age of putrid and flaccid philosophy We have turned our faith away from mankindSome feel AI is a better path than ideologiesIn which undefined concepts are a forced bindWe bid the surface farewell and … Continue reading

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First Principles: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction

 “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will … Continue reading

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Scargiver’s Fight

Scargiver’s Fightby Michael DoyleTo fight and then to live to fightEven while knowing we cannot winTo hold pride in the battleEven though knowing pride is a sinThis is the way of warriorsWilling to bear the costEven while knowing the truthHonor … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Don’t Worry That Children Never Listen To You; Worry That They Are Always Watching You

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)

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To Raise Godly Children

To Raise Godly Childrenby Michael DoyleTime travels as shadows grow longerAnd the need to be wiser is strongerI look on my children and hope the bestI look for answers that might pass the testAs we raise our children for successIt’s … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: It Is Easier To Build Strong Children Than To Repair Broken Men

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass.

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First Principles: Start Children Off On the Way They Should Go, and Even When They Are Old They Will Not Turn From It

“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” – Proverbs 22:6

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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, And Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage. If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage… If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.” – John Adams (1756)

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No Cause To Weep

No Cause To Weepby Michael DoyleThere is in life’s turning awayLike that of a new day’s dawningThe sort of thing in a man’s wayOf time spent sipping lemonade under the awningUntil that day, when life simply slips awayAnd the miracle … Continue reading

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