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Tag Archives: Circumstance
Finished Ideas
To design for toying or for play allows the imagination to stray. Does it not? Finished Ideas by Michael Romani Finished ideas Have no place In the imagination All idylls To embrace With our fascination The only limitation Is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Circumstance, Design, Distraction, Elimination, Embrace, Fascination, Finish, Heart, Idea, Idyll, Imagination, Limitation, Object, Photograph, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Start, Then, Things, Toy, Way, When
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First Principles: Give Up the Earth and All It Contains Rather Than Do An Immoral Act
“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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Tagged Appear, Best, Circumstance, Dishonorable, Earth, Fame, First Principles, Give Up, Immoral Act, Money, Never, Possible Situation, Science, Suppose, Thomas Jefferson
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What Is Art?
I was sitting on a swing in a virtual world and thinking on how beautiful the build was that had been designed to evoke and memorialize my dead family members and close friends who had died before their time and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ars, Art, Axiology, Balance, Beauty, Build, Circumstance, Comfort, Concept, Craft, Define, Deny, Determination, Dread, Dream, Effort, Era, Escape, Evidence, Evoke, Expression, Eyes, Fail, Fear, Form, Formal Quality, Hang, Harmony, Heart, Hue, Imiate, Know, Meaning, Memorial, Mimesis, Mind, Organic, Origin, Originality, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Rendition, Representation, Response, Rhythm, Show, Skill, Soul, Spill, Truth, Ugly, Unity, Value, Views, Virtual, Wall, Way, World
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Destructive Good Fortune
Our planet began from the cosmic storm that stirred the soup that makes up the fundamental building materials that became all we know. Of course it was all by accident… Destructive Good Fortune by Michael Romani To watch through the … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Building Black, Bullseye, Chart, Circumstance, Coincidence, Contortion, Cosmic Storm, Debris, Deset, Destruct, Dinosaur, Early Man, Earth, Electric Force, Extinction Event, Falling Star, Free Dive, Good Fortune, Gravity, Happenstance, History, Humanity, Improbable, Intensity, Meteor, Origin, Particles, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Poison, Relic, Rise, Sledge Hammer, Star Dust, Storm, Think, Trajectory, Yucatan
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What Is the Enough?
Of some things, we can never have enough. What Is the Enough? by Michael Romani Of nature, art and poetry All of these things dear to me There is never enough to be enough Nothing in the world can ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Beauty, Behind, Being, Best Mark, Bluff, Canopy, Circumstance, Comfort, Enough, Find, Flower, God, Grown, Heavens, Hour, Human Being, Lonely, Meaning, Nature, Peace of Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remedy, See, Shown, Sin, Solace, Tear, Time, Unhappy, Weep, Wilderness
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Thought For the Day: Believe In the Immeasurable Power of Love
“I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” – Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Tagged Believe, Circumstance, Distance, Endure, Immeasurable, Love, Power, Reach, Steve Maraboli, Thought For the Day, True Love
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To Live and Die American
Flickr has broken my Flickr account. Not sure what I will do for photographs now or if I’ll ever be able to retrieve them. Meanwhile as I wait for their next response on the destruction they’ve done, I guess I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Belief, Birth, Blind, Change, Character, Circumstance, Code, Correct, Death, Define, Difference, Dream, Eternal, Fight, Freedom, Good, Grief, Happy, Illuminate, Injustice, Journey, Lady Justice, Life, Light, Live and Die, Mind, Mistake, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Right, Shade, Stars, Success, Sun, Talk, Walk
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First Principles: Happiness and Misery Depend On Disposition More Than Circumstance
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances” – Martha Washington
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Tagged Circumstance, Depend, Disposition, First Principles, Greater Part, Happiness, Martha Washington, Misery
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Joy In the Gifts of Hard Times
The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 7 is to write a poem about gifts and joy. Above this challenge was a bit about how poetry can prove quite the therapeutic tool. I can see this easily from my own life. From this … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Abundance, Agony, Alive, Believe, Bleak, Celebrate, Circumstance, Clarity, Concieve, Dark, Daughters, Day, Depend, Despair, Devotion, Difficulty, Each Day, Earth, Employ, Faith, Family, Find, Focus, Gift, Gifts, Good, Good Friends, Grasp, Gratitude, Hand, Happenstance, Hard Times, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Key, Little Girls, Love, Moments, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Negate, Out of Control, Passing Moment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rejoice, Salvation, Seasons, Situation, Soul, Spiral, Sublime, Support, Survive, Thankful, Today, World, World Turned Upside Down
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