Tag Archives: Competition

Watercolor Still Life

Posted on June 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Watercolor Still Lifeby Michael DoyleWhen you ask me about the Harlem Renaissance I have to ponder and work out my best responseArt Deco found its African American affirmationDelivered as a watercolor still life in confirmationThat things are never quite as concise … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Art Deco, Artst, Competition, Concise, Confirmation, Creative Ego, Crooked, Edges, Faith, Find, Greater Glories, Grief, Harlem Renaissance, Human Beings, Memories, Minds, Modern Art, Painted, Poetry and Poems, Ponder, Real Life, Recall, Response, Sanity, Simple Stories, Still Life, Tattered Pictures, Truth, Vanity, Wall, Watlercolor, Wonder | Leave a comment

Truth of Dust Roads Taken

Posted on January 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Truth of Dust Roads Takenby Michael DoyleSome of the deepest truths are told in fictionEspecially those of times of historical frictionPushed into competition over narrowed resourcesInherent conflicts rise as nature takes its coursesSome conflicts come with visible tags of shameWhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Author, Back, Blame, Certainty, Competition, Conflict, Darkness, Dearth, Death, Deeper Thoughts, Deepest Truth, Depression, Deprive, Desperation, Disappear, Dust Bowl, Dust Road, Fiction, Forward, Hard Times, Harshness, Heavy Vintage, Historical Friction, Humanity, Ignorance and Greed, Lasting Impression, Learn, Nature, Pages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prophesy, Resources, Rot, Sin, Strength, Survive, Symbolized, Tags of Shame, Taint, Tears, Tenacity, Truth, Virtue, Wrath | Leave a comment

A Purity of Feeling

Posted on June 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Purity of Feelingby Michael DoyleSailing along the sea Guided by a northern lightBecomes a willing collaborationTo reach our destinationSomewhere between the purityAnd the places of sheer beautyIs the presence utterly revealingConcealed inside the naked feelingProfound as it is somewhat … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurd, Aestehtic Principle, Alleviation, Appeal, Beauty, Beguile, Bleed, Choice, Collaboration, Competition, Desire, Destination, Detritus, Disembodied Voices, Drift, Feeling, Halluncinate, Inebriation, Inspire, Interlinked, Link, Listen, Mass, Mass Communication, Miasma, Midnight, Mind, Nightcrawlers, Northern Light, Participate, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Read, Real, Repetition, Reveal, Risk, Sail, Sea, Shared, Shudder, Thought, Voice, Whisper, Writer | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: What of All the Entrepreneurs That Fail? Well, Many Do, Particularly the Successful Ones

Posted on February 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Some people, even in my own country, look at the riot of experiment that is the free market and see only waste. What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones. Often several times. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Competition, Entrepreneurs, Experience, Experiment, Fail, Free Market, Greatest Teacher, Pursuit of Truth, Ronald Reagan, Struggles, Successful Ones, Thought For the Day, Waste | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Excellence Demands Competition. Without A Race There Can Be No Champion, No Records Broken, No Excellence

Posted on November 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Excellence demands competition. Without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence — in education or in any other walk of life.” – Ronald Reagan

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Champion, Competition, Demand, Education, Excellence, Race, Records Broken, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Walks of Life | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Inclusion of Transgender People Into Female Sport Cannot Be Balanced With Fairness Due To the Retained Differences in Strength, Stamina, and Physique That Are Present

Posted on May 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The inclusion of transgender people into female sport cannot be balanced with fairness due to the retained differences in strength, stamina and physique that are present when comparing the average female with the average transgender female/non-binary person who was assigned … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Average Female, Balanced, Co-Exist, Competition, Competitive Model, Fairness, Female Sport, Inclusion, Physicique, Retained Differences, Stamina, Strength, Testosterone Suppression, Thought For the Day, Transgender, World Swimming Coaches Association | Leave a comment

First Principles: Men Must Be Ready…To Sacrifice Their Private Pleasures…When They Stand In Competition With the Rights of Society

Posted on April 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.” – John Adams (1776)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Competition, Dearest Connections, First Principles, Interests, John Adams, Mankind, Passions, Pride, Private Friendships, Private Pleasures, Ready, Rights of Society, Sacrifice | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Excellence Demands Competition

Posted on November 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Excellence demands competition. Without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence — in education or in any other walk of life.” – Ronald Reagan

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Any Other Walk of Life, Broken, Champion, Competition, Deman, Education, Excellence, Race, Records, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Believe In An America Where the Free Enterprise System Flourishes For All Other Systems To See and Admire–Where…No Racketeer, No Government Bureaucracy Can Put Him Out of Business

Posted on July 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I believe in an America where the free enterprise system flourishes for all other systems to see and admire — where no businessman lacks either competition or credit — and where no monopoly, no racketeer, no government bureaucracy can put … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Admire, America, Believe, Built Up, Business, Competition, Credit, Flourish, Free Enterprise System, Government Bureaucracy, Initiative, John F. Kennedy, Monopoly, Racketeer, See, Systems, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Ultimate Good Desired Is Better Reached By Free Trade In Ideas

Posted on January 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas.” – Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Accepted, Best Test, Competition, Desired, Free Trade, Ideas, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Market, Power of the Thought, Reached, Thought For the Day, Truth, Ultimate Good | Leave a comment