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A Thinking Plague
A Thinking Plagueby Michael DoylePeeped at through the window my mind’s eyeIt seems to philosophize is to learn to dieThere is to every life an adversary named deathOne that we must fight until our last breathFruitful in our play had … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Analysis, Approach, Approximation, Brings, Composition, Conversation, Death, Destination, Detachment, Die, Dreams, Forgot, Hume, Last Breath, Life, Long Road, Meant, Measure, Middle Ground, Obfuscation, Paralysis, Parchment, Pen, Philosophy, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Reproach, Sinners and Saints, Society, Tale, Taught, Think, Thinking, Tomorrow, Treasure, Window
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Thought For the Day: Don’t You See That the Whole Aim of Newspeak Is to Narrow the Range of Thought?
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” – George Orwell
First Principles: All the Authority of the Declaration of Independence rests… On the Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day, Whether Expressed In Conversation, In Letters, Printed Essays, Or In the Elementary Books of Public Right, As Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, et al
“All [the] authority [of the Declaration of Independence] rests … on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, … ” – Thomas … Continue reading
An Intellectual Conversation
An Intellectual Conversationby Michael DoyleI asked you to speak your beautiful mindUnsuspecting of all the wonders I might findBut knowing that I would love just to talkWho knew that talk would grow into our walkI asked you to kiss me … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Amazing, Ask, Band, Beautiful, Bodies, Brilliant, Captivate, Conversation, Cultural Taste, Dance, Deep, Depths, Destination, Explanation, Eyes, Final, Find, Grow, Hands, Hear, Hips, Ill-Defined, Inspiration, Intellectual, Kiss, Know, Lips, Look, Lord, Love, Mind, Music, My Hand, Near, Need, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Preordained, Say, Speak, Stay, Surprise, Sway, Sweet Love, Talk, Tomorrow, Unsuspecting, Wait, Walk, Want, Wonders, Words, Yesterday, You and Me
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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First Principles: The Reading of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With the Finest Minds of Past Centuries
“The Reading of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With the Finest Minds of Past Centuries.” – Rene Descartes
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Tagged Books, Centuries, Conversation, Fine, First Principles, Good, Minds, Past, Reading, Rene Descartes
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On Finding You Finding You
On Finding You Finding Youby Michael DoyleWithout a snort and very little poutYou said it all when you walked outI’ll say that I admire your integrityAs you work your own path and identityWho is to say what forges a personalityOnly … Continue reading
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Tagged Admire, Authentic, Breeze, Bridge, Carry, Conversation, Deceptions, Dreams, Drive, Eventually, Everywhere, Fantasy, Fears, Feeling, Finding You, Fixed Destination, Forge, Gone, Identity, In the End, Integrity, Intimacy, Knee Deep, Lakeside, Little Girls, Make-Up, Mystic, Outright, Perceptions, Personality, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pout, Reveal, Run, Said It All, Snort, Society, Star Gaze, Sunday, Time and God, Today, Tom Boy, Tomorrow, Trust, Walked Out, Weeds, Whisper, Wind, Work Your Own, You
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First Principles: The Declaration of Independence Rests … On The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day, Whether Expressed In Conversation, In Letters, Printed Essays, Or In the Elementary Books of Public Right, As Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, Et al.
“All [the] authority [of the Declaration of Independence] rests … on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, &c.” – Thomas Jefferson, … Continue reading
Lessons From Sonic and Zen
Based on a conversation and then watching a movie as I was there sharing it: Lessons From Sonic and Zen by Michael Doyle Large popcorn, extra butter Tasty treat and then another Settled in blanket to watch the show Cuddle … Continue reading
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Tagged About, Agreed, Alienation, Amble, Blanket, Butter, Change, Clever, Conversation, Cuddle, Diplomacy, Discern, Drag, Enemies, Fast, Good Thing, Great Power, Green, Have No Doubt, Hedgehog, Hills, Hurry, Intimacies, Learn, Less Worry, Lessons, Lightning Speed, Loneliness, Magic, Movie, New, Not To Worry, One, Photograph, Plan B, Poem, Poetry, Popcorn, Proud, Ramble, Safety, Screen, Self Isolation, Share, Sink In, Smile, Sonic, Spare Box, Strange, Thing of the Past, Treat, Warn, Watch, Wink, Won't Last Forever, Wound, You, Zen
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Wild Winds
As mentioned before, it is birthday weekend for a very sweet daughter whose gentle spirit and artistic ways make me a better man in every way. I am so proud to be her father. I thought it might be, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrive, Assured, Back and Forth, Banter, Birthday Weekend, Bison, Blessed, Brought Back From the Edge, Buffalo, Buffalo Dreams, Buffalos, Calamity, Charge, Conversation, Cows, Daughters, Distinction, Drive, Eldest Daughter, Embrace, Explain, Explore, Extinction, Faint Marks, Family, Fascination, Father, Few Remaining, Flicker, Forward, Fremont, Friends, Future, Future Trips, Great Beasts, Horns, Indiana, Journey, Kayaking, Learn, Less Dim, Liberty, Long Drive, Love, Mile by Mile, Moment, Move Along, Nation, No Complaining, Old, Once Was A Time, Open Door, Outside, Photograph, Playfully, Plentiful, Poem, Poetry, Present, Preserve, Proud, Quicker, Raining, Risks, Rivers, Rus, Safer, Salvation, Saturday, Song, Soul, Stormy, Strength, Talking, Teach, Tenacity, Thankful, The Girls, The Great Creator, Their, Time Spent, Torment, Toward, Trace, Tragedy, Treasure, Vulnerability, Wild Winds, Wilderness, Wonderful, World
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