Tag Archives: Count

Thought For the Day: Something Might Be Done By Throwing All One’s Weight On the Scale of Breadth, Tolerance, Charity, Temperance, Peace, and Kindliness To Man and Beast

Posted on May 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Big Blows, Breadth, Charity, Count, Done, Kindliness, Little Better, Little Ones, Love, Man and Beast, Peace, Presence, Scale, Small Stage, Temperance, Thought For the Day, Tolerance, Two Sides, Weight, World | Leave a comment

What Queen Frostine Taught Me

Posted on February 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What Queen Frostine Taught Meby Michael DoyleQueen Frostine taught me to cherish victorySweetly satisfying and stacked in her mysteryAt four years old, I began to learn to take my turn Life was full of all these sorts of things to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Million Plays, Attitude, Candyland, Cherish, Claim, Cognition, Color Recognition, Connection, Could Have Been, Count, Creative Enjoyment, Days, Define, Discern, Eye, Facing Forward, Games, Goals, Gracious, Gratitude, Growing Older, Honest, Honor, Hopeful, Integrity, Keep Going, Kids Games, Ladder, Laugh, Learn, Life, Lose Or Win, Math, Mean, Moonshot Roles, Mystery, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Queen Frostine, Rejection, Satify, Serve, Sincerity, Slide, Taught, Toward, Trick, Turn, Victory, Win Or Lose, Would Have BEen | Leave a comment

Sometimes Anyway

Posted on August 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sometimes Anywayby Michael DoyleGood food like gumbo is hard to replaceIt opens people up and puts a smile in placeWhile a child makes a wish on the evening starA wished upon wish just might take her farBut even the best … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anyway, Ball, Bottom, Child, Count, Crown, Dedication, Dreams, Evening Star, Eyes, Fairy Tale, Far, Faraway, Gambler, Gumbo, Hard Work, Inspiration, Love, Mardis Gras, Mississippi, Money, New Orleans, Pancakes, People, Poetry and Poems, Replace, River City, Smile, Sometimes, Surprise, True, Waltz, Wish | Leave a comment

Crash and Burn

Posted on July 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Crash and Burnby Michael DoyleCrash and burnWhen will I learnMy stomach churnsFrom the lessons that I learnIf I haven’t learned by nowWill I ever somehowI keep pushing onI keep pushing onGonna slow it downA warm smile turned to frownI keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Answer, Bad Fish, Churn, Count, Crash and Burn, Ebb and Flow, Fall, Feel, Feet, Floor, Good Dish, Good Wish, Hall, Hesitation, Insane, Know, Learn, Lessons, Life, Matter, Nothing, Now, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Pushing On, Questions, Sheep, Sleep, Slow It down, Somehow, Stomach, Train, Vain, Voice, Which, World, Worries | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Every Student Needs Someone Who Says, Simply, “You Mean Something. You Count.”

Posted on July 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Every student needs someone who says, simply, ‘You mean something. You count.’” -Tony Kushner, playwright (b. 16 Jul 1956)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Count, Every, Mean, Need, Say, Simple, Student, Thought For the Day, Tony Kushner | Leave a comment

First Principles: Let Us Recollect That Peace or War Will Not Always Be Left To Our Option

Posted on July 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.” – Alexander Hamilton, … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Ambition, Count, Extinguish, Federalist No. 34, First Principles, Hope, Left, Moderate, Moderation, Option, Peace, Recollect, Unambitious, War | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Success Is Not Final, Failure Is Not Fatal: It Is the Courage To Continue That Counts

Posted on July 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Continue, Count, Courage, Failure, Fatal, Final, Success, Thought For the Day, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Consider It Completely Unimportant Who In the Party Will Vote, or How; But What Is Extraordinarily Important Is This – Who Wil Count The Votes, and How

Posted on November 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.” – Boris Bazhanov, who was personal secretary to Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Boris Bazhanov, Consider, Count, Extraordinary, Impotant, Joseph Stalin, Thought For the Day, Unimportant, Vote, Votes | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #4: Closed For Renovation

Posted on April 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Closed For Renovationby Michael DoyleWith a startled turnLife became the strangeWith a subtle twist of fateSuddenly, plans became small changeLearning how to simply liveOur best moments in isolationAll across our land we wished to giveAs if it was all closed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across Our Land, American Lands, American Nation, Ask, Behind Closed Door, Belief, Best Moments, Better World, Children, Closed, Closed for Renovation, Corona, Count, Courage, Dedicatino, Dreaming, Each New Day, Easter Day, Experience, Fate, Find A Way Through, Gifted, Given Up, God's Love, Grief, Grip, Isolation, Kept In the Distance, Left Alive, Lessons Learned, Life, Lifted, Lived Safest, Lives, Living Without Masks, Lost Its Footing, Loved Friends, Meaning, Minimal Resistance, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never See This Again, Nightmares, No Longer Closed, One Another, Our Freedoms, Packing Up, Photograph, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recall, Renovation, Road Trip, Safer, Semi-Legendary Plans, Simply Live, Six Foot, Small Change, Spring, Sprung, Startled Turn, Strange, Subtle Twist, Surreal, Tossed Aside, Turned Inward, Turning Toward, Un-Rung, Viral Horror, Write About | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Let Us Know the Happiness Time Brings, Not Count the Years

Posted on December 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” – Ausonius, poet

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Ausonius, Count, Happiness, Know, Let Us, Never, Old Age, Thought For the Day, Time, Years | Leave a comment