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Sometimes Anyway
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
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Crash and Burn
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
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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
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Thought For the Day: Every Student Needs Someone Who Says, Simply, “You Mean Something. You Count.”
“Every student needs someone who says, simply, ‘You mean something. You count.’” -Tony Kushner, playwright (b. 16 Jul 1956)
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Tagged Count, Every, Mean, Need, Say, Simple, Student, Thought For the Day, Tony Kushner
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First Principles: Let Us Recollect That Peace or War Will Not Always Be Left To Our Option
“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
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Ambition, Count, Extinguish, Federalist No. 34, First Principles, Hope, Left, Moderate, Moderation, Option, Peace, Recollect, Unambitious, War
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Thought For the Day: Success Is Not Final, Failure Is Not Fatal: It Is the Courage To Continue That Counts
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
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Tagged Continue, Count, Courage, Failure, Fatal, Final, Success, Thought For the Day, Winston Churchill
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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
“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
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Tagged Boris Bazhanov, Consider, Count, Extraordinary, Impotant, Joseph Stalin, Thought For the Day, Unimportant, Vote, Votes
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Na/GloPoWriMo #4: Closed For Renovation
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
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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
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Thought For the Day: Let Us Know the Happiness Time Brings, Not Count the Years
“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” – Ausonius, poet
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Tagged Ausonius, Count, Happiness, Know, Let Us, Never, Old Age, Thought For the Day, Time, Years
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Life Taken By Slice
Life is filled with events that beg for good photographs that capture their essence. Next in the series on photography and photograph composition. Life Taken By Slice by Michael Doyle Birthdays, weddings and holidays Special occasions in a million ways … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Being, Bind, Birthday, Blow the Candles Out, By Slice, Cake, Candid, Caption, Capture, Catch, Colors, Count, Detail, Details, Don't Stop the Action, Drama, Draws In, Emotions, Essence, Events, Every Angle, Face, Fade Into Night, Find, Fly On the Wall, Force, Glasses Raised, Glorious Moments, Good Times, Grab, Hard, Holidays, Homework, Humans Being, Impossible To Replace, Life, Life Goes By, Life's Events, Light, Long Exposure, Main Dish, Meaning, Moments, Moments of Joy, Most, Neglect, Nothing, Photograph, Photographs, Photos, Poetry, Presents, Remember, Respect, Round of Drinks, Satisfaction, Saving Aside, Scout Out, Seasoning, Seen, Sight, Slice By Slice, Soak, Something, Spark, Special Occasions, Spice, Stolen Kiss, Stop Time, Stuck In Mind, Stuff of Life, Sublime, Surmise, Surprise, Swirls, Takes, The Best of Life, Thought, Tie, Toast, Wedding, Whisper, Wish, Wonderful
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First Principles: I Count Him Braver Who Overcomes His Desires Than Him Who Conquers His Enemies; For the Hardest Victory Is Over Self
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self…” – Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
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Tagged Aristotle, Braver, Conquer, Count, Desire, Enemies, Hardest Victory, Over, Overcome, Self, Thought For the Day
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