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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…and Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage…and Virtue
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abhorrence of Injustice, Activity, Ambition, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Elevate, Excel, Faculty, First Principles, Industry, Inhumanity, John Adams, Minds, Virtue
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What’s In A Poem But Words
What’s In A Poem But Wordsby Michael DoyleWhat’s in a poem but words you sayThey can be written in many a wayAll it takes is the heart behind the thoughtsAnd to feel the flow of the shoulds and oughtsWhen you … Continue reading
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Tagged Come Out, Courage, Deep Inside, Deepest Time, Elixir, Expression, Feeling Kind, Felt, Flow, Heaps, Heard, Heart, Heart Melt, Impression, Keyboard, Let It Out, Look Back In Time, Magic Potiions, Met You, Motion, My Heart, Oughts, Pen, Poem, Poetic Leaps, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Revealed, Rhyme, Same Way, Shout, Sing, Stilled, Thoughts, Whisper, Words, Write, Written
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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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The Not So Cooked Goose of Dr. Seuss
The Not So Cooked Goose of Dr. Seussby Michael DoyleThis is not what it means to be wokeSomething inside must be truly brokeThese sinister snowflakes in reactivitySeek to search and destroy all creativityFor generations we have lived and learnedFrom lessons … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thing of Notoriety, All Creativity, Anxiety, Before Me, Belief, Brave and Free, Cooked Goose, Courage, Cringers, Dear Country, Defend, Different Voice, Discerned, Dr. Seuss, Far Out of Reach, For Myself, Generations, God, Incapable, Leaving Each To Their Own, Lessons Taught, Liberty, Live For, Lived and Learned, Lost Within, Loudly Assert, Make What's Right, My Death, My Freedom, My Last Breath, Need To Live, No More Freedom, No Sense, Not the Way, Poetry and Poems, Propriety, Reactivity, Real Dignity, Real Justice, Safe Zones, Search and Destroy, Sinister Snowflakes, Society, Something Inside, The Founders, They've Made Your Choice, Thought and Speech, True Justice, Truly Broke, Truth, Vacuum, What It Means To Be Woke
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Thought For the Day: In Every Crisis, Doubt or Confusion, Take the Higher Path – the Path of Compassion, Courage, Understanding and Love
“In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path – the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.” – Amit Ray, in Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
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Tagged Amit Ray, Compassion, Confusion, Courage, Doubt, Higher Path, In Every Crisis, Love, Thought For the Day, Understanding
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Thought For the Day: There Are No Easy Answers…We Must Have the Courage To Do What We Know Is Morally Right
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. … You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the … Continue reading
Beauty’s Brutality
Beauty’s Brutalityby Michael DoyleIn the deeps of Finland’s heartThe land lies in its darknessBathed in the Northern LightFrom where whispers of hope startAgainst the chilling harshnessBelow winter’s frosted nightSummer has been quick and fleetingTo thrive here takes endurance and courageWorn … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Ancient, Aurora Borealis, Beauty, Bleak Midwnter, Borne, Breeze, Brutality, Change, Chill, Comfort, Constant, Courage, Darkness, Deeps, Discourage, Down Under, Dreams, Endurance, Fatal, Finland, Fleeting, Fools, Forest, Free, Frost, Frozen In Time, Frozen Mouth, Gifts, Golden Eagle, Greeting, Grit, Harshness, Hope, Impatience, Infinity, Jeweled Crown, Land, Lapland, Legends, Life, Magical, Mesmerized, Midnight Sun, Moment To Spare, Myth, Myth of Fire Foxes, Never Know, Northern Light, Owl, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Reindeer, Rule, Santa, Serenity, Shine, Stand To Know, Star-Filled Sky, Stillness, Struggle, Summer, Sunrise, Surprise, Survive, The Sun, Thrive, Tough Lessons, Trees, Warmth, Weeks On End, Weight In Gold, Whisper, Winter, Winter Snow, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Life Is Mostly Froth and Bubble, Two Things Stand Like Stone, Kindness In Another’s Trouble, Courage In Your Own
“Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another’s trouble, / Courage in your own.” -Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870)
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Tagged Adam Lindsay Gordon, Another's Trouble, Bubble, Courage, Froth, Kindness, Life, Mostly, Stand Like Stone, Thought For the Day, Two Things, Your Own
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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, and Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Capacity, Care, Children, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, Excel, First Principles, Grovel and Creep, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Minds
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Not Even Death
Not Even Deathby Michael DoyleIf only the hand of loveCould ensnare the moonAnd if belief in the stars aboveBrought faith to the near and soonThere would be nothing to being handledNo complications to become rattledJust the courage needed to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Be Strong, Belief, Best of Life, Blush, Breath, Chance, Cheer, Concern, Courage, Dance, Danger, Death, Declarative, Faith, Fear, Flight, Go the Distance, Go Wrong, Gravity, Hand, Handle, Heroes, Home, Imperative, Inter-Stellar, Love, Mars, Moon, Moonlight, Onward, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Rattle, Sacred, Sacred Duty, Sanctuary, Snare, Stars, Stay the Course, Stranger, Toward, Victory, Want the Shot
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