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X Marks the Spot
X Marks the Spotby Michael DoyleSo now, here it is, and seemsThat in a community of dreamsX has come to mark the spotWhere the globe connects the dotsOf conversations that we fieldWhere no one really yieldsBut mingles outbursts of conversationThat … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Ambiguity, Artificial Wall, Authority, Boundary-Crushing, Bridge, Certain Cool, Churn, Clashing Views, Cognitive Dissonance, Commodity, Community, Compel, Connection, Conversations, Corporate Decisions, Creativity, Credibility, Curious, Cycle of Life and Death, Dare, Decision, Defy, Depedent, Derision, Desperation, Detail, Dreams, Dues, Economy, Elon, Extremes, Fascination, Find, Flair, Giddiness, Global Town Square, Globe, Grin, Happneing, Inspiration, Lash, Learn, Ledge, Legendary, Let Go, Memories, Mind, Opportunistic, Opportunity, Original Sin, Outbursts, Paypal, Perpetuity, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Point of Success, Rebranding, Rejuvenation, Resistance, Seams, Smallest Detail, Spot, Stomach Acid, Symbol, Symbology, Thrive, Understanding, Unfinished Business, Universal Imagination, Unlimited Interactivity, Vaporware, WeChat, X, Yield
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A Smile of Death
A Smile of Deathby Michael DoyleThe morning comes with a “how have you been”That comes a bit too brightly in world gone dimA smile unwelcomed can being its sense of dreadWith the ominous thought that we’ll all soon be deadThe … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Breath, Control, Creativity, Creep, Dead, Death, Delusion, Depravity, Dim, Dread, Dreary, Morning, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Post-Traumatic, Real, Scream, Smile, Soul Weary, Tired, Uncertain, Zen
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Thought For the Day: Most Creativity Is A Transition From One Context Into Another Where Things Are More Surprising
“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the ‘Aha’. Art also has this element. Our … Continue reading
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Tagged Aha, Alan Key, Art, Context, Creativity, Element, Laughter, Reality, Science, Surprising, Thought For the Day, Transition
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Thought For the Day: There Is A Fountain of Youth: It Is Your Mind, Your Talents, the Creativity You Bring To Your Life and the Lives of the People You Love
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age” … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Bring, Creativity, Defeat, Fountain of Youth, Learn, Lifee, People You Love, Sophia Loren, Source, Tap, Thought For the Day, True, Your Mind, Your Talents
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Schweitzer’s Legacy
Schweitzer’s Legacyby Michael DoyleWhat if it wasThat we’re not meant for strifeBut rather, insteadTo live in reverence for life?Would we really needTo argue the unnecessary whyOf who decidedThe creation of the hippopotami?Or, is it quite enoughTo know that we’ve a … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Schweitzer, Amoral Drive, Approached, Argue, As If We Have never Discerned, Awe, Biggest Lesson, Blown Free, Caging In, Cheap Attempts, Cherish Life, Considered, Creation, Creativity, Deny Humanity, Dicing Atoms, Divinity, Dug Out Canoe, Echo, Enfeebled Terror, Ethically Needed, Ever Outward, Failing, Forgotten, Forms, Free Spirits, Good and Evil, Goodness, Hatefilled, Hippopotami, Inattention, Innocents Die, Instruction, Inward, Its Own Debate, Keep, Last Remaining Tear, Late Great, Learn From History, Legacy, Lessons Unlearned, Life, Mediocrity, Mindless, Modern History, More Deliberate, Moving and Reaching, Need, Never Be Allowed, Not Be Mastered By Techno;logy, Not By Thoughtfulness, Not Meant For Strife, Our Destruction, Our Own Gods, Our Own Mass Destruction, Paint of Error, Persist, Perversity, Poetry and Poems, Pretending At Wisdom, Principled, Probably Someone Else, Quest To Become, Quite Enough, Reactivity, Recall, Remembering Reverence, Retain Our Control, Right To Exist, Schweitzer, Someone Say, Spawned, Splashed, Stand In the Way, Story Played, Strength, Taught, Technology, There's No Way Out of Here, Thought I Heard, Truth of All, Vacuous Chat, We, What If It was, Who Decided, Why, Wiped Away, Wiser
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Darkness Shapes the Hearts
Darkness Shapes the Heartsby Michael DoylePutin sits as another dictator in a lineCertain his autocratic rule is blessed as divineThis has been the slavery of Russia’s serfdomWith brutality reigning supreme in this kingdomFor five thousand years, we’ve known epilepsy As … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Ashen, Autocratic Rule, Believe, Betrayer, Blessed, Brothers Karamazov, Canker, Chained, Christianity, Civil Liberty, Cloak, Coincidence, Creativity, Cruelty, Dark Place, Darkness, Death, Definition, Demons, Dictator, Disease, Divine, Dostoevsky, Dubious Reputatin, Enigma, Epilepsy, Exceed, Father Zosima, Fight, Fool's Game, Freedoms, God Above, Good and Evil, Grasp, Greatest Miracle, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Initiation, Light, Line, Love, Masses, Mismatch, Mystery, Mysticism, Opiate, Photograph, Poem, Poietry, Preach, Protagonist, Pure, Putin, Questions, Quiet, Reason, Religion, Revolutionary, Riot, Russia, Russian Nation, Russian Soul, Serfdom, Shadow, Shape, Slavery, Super-Impose, Trappings, Treason, Unsure, Violence, Wastrel, Western Civilization, Wicked, Writer
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Keeping Our Truth
Keeping Our Truthby Michael DoyleReaching out in my cognitionHoping that my thoughts and perceptionsMight find a little recognitionAnd from that grow some receptionLiving life under another’s definitionPoints in mockery at the deceptionAs we walk this world in disguiseKeeping our truth … Continue reading
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Tagged After, Best Outcome, Bold, Certain, Choice, Chose, Cognition, Creativity, Deception, Definition, Destination, Destiny, Disguise, Do the Math, Edge, Explore, Eyes, Find My Way, Grow, Head, Imagination, Inner Voice, Journey, Keep, Know, Laughter, Living Life, Mock, Originality, Other, Path, Perceptions, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reaching Out, Reception, Recognition, Restrain, Step, Stumble, Thoughts, Truth, Walk, World
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Woven Into A Delicate Tapestry
Faith and reason must work in combination with one another to approach the balance necessary to navigate the life of individuals and of nations around the world. Woven Into A Delicate Tapestery by Michael Doyle Woven into a most delicate … Continue reading
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Tagged Balance, Blind, Bloody, Capricious, Church, Civilization, Combination, Creativity, Deity, Delicate, Deny, Diversity, Era, Evidence, Exceed, Faith, Freedom, God, Holy Kingdom, Incomplete, Inculcate, Known, Liberty, Life, Limits, Mankind, Mastery, Modernism, Monotheism, Navigate, Need, Pantheism, Path, Pathology, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psychology, Rational, Realization, Reason, Record, Reverent, Roots, Seeds, Self-Evident, Struggle, Tapestry, Theology, Truth, Twentieth Century, University, Wisdom, Woven, Youth
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On Found Light
Reviewing my camera chops in real brought me to write this. On Found Light by Michael Doyle It’s not so much the light But where you’re in it To get this just right You have know where to bend it … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Adjustment, Ambient Light, Back, Below, Bend, Bright, Brush, Camera, Canvass, Capture, Catch, Chin, Chops, Complex, Contrast, Creativity, Dark, Day, Delicate, Depth, Detail, Details, Eerie, Even, Exposure, Fact, Feeling, Flat, Forgot, Found, Front, Grain, Harmony, Hatchet, Images, In It, Infinite, Integration, Interplay, Interrogation, ISO, Kill, Light, Light Sensitivity, Low, Manipulate, Moments, Music, Mystery, Night, Noise, Over Exposed, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Range, Reduce, Rembrandt, Reveal, Rich, Right, Say, See, Sensitivity, Shadow, Shape, Shot, Sight, Simplicity, Softness, Soul, Stop, Story, Subtle, Transcend, View
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