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Joy In the Gifts of Hard Times
The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 7 is to write a poem about gifts and joy. Above this challenge was a bit about how poetry can prove quite the therapeutic tool. I can see this easily from my own life. From this … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Abundance, Agony, Alive, Believe, Bleak, Celebrate, Circumstance, Clarity, Concieve, Dark, Daughters, Day, Depend, Despair, Devotion, Difficulty, Each Day, Earth, Employ, Faith, Family, Find, Focus, Gift, Gifts, Good, Good Friends, Grasp, Gratitude, Hand, Happenstance, Hard Times, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Key, Little Girls, Love, Moments, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Negate, Out of Control, Passing Moment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rejoice, Salvation, Seasons, Situation, Soul, Spiral, Sublime, Support, Survive, Thankful, Today, World, World Turned Upside Down
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First Principles: Never Despair In Rekindling The Patriotic Fire
“Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.” — Samuel Adams
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Tagged All, Dead, Despair, Fire, First Principles, Motto, Nil Desperandum, Patriotic, Rekindle, Samuel Adams, Spark
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Further Destiny
Who are we to deny who we really are? Further Destiny by Michael Romani In a shivered ship of cold He sang a song remembered from old Ever bitter in its minding Lost without hope of finding That knife blade … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitter, Breath, Broke, Cast Away, Cold, Crash, Dash, Despair, Destiny, Find, Knife Blade, Legacy, Light, Lost, Matter, Minding, North Star, Old, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Rock, Self Deceive, Shatter, Ship, Shiver, Shoal, Song, Splash, Thunder, Wave
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Thought For the Day: The Way of Truth and Love Has Always Won
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think … Continue reading
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Tagged Despair, End, Fall, History, Invincible, Love, Mohandas Gandhi, Murderer, Thought For the Day, Time, Truth, Tyrant, Won
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Paddington Breaks Out
Truly enjoyed this Paddington 2 movie. It offered lots of food for thought… mostly marmalade as I recall…. Paddington Breaks Out by Michael Romani There is a prison worse than a prison It is the prison of loneliness That is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Bliss, Clockwork, Despair, Dreams, Food for Thought, Forgotten, Friends, Haste, Home, Jungle, Lie, Loneliness, Lonely, Marmalade, Miss, Paddington 2, Paddington the Bear, Pages, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prison, Promise, Spring, Taste, True, Turn, Us, Without You
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Just A Little Broken
Based in part on… life…. and Psalm 34:18: Just A Little Broken by Michael Romani Down at the church, I heard it spoken That all of us are just a little broken You know, I couldn’t deny it I wouldn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Psalm, Born Again, Broke, Buy It, Chruch, Contraction, Contrite, Crush, Cure, Dark, David, Deny, Despair, Destruction, Disrepair, Doubt, Fear, Habit, Hear, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Lord, Neglect, Pastor, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Pride, Pure, Pursue, Reject, Save, Scare, Self Will, Sense, Separation, Sin, Sold Out, Spoke, Symptoms, Thrill, Try, Vanity, Wanton, Wonder, World
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First Principles: Act Worthy Of Yourselves
“Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, America, Country, Danger, Despair, Enemies, First Principles, Fortune, Free, Joseph Warren, Worthy
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First Principles: We Should Press Forward Without Despair In Our Most Dire Times
“We should never despair, our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions and proportion our efforts to the exigency … Continue reading
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Tagged Better, Despair, Exertions, Exigency, First Principles, George Washington, Hope, Times, Unpromising
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A Woman’s Thoughts On Reaching 50
A blend of bits of reality mixed with a column that I read: A Woman’s Thoughts On Reaching 50 by Michael Romani At risk and at torment of feeling superficial She looks in the mirror, feeling somehow less special Weight … Continue reading
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Tagged Acheive, Age, Anxiety, Beauty, Believe, Better Place, Botox, Changes, Comfort, Despair, Duty, Fear, Fifty, Love, Mirror, Mortality, Mother Nature, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Privilege, Regeneration, Simplicity, Superficial, Thoughts, Traces
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