Tag Archives: Elevate

First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage

Posted on January 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“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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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, And Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage. If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives

Posted on May 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage… If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.” – John Adams (1756)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged All Their Lives, Care, Children, Courage, Creep, Elevate, Exalt, First Principles, Grovel, Infancy, John Adams, Mind, Mine, Suffer, Your | Leave a comment

Politically Incorrect Revisited

Posted on September 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Politically Incorrect Revisitedby Michael DoyleIs there some kind of fearThat we the people might persevereInto the rapid-fire shaking upCrystalized by making upToo many improvised linesSliding through topical landminesIn an approximation of real-timeThat edges up into the sublimeIt’s that take no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Approximation, Certainty, Childproof, Comic, Commentary, Complex, Consequence, Damages, Dare, Deserve, Doubt, Edge, Elevate, Evident, Evolution, Evolve, Expect, Express, Facts, Fear, Harsh Truth, Humor, Improvised Lines, Indignant, Inflict, Interplay, Involve, Irreverent, Know, LandMines, Lend, Less Direct, Making Up, Mental, Monlogue, Necessary Players, Open Conflict, Pass, Persevere, Play, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Politically Incorrect, Principles, Put, Questions, Rapid Fire, React, Real Time, Relevance, Respect, Revisit, Revolution, Say, Sensitivity, Shaking Up, Straightforward, Sublime, Take-No-Prisoners, Televise, Topical, Tragedy, Travellogue, Truth, Urgency, Words, Worked Out, World, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Birthing Persons Don’t Exist. Mothers do…They Are Sacred

Posted on May 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Birthing persons don’t exist. Mothers do. Yes, mothers give birth, and in so doing they give life. They are sacred. The ability to give life elevates women over men.” – Shawn Carney Remember Mother’s Day is tomorrow! Give that person … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on August 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abhorrence of Injustice, Activity, Ambition, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Elevate, Excel, Faculty, First Principles, Industry, Inhumanity, John Adams, Minds, Virtue | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, and Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage

Posted on October 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Capacity, Care, Children, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, Excel, First Principles, Grovel and Creep, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Minds | Leave a comment

Theatrical Dawg Bones Thrown

Posted on August 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

However much the director whines that he’s only got 2 1/2 hours to present his hip hop distortions of American history and however much he manages to make his errors rhyme and dance match the music’s time, I don’t appreciate … Continue reading →

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Build Up, Don’t Tear Down

Posted on June 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Why is destruction and all that so popular as the way to express grievances that do need to be addressed? Build Up, Don’t Tear Down by Michael Doyle We should be building up All for a drink from the winner’s … Continue reading →

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All Life Is Sacred

Posted on June 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Perhaps I repeat myself in saying that elevating one skin tone or sex over another is as wrong as having the first offense kept in place. Love and respect for each other is what is needed. All lives are sacred. … Continue reading →

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Simply Do Unto Others

Posted on March 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Matthew 7: 12: Simply Do Unto Others by Michael Doyle In Jesus’ name we give our gratitude Demonstrated in our loving attitude Thankful for His covering and His grace Looking at love given in His embrace … Continue reading →

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