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Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt
The surest hand the Devil’s ever dealt is the deceit blotted out into the dark of night… Sure Hand of the Devil Dealt by Michael Doyle The bell tolls out into the black of night So little is seen in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestors, Awaken, Bad Dreams, Bell, Bell Tower, Black of Night, Bought, Candle, Cast, Child, Conceal, Cost, Crucifix, Danger, Darker Things, Deal, Dealt, Destiny, Devil, Diabolical, Dice, Door, Embrace, Face, Feeling, Felt, Flicker, Footsteps, Generation, Hand, History, Howl, Hurt, Inspection, Know, Less, Light, Locked, Locked Door, Lost, Lurk, Masque, Mind, Night, Nightmares, Old Village, Past, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Prison, Protection, Real, Reason, Reget, Reward, Saint, Search, Seen, Shadow, Shatter, Sins, Sky, Slam, Stab, Startle, Submerge, Sure, Surest Hand, Toll, Truth, Urge, Veneration, Vision, Wall, Ward, Whisper, Winds
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The Moral Imagination
It is not enough to give to our children and our society definitions of right and wrong or normless stories and books leading to an inability to make the profound decisions needed for the better world we so desperately need. … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Accountability, Act, Action, Address, Bad, Banality, Best Selves, Better Path, Better World, Blame, Blur, Books, Build, Capable, Capacity, Character, Childhood, Children, Churn, Clean Cut, Commanding, Could Be, Cultivation, Deeper Truth, Defeat, Depart, Desire To Do, Difference, Earn, Education, Embrace, Emulation, Encourage, Experience, Explanation, Fascination, Form Habits, Game, Go, Good Morals, Grown, Hate, Head, Heart, Heavy Hand, Heroes, High Ideals, Home, Humanity, Ideal, Illustration, Imagination, Important, Ingrain, Innate, Just Quality, Know, Laws, Learn, Learning, Light, Love, Manner, Me and You, Mind, Moral, Moral Components, Morality, Nation, Need, Nice, Nobility, Not Enough, Obligation, Older, Onward, Open Eyes, Parents, Passing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Poverty, Reach, Read, Reliable, Require, Richness, Right, Rules, Shelves, Should Be, Shown, Social Good, Society, Soul, Stir, Surface, Systematically, Tales, Taught, Teach, Teachers, Tending the Heart, The Rub, Train Up, Turn, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfed, Upright, Vice, View, Virtue, Virtuous Character, Vision, Wardrobe of Images, Ways, Worth Holding On To
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Wildness Into View
Another in the series on photography. This one focuses on capturing animals and plants. There is so much to see in this fascinating world of ours. Wildness Into View by Michael Doyle Staying hidden in order to see Is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Aperture Priority, Balance, Best Lesson, Best Photos, Better, Build, Capture, Close, Connection, Conservancy, Day, Embrace, Expression, Fauna, Flora, Flow, Flower, Freeze, Gratification, Habitat, Hidden, Hike, History, Impression, Improve the Odds, Intimacy, Lenses, Light, Macro, Memory, Natural, Opportunity, Patience, Patience and Time, Pay, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Preplanned, Radio Control, Rare and Few, Reception, Repeated Access, Research, Richness, Right Opportunity, Satisfaction, See, Serenity, Shallow Depth of Field, Shape, Sharp, Shutter Speed, Subject, Trick, Trigger, View, Weather, Wildlife Photography, Wildness, Work Around, zoo
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A Haunting Place
Ghosts don’t require ancient castles or haunted Victorian homes. Sometimes the most haunting place is alone inside a person’s mind. A Haunting Place by Michael Doyle Inside my mind is a haunting place Filled with missed memories I wish to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienation, Alone, Arise, Assassin, Awake, Break, Chains, Compart, Contentment, Contradictions, Coup, Cross-Examination, Cut Off, Doubt, Embrace, Eyes, Ghosts, Haunting, Head, Help, Hidden, Humble, Impossibility, Inherent, Inner Ghost, Inside, Late At Night, Loss, Lost, Mature, Me, Mind, Mirror, Missed Memories, Morning Light, Most, Nature, Peer, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Rattle, Ricochet, Said, See me, Self, Shade, True Heart, Truth
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On Habits of Soap, Water and Masks
My youngest princess is fond of teasing the truth that we are living history. What a memory this all will be one day won’t it? They’ll be able to say they lived through a global crisis and remember things … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcohol, Antibody, Block, Car, Common Sense, Crowns, Daughters, Destructive, Disabuse, Disrupt, Embrace, Epidemiology, Face, Fancy, Father, Global Crisis, Habit, Learn, Live, Living History, Manipulate, Mask, Me and You, Memory, New Norm, Notion, Opportunity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Protect, Protein, Safe and Sane, Scientists, Smile, Soap, Soap and Water, Strategy, Trials, Used, Viral, Virus, Wash Our Hands, Water
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Blowing Down the Walls
Based in part on 2 Corinthians 2:14-16: Blowing Down the Walls by Michael Doyle Blown away by righteousness and grace Profound joy takes down all my walls Mercy has taken me to this place I have found my peace in … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Authority, Badness, Blessed, Blow, Blown Away, Call, Child, Christ, Climb, Corinthians, Crush, Days, Depth, Earnest, Embrace, Exaltation, Extol, Fall, Fool, God, God's Ways, Golden Rule, Good, Grace, Grief, Head, Heart, His, Hunger, Influence, Invitation, Jericho, Joy, Knees, Life, Live, Longing, Mercy, Others, Peace, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Praise, Pray, Prayer, Presence, Relief, Reverence, Righteousness, Seek, Shout, Silence, Skin, Soul, Sovereignty, Squalls, Stand, Steps, Surrender, Tree, Turn, Understood, Walls
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