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A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts
A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts (Republished for 2020)by Michael Doyle aka Michael Romani I. I have heard it saidThat you can eat ’til you’re fullAnd it’s still not enoughThe excuse to be given“But, it’s Christmas…”And one really shouldn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All Life Must Give Me, Application, Believe, Bells and Whistles, Best In Marriage, Best Path, Better To Give Than Receive, Bringing Such Peace As I can, Brothers, Cake, Cardinal Rule, Chastity, Christmas, Contentment, Control, Desire, Devoted, Diligence, Dire, Discipline, Each Day A Treasure, Each Other, Earned This Anger, Easier, Endurance, Enough, Entitled, Envy, Essence of Love, Everything, Excess, Excuse, Experienced, Filling Needs, Fire, Forgiven, Fruit, Full, Gather These Around, Give It Toward Others, Given, Giving Toward All Others, Gizmos and Gears, Gluttony, Greed, Harm Done, Heard, Heaven's Sake, Held Without Measure, Holy Living, Holy Spirit, It's Christmas, Keep It All To Myself, Keep Me Angry, Keep My Faith, Keep These Things, Keeping Each of These, Kept, Kindness, Like A Prayer, Live Each Day, Love, Lovers, Lust, Material Things, Milk of Kindness, Mine, Miss, Need, Needed, Never Enough, Noble and Good, Not Do Without, Not Followed, Nourish, Offer Up, Part of Me, Patience, Penitent, Perfect My Soul, Persistence, Phase of Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Purity, Qualities, Reliance, Rely, Remain So, Said, Sexual Union, Share, Should Find Me, Sisters, Sloth, Some More, Spirit of, Spirit of Christmas, Srive, Steadfast, Still Not Enough, Strength, Study of Kindness, Suffice, Sure, Sustain, Temperance, Time and Place, Time Enough, To Do Nothing At All, To Find God, To Keep, Too Hard To Do It Right, True Love, Uncontrolled, Undone, Unearned Grace, Unforgiving, Virtue, Wait A Minute, Walking Life, Wants, Welcome Stranger, Where I Dare, Worth Every Minute, Wrath
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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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Awed By Living
Life is for the living. Let’s do it well! Awed By Living by Michael Doyle Counting the things of needed gratitude Instead of too often taking an attitude At and of those things of circumstance Forgetting to realize each moment’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Attitude, Awe, Awesomeness, Blessed, Blind, Bliss, Blissfulness, Blunder, Bright, Bring Downs, Bumper Sticker, Chance, Child, Circumstance, Cliche, Count, Cut, Dare, Darkness, Destroy, Drag, Dreams, Embrace, Endurance, Engaged, Enjoy, Erase, Forget, Gratitude, Gravity, Harshness, Headfirst, Ignore, Large, Life, Light, Living, Mentality, Miss, Moment, Moments, More, Need, Often, Openness, Photograph, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Race Race, Reach, Realize, Right, Sacred, Second Guessed, Sentimentality, Smiles, Soar, Spontaneous, Well, Wonder
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Lost Faces of Chernobyl
Nuclear is one of the safest and cleanest paths to provide energy. The problem is that it takes just one disaster to stir up the worst fear. I can’t say it’s not reasonable that it is that way. Lost Faces … Continue reading
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Tagged Ash, Chernobyl, Denial, Devour, Disaster, Endurance, Energy, Fallow, Hiroshima, Horror, Life, Nuclear, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Sacrifice, Soviet Russia, Truth, Ugly
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Seven Points of Beatitude (Sapientia)
Seven Points of Beatitude by Michael Romani As the ghosts of one year floated by to be received In a clarity of slumber of one refusing to be self-deceived I had turned on the television intending to rest a moment … Continue reading
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Tagged Awe, Beatitudes, Counsel, Courage, Endurance, Enlightenment, Family of God, Fortitude, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Humility, Kingdom, Knowledge, Photograph, Piety, Pleasures, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Reverence, Sacrament, Self Deception, Seven Swans A Swimming, Tolerance, Treasures, Understanding, Wisdom
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Faith, Hope and Love
Faith, Hope and Love by Michael Romani Three French hens live their simplicity In strict adherence to divine authority Present in assent to supernatural revelation Three steps past the original destination This faith is one of God’s own revealing The … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, Despair, Divine Authority, Endurance, Faith, God, Grace, Holy Kingdom, Holy Spirit, Hope, Love, Practical Wisdom, Restore, Truth, Twelve Days of Christmas, Twelvetide
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 