Tag Archives: Experience

First Principles: The Evils We Experience Flow From the Excess of Democracy. The People Do Not Want Virtue, But Are the Dupes of Pretended Patriots

Posted on August 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.” – Elbridge Gerry, Constitutional Convention (May 31, 1787)

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Hollow Words and Climbing Trees

Posted on July 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Hollow Words and Climbing Treesby Michael DoyleHanging out on an oak limb Beneath the canopy’s shadow,The moves we made brought us safety.Empty words ring kind of hollow.Left on their own, kids flourish.It’s the way we allow them to nourishThe decision-making … Continue reading →

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First Principles: There Can Be No Greater Error Than To Expect, Or Calculate Upon Real Favours From Nation to Nation. ‘Tis An Illusion Which Experience Must Cure

Posted on June 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ’Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” – George Washington (1796)

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Questioning the Process

Posted on May 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Questioning the Processby Michael DoyleIn and out of our lives, we hearThose thoughts around us that persevere.Pushing and prodding us with possibility,And we gravitate toward what has plausibility.There are no promises, only process.We take our nibbles here and there to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Best, Deference, Depth, Destination, Document, Dream, Endless Question, Experience, Familiies, Gravitate, Hear, Images, Improvisation, Intention, Jazz, Know, Life, Lives, Love, Memories, Mess, Nibbles, Persevere, Photographs, Plausibility, Pocket, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Promise, Question, Reach Out, Satisfaction, Syncopation, Test, The Process, Thoughts, Travel, Valid, Voyage | Leave a comment

The Ecology of Hitchhiking

Posted on April 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Ecology of Hitchhikingby Michael DoyleWhen you think of it in terms of ecology,Hitchhiking has very little to do with the economy.From my own experience, it’s about relationshipsPerhaps even sometimes about brinksmanship.The people that are met on the open roadAre … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accepting Rides, America, Brinksmanship, Caught Rides, Collective, Common, Danger, Ecology, Economy, Experience, Extended Thumbs, Friends, Glory, God's Seed, Heart of Life, Hitchhiking, Hitching Rides, Need, Odds, Open Road, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Relationship, Rregret, Stories, Story, Stranger, Time To Fly, Told, Traveling Companions, Trust | Leave a comment

Oneshotted Into Nihilism

Posted on March 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Oneshotted Into Nihilismby Michael DoyleIt’s no longer pay-to-play but pay-to-winWith a milkshake duck, where do we beginMutating in iterative references made more visibleSocial media has mostly made us all more miserableWords rise from the internet’s tepid muckClaiming glory and defamation … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Experience, Gigafry, Internt, Irreducible Complexity, Iterative Referencces, Life, mental-health, Milkshake Duck, Miserable, Muck, Nihilism, Oneshotted, Pay-To-Wn, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Simplicity, Social Media, Visible, Words, Writing | Leave a comment

Cowboys and Mustangs

Posted on February 20, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Cowboys and Mustangsby Michael DoyleThe Conquistadors brought horses to these landsBack 500 years ago, as best as I understandNow, thousands are allowed to wander freeCausing irreversible damage to the rangeland countryThe conflict arises over the carrying capacity50,000 horses await adoption … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adoption, Appropriate Management Level, Artificial, Aura, Benefiicial, Bond, Brave, Breed, Carrying Capacity, Constraints of Domestication, Cowboy, Cowboys, Dark of Night, Destiny, Dignity, Dissection, Experience, Fallow Trails, Feral, Fit, Free, Freedom, God's Providence, Good Judgment, Heads, Horses, Improvement, Inference, Irreversible Damage, Jouney, Kinship, Lands, Morning Light, Mustangs, Mutual Need, Nation, Natural Selection, Nature, Overconfidence, Overopopulation, Pen, Poetry and Poems, Pushing Hard, Quit, Rangeland, Right To Live, Saddle Up, Scarcity, Scratch, Sovereignty, The Conquistadors, Travel, Wait, Wander, Wild Seed | Leave a comment

Slipstream of History

Posted on February 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Slipstream of Historyby Michael DoyleSeven cycles in a stream of errorsThe collaboration of history might be seenIn terms of a series of erasAs these are experienced by human beingsIt feels like a long time in the comingAs we waited in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Civilization, Collaboration of History, Cycles, Echo Chamber, Eras, Errors, Experience, Flaw, Frame, Game, History, Mourning of Yesterday, Nowhere, Pages, Pensive Mood, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rise and Fall, Slipstream, Two Coins | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: To Be Grateful Is To Recognize the Love of God In Everything He Has Given Us – and He Has Given Us Everything

Posted on December 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us – and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Awakening, Difference, Every Breath, Every Moment, Everything, Existence, Experience, Gift, God, Good, Goodness, Grace, Graces, Grateful, Grateful Person, Gratitude, Hearsay, His Love, Praise, Recognize, Take Nothing For Granted, The Love of God, Thomas Merton, Thought For the Day, Unresponsive, Wonder | Leave a comment

Star-Fall

Posted on December 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Star-Fallby Michael DoyleMy impulsive thoughts intrudeEven as I raise my hands in gratitudeArms wide open, I look aboveIn my experience of God’s loveI sing hallelujah in my loudest voiceLifting up my songs, I picked through my choicesKnowing all that you’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, All, Answer, Arms, Call, Choice, Days, Experience, God's Love, Grace, Gratitude, Hallelujah, Hands, Heavenly Embrace, Humanity, Humility, Impulsive Thoughts, Jesus, Lift, Lost, Love, Poetry and Poems, Praises, Songs, Soul, Star-Fall, Surrender, Voice, Wide Open | Leave a comment