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Fifty-Five Years Gone
Fifty-Five Years Goneby Michael DoyleFrom crayons to my sister’s perfume,I was lost deep inside the White Room.Things of death made me feel fear,And I needed another atmosphere.I lost myself on memory lane,Half convinced that life slips down the drain.Looking for … Continue reading
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Tagged 45s, AM Radio, Atmosphere, Autumn Leaves, Beginning, Call, Closed Door, Crawl, Crayon, Cry, Death, Different, Drain, DU, Experiment, Fall, Fear, Feeling Sound, Fifty-Five Years, Find, FM, Fortune, Gone, Hit, Inside, Kicks, Madman, Memory Lane, Music, Never-Ending, New Opportunity, Perfume, Player, Poetry and Poems, Read, Reverent, Shaman, Shout, Soul, Stage, Stereo Long Play, Twist, Unimpressed, Variant, Wasteland, Way Out, White Room, Wounded Prided
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In Moving Pictures
In Moving Picturesby Michael DoyleDrawing on our life’s experienceThere are characters of preference.They serve as molds of imagination.So much of life is pure improvisation.The charm that got us byAs we hustled to give life our try.The shots of the frame-by-frameAre … Continue reading
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Tagged Artistry, Behind, Blow By Blow, Brilliance, Brothers, Brutality, Bullets, Characters, Charm, Chemistry, Cinematic Magic, Dalliance, Deep Dive, Differently, Divine Spark, Draw, Experiment, Fashion of Truth, Feel, Fifty Years, Frame, Friendship, Game, Glory, Grown, Heart, Humility, Hustle, Imagaination, Improvisation, Inspiration, Knights, Known, Life, Life's Experience, Light, Light From Dark, Lights, Love, Mind, Mold, Moving Pictures, Night, Okay, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Pushing Forward, Real, Reverently, Score, Shots, Sin, Sixteen, Spirituality, Story, Switchblade Knife, Visceral, Well, Writing
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First Principles: The Preservation of the Sacred Fire of Liberty, and the Destiny of the Republican Model of Government…Staked On the Experiment Entrusted To the Hands of the American People
“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” – George Washington (1789)
First Principles: Do Not Be Too Timid and Squeamish About Your Actions. All Life Is An Experiment. The More Experiments You Make the Better
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Action, Better, Experiment, First Principles, Life, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Squeamish, Timid
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Nat Turner’s Legacy
Nat Turner’s Legacyby Michael DoyleExceptions seldom make the ruleFoolish thinkers need their schoolThose who dwell on the mysteryOf why so few rose against slaveryIt is a cowardice of cultureThat we cannot afford to nurtureLet’s recall a moment of historyLived by … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, American History, Asunder, Blood and Brutality, Civil War, Country, Cowardice of Culture, Criticism, Death, Destiny, Dignity, Easy Lesson, Education, Equal Opportunity, Exceptions, Experiment, Field, Fight, Foolish Thinkers, Freedom and Liberty, God and Science, Greatest Republic, Hard Road, History, Incendiary, Inspiration, Ironic, Legacy, Liberty, Luxury, Mystery, Nat Turner, Ntion, Nurture, Optimism, Path Forward, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Promise, Prophecy, Rage, Re;public, Revelation, Revolution, Right, Satisfaction, School, Scourge, Sinners, Slavery, Soul, The Rule, Theology, Victory, Vision, Voice, Wickedness Revealed
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Growing Our Intimacy
Growing Our Intimacyby Michael DoyleWe have so little time for introspectionAs we approach life with our expectationsSometimes it’s an easy flow of conversationOther times, we’re micro-managing our destinationBeing present and being openly hereIs the experiment of what might disappearAs our … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Alibis, Anticipating, Approach, Approach Love, Attract, Bad Girls, Becoming Us, Being Present, Comfortable Silence, Confirmation, Conversations, Cry, Dance, Destination, Disappear, Each Day, Easy Flow, Electricity, Excitement, Expectations, Experiment, Fake, Feel, Friendship, Grow, Hope, Internal Debate, Intimacy, Introduce, Introspection, Just Because, Letting Love Flow, Life, Little Time, Love, Magnet, Micro-manage, Nice Guys, Nights of Love, Open, Party, Path, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rough, Scaru, Sentimental, Sincerity, Smile, Something Much Better, Something Real, Spark, Spend Together, Sweet surrender, Take, Talk, The same, Think, Together, Touch the Flame, Try, Welcome, Why, Words
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First Principles: No Experiment Can Be More Interesting Than…That Man May Be Governed By Reason and Truth
“No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open … Continue reading
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Tagged Actions, Experiment, Fact, Fear, First Principles, Freedom of the Press, Governed, Interesting, Investigation, John Tyler, Mankind, Reason and Truth, Thomas Jefferson, Trust
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Thought For the Day: What of All the Entrepreneurs That Fail? Well, Many Do, Particularly the Successful Ones
“Some people, even in my own country, look at the riot of experiment that is the free market and see only waste. What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones. Often several times. And … Continue reading
First Principles: The Preservation of the Sacred Fire of Liberty, and the Destiny of the Republican Model of Government, Are Justly Considered Deeply
“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” – George Washington
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 