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Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will … Continue reading
Commit Freedom To Memory
Yesterday, December 15, 2019, was Bill of Rights Day! I was semi-astonished when I didn’t find anyone making reference to this. I was busily recovering from a long walk without a coat taken on Saturday. By the way, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged American, Bill of Rights Day, Birth Right, Breath, Confluence, December 15 1791, Die, Distinction, Extinction, Flag, Flickr, Freedom, Fundamental, God, Government, Guarantee, History, Hour, Influence, Light, Limit, Lord, Memory, Natural Law, Overseer, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Principles, Rule of Law, Rules, Sentiment, Steeple, The People, Truth, World, Worth
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First Principles: Public Liberty Will Not Long Survive the Total Extinction of Morals
“The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.” – Samuel Adams
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Diminution, Extinction, First Principles, Moral, Public Happiness, Public Liberty, Public Virtue, Samuel Adams, Survive
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Extinction’s Line
We are, or appear to be at a defining time as to how the future of the earth will be. The records are clear that even the most familiar of the common birds, let alone the rarer ones, are dying … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Avian, Bird, Bird Count, Canary, Choice, Coal Mine, Define, Disappear, Earth, Extinction, Finch, Global, Habitat, Line, Nowhere, Once Voice, Photograph, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Pollinate, Recover, Recovery, Silent, Song, Sparrow, Speak, Species, Walk, Years
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Ways of Survival
In the long and short of it, life is really about survival. Ways of Survival by Michael Romani And so at once, we reach our arrival That everything that happens is about survival Each Fall we are reminded of this … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alive, Angry, Arrive, Blessing, Blue, Chill, Cry, Do, Dream, Earth, Empathy, End, Extinction, Fall, Fear, Fire, Forget, Fragile, Frame, Guesstimate, Happen, History, Immortal, Leaves, Life, Love, Mad Tea Party, Mass, Mercy, Moments, Mother Nature, Name, Passing Year, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Push, Rake, Realize, Regret, Resources, Revolve, Ripple, Serial Killer, Skipped Stone, Strife, Struggle, Suicide, Survival, Survive, Think, Way
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Thought For the Day: With the Destruction of the Last Remaining Wilderness, We Will Have Destroyed Our Humanity
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Clear Air, Comic Books, Destroy, Dirty, Extinction, Last Silence, Paved Roads, People, Pollute, Something, Streams, Thought For the Day, Virgin Forest, Wallace Stegner, Wild Species, Wilderness, Zoos
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Daily Prompt – Perfume
It’s a tale that seems as old as man That someone sold a dream to woman That their biggest aim and chief goal Is to hide themselves and sell their souls To be the most appealing in any room Coloring … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Appeal, Beauty, Bittersweet, Bought, Con Man, Consequence, Conversation, Daily Prompt, Dye, Extinction, Forgot, Frustration, Injection, Inside, Man, Oldest Profession, Perfume, Scent, Soul, Tale, Woman
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Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” – Ronald Reagan
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Extinction, Fight For, Freedom, Generation, Heredity, Heritage, Protect, Ronald W Reagan, Taught, Thought For the Day, United States
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