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On Attempting To Be A Good Father
As Father’s Day approaches, I am thinking a lot on what it means to be a father to my two daughters. I am woefully aware that as they approach their teenage years, there are things I might have said and … Continue reading
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Tagged Approaches, Attempt, Bless, Case, Cause, Choice, Circumstances, Daughters, Disrupt, Do My Best, Don't Know What To Do, Eyes, Fail, Fall, Family, Father, Father's Day, Father's Face, Find, Follow, Forgive, Forgiveness, God, Good, Good Father, Grace, Guidance, Hard Calling, Hope, Knees, Know, Lead, Learn, Let Down, Little Voice, Live, Look, Love, Lucifer, Mean, Mend, Mercy, My Family, Not In Vain, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Press Onward, Prevail, Priceless, Princesses, Proud, Providence, See, Show by Example, Show Them, Steel, Strength, Strive, Tear, Tears, Think, Totality, Treasure, True, Two, Understanding, Velvet, Vulnerability, Weaknesses, Will, Wish
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The Fall of Constantinople
Though largely symbolic, the fall of Constantinople brought ruin to a significant part of Europe by the hand of the Ottoman Empire on May 29, 1453, after siege of less than two months. The Fall of Constantinople by Michael Doyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance, Annals, Arrows, Black Day, Broken, Centuries, Christian Nations, Christians, Civilization, Confrontation, Conquer, Constantinople, Crush, Czech, Destiny, East, Enemy, Eternal, Europe, Fall, Fall of Constantinople, Fate, Fell, Ferdinand, Fight, Hapsburg, Hatred, Hungary, Infamy, Janissaries, May 29 1453, Mercenary, Millions, Ottoman Empire, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pragmatism, Protestants, Reformation, Reign, Rome, Sacred, Siege, Subject, Subjugation, Suliman I, Sultan, Symbolic, Throne, Treaty, Unleashed
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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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Thought For the Day: You Know You’re In Love When You Can’t Fall Asleep Because Reality Is Finally Better Than Your Dreams
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
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Tagged Asleep, Better, Dr. Seuss, Dreams, Fall, Know, Love, Reality, Thought For the Day, You
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On An Ancient Pathway
Today is the last day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! 30 days of poetry. Congratulations to my traveling companions through this journey who stuck with all of this. They tell me it’s really something to write 30 days of poems. I … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5 Million Years, 2020, Adhere, Always, Ancient, Autumn, Birds, Birth, Bundle, Catch, Cheeks, Children, Clockwork, Daughters, Day, End, Eyes, Fall, Family, Father, Feed, Food, Forehead, Formation, Friends, Glide, Good, Gray, Hope, Human, Hunter, Jasper Pulaski, Joy, Laughter, Look Away, Magical, Memories, Mississippi Flyway, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Pathway, Photograph, Pilgrimage, Play, Plumage, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Pride, Profound, Recall, Red, Returns, Ribeye, Ride, Run, Sacred Ground, Sandhill Cranes, Savage, Silent, Sky, Soar, Spring, Tears, Thermal, Thrill, Tradition, Unison Calling, Whistle Stop, White, Whooping Crane
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Green Tea Haiku
From the prompt tea at the Fantasy Faire in Second Life: I love to visit Drinking my morning’s green tea Quiet morning’s blossoms fall
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Tagged Blossom, Drink, Fall, Green Tea, Haiku, Love, Morning, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Tea, Visit
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Stay On the Path
Due to time constraints and a day much better spent with my two princesses, I will be going off prompt from Day 25 of Na/GloPoWriMo gazillion requirements for a form of poetry that I would never want to write in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anew, Animals, Around, Awake, Breath, Brighter, Bud, Citizens, Clearing, Come, Come and Go, Constraint, Daddy, Days, Deer, Earth Day, Endear, Every Day, Explore, Fall, Father, Flowers, Flutter, Forest Floor, Green, Ground, Harm, Her, Hours, Ignore, Joy, Lessons, Life, Lighter, Living Creatures, Load, Lock, Mark, Memories, Na/GloPoWriMo, Near, New, Newborn, Notice, Off Prompt, Old, Pass, Path, Photograph, Plot, Poem, Poetry, Poppa, Protective Canopy, Rays, Recall, Rules, School, Scurry, Seasons, Shape, Spring, Stay, Taught, Valleys, Value, Wake, Warm Days, World, Worry
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Holding Hands With the Sun
Falling in love with art is an intimate construction within ourselves expressed both outwardly and inwardly. Holding Hands With the Sun by Michael Doyle An experience of the narrative Doodles swirled in declarative Filling out the feels An imaginative look … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Advocacy, After All, Art, Awake, Bottom, Call, Clear, Complicity, Construction, Darkness, Declarative, Destruction, Detection, Distraction, Doing, Doodle, Escape, Experience, Exquisite, Fall, Fantasy, Feels, Fill, Glacier, Granted, Hands, Heed, Hold, Hope, Humanity, Imaginative, Improvement, Intimate, Life, Light, Look, Lost, Love, Melt, Mirror, Moment, Movement, Moving, Narrative, Noise, One, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Positive Sight, Precious, Rant, Reality, Reel, Reflection, Rope, Scrawl, Secret, Simple, Simplicity, Sun, Thinking, Unknown, Voice, We, World, You and Me
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First Principles: Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Should Fall
“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.” – John Adams, in his Letter to Elbridge Gerry (December 5, 1777)
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Tagged Done, Fall, First Principles, Heavens, John Adams, Justice
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