Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Family
On Becoming Ten
On Becoming Ten by Michael Romani There you are my true born beauty My living treasure, Daddy’s cutie Looks like it’s that time again And this time, you’re turning ten The years seem to be flying by When I think … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Poetry and Poems
Tagged Angel, Angelique Romani, Birthday, Blessing, Celebration, Family, Grace, Love, Poetry, Tenth Birthday
Leave a comment
Sense of Place
Sense of Place by Michael Romani You see it in her x-ray eyes There is really no disguise She feels her sense of place She wears it on her smiling face It’s an attachment to things past These that endure … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Comfort, Community, Design, Extraordinary, Family, Home, Love, Photographs, Poetry
Leave a comment
Frame By Frame
Frame By Frame by Michael Romani Painting rocks With the family Peppy talks Feeling so happy Squeezing out each moment Watching what might foment No longer freezing time This love is so sublime Such are the ways Of love and … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Study Tools, Photographs & Memories
Tagged Daddy, Family, Frame, Love, Painting, Photography, Poetry, Rocks
Leave a comment
First Principles: The Happiest Moments Come From Family
“…(T)he happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family. “ – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Francis Willis, April 18, 1790
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Family, Francis Willis, Happniess, Home, Life, Thomas Jefferson
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: To Be The Father of Growing Daughters Invokes Awe
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Daughters, Family, Father's Day, Love, Sacred, Terrible Beauty
Leave a comment
First Principles: Good and Wise Government Is Dependent On Family
“[T]hat important and respectable, though small and sometimes neglected establishment, which is denominated a family…[The family is] the principle of the community; it is that seminary, on which the commonwealth, for its manners as well as its numbers, must ultimately … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Community, Family, First Principles, Founding Fathers, Government, Heritage, James Wilson, manners, Natural Rights, US Supreme Court
Leave a comment
My Last Confession
My Last Confession (c) Allyson Romani (2017) I stood at the back of the huge sanctuary, smoothed my skirt, fussed with my hair. Late afternoon sun streamed through the high stained glass windows, and seemed to illuminate the whole of … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: A True Friend Is More Esteemed Than Family
“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is to be more esteemed than kinship.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero You can read … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Cicero, Family, Friendship, Harvard Classics, Life, Sun, Thought For the Day
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Things Unwise In A Family Are Unwise For A Nation
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.” – Adam Smith There is a lot to be said for this quote from Adam Smith. If things would be wise … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Adam Smith, Family, Nation, Thought For the Day, Unwise, Wisdom
Leave a comment
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 