Tag Archives: Food

Thought For the Day: Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine and Thy Medicine Be Thy Food

Posted on July 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates

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Thought For the Day: Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food

Posted on April 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates

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Thought For the Day: Flowers Always Make People Better, Happier, and More Helpful; They Are Sunshine, Food and Medicine For the Soul

Posted on March 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” – Luther Burbank (7 Mar 1849-1926)

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Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)

Posted on July 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)by Michael DoyleOver the course of many stolid yearsI have listened to a tsunami of tearsOver how socialism turned chevere to chimboThe Land of Grace defiled blow by blowThe Land of the Orchids and … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: For Attractive Lips, Speak Words of Kindness. For Lovely Eyes, Seek Out the Good In People. For A Slim Figure, Share Your Food With the Hungry

Posted on January 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. … Continue reading →

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Love Lives On

Posted on July 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Love Lives Onby Michael DoyleDriving around the middle of the nationTrying to stimulate my daughters’ imaginationsAnd love for seeing the beauty of this nationLike their grandmother would have; if the situationHad somehow allowed this to followIf she had thrived; but … Continue reading →

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On An Ancient Pathway

Posted on April 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

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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Ode To A Mermaid Friend

Posted on January 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A new friend who helped me in getting my bearings in the new place I have in SL and encourages me to form a poetry group there is a mermaid. We were talking about the funny quips she has on … Continue reading →

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Shelf Life

Posted on December 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Today Is National Fruit Cake Day!! (run….) Shelf Life by Michael Romani Raise a glass of eggnog in good cheer Blessed by this holiday time of year But what do we do about this one gift One that creates sometimes … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day Expanded: Plant Intelligence and Its Implications For Behavior

Posted on September 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In deciding to remake Aloha Promises Forever into more based on who I truly am and the thoughts that I hold up to examination, I thought I’d experiment by setting out the following: While home busily being sick, I am … Continue reading →

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