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Thought For the Day: The Deepest Glory of Friendship Is the Spiritual Inspiration When You Discover Someone Else Believes In You and Trusts You
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Companionship, Discover, Friendship, Glory, Hand, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Smil, Spiritual Inspiration, Thought For the Day, Trust
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Flickring Twitters of Instagram Moments
Social media.. boon or bane? It’s hard to say. At this present moment, it seems that the greater the tools to meet and greet our fellow humanity embraced in our chosen moments, conversely we are losing some of sense of … Continue reading
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Tagged Add, Amalgamation, Build, Busy, Care, Code, Cost, Decide, Design, Digital, Embrace, Expression, Flickr, Fragment, Friendship, History, Imagination, Impression, Inform, Instagram, Lifeless, Love, Moments, Movies, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practical, Relationship, Root, See, Showcase, Silicon Valley, Social Media, Sublime, Time, Toss, Transform, Transition, Twitter, Universe, User Interfact, Verse, Visual, Worship, Worth
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Thought For the Day: Love Is Friendship That Has Caught Fire
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
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Tagged Allowance, Ann Landers, Fire, Forgive, Friendship, Human, Love, Loyalty, Mutual Confidence, Perfection, Quiet, Share, Thought For the Day, Understanding, Weakness
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First Principles: True Friendship Grows Slowly and Must Undergo and Withstand the Shocks of Adversity
“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington
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Tagged Adversity, Appellation, Entitle, First Principles, Friendship, George Washington, Plant, Shock, Slow Growth, True, Undergo, Withstand
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Thought For the Day: Love Is Friendship That Has Caught Fire
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
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Tagged Allows, Ann Landers, Fire, Forgive, Friendship, Good and Bad Times, Human Weakness, Less, Love, Loyal, Mutual Confidence, Perfection, Quiet Understanding, Settles, Share, Thought For the Day
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Nostalgia For Guantanamo
Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: A Life Has Value As Long As One Values the Life of Others
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” – Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
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Tagged Attribute, Compassion, Friendship, Indignation, Life, Love, Simone de Beauvoir, Thought For the Day, Value
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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 28: Swimming With Iguanas
The Day 28 challenge is to write a prose poem. I have chosen to use growing up on the Naval base in Cuba for a while as the base of the poem. Swimming With Iguanas by Michael Romani We were … Continue reading
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Tagged Cuba, Extended Family, Friendship, GTMO, Iguanas, Kids, Ohana, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prose Poem, Swimming With Iguanas, Windmill Beach
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First Principles: May We Ever Endeavor To Be Friends Despite Our Differences
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)
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Tagged Alienation, Difference, First Principles, Friendship, Inquiry, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Luminescence
Childhood walks in the deepness that we lived in Kept us living present in a peacefulness like Zen Luminescence peered down through the leaves Seemingly wafted along on the chill of the breeze In these secret gardens in which we … Continue reading
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Tagged Childhood, Daily Prompt, Deep Woods, Forts, Friendship, Ghost, Luminescence, Memories, Passing Ships, Peacefulness, Talks, Walks, Wordpress, Zen
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 