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In Plain View (Minding Business)
In Plain View (Minding Business)by Michael DoyleIn our efforts and in our spacesWe work hard to separate our tracesMinding our business in all we doThe relevance comes openly into viewThe Bible opens with God’s creationIn page after page of fascinationNothing … Continue reading
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Tagged Abilities, Adam and Eve, Agent of Change, Assignment, Beautiful, Bible, Blessing, Charity, Co-Create, Conceal, Credibility, Curse, Deeds, Deserve, Direction, Discouragement, Efforts, Encouragement, Expectation, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Generosity, God, God's Creation, God's Love, Godliness, Good Purposes, Growth, Honor, Humanity, Humility, Image, Integrity, Jesus, Legacy, Live, Living Days, Love, Maturity, Minding Business, Mission, Needs, Open view, Perfection, Plain View, Poetry and Poems, Reflection, Relevance, Representation, Serve, Services, Seventh Day, Sincerity, Spaces, Talent, Teach, The Bible, Thrive, Traces, Truly Alive, Witness, Wonderful, Work Hard
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Uncomfortable Truths Sown
Uncomfortable Truths Sownby Michael DoyleUncomfortable truths push forward mortal historyAt times, these must be sown despite the miseryand the writers of the day must dare to openly criticizeAnd question the prevailing order that we must analyzeHowever, winding or twisting the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Brutality, Cancer's Ideology, Century, Climate, Comfortable Delusions, Courage, Criticize, Crooked, Cruel Truth, Damnation, Discern, Fight, Floating Scum, Fumble, Govenment, Government, Groan, Growth, Hate and Intimidation, Heavens and Hells, Illusion, Impermanence and Death, Last Breath, Learn, Life, Misery, Modesty, Morality, Mortal History, Noisy Few, Paths and Trails, Patriotic, Permanent, Personal Growth, Poetry and Poems, Question, Risen, Simpliciaty, Society, Sown, Stew, Stop, System, Top, Truth, Ugly, Uncomfortable, Writers
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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exult Their Courage…If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abhorrence of Injustice, Activity, Ambition, Capacity, Children, Courage, Cre, Creep, dd, Eelevate, Excel, Faculty, Family, First Principles, Grovel, Growth, Habitual Contempt, Industry, Infancy, Inhumanity, John Adams, Life, Lives, Love, Meanness, Minds, Nature, Poetry, Virtue
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I’m Growing Through It
I’m Growing Through Itby Michael DoyleEvery day brings the miracles that we prayIn peace and calmness as we stayCollected in the Church of His holy nameWe trust in God to remain the sameWisdom is shown when we pay attentionTo the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Able, Alone, Attention, Attentive, Available, Aware, Beautiful, Call, Calmness, Care, Church, Community, Creator, Cross, Easy Yoke, Embrace, Eyes of God, Faith, Family, Finished Work of God, Foolish Joke, God, Godliness, Grain, Grow, Growth, Heeded, Holy Name, Integrity, Lord's Will, Loss, Measure, Mercy, Miracles, Needed, Opportunity, Own, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Present, Questions, Real, Restore, Slug It Out, Soul, Sparrow, Stay, Stewardship, Tension, Theology, Treasure, Trust, Truth, Universe, Wisdom, Wonderful, Word of God, Worldly Domination, Wrestle
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First Principles: No Man Can Study the Movement of Modern Civilization From An Impartial Standpoint and Not Realize that Christianity, and the Spread of Christianity, Are the Basis of Hope of Modern Civilization
“No man can study the movement of modern civilization from an impartial standpoint and not realize that Christianity, and the spread of Christianity, are the basis of hope of modern civilization in the growth of popular self government.” – William … Continue reading
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Tagged Basis, Christianity, First Principles, Growth, Hope, Impartial Standpoint, Modern Civilization, Popular, Realize, Self Government, Spread, Study, William H. Taft
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First Principles: The Multiplication of Public Offices, Increase of Expense Beyond Income, Growth and Entailment of A Public Debt, Are Indications Soliciting the Employment of the Pruning Knife
“The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.” – Thomas Jefferson (1821)
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Tagged Employ, Entailment, Expense, First Principles, Growth, Income, Increase, Indication, Multplication, Pruning Knife, Public Debt, Public Offices
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Thought For the Day: The Antidote To This Abuse of Formal Government Is the Influence of Private Character, the Growth of the Individual
“The less government we have the better — the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: On Organizational Leadership
Five Characteristics That Define An Outstanding Leader: There are more than five characteristics that define what makes an outstanding leader. Of the many that do, some of the most valuable include continued growth throughout career and life; purpose and passion … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Accomplish, Agreement, Align, Authority, Belief Systems, Boundless, Brutal Truth, Career, Change, Characteristics, Charisma, Collaboration, Collectivism, Conservative, Contextual Factors, Controversial, Cope, Crisis, Cultivation, Data Crunching, Decisiveness, Dedication, Differentiation, Discipline, Downfall, Employee Diversity, Flexibility, Ghandi, Goals, Growth, Humility, Individualism, Innate Personality, Leader-As-Hero, Leadership, Lessons, Level-5, Life, Lincoln, Obama, Optimism, Organizational Leadership, Outstanding Leader, Paradigm, Paradox, Passion, Persistence, Pope Francis, Power, Professional Will, Protocol, Purpose, Rigid, Risk Taking, Self-Reliance, Sense of Humor, Tasks, Teamwork, The Left, Thought For the Day, Transparency, Trump, Vision, Work-Lfie
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First Principles: Without Continual Growth and Progress, Such Words As Improvement, Achievement and Success Have No Meaning
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Achievement, Benjamin Franklin, Continual, First Principles, Growth, Improvement, No Meaning, Progress, Success, Words
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Lessons of Sadie Hawkins
Life in its myriad of dances has it’s meaning sometimes coming in multiples of delusion… Lessons of Sadie Hawkins by Michael Doyle Sock hop memories wake the school Where twists in plot are the rule All of life is filtered … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, All of Life, Astray, Attraction, Awake, Bread, Changing Seasons, Common Man, Connection, Costs, Dances, Days, Daze, Derision, Desperation, Directions, Distraction, Dread, Dream, Ease, Effort, Empty Rage, Eyes, Fadeaway, Feel, Filter, Growth, Ideas, Implausible, Impossible, Last, Laughter, Lessons, Life, Life Lived, Life Unfolds, Long Division, Lost Love, Memories, Morbid, Myriad, One By One, Pain, Pass Out, Passing Through, Persevere, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Reason, Roman Circuses, Rule, Sadie Hawkins, Sarcastic, School, Screens, Shake, Sides, Sock Hop, Song Titles, Spent, Spin, Split, Stuff Away, Subject, Symptom, Television, Themes, Time, To Live By, Try, Turn of Page, Turns, Twists In Plot, Wonder
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