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Thought For the Day: Music Is the Heart of Life. She Speaks Love; “Without It, There Is No Possible Good and With It Everything Is Beautiful
“Music is the heart of life.” She speaks love; “without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.” – Franz Liszt
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Tagged Beautiful, Franz Liszt, Good, Heart, Life, Love, Music, Thought For the Day
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Speaking Up From the Heart
Speaking Up From the Heartby Michael DoyleSometimes life flies at me undeserved,And my viewpoint seems a bit underservedSo I find myself, as I have from the start,Speaking my mind straight from the heart.We might be in opposition, and that’s okay.But … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Amicable, Appropriate, Art, Bullies, Capable, Consider the Source, Decide, Deserve, Discourse, Exert, Expert, Grift, Heart, Known, Life, Machine, Mean, Okay, Opposition, Poetry and Poems, Propsition, Pure, Say, Shown, Side, Sold, Speaking My Mind, Speaking Up, Take A Stand, Truth, Underserved, Understand, Undeserved, Viewpoint, Wrong or Right
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Thought For the Day: Love Is Never Lost. If Not Reciprocated, It Will Flow Back and Soften and Purify the Heart
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” -Washington Irving, writer (3 Apr 1783-1859)
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Tagged Flow, Heart, Lost, Love, Purify, Reciprocation, Soften, Thought For the Day, Washington Irving
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In Moving Pictures
In Moving Picturesby Michael DoyleDrawing on our life’s experienceThere are characters of preference.They serve as molds of imagination.So much of life is pure improvisation.The charm that got us byAs we hustled to give life our try.The shots of the frame-by-frameAre … Continue reading
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Tagged Artistry, Behind, Blow By Blow, Brilliance, Brothers, Brutality, Bullets, Characters, Charm, Chemistry, Cinematic Magic, Dalliance, Deep Dive, Differently, Divine Spark, Draw, Experiment, Fashion of Truth, Feel, Fifty Years, Frame, Friendship, Game, Glory, Grown, Heart, Humility, Hustle, Imagaination, Improvisation, Inspiration, Knights, Known, Life, Life's Experience, Light, Light From Dark, Lights, Love, Mind, Mold, Moving Pictures, Night, Okay, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Pushing Forward, Real, Reverently, Score, Shots, Sin, Sixteen, Spirituality, Story, Switchblade Knife, Visceral, Well, Writing
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First Principles: Let Your Heart Feel For the Afflictions and Distresses of Every One
“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow’s mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Charity, Deserving, Distress, Estimation, Feel, First Principles, George Washington, Hand, Heart, Inquiry, Proportion, Purse, Suffer, Widow's Mite
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Beyond the Sea
Beyond the Seaby Michael DoyleThere are spaces under the painted skyThat are beautiful enough to make me sigh.Stretching beyond the edges of the seaIs a world of water in its own beauty.Rivers, lakes, wetlands, and streamsAre all filled with a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Beauty, Better Days, Beyond, Coast, Corn Belt, Dark, Dreams, Edges, Energy, Gloom, Heart, Hidden Life, Indiana State Line, Injury, Kayak, Lake Michigan, Lakes, Painted Sky, Poetry and Poems, Rain, Rivers, Sea, Seagulls, Sign, Soul, Space, Stark, Streams, Sun, The Great Lakes, Water, Wetlands
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Thought For the Day: Doing Nothing For Others Is the Undoing of One’s Self. We Must Be Purposely Kind and Generous, Or We Miss the Best Part of Existence
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one’s self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged Existence, Heart, Horace Mann, Inner Life, Joy, Kind and Geerous, Large, Nothing, Others, Secret, Self, Thought For the Day, Undoing
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Thought For the Day: To Love At All Is To Be Vulnerable. Love Anything and Your Heart Will Be Wrung and Possibly Broken.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. … Continue reading
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Tagged Broken, C.S. Lewis, Heart, Intact, Love, Thought For the Day, Vulnerable, Wrap, Wrung
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Echoing the Grace
Echoing the Graceby Michael DoyleWorthy of the Lord’s call,I am prayerful about all.I feel His joy everydayAs He changes my every way.The Holy Spirit guides me,Overflowing inside of me.There is a need for His strengthAs long as the day’s length.My … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Choir of Angels, Day's Length, Doubt, Echo, Grace, Heal, Heart, Holy King, Holy Spirit, Joy, Lord's Call, Overflow, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Prayerful, Sing, Strength, Voice, Worthy
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