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Thought For the Day: Throughout History, It Has Been the Inaction of Those Who Could Have Acted…That Has Made It Possible For Evil To Triumph
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil … Continue reading
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Tagged Acted, Boice, Evil, Haile Selassie, History, Inaction, Indifference, Justice, Known, Mattered, Possible, Silence, Thought For the Day, Triumph
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Thought For the Day: A Generation Which Ignores History Has No Past and No Future
“A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.” – Robert Heinlein
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Tagged Generation, History, Ignore, No Future, No Past, Robert Heinlein, Thought For the Day
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Owed To America 2024
Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, America, American Nation, Battle, Belief, Believe, Bend Their Knees, Bleed, Blue, Brave, Brave Souls, Cause, Ceaseless, Color, Courage, Cried, Cry, Danger, Daughters, Dedication, Defeat, Despotic Crown, Died, Fear, Fight, Fire, Fought, Freedom, Good, History, Hope, Ill, Imagination, Inspiration, Inspire, Internal Eney, Judgment Day, Justice, Kind, Land, Liberty, Lie, Love, Measure, More, Mourn, Nation, Owed To America 2024, Passing Years, People, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Red, Rights, Road, Save, Spark, Stand, Stand Tall, Street, Strength, Sweet Land, This Land, Time, Travel, Unbeatable, Values, White
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Citizens: Me and You
Citizens: Me and Youby Michael DoyleI. This nation was born under the authorityBlessed into birth by God’s wise dignityAs one filled with freedom and libertyGiven to us, not by government, but God’s divinityWe, this republic, are born by providenceThat all … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civilization, Authority, Belief and Obedience, Bible, Birth, Christianity, Citizens, Commandments, Conspicious, Daily Affairs, Duality, Faith, Faithfulness, Freedom and Liberty, God, God's Divinity, God's Hand, Godly Principles, Govern, Government, Gratitude, History, Independence, Inheritance, Interplay, Jesus, Liberties, Madison, Maintenance, Manifest, Mayflower Compact, Me and You, Nation, Oppressed, Patrick Henry, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Prayerful Hands, Promise, Providence, Representation, Republic, Reverence, Right Attitude, Samuel Adams, Scrripture, Sin, Sovereign, Spirituality, Station, The People, Under God, Washington
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Into A Pirate’s Tomorrow
Into A Pirate’s Tomorrowby Michael DoyleIt’s a rough pirate’s world out thereWhen words spoken spill into loose fearMobs, it seems, are as easily turnedAs pirate shanty towns are easily burnedJust as melancholy on the azure wavesAre the boarding plans that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Allow, Allure, Azure Waves, Battle, Boarding Plans, Burn, Consternation, Desire, Fade, Fantasy, Fear, Fire, First Thrust, Forgot, Grave, Half-Broken, Heart, History, Improvisation, Into, Melancholy, Mobs, Pirate, Pirate King, Pirate's Lot, Pirates, Pistol, Plans Made, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Power, Ragtag World, Shanty Towns, Tattle, Timeless Hour, Tomorrow, Travel, Treasure, Turn, Understood, Winced, Wonder, Words, World, Zig and Zag
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The Quiet Colors
The Quiet Colorsby Michael DoyleAs the quiet colors Of the midnight hour Starts to come to closeAs the quiet colors Of the midnight hour Starts to come to closeI feel as lonely as the pain insideTortured to my soul, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandoned, Above Water, Aks, Bluff, Broken, Broken Cross, Call, Close, Confuse, Cross, Crucified, Damaged Control, Dead, Deep, Done, Drown, Father, Feel, From the Inside, Going On, Hang, Head, Hide, History, Inside, Job, Killing Me, Lonely, Look Into My Eyes, Mercy, Midnight Hour, Misery, No Longer Know Me, No Right To Complain, Nobody's Son, Nowhere to Hide, Overwhelm, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pull, Pulled, Quiet Colors, Reach, Realize, Reminded, Rot, Satan, See, Soul, Sould, Stand, Strings, Strong Enough, Teeth, The Lord, Too Much, Tortured, Wrong
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Newport Aquarium
Newport Aquariumby Michael DoyleAs though a knight eager on his questI, as a father, find little need to restInstead, I eagerly undertake a two-hour driveGlad to teach my daughters and feel aliveThough I wish I could take them to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidentally Learn, Aquarium, Beauty, Care, Cared, Challenges, Class, Daughters, Dimming, Diversity, Dreams, Drive, Endless Miles, Expereince, Father, Gentle Traces, Glass, History, Imagination, Knight, Learn, Lessons, Miles, Minds, Museums, newport, Newport Aquarium, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Princess Smiles, Quest, Remember, Revealed, rhode-island, Served Their Love Well, Share, Shared, Shore, Smiles, Swimming, Tale, Taught Them Well, Together, Travel
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The Rock Hewn Churches of Lalibela
The Rock Hewn Churches of Lalibelaby Michael DoylePeople tend to adopt the way of othersThey suit their own cultures to another’sAnd as people seek commonality with each otherThey also signify differences with one anotherIn Ethiopia’s highlands, we find many depictionsOf … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Angels, Arc of the Convenant, Bible, Black Jesus, Building, Common, Complexity, Conversion, Culture, Dead, Differences, Dignity, Diversity, Ethiiopia, ethiopia, Excavation, Explanation, Ezana Stone, God, God's Glory, Ground, Highland, History, Human Heart, Human Story, Imagery, Inconic, Jesus, Lalibela, Layers of Complexity, Lucy, Memories, Monoliths, Mysterry, Orthocox, Pillars, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Relationship, Revealing, Rock Hewn Churches, Sacred, Sacred FAce, Simplicity, St Mary of Zion, Steles, Testament, The Leakeys, The Nine Saints, Throne, Travel, UNESCO, Wonder, Worship
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The Golden Ratio of Fibonacci
The Golden Ratio of Fibonacciby Michael DoyleThe Fibonacci numbers aren’t tragicIndeed, these are a thing of constant magicLeonardo of Pisa is a true figure of historyThat revealed these numbers in their mysteryWe ask ourselves questions to puzzle and learnAll these … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Clear, Connections, Constant, Direction, Discern, Discover, Disparate Ways, Distortion, Diverese, Driving Force, End, Evenness, Everywhere, Exercise, Fable, Fibonacci, fibonacci-sequence, Forever, Go Along, Golden Ratio, Grand Contemplation, Grow, History, Joke, Knowledge, Leap Frogging, Learn, Leonardo of Pisa, Magic, Mind, Mystery, Nature, Numbered Patterns, Numbers, Numerical Propotion, Persuade, Pervade, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Puzzle, Question Why, Questions, Questionss, Revael, Riddles, Science, See, Sequence, Show, Sigh, Solve For X, Squares, Summed Up, The World, Thirds, Tragic, Travel, True, Wise
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Standing At the Brink
Standing At the Brinkby Michael DoyleThis age of prevailing ill-liberalismBreeds little but despair and pessimismThere’s a breakdown in our societyThat has brought us into a time of anxietyOnce beautiful cities have turned into blightIt seems we are falling into our … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Age, Anxiety, Beautiful Cities, Birth, Blight, Breakdown, Breed, Brink, Changes, Civil War, Common Good, Connect, Constitutino, Continuity, Darkest Night, Decide, Democracy, Despair, Destined, Divide, Dustbin, Eco-Theology, Economic Deicsions, Edge, Electronic Distraction, Elite, Fail, Future, Historical Inevitability, History, Hope, Ill-Liberalism, Leaders, Lost, Misunderstood, Mob Rule, Nation, New Humanity, Next, Oligarchy, Order and Stability, Ordinary People, Overturn, Pessimism, Pharmaceutical, Plumbing Project, Poetry and Poems, Pollution, Ponzi Schemes, Poor, Prevail, Priority, Progressive Empathy, Recovery, Recreation, Result, Riddle, Schools, Society, Solution, Stand, Student Loans, The People, Threat, Time, True Progress, Tyranny, Wept, Yesterday's Debt
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