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Thought For the Day: Great Nations Have Responsibilities To Lead and We Should Always Be Cautious of Those Who Would Lower Our Profile
“It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they … Continue reading
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Tagged Abroad, American Influence, Cautious, Collapse, Communism, Flag, Great Nations, Home, Lead, Leadership, Lower Profile, Lowering, Responsibility, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Wind Up
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Prayer For Courage
Poem Number Six in a series on a retelling of a classic werewolf tale: Prayer For Courage by Michael Doyle Look deep – is it a surprise? Do you see the beast in my eyes God knows that I wish … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Beast, Bold, Cards, Courage, Desire, Divine, Eyes, Flaws, Forgiveness, Fortunes, God, God Knows, God's Law, Good, Greater Good, Home, Hope, I, Inside, Look Deep, Looking Hard, Mortal Heart, Moves, Pensive, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prayer, Prove, Read, Real, Sadness, Savage Beast, Series, Signs, Stand, Start, Stumble, Surge, Surprise, Tale, Times, Told, Understood, Urge, Werewolf, Whisper, With, World
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Thought For the Day: A House Is Made With Walls and Beams; A Home Is Built With Love and Dreams
“A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Having just spent the day in the company of my two princesses grown into big girls, I can attest to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beams, Built, Dreams, Home, House, Love, Made, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thought For the Day, Walls
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War Changes A Man
While paying attention to something else, I started to think on PTSD. War Changes A Man by Michael Doyle It came on without any warning Half past two in the morning And suddenly, it was show time Landing hard like … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Backfire, Best, Booby Traps, Boys, Came On, Can, Change, Crawling, Door, Emotional Crime, Face Down, Facedown, Ghosts, Ground, Hip Deep, Home, Hug, Landing Hard, Left Behind, Loud Noise, Loud Sound, Made It Out, Man, Mind, Morning, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Show Time, Struggle, Times, Trip Wires, Visit, War, War Changes A Man, Warning
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The Moral Imagination
It is not enough to give to our children and our society definitions of right and wrong or normless stories and books leading to an inability to make the profound decisions needed for the better world we so desperately need. … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Accountability, Act, Action, Address, Bad, Banality, Best Selves, Better Path, Better World, Blame, Blur, Books, Build, Capable, Capacity, Character, Childhood, Children, Churn, Clean Cut, Commanding, Could Be, Cultivation, Deeper Truth, Defeat, Depart, Desire To Do, Difference, Earn, Education, Embrace, Emulation, Encourage, Experience, Explanation, Fascination, Form Habits, Game, Go, Good Morals, Grown, Hate, Head, Heart, Heavy Hand, Heroes, High Ideals, Home, Humanity, Ideal, Illustration, Imagination, Important, Ingrain, Innate, Just Quality, Know, Laws, Learn, Learning, Light, Love, Manner, Me and You, Mind, Moral, Moral Components, Morality, Nation, Need, Nice, Nobility, Not Enough, Obligation, Older, Onward, Open Eyes, Parents, Passing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Poverty, Reach, Read, Reliable, Require, Richness, Right, Rules, Shelves, Should Be, Shown, Social Good, Society, Soul, Stir, Surface, Systematically, Tales, Taught, Teach, Teachers, Tending the Heart, The Rub, Train Up, Turn, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfed, Upright, Vice, View, Virtue, Virtuous Character, Vision, Wardrobe of Images, Ways, Worth Holding On To
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A Champion Rides On
There are a lot of great ways out there to be involved in what will actually improve our nation and its society. Among these is to communicate, grow, and then use your voice in effective non-violent ways. One project that … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Absence of Fear, Adversity, Anarchy, Ancient Tradition, Bigger Person, Build, Champion, Community, Contrary, Conviction, Cope, Cost, Courage, Death Row Inmate, Destroy, Die, Dignity, Dirt Roads, Evidence, Falsity, Family, Gallows, Given Up, God, Good fight, Good Seasons, Grind Down, Hatred, Help, Home, Hope, Hurt, Improve, Innocence Project, Innocent Man, Integrity, Intensity, Involved, Lack Character, Lost, Make Better, Man, Modern Day, Nation, Non-Violence, Opportunity, Penitentiary, Persevere, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Police Misconduct Litigation, Poor, Questionable, Reality, Reasons, Results, Ride, Scared, Shadows, Society, Stand, Standing, Strength, System, Testimony, True Heart, Untrue, World
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Venice – Piazza San Marco
Venice, Italy is one of the beautiful and historical places in the world that we could all use some familiarity. This is a look at Piazza San Marco. Venice – Piazza San Marco by Michael Doyle Through the Bacino … Continue reading
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Tagged Adornment, Ancient, Angel, Bacino di San Marco, Basilica of San Marco, Broglio, Byzantine, Cafe, Case, Centuries, Chance, Column, Conspiracy, Culture, Doge Palace, Earthly, Elegance, Embroil, Execution, Face, Family, Forgive, Foscari Arch, Four Horsemen, Games of Chance, Gate, Gates of Heaven, Gather, Government, Grand Palace, Guiding Light, History, Home, Hour, Ignorance, Italy, Journey, Justice, Live, Mask, Memorial, Merchants, Mosaic, Mystery, Napoleon, Night, Old, Orchard, Overthrow, Paint, Paper, Patron Saints, Perch, Perfection, Photograph, Piazza San Marco, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Politic, Political, Power, Pride, Republican, Roman Emperors, Romance, Royals, Secret, Serve, Society, Spiritual, Spoils, St Mark, St Theodore, Stolen, Symmetry, Tangle, Temporal Power, Theft, Time, Triangle, Triumpal, Union, Venetians, Venice, Welcome, Whisper, Words, Wrong
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Basket Case Blues
Dedicated to many a victim of the music industry who thought themselves gods only to wake up suddenly finding differently… Basket Case Blues by Michael Doyle With your name up in the bright lights Enraptured by a million neon nights … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Alibi, Alone, Amuse, Angel, Arrive, Awoke, Basket Case, Big Lie, Blues, Comfort Zone, Confess, Contortion, Courage, Disgrace, Dreams, Gardens, Gods, Home, Inner Child, Itch, Leather and Lace, Less, Life, Lights, Masterpiece, Million MIles, More, Music Industry, Mystery, Name, Neon Nights, Own, Paper, Photograph, Pliable, Poem, Poetry, Predilection, Real, Rock Bottom, Scarlet, Seems, Social Distortion, Therapy, Unreliable, Victim, Wake Up, World
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This Haunting Song
Some say this time we live in is too familiar to the Spanish Influenza back in 1918. So far, the numbers don’t even remotely echo that horrific event. Still… This Haunting Song by Michael Doyle This epidemic is a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918, Calm, Carry On, Congruity, Contagion, Cure, Days, Dread, Emergency, Endure, Epidemic, Escape, Gamble, Give, Goldmine, Gone, Half Forgotten, Haunting, Heartbreak, Home, Hum, Kiss, Life, Life Boats, Litter, Live, Lives, Misstep, Mistakes, Nod, Photographs, Poems, Poetry, Right, Scapegoats, Sinking Ship, Song, Spanish Influenza, Stakes, Stress, Timeless, Ugency, Uptight, Whiskey
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Facing Fear Toward Tomorrow
A review of race history in America is a mix of hope and of fear; rights and wrongs; in short and in truth a mixed story. Today, we confront that which was wrong. Still, we should do so not in … Continue reading →