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Ghosts of Bedlam
Halloween Poem #30 (the blog got messed up yesterday and I had to get it fixed by WordPress help – special thank you to the nice person who helped me!!) Ghosts of Bedlam by Michael Romani Sometimes staying the course … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Bedlam, Behind, Bleed, Brave, Burn, Conspire, Contrive, Course, Cure, Dignity, Discover, Doctor, Dollars, Doom, Dose, Dream, Fire, Ghosts, Gone, Halloween, Hallucinate, Hell, Help, Hope, Impure, Leech, Lie, Life, Mad, Medicate, Medicine, Mind, Muddle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Procedures, Recover, Remorse, Sake, Score, Soul, Strong, Survive, Truth, Wish, Wordpress, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: There Is Only One Race, The Human Race – And We Are All Members of It
“I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.” – Margaret Atwood
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Tagged Hope, Human Race, Margaret Atwood, Members, One Race, People, Realize, Thought For the Day, We
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We Who Damn Ourselves
Halloween Poem #19: We Who Damn Ourselves by Michael Romani We damn ourselves To our own private hells Dwelling on all Of the tiniest details In a world grown cold We lose all hope All of our dreams bought and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beg, Bought and Sold, Cling, Cold, Contrary, Damn, Deserve, Desperate, Detail, Dreams, Dwell, Easy, Elusive, End of Day, Evidence, Evil, Eyes, Forgive, Found, Halloween, Hang, Heresy, Hope, Ignore, Implore, Learn, Mercy, Monster, Ourselves, Pay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Private Hell, Reach, Rope, Say, Through, Way, We, Words, World, Worthy
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Thought For the Day: Children Are the World’s Most Valuable Resource and Its Best Hope For the Future
“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” – John F. Kennedy
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Tagged Children, Future, Hope, John F Kennedy, Resource, Thought For the Day, Valuable, World
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First Principles: The Best Hope In Continuing Our Republic Is In Proper Moral and Religious Training of Our Children
“The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the children, that they may be prepared to discharge aright the duties of men and citizens.” – Zachary Taylor
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Tagged Children, Citizen, Continuance, Discharge, Duties, First Principles, Free Institutions, Hope, Moral, Religious, Training, Zachary Taylor
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First Principles: Keep Hope That Light and Liberty Will Continue To Advance
“I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.” – Thomas Jefferson (1821)
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Tagged Advance, Believe, Die, First Principles, Hope, Labor, Liberty, Light, Lost, Steady, Thomas Jefferson
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Think On These Things
Keeping your mind on the positive and away from the negative is trick of life well worth the learning. It is so easy, too easy, for my mind to turn toward the negative. But when I keep my mind and … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Avoid, Bad Stuff, Blur, Brink, Burden, Center, Close, Confluence, Cure, Dwell, Focus, Fulfill, God, Good, Hats, Heart, Holy, Hope, Hurry, Ideals, Influence, Learn, Life, Live, Lord, Love, Mind, Negative, Peace, Perspective, Philippians, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point of Reference, Positive, Prayer, Preference, Prepare, Pure, Reflect, Rest, Right, Right Side Up, Right Things, Sad, Satisfaction, Sermon, Slow, Stand, Think, Toughness, True, Were, Worry
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A Conspiracy of Lambs
There’s a Netflix series called The Family. I am only two episodes into it but so far I’m both laughing and somewhat concerned. The Bible admonishes Christians to pray for our leaders both spiritual and in government. It is the Christian … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Answer, Believe, Bible, Blessing, Brother, Christian, Common, Common Ground, Conspiracy, Decision, Devil's Playground, Doing Right, Evil, Faith, Family, God, Good, Govern, Guidance, Heavenbound, Hope, Lamb, Leaders, Legacy, Lord's Work, Member, Nation, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Prayer, Pride, Receive, Sister, The Family, Trust, Value, World
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Hurts To Be Human
Another lousy day misspent… but hey.. a poem.. Hurts To Be Human by Michael Romani It hurts to be human It’s human to feel hurt Capturing this in the moment Filled with grief and torment The annals of our history … Continue reading
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