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Funny How Time Slips Away
Funny How Time Slips Awayby Michael DoyleI was thinking just the other dayIsn’t it funny how time slips away?Somewhere between country and rockThere’s need for living by straight talkLife has its beats and tribulationsTimes of sadness and of jubilationsIndulging in … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquisition, Appreciation, Authority, Beats, Bob and Weave, Burning It Down, Canonical, Change, Choice, Composition, Confused, Contend, Conversation, Country, Croon, Dreams, Eavesdrop, Emotional Impact, End, Endure, Eternal, Evoke, Flame, Found, Funny, Generation, Heart, Heartbroken, Human Being, Hurry, Imaginaton, Incantation, Incendiary, Indulge, Introspection, Jaded, Jubilations, Knocked Off Balance, Life, Living Wealth, Loss, Meaning, Moon, Narration, Nuance, Older, Other Day, Outlaws, Path, Poetry and Poems, Punch, Reborn, Retrospection, Rock, Round, Sadness, Self-Deprecation, Serenade, Shade, Silky Groove, Slips Away, Slow Down, Somewhere, Straight Talk, Sun, Surprised, Think, Three Chords, Tight, Time, Tribulations, Veneration, Vindication, Voice, Yesterday
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For Angels Fallen
For Angels Fallenby Michael DoyleWhen I met youI found a new dreamIt’s the only one that will doTo make me a better human beingI kept looking for your wingsCertain that you had fallenFrom heaven from the joys you bringThe gleam … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Angel, Angels, Beautiful, Better, Blessing, Bring, Calling, Catch, Certain, Cherish, Dare, Every Day, Eyes, Fade, Fall, Fallen, Few, Forever, Greatest, Growing Old, Halo, Heaven, Human Being, In the End, Lies, Life, Love, Memories, Met, New Dream, Night, Only One, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Remember, Sepend, Side, Simple Truth, Sweeter, True, Truth, We've Made, Wings
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Thought For the Day: When An Individual Is Protesting Society’s Refusal To Acknowledge His Dignity As A Human Being, His Very Act of Protest Confers Dignity On Him
“When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.” – Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (17 Mar 1912-1987)
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Tagged Acknowledge, Act, Bayard Rustin, Confer, Dignity, Human Being, Indvidiual, Protesting, Society, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The Line Dividing Good and Evil Cuts Through the Heart of Every Human Being
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Remember, Compassion Is Not A Sign of Weakness
“If someone behaves negatively towards you, it helps to remember that he or she is a human being like you and to distinguish between an action and the person who does it. If counter measures are needed to prevent someone … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Action, Agitated Mind, Anger, Brain, Calm, Compassion, Counter Measures, Dalai Lama, Distinguish, Function, Harm, Human Being, Negative, Not, Person, Prevent, Remember, Sign, Someone, Thought For the Day, Weakness
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Never Give Up
A poem written dedicated to my daughters in conjunction with the last class in a series on building resilience in life and to encourage them to chase their dreams always! Never Give Upby Michael DoyleLife like a Rembrandt paintingIs meant … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Bold, Chase, Control, Daughters, Dedication, Dim, Doing One's Best, Dreams, Earn, Father, Flair, Forgiven, Grow, Human Being, Inspiration, Know, Learn, Life, Live, Never Give Up, Poetry and Poems, Rembrandt, Resilience, Sacrifice, Soul, Stars, Swim, Unafraid
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Pragmatic Inferences
Pragmatic Inferencesby Michael DoylePragmatic inferencesHave all the meaningTo communicating As a human beingSystematic rulesTo all that we are sayingLaid outLike cards that we are playingGarden pathsOf quiet accidentShow a mapOf living inside this incidentWe fill out and inOur partial perceptionsBlind … Continue reading
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Tagged Accident, Arbitrary Symbols, Blind Spots, Cards, Communicating, Duality, False Reception, Fill In, Garden Paths, Human Being, Incident, Inferences, Laid Out, Map, Meaning, Meanings, Partial Perceptions, Patterns, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pragmatic, Say, Share, Smatterings, Systematic Rules, Trigger
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Thought For the Day: The Most Wonderful of All Things In Life, I Believe, Is the Discovery of Another Human Being With Whom One’s Relationship Has A Glowing Depth, Beauty, and Joy As the Years Increase
“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human … Continue reading
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Tagged Another, Beauty, Discovery, Divine Accident, Found, Glowing Depth, Hugh Wapole, Human Being, Joy, Life, Look, Love, Marvel, Passionate, Relationship, Thought For the Day, Two Human Beings, Wish, Wonderful, Years Increase
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