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Thought For the Day: We are not just flesh, bone and blood, we are human beings with souls. Our republic was formed on the basis that freedom is not a gift from government but that freedom is a gift from God!
“We are not just flesh, bone and blood, we are human beings with souls. Our republic was formed on the basis that freedom is not a gift from government but that freedom is a gift from God!” – President Donald … Continue reading
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Tagged A Gift From God, Basis, Blood, Bones, Flesh, Formed, Freedom, Human Beings, Not A Gift From Government, President Donald J Trump, Republic, Soul, Thought For the Day, We
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Having Heard the Warning
Further reflections on my eldest daughter turning 13: Heaving Heard the Warning by Michael Doyle On Saturday night as I kissed you into sleep There was a part of me that wanted to keep This moment forever as a sacred … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adult, All Good, All of Your Charms, All of Your Days, Always Been, Beautiful, Blue, Blur, Born, Bow, By Example, By-Word, Camera's Eye, Catch You Safely, Change, Childhood, Come, Crystal, Cuddle, Daughter, Do All Things, Each Moment, Each Year, Enchant, Every Word, Eyes, Fade, Fear, First, First Beams, First Light, Five More Years, Forever, Given, Go, God, Goodbye To Childhood, Greatest Gift, Greatest Truth, Happy, Hard To Write, Having Heard, heartbeat, Hello, Hid Behind, Hold My Hand, Human Beings, I Will Be there, If You Stumble, Just A Bit, Keep, Kissed, Known To A Man, Label, Last, Let Go, Let You, Life Can Be Tough, Life's Story, Little Girl, Lived, Living, Look Forward, Looked Up, Loving His Daughter, Magical, Measure, Memories, Moment, More Precious, More To Me, Morning, Most Favorite, My Arms, My Heart, North Star, Not Easy, One of My Two, Part, Part of Me, Persevere, Photography, Play, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Realm, Reflection, Revere, Sacred Prayer, Sacred Treasure, Sad, Sail Into, Saturday Night, See Me Cry, Sleep, Smile, Society, Some Young Man, Soulful, Special, Sunday, Sunrise, Teaching You, Teaching You To live, Tears In My Eyes, Tears of Love, The Days Have Passed, The Warning, To Let Go, To Let Me Know, Turning 13, Unafraid, Uncharted Territory, Understand, Warning, Watch the Movie, Watched, Were, Within, Words, Wrapped, You Are, You Love Me, You Ought, Young Heart, Young Lady, Your Father, Your Own
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Stuck With the Blahs
Talking to a friend who was feeling in a rut and then the same theme showed up in a song and then a show. From this came two things. First wow.. if you don’t like what you’re doing or how … Continue reading
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Tagged Better, Betwixt and Between, Blah, Change, Day After Day, Despite, Doing My Best, Down In the Dumps, Feeling, Finding Me, Finding Out, Flaw, Friend, Good Cause, Hope, Human Beings, Humanity, Keep It Together, Know, Lumps, Matters, Mean, Meaning, Morning, Muddle, Muddling Through, No One, One Foot Forward, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Promise, Running Away, Rut, Seek, Spinning, Story, STuck, Stuck With the Blahs, Sudden, Talk, Tatters, Test, The Man, Theme, Together, Until Then, Want, Warning, Winning, World
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A Lone Bagpiper
All of us are coming out of the isolation spawned by Covid-19 into a world changed by virus and by riotous disruption. In some ways, this is good. In some ways this is bad. In all ways, this is a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918, Alleged, Authorities, Bagpiper, Change, Cheap Rumors, Clairty, Confuse, COVID-19, Destiny, Doubt, Edge, Effective Testing, Enhance, Eradication, Explanation, French Square, Game of Chance, Genetic, Head, Herd Immunity, Human Beings, Immunization, Impact, Isolation, Lack of Transparency, Leaders, Legacy, Lethal, Lie, Lone, More, Nation, Notion, Odds, Ought, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rapid Mutation, Response, Riots, Segment, Sensible, Simulation, Society, Taught, Tell the Truth, The People, Virus, Walk, World
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Reading of Minds
The best and truest magic in the world remains love. Still all the same, there is even among even those wishing to become astute wizards, a strong desire to be able to read minds… Reading of Minds by Michael Doyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Are, Attention, Behind, Best, Book of Knowledge, Care, Chaos, Confidence, Control, Create, Depart, Desire, Diffidence, Earn, Everything, First, Flow, Fulfill, Grace, Heart, Hidden, Human Beings, Hyperborean Age, Illuminate, Information, Know, Known, Learn, Light, Little Things, Love, Magic, Mean, Mind, Minds, Mystery, Night, Notion, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proposition, Quench, Read, Reading, Regard, Right Intention, Role, Secret, Show, Shown, Signs, Simple, Spells, Stars, Subtle, Sure, Tangle, Thirst, Thoughts, Trickery, True, We, Weary, Will, Wizard
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A Cowboy Slips Into Easy
Some of my heroes have been cowboys. At least one of them was a cowgirl. My sister. She’s likely riding the North Back 40 in heaven now looking down on us all and encouraging us to ride through this storm … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Brave, Cast, Changes, Coffee, Cowboy, Cowboy Ways, Cowgirl, Cup, Dakota, Easy, Enough, Face, Going On, Half Remembered, Hero, Home, Human Beings, Intangibles, Jukebox, Known, Life, Light, Luck, Made, Name, One Day, Own, People, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Promises, Proof, Quarter, Ranges, Same, Seen, Sister, Slips, Smile, Splinter, Stand By, Stone, Storm, Taste, Thrown, Truth, Unafraid, When, While, Winter, Yester
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Finding the Good
I had a discussion with someone many years ago about why I wanted two princesses to be familiar with the literary classics from which there were derived the 5′ Shelf of Books aka Harvard Classics. After all, the contention was, … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Applcable, Artistically, Assertation, Being, Best, Book, Can, Capable, Certainty, Choice, Choose, Churchill, Commotion, Confusion, Consistentcy, Contention, Creation, Culture, Daily Smoke, Depiction, Discern, Discussion, Do, Education Draw, Emotion, Experience, Exposure, Extent, Fiction, Find, Five Foot Shelf of Books, Forgot, Friction, Future, Glory, Good, Harvard Classics, Heard, Hesitation, Historicity, Human Beings, Human Soul, Humans, Illusion, Imagination, Imminent, Implicit, Investigation, Learn, Lfie, Literary, Literary Classics, Man, Meaning, Much, Mystery, Need, Neglect, Nuance, Obscure, Observation, Out, Perception, Photograph, Plays, Poem, Poetry, Pretenses, Principles, Question, Reading, Reason, Remember, Resolution, Right and Wrong, Rise, Role, School, Secure, Seen, Senses, Shakespeare, Sincere, Songs, Sonnet, Story Teller, Taint, Teach, The Tempest, Truth, Understood, Veil, Verbal, Visible, Ways, Wisdom, Words
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