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Tag Archives: Integrity
Pig Faced Penelope
Inspired by a movie shared with someone very special to me as a movie that is very special to her… https://flic.kr/p/hzjmyP Pig Faced Penelope by Michael Romani A slap on the face to high society Trapped on trappings of notoriety … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Audacity, Care, City, Distraction, Embrace, Escape, Expose, Faces, False, First Edition, Hate, High Society, Indignity, Integrity, Life, Lights, Missed Point, Night, Notoriety, Penelope, Photograph, Pig Faced, Plastic Veneer, Playroom, Poem, Poetry, Pretty, Priceless, Run, Secret, Self-Love, Shallow, Shame, Slap, Surface, Tale, Test, Trap, Truth, Vain, Youth
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First Principles: Let Knowledge and Virtue Enable Your Motives Through Life In Acting To Relieve the Distressed, Detect Fraud, Defeat Oppression and Diffuse Happiness
“Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Acquaintance, Action, Defeat, Detect, Diffuse, Distressed, First Principles, Fraud, Happiness, Integrity, Knowledge, Learn, Motive, Nathanael Greene, Oppression, Relief, Virtue
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Heartland United
Tales of the American Heartland… Heartland United by Michael Romani We have one heartland united In a nation too divided Filled with hop and our heartbreak The nation’s heart awakes From Nebraska to the Central Valley There is a flavor … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 4th of July, America, Celebration, Central Valley, Dream, Flavor, Freedom, Genuine, Guitar, Handshake, Heartland, Horse, Integrity, Lullaby, Melody, Moon, Myth, Nashville, Nation, Nebraska, Ole Glory, Patriot, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Sentimental, Smile, Sophist, Tears, Town, United
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Cultivating Kindness III
The Lord shows His kindness is His Yes, His No and His Wait. All things that happen, happen with purpose. It’s important in our growing to consider this perspective no matter how personally unsettling things get or are. Cultivating Kindness … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Atmosphere, Clear, Community, Compassion, Compromise, Cross, Cultivate, Darkness, Discipline, Effort, Experience, Family, Fear, Find, Forgive, Genuine, Gift, God, Integrity, Kind, Kindness, Lesson, Lord, Love, Obedience, One, Path, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Promise, Reflect, Repent, Seek, Sense, Sin, Smile, Sublime, Truth, Walk Back, Warning
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Thought For the Day: Having Played and Lost Their Hand On a Nothing Burger, the Left Will Now Turn On Mueller
Not so much a quote as normal here but something that warrants being documented as it’s already taking place. Here is a quote from a Left leaning journalist… followed by a hacker criminal turned Democratic dream team all star proving … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged 2016, 2020, Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke, Closed Hearing Testimony, Collusion, Competence, Dossier, FISA, Glenn Greenwald, Hillary R Clinton, Integrity, Investigation, Mueller, Mueller Report, President Trump, Relevant Memoranda, Scope Memo, Source, Thought For the Day
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Things I’m Learning From You
Dedicated to all those I like and love however imperfectly… Things I’m Learning From You by Michael Romani I’ve long sought my authenticity Pursuing it with great integrity Only to find that in the much I believed I was too … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Answer, Authenticity, Begun, Beileve, Calvary, Checkered Past, Cherish, Clarity, Close, Deceived, Fell, Forgive, Gaffe, Gain, Grew, History, Hurt, Ignorance, Imperfect, Indecision, Integrity, Intimacy, Knew, Laugh, Learn, Love, Memory, Mind, Monkey, Morning, Night, One, Pain, Pajama Party, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Sincere, Sleepless, Smile, Soul, Sun, Surprise, Twenty Questions, Two, Words, You
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We Who Would Be Gods
Some folks believe that we stand on the verge of a merger between man, machine and artificial intelligence. They espouse this prerogative as a next step in the evolution of mankind. Intriguing isn’t it? Some easily evident pluses. A … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Bequest, Certain, Children, Defeat, Destiny, Discipline, Evolution, Force of Nature, Gods, History, Humanity, Inferior, Integrity, Kill, Lame, Legacy, Machine, Man, Merge, Name, Natural Cause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remnant, Revolution, Sin, Superior, Third Millenium, Unseat, We
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An Informational Confession
The old adage is that information is power. In today’s reiteration of perhaps too, too much information out there, I believe it’s time we modify this. Clarity is power. An Informational Confession by Michael Romani Here then in this present … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 21st Century, Age, Clarity, Complex, Information, Information Age, Integrity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Reference, Wisdom
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Tomorrow Begins
Life is filled with twists and turns. Where there isn’t always understanding, maybe acceptance is enough? Tomorrow Begins by Michael Romani Blinded by the brilliance of the light Tomorrow begins again in our tonight Stumbled falling and I am here … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arrival, Circus, Crown, Crush, Death, Dignity, Dream On, Dreams, Family, Friend, Frown, Handshake, Integrity, Kinship, Last Breath, Learn, Light, Love, Luck, Night, Parade, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revival, Run Away, Rush, Smile, Spot Light, Springboard, Struck, Stuggle, Stumble, Three Ring, Tomorrow, Tonight
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