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First Principles: Learning Is Not Attained By Chance, It Must Be Sought For With Ardor and Diligence

Posted on December 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” – Abigail Adams

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Thought For the Day: There Are Three Kinds of Men. The One That Learns By Reading. The Few Who Learn By Observation. The Rest of Them Have To Pee On the Electric Fence For Themselves.

Posted on November 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” – Will Rogers, “The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers”. … Continue reading →

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Periodic Burn Offs

Posted on September 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Periodic Burn Offsby Michael DoyleIt is all about maintaining our true wealthWhen we cooperate with our natural healthKeeping the functions on which we dependIs absolutely necessary, or we will all surely endWith a world less desirable for all to liveAnd … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Without Religion, I Believe That Learning Does Real Mischief To the Morals and Principles of Mankind

Posted on September 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.” – Benjamin Rush (1783)

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To Keep Growing

Posted on July 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Keep Growingby Michael DoyleIn the first end, we objectifyWhat we were once taught to deify But being nothing but the average manWe still seek to do the best we canWe get so very much wrongTrying to model ourselves and … Continue reading →

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Through the Years

Posted on June 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleAlive somewhere in all my ADHDI sometimes walk right into meWhen I do, in times like thisI find there isn’t much to missI have always tried to be my bestStretching myself to meet my testsHead-on collisions … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: There Is No Royal Road To Learning; No Short Cut To the Acquirement of Any Art

Posted on April 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.” – Anthony Trollope

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Thought For the Day: We Never Get To the Bottom of Ourselves On Our Own. We Discover Who We Are Face To Face and Side by Side With Others In Work, Love, and Learning

Posted on February 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.” – Robert N. Bellah

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Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Remembering When Kindness Was in Fashionby Michael DoyleWe live in a time of self-limited imaginationWhere people cannot dream of outside creationBut mysteriously believe in writing only experienceSuch as found in personal and depraved dalliancesRather than dreaming of the bigger conceptionsToo … Continue reading →

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Sandhill Cranes Revisited

Posted on June 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sandhill Cranes Revisitedby Michael DoyleEvery year Sometimes twice a yearWe would make our pilgrimage Off to Jasper PulaskiTens of thousands of cranes Filled the airZoning in on their nesting groundsZig-zag patterns as grouping Crossed by grouping Into what looks like … Continue reading →

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