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Lapsed Into Vulnerability
Lapsed Into Vulnerabilityby Michael DoyleFor most of my life, it’s been grasp and capabilityNow we’ve followed the Silent Generation into vulnerability. Our straightforward path toward security and prosperityLent itself to jaded jokes that were mostly others’ jealousy.The sky was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdity, Age of Austerity, Boomer Generation, Capability, Confident, Easy Stride, Free Ride, Future, Grasp, Imagination, Innovation, Jaded Jokes, Jagged Edges, Jealousy, Jeopardy, Lapse, Life, Nurture, Our Share, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Poverty, Relaxed Feeling, Silent Generation, Social Security, Spending Hawks, Vulnerability
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Thought For the Day: Life Is Inconvenient. Life Is Lumpy. A Lump In the Oatmeal, A Lump In the Throat and A Lump In the Breast Are Not the Same Kind of Lump, One Needs To Learn the Difference.
“One of life’s best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything … Continue reading
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Tagged Breast, Coping Mechanism, Difference, Inconvient, Learn, Life, Lump, Oatmeal, Problem, Robert Fulghum, Thought For the Day, Throat
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First Principles: If Their Rejection Brought Reconciliation To the World, What Will Their Acceptance Be But Life From the Dead?
“If their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?” – Romans 11:15
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Tagged Acceptance, Dead, First Principles, Life, Reconciliation, Rejection, Romans 11:15, The World, Their
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Questioning the Process
Questioning the Processby Michael DoyleIn and out of our lives, we hearThose thoughts around us that persevere.Pushing and prodding us with possibility,And we gravitate toward what has plausibility.There are no promises, only process.We take our nibbles here and there to … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Best, Deference, Depth, Destination, Document, Dream, Endless Question, Experience, Familiies, Gravitate, Hear, Images, Improvisation, Intention, Jazz, Know, Life, Lives, Love, Memories, Mess, Nibbles, Persevere, Photographs, Plausibility, Pocket, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Promise, Question, Reach Out, Satisfaction, Syncopation, Test, The Process, Thoughts, Travel, Valid, Voyage
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Until It Unfolds
Until It Unfoldsby Michael DoyleLife’s biggest projectsAre a lot to figure out.Life success, not reject.Even the best life has doubt.Because of this or despite this,We don’t want to have a miss.So we find ourselves pressing onUntil all our tomorrows are … Continue reading
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Tagged Access, Artistry, Best and Worst, Best Life, Clarity, Class, Commit, Confront, Despite, Destiny, Different Ways, Doubt, Effort, Elusive, Figure Out, Found, Friends, Grown, Inclusive, Journey, Labor of Love, Learn, Life, Meaning, Miss, Own Human Being, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Press On, Project, Puzzle, Question, Reject, Right End, Scuplt, Shown, Stay, Strength, Sublime, Success, Time, Told, Tomorrow, Trick, Uneasy Process, Unfold, Unknown, Vision, Wade, Words, Worth
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Let Love Forever Echo
Let Love Forever Echoby Michael DoyleLet love forever echoEvery moment’s helloSpoken by Jesus’s nameWithin the holy picture frame.Life is known like a fire,Filled with arguable desire.To walk in His power,Reborn with every passing hour.He brings this joy we’re feeling,As I … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind, Carry, Change, Darkness, Desire, Echo, Essence, Final Wire, Fire, Harshness, Healing, Hello, His Love, Holy Fire, Jesus's Name, Joy, Life, Light, Love, Passing Hour, Peace, Picture Frame, Poetry and Poems, Power, Presence, Reborn, Shadow, Shining, Sight, Walk
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Sudden Thunderstorm
Sudden Thunderstormby Michael DoyleWhen I left to go hike, the skies were clear.I just wanted God and nature’s path to be near.Besides missing my daughters, my world had no care.It turned out that this illusion was its own snare.Having hiked … Continue reading
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Tagged Acted, Baby Squirrels, backpacking, Birds, Brightness, Buildings, Car, Cell, Chipmunks, Clear, Darkness, Daughters, Dead, Disappear, Distance, Distracted, Energuy, God, GPS, Hard To Understand, Harshness, Heartland, Hike, hiking, Illusion, Life, Lightning, Limb, Loving Intention of God, Moan and Talk, Nature, No Care, Orchard Trail, Otter Trail, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Punch, Rain, Rock, Shadowed, Shaken Up, Silent, Skies, Snakes of Fire, Snare, Straight-Line Winds, Thunderclap, Thunderstorm, Tornado, Tornado Skies, Torrential Downpour, Travail, Travel, Twists of Light, Ugly and Frightening, Versailles Park, Weather, Woodland, Wrath of Rain
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Memory’s Connection
Memory’s Connectionby Michael DoyleMemory goes beyond mere collection.Below the skin is the synaptic connection.Life is weathered by the sun and the rain,Until there is no awareness left in the brain.Dementia is nature’s worst solitude,Alone in the night where emptiness intrudes.Alzheimer’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's, Awareness, Brain, Bruise, Burn, Collection, Connection, Dementia, Emptiness, Eyes, Family, Forget, Fractal, Fragments of Thought, Huanity, Life, Loss, Lost, Love, Loving Face, Meaning, Memory, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Self-Identity, Soitude, Soul, Tether, Timelines, Touch, Trace, Unlean, Valley, Weathered
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Hard In the Stumble
Hard In the Stumbleby Michael DoyleIt seems we are all morally inarticulate.It was nothing that I thought to anticipate.I’m holding on to constellations that won’t speak,No matter how much stardust begins to leak.American depression has become today’s obsession.Drugs, alcohol, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Age of Cospiracy, Alcohol, American Depression, Anticipate, Circling Back, Constellations, Drugs, Frustration, Grumble, Hard, Health, Leak, Life, Marlon Brando, mental-health, Mind, Morally Inarticulate, Numbing Down, Obsession, Picasso, Poetry and Poems, Polarization, Relationships, Speak, Statdust, Stumble, Sucession, Suicide, Trauma, Writing
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Thought For the Day: Three Grand Essentials To Happiness In This Life Are Something To Do, Something To Love, and Something To Hope For
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” -Joseph Addison, writer (1 May 1672-1719)
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 