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Another Whispered Truth About Love
Another Whispered Truth About Loveby Michael DoyleListen very closelyClosely to me as I say thisOur love is our strengthIt is not our weaknessIt’s a not so hiddenSacred kind of truthHeld openly with hopeBurning from our youthThough life often teaches usHow … Continue reading →
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On Hearing Without Listening
Hearing Without Listening: In the modern age, we are constantly in a state of ‘hearing’. The best adapted of us have learned to listen to what is important and tune out the rest of the aural bombardment we live in. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Accurate, Active Listening, Adapt, Aggressive, Any Given Day, Appropriate, Argument, Art of Listening, Attend, Aural Bomardment, Awards, Barrage of Information, Barriers, Beliefs, Benefit, Best Possible Outcome, Better Handled, Calm Feedback, Career Aspirations, Challenges, Circumstances, Communication, Communication Partners, Competing Stimuli, Concerns, Confess, Connections, Context, Conversations of Others, Created, Deep Woods, Defensive Listening, Different Goals, Disagree, Each Style, Effective Communication, Effective Multitasking Cannot Be Done, Empathy, Empowering, Evidence, Fears, Focus, Foresight, Fully Understand, Gone Differently, Good Result, Hear Without Listening, Hearing, Important, Incorporate, Information Gathering, Intended, Intention, Isolated Place, Jargon, Kind Demeanor, Lesson, Listen, Listen Closely, Listening, Listening Fidelity, Listening Styles, Meant, Mental Distractions, Message, Modern Age, Modern Office, Motivation, Multitasking, Music, Myriad of Reasons, Nonverbal Communication, Once Attacked, One Mouth, Opportunities, Past, Peacefulness, Processing, Reality, Respond, Reveal Their Thoughts, Save Time and Money, Scenarios, Significant Feedback, Skillful Communicator, Slang, Solution, State of Hearing, Stop Listening, Stopping Talking, Strategies, Strengthens Relationships, Struggle, Television, Thought For the Day, Thoughts of the Listener, Training and Preparation, Tune Out, Two Ears, Understand, Used In That Proportion, Value In Being Lost, Values, Variant Goal, Wilderness, Words, Work
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Na/GloPoWriMo #11: Letters From Father To Daughter
Na/GloPoWriMo #11: Letters From Father To Daughterby Michael DoyleDearest Daughter,I didn’t know I would be a fatherWhen I took the chances that I didAnd I’ve always tried to keep it hidI see your eyes of confusionBetween truth and illusionAnd, yes, … Continue reading →
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Tagged All of the Stories, Always Near, Called, Chances, Chemical Exposure, Composure, Confusion, Covid Shot, Dad, Daddy, Dare Show, Daughter, Do, Every Day, Every Way, Eyes, Family, Father, Feel Less, Fooling, Hardly Wait, Hero, Hid, Hold Your Hand, I Love You, I've Heard of You, Illusion, Immunity, In My Heart, Lay Awake, Less To Fear, Less to Revere, Letters, Listen, Love, Make Me Laugh, May Not Say, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need to Know, Not Easily Forgot, Not Hid, Not There, One Day, Out of Control, Pardon, Play Guitar, Poetry and Poems, Proud, Proud of all, Say It, Scared Me, Sorry, Star, Stay Alive, Survive, The Best of You, Times, Times Like These, To Be Your Father, Truth, Understand, Until Then, Want Your World, Wipe OUt, You, You Are My Hero, You Touch My Soul, Youngest Daughter, Your Daughter, Zero
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Effective Communications Competence
Ineffective Communications: Everyone knows that there is a great deal of truth to that adage about the proverbial age gap between parents and children. Imagine if you would having two budding teenagers – ages 11 and 13 and being 57 … Continue reading →
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Thought For the Day: On An Introduction to Environmental Science
Two Issues Described Related To Environmental Science Either Local or Nationwide: Of the many and varied facets of environmental science, there are at least two general areas that have have been of interest for many decades. The first of these … Continue reading →
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Tagged 21st Century, Al Gore, Approach Concerns and Issues, Aquaculture, Balance, Better Angels, Better Understanding, Biomes, Biosecurity, Burning Down Society, Climate Change Paradigm, Cognition, Common Blunders, Common Good, Consideration, Control, Cross-Contamination, Decades, Discharges of Effluents, Disservice, Dogmatic Positions, Doomsday Scenario, Ehrlich, Einstein, Empirical Observation, Environmental Science, Ethics of Belief, Farming, Food Sources, Foregone Conclusion, Foster Dialog, General Theory of Relativity, Global Food Security, Individualism, Life, Listen, Malthus, Manage, Marketplace of Ideas, Multiple Concerns, Multiple Sides, Not Censored, Oceans, Open Discussion, Opinion, Outlook, Polarization of Thought, Population Growth, Possibilities, Prediction, Probabilities, Problematic Nature, Pseudo-Skepticism, Public Discourse, Public Policy, Question, Reduction of Polarization, Save Society, Science, Science Is A Process, Scientific Analysis, Shout, Society, Species, Stabilize, Sustainability, Terrestrial, Thought For the Day, Trajectory, United Nations, Utopian, Valid Viewpoints, World
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First Principles: I Am Willing To Know the Whole Truth; To Know the Worst and To Provide For It
“Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anguish of Spirit, Cost, First Principles, Having Ears, Having Eyes, Illusions of Hope, Indulge, Know the Worst, Listen, Natural To Man, Painful Truth, Patrick Henry, Provide For It, See Not, Shut Our Eyes, Siren, Song, Struggle for Liberty, Temporal Salvation, Whole Truth, Willing To Know
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First Principles: To Listen Well Is As Powerful A Means of Communication and Influence As To Talk Well
“To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.” – John Marshall
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Tagged Communication, First Principles, Influence, John Marshall, Listen, Means, Powerful, Talk Well, Well
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Notes That Play
Notes That Playby Michael DoyleThe notes that playRemind us of yesterdayIn happiness and sympathyWe feel this in the melodyThat plays forever in our mindsThe feelings we won’t leave behindEvery second, magic we reliveAll the notes that our hearts giveHeart stops … Continue reading →
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Tagged Along the Way, Amazing, Busy Days, Carry Us, Dance, Each Day, Embrace, Everything, Feel, Feeling, Forever, Grace, Happiness, Hearts, Leave Behind, Length, Listen, Live, Love, Magic, Melody, Miles, Mind, Music, Notes, Okay, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Remind, Second, Sense, Smiles, Songs, Sympathy, Through, Tunes, Worse Day, Yesterday, You
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Giving Love
Love in our fallen world is the calling from our heavenly Father. Giving Love by Michael Doyle Giving love in a world of brokenness Willing and ready in our un-spokenness We would be His hands and feet Giving love patiently … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abounds, Battle, Brokenness, Commands, Community, Compassion, Divine Law, Dreamless, Ear, Fallen World, Fear, Fulfilled, Giving, God's Promise, God's Will, Gods, Hands and Feet, Hear, Heavenly Father, Heed, His, His Hands, Hope, Hurting, Impact, Kept, Life, Listen, Look Out, Love, Loving, Needs, Overflow, Patience, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Proclaim Victory, Safe, Seamless, Strive, Take Care, True, Trust, Unspoken, We, Willed, Willing, World
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When Children Speak
When our children speak, we should listen. We never know what we might learn? If nothing else how they see the world. And I can think of no greater gift than understanding the world through the eyes and hearts of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Act, Allowed, Beauty, Believe and Love, Carry On, Change, Children, Communicate, Compassion, Complicity, Even When Wrong, Eyes and Hearts, Fascinate, Find, Finding Their Way, Girls, Gone, Hearts and Minds, Heaven Above, Heritage, Hope, Intensity, Know, Lean, Left, Listen, Look, Love, Moment, No Greater Gift, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price Paid, Proud, Reason, Recompense, Reflect, See the World, Simply Young, Speak, Speak In Tongues, Strange, Study, Taught, Tell Me All, Temptation, Things Said, Truth, Unafraid, Unintended Consequence, Urge, Watch, Worthy, Wrong, Youth
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