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Somehow Clinging

Posted on June 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Somehow Clinging by Michael Doyle Slipped halfway down The edge of the rabbit hole The Cheshire Cat in his crown Ripped apart his soul Seeking to find a path through To the center of the maze Somewhere between half to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believer, Between, Center, Certain, Cheshire Cat, Clinging, Crown, Daze, Debt, Deception, Edge, Fortune Tellers, Garden's Wall, Halfway, Hatter, Humility, Ledge, Manipulate, Maze, Misconception, No Longer Pure, Path, Pays the Price, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Rabbit Hole, Real, Recall, Remain, Rusty Chains, Sinless Savior, Somehow, Soul, Spin Doctors, Story Sold, Strain, Suffer, Think and Feel, Twist of Fate, Twisted, World | Leave a comment

On the Influence of Mass and Social Media

Posted on March 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Mass Media Shaping of Culture and Perceptions of Self, Others and the World: Where once Gutenberg’s printing press led the way in shaping the world, the driving technology in the modern world is mass media in its many and … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Advantages, Agendas, American, American Revolution, Bad Actors, Bad Product, Barbie Doll, Body Image Disturbance, Change, China, Citizens, Civilization, Communicate, Computer Mediated, Conservative, Conservative Opinions, Consumers, Consumption, Crack Down, Critical Thinking, Cultural, Culture, Dark Underlayer, Discussion, Dominance, Dystopian, Economic, Electronic Feet, Empirical Evidence, Entertainment, Exacting Beauty, Exodus, Facebook, Facts, Feedback Loop, Feelings, Free For All, Free Speech, Future, Global Community, Global Culture, Great Leveler, Gutenberg, Hate Groups, High Order Statistical Functions, Influence, Information, Intellectual Free Market, Intelligence Work, Interaction, Internet, Irrationality, Logical Inconsistency, Manipulate, Mass Media, Mattel, MeWee, Normative Values, Observable Facts, Others, Perception, Perfect Woman, Platforms, Politics, Post-Modernistic, Presidential Election, Printing Press, Privately Owned Fora, Products, Public Opinion, Pubs, Respect, Russia, Self, Shaped, Shapes, Sites, Social Issues, Social Media, Speech Freedoms, Suppress, Taverns, Technological Determinism, Technology, Thinkers, Thomas Paine, Thought For the Day, Twitter, United States, Values, Voting, World | Leave a comment

On Habits of Soap, Water and Masks

Posted on May 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My youngest princess is fond of teasing the truth that we are living history. What a memory this all will be one day won’t it? They’ll be able to say they lived through a global crisis and remember things … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alcohol, Antibody, Block, Car, Common Sense, Crowns, Daughters, Destructive, Disabuse, Disrupt, Embrace, Epidemiology, Face, Fancy, Father, Global Crisis, Habit, Learn, Live, Living History, Manipulate, Mask, Me and You, Memory, New Norm, Notion, Opportunity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Protect, Protein, Safe and Sane, Scientists, Smile, Soap, Soap and Water, Strategy, Trials, Used, Viral, Virus, Wash Our Hands, Water | Leave a comment

On Found Light

Posted on April 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Reviewing my camera chops in real brought me to write this. On Found Light by Michael Doyle It’s not so much the light But where you’re in it To get this just right You have know where to bend it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Adjustment, Ambient Light, Back, Below, Bend, Bright, Brush, Camera, Canvass, Capture, Catch, Chin, Chops, Complex, Contrast, Creativity, Dark, Day, Delicate, Depth, Detail, Details, Eerie, Even, Exposure, Fact, Feeling, Flat, Forgot, Found, Front, Grain, Harmony, Hatchet, Images, In It, Infinite, Integration, Interplay, Interrogation, ISO, Kill, Light, Light Sensitivity, Low, Manipulate, Moments, Music, Mystery, Night, Noise, Over Exposed, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Range, Reduce, Rembrandt, Reveal, Rich, Right, Say, See, Sensitivity, Shadow, Shape, Shot, Sight, Simplicity, Softness, Soul, Stop, Story, Subtle, Transcend, View | Leave a comment

On the Importance of True History

Posted on March 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

How did an intellectual fraud like Howard Zinn become the go to guy for American history in our public schools? It’s sort of outrageous. I remember when I was of a different mindset and more open to his … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Analysis, Battlefields, Been, Best, Better, Bible, Blood, Bloody, Books, Celebration, Children, Choice, Circumstance, Civilization, Cognitive, Complexity, Consent, Context, Criticism, Decision, Deconstruction, Destruction, Direction Observation, Distortion, Enmesh, Examine, Eyes, Fail, Fate, Finest Hours, Fix, Fixed, Forget, Fragile, Freedom, Frontier, Good, Governed, Gun, Happenstance, History, Hope, Howard Zinn, Illustration, Important, Inquiry, Insight, Intellectual Fraud, Judgment, Lesson, Liberty, Light, Long Ago, Loss, Manipulate, Mankind, Moments, Mortal Needs, Muddy, Nation, New World, Observation, Old World, Optimisim, Past, Path, Perspective, Pieces, Poem, Poetry, Power, Present, Price, Recall, Reflective, Revolution, Right, Sacrifice, Search, Skew, Snapshot, Social, Soul, Sown, Suffice, Think, Time, Treasure, True, Truth, Twin, Unfold, War, When, Whole, Willing, Wise | Leave a comment

Let Us Begin

Posted on February 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

So many promises of the 20th century have led to false starts, broken hearts and the horror of confronting the results of our delusions. Let Us Begin by Michael Romani In pursuit of stronger minds Do we risk leaving souls … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Agree, Begin, Biology, Blind, Calculated Risk, Cold, Demanding, Distance, Divinity, Eugenics, Expectation, False Start, Game, GMO, Grasp, Journey, Justify, Less Traveled, Manipulate, Master, Melt, Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Risk, Road, Roll, Seldom, Soul, Strong, Timothy Leary, Told, Travel, Travesty, Truth, Understanding, Unravel, Us, Vilify, Weary, Within | Leave a comment

The Truth of the Present

Posted on March 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It’s so easy to believe these are the bad ole days as modern day snake oil salesmen tell us of how horrible things are and that they’re bound to get worse. But is that true? Or, is the doom … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, Accountable, Age, al-Qeada, Armada, Asymmetry, Baton, Begun, Brave, Broken, Bungle, Calamity, Capable, Catastrophe, Cause, Cave, Change, Chicken Little, Choice, Coca Cola, Complicity, Conspire, Data Mine, Destruction, Devil, Doom and Gloom, Foothold, Gain, Goat, God, Gunpowder, History, Humanity, Imprint, Innocence, Kings, Law of the Jungle, Legacy, Living History, Logic Bomb, Manage, Manipulate, Mankind, Mery, Motivation, Mutual Destruction, Mystery, Nuclear, Obesity, One, Oppenheimer, Optimism, Orchestrate, Pages, Pain, Peace, People, Pessimism, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Present, Prevail, Rare, Save, Self Defeat, Sown, Spoken, Starvation Line, Sugar, Terrorism, Tire, Tragedy, True Peace, Truth, Unity, Vanity, Veil, War, World | Leave a comment

The Dissolution of Liberal Democracy

Posted on February 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Not so long ago, it was announced with great fanfare that history had ended and Liberal Democracy had won. The globalists believed there was no most struggle and that it made little difference with we made microchips or potato chips. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Algorithm, Brexit, Che Guevara, Civilization, Classical Liberalism, Communism, Confidence, Confluence, Elite, Evidence, Exploit, Extraordinary, Fascism, Franz Ferdinand, Global Mantra, Globalism, Great War, Gulag, History, Imperialism, Influence, Internet, Irrelevance, Issue, Liberal Democracy, Liberty, Manipulate, Mankind, Moral Courage, Ordinary, Photograph, Plug, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Price, Providence, Reality, Regressive, Repulican Values, Struggle, Supermarket, Technology, TED Talk, The People, Tissue, Transform, Trump, United States, Virtue, Wisdom | Leave a comment

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