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First Principles: On Every Question of Construction Carry Ourselves Back To the Time When the Constitution Was Adopted, Recollect the Spirit Manifested In the Debates
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adopted, Conform, Constitution, Debates, First Principles, Invested, Meaning, Passed, Probable, Question of Construction, Spirit Manifested, Squeezed, Text, Thomas Jefferson, Time
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Thought For the Day: Everybody Knows That the Family Is the Bedrock of Any Society
“Everybody knows that the family is the bedrock of any society because it is in the family that the child learns how to be — how to be cultivated, how to be mannerly, how to have values. And if we … Continue reading
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Tagged Bedrock, Child, Children, Cultivated, Family, Know, Learn, Mannerly, Meaning, Society, Thought For the Day, Values, Winsome Sears
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We Pretend To Have Forgot
We Pretend To Have Forgotby Michael DoyleI don’t like thingsThat are too touchy and feelyThe reason whyIs these might reveal meWith the turn of the pageIt’s less in what we sayBut the how that we rageAs night fights against dayThese … Continue reading
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Tagged Care, Day, Deal, Flowers, Forgot, Grief, Keep, Meaning, Night, Pluck the Petals, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Pretending, Promises, Puzzle, Rag, Real, Reason Why, Reveal, Say, Times, Touchy and Feely, Turn of the Page, Weep, Willow, Wonder
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Pragmatic Inferences
Pragmatic Inferencesby Michael DoylePragmatic inferencesHave all the meaningTo communicating As a human beingSystematic rulesTo all that we are sayingLaid outLike cards that we are playingGarden pathsOf quiet accidentShow a mapOf living inside this incidentWe fill out and inOur partial perceptionsBlind … Continue reading
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Tagged Accident, Arbitrary Symbols, Blind Spots, Cards, Communicating, Duality, False Reception, Fill In, Garden Paths, Human Being, Incident, Inferences, Laid Out, Map, Meaning, Meanings, Partial Perceptions, Patterns, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pragmatic, Say, Share, Smatterings, Systematic Rules, Trigger
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The Importance of the Word
The Importance of the Wordby Michael DoyleIn this roll of yearsSoftly past the flowing tearsI think on words soughtTo connect the dot-to-dotThe words in mindI seek and sometimes findThat words are cultureAnd culture is the we nurtureSlipped into this elasticityIs … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginning, Being, Bond, Breath, Community, Complexity, Connect, Cousin, Crumble, Culture, Death, Define, Display, Dot-To-Dot, Elasticity, Find, Float Over, Flowing Tears, God, Grumble, Importance, Knowledge, Me, Meaning, Mumble, Nurture, Occurred, Odd, Past, Played, Poetry and Poems, Politely, Ponds, Quest, Refine, Roll of Years, Seal, Seek, Sense, Sleep, Slip, Sought, Sudden, Symbol, Table, the Word, Theories, Think, Thirst, Thought, Words, Words In Mind
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In the Depth of God’s Love
In the Depth of God’s Love(Thoughts on Good Friday 2022)by Michael DoyleIn the depth of God’s loveWe’re wondered after life’s disastersAs we raise our prayers aboveAnd think on the outcome of forever afterTrue love is held in meditationIts meaning causes … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Adjective, Answer, Choice, Christ, Come and Go, Comprehension, Consistent, Deep, Depth, Dice, Divnity, Enemies, Family, Find, First and Greatest Commandment, Foot of the Cross, Forever After, Forgive, God's Love, Good Friday, Good Friday 2022, Grace, Gratification, Greater, He Loved Us First, Heart, Hesitation, Humanity, Illustrate, Learn, Life's Disasters, Linger, Living Sacrifice, Living Waters, Love Others, Loving the Lord, Many Feelings, Meaning, Meditation, Mercy, Mind, Outcome, Poetry and Poems, Powerless, Prayers, Purest Love, Quench, Realization, Realize, Redemptive, Revealing, Roll, Roman Soldiers, Sacred Theology, Sacrifice, Salvation, Shame, Sin, Sinners, Sisters and Brothers, Soul, Station, Strong, Suffice, Thirst, Touch, True Love, Ungodly, Unholy, Voice, Whole, Wrath
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Thought For the Day: A Book, Once It Is Printed and Published, Becomes Individual
“A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book “means” thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, Book, Child, Cut Off, Grammar, Individual, James Branch Cabell, Meaning, Means, Parent, Parturition, Printed and Published, Publication, Reader, Sever, Thought For the Day
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Nothing Better Than You, Lord
Nothing Better Than You, Lordby Michael DoyleEven as I walk through shadowThere’s something that I knowYour love will always surround meEven when I don’t deserve your sympathyWhen my life becomes ashesAnd my spirit tears with the thrashesThe fight and battle … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Ashes, Asunder, Blunder, Compare, Connection, Direction, Dread, Faith, Fight and Battle, God, Head, Heart, Know, Lord, Meaning, Nothing Better, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Questions, Shadow, Soar, Sympathy, Thrash, Wandered, Wondered, Word, World, Your Love
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In A Hermitage of Petrified Words
In A Hermitage of Petrified Wordsby Michael DoyleLike a forest well petrifiedBy minerals filling in for lifeA poet thinks in his hermitageDreaming about things to study onThere’s an abandonment of conjunctionWhen like Chomsky, language ceases to functionWe drift like lyrics … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandonment, Attack, Bliss, Bygone Eras, Certainty, Chomsky, Discriminate, Dreaming, Emblems, Emptiness, Existence, Fate, Function, Gambit, Hermitage, History, Immutable Stillness, Krazy Glue, Language, Linguistic, Lyrics, Meaning, Minerals, Modern Times, Perfection, Perpretual, Petrified, Petrified Forests, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Politically Aggressive, Resistance, Sterile, Study, Survivor, Truth of Time, Understanding, Verbs, Webster, Words
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On the Altar of My Life
On the Altar of My Lifeby Michael DoyleIn every moment, even or oddYou put me together, Lord GodIn every flaw and every breakYou have eased every single acheYou have shown me the truthLived every moment since my youthEvery shame of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ache, All of My Days, Altar, Altar of My Life, Beauty, Break, Breath, Christ, Creation, Cry, Day, Destination, Die, Enduring Faith, Every Moment, Eyes, Fullness, Glory, Heart, Law, Life, Lifting You Up, Living Altar, Lord God, Magnified, Man, Meaning, Near, Page, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Sacrifice, Shame, Shaped, Signified, Sing, Story, Strains, Sunrise, Thankful, The Glory, Truth, Your Ways, Youth
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