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Thought For the Day: Be Strong In Mind and Spirit And Have Power Over These
“Whoever is strong in mind and spirit will have power over them.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Tagged Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mind, Power, Spirit, Strong, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Americans Combine Christianity and Liberty So Intimately That It Is Impossible to Conceive One Without the Other
“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Americans, Christianity, Conceive, First Principles, Fith, Ideas, Impossible, Intimate, Liberty, Mind, Morality
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What of the Children?
Sins of the fathers? Matter of karma or fate? A lost sense of ethical balance? Children come into this world as blessings and deal with the corruptive influences that are out of their control. Don’t we owe them so … Continue reading
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Tagged Bills, Bless, Body, Born, Children, Contribution, Corruption, Disease, Disruption, Ethical Balance, Fate, Father, Guide, Heart, Karma, Love, Mind, Pharmacology, Pills, Poem, Poetry, Profit, Sin, Sold, Soul, Spill, Spirit, Star, Toxic, World
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Cultivating Kindness II
One of lessons that is maybe too hard to learn for some is that in the face of harshness, sometimes the very best response is to show the same merciful kindness that God has shown us. It is a hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Capacity, Character, Child of God, Defense, Depend, Disparage, Friends, God, Harsh, History, Kind, Lesson, Light, Love, Mature, Mercy, Mind, Model, Nature, Peace, Peace of Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proof, Reasson, Response, Righteous, Strong, Tendency, Trouble, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: Dare To Read, Think and Do Something Different Than Others Around You
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Morley, Do, Every Day, Mind, No One Else, Read, Silly, Think, Thought For the Day, Unanimity
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To Live and Die American
Flickr has broken my Flickr account. Not sure what I will do for photographs now or if I’ll ever be able to retrieve them. Meanwhile as I wait for their next response on the destruction they’ve done, I guess I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Belief, Birth, Blind, Change, Character, Circumstance, Code, Correct, Death, Define, Difference, Dream, Eternal, Fight, Freedom, Good, Grief, Happy, Illuminate, Injustice, Journey, Lady Justice, Life, Light, Live and Die, Mind, Mistake, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Right, Shade, Stars, Success, Sun, Talk, Walk
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A Pillow’s Talk of Things
The ninth day of Na/GloPoWriMo is based on the lists found in Sei Shonagon’ s The Pillow Talk. As the hour has grown later than I had hoped and only just recently finished a show along with a late dinner and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Attention, Attitude, Beast, Beloved, Best, Best Intention, Breeze, Bring, Busy Day, Care, Chase, Chase Circles, Cloud, Confide, Confusion, Conquer, Cry, Delight, Depression, Despise, Difference, Diffidence, Enchantment, Eye to Eye, Face, Fascination, Find, Fruits, Game, God's Daughter, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Heart, Heart Sing, Hope, Hour, Imagination, Impression, Intention, Keep, Knowledge, Known, Lady Love, Last, Late, Laughter, Lifetimes, Love, Memory, Mesmerize, Mind, Moon, Na/GloPoWriMo, Night, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Power, Precious, Prove, Pure, Questions, Raindrop, Reason Why, Rendition, Respect, Rule, Save, Sei Shonagon, Share, She, Sigh, Smile, Solitary Power, Soul, Sparkle, Spell Caster, Tantalize, Tear, Tears, Test, The Pillow Talk, Thought, Times, Tree House, Trouble, Upset, Voice, Vow, Way, Word, Words
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When It’s Gone
My Plan B poem for the poetry month event. It wasn’t necessarily meant to be the poem dealing with the passage of time. But then, as the words flowed, it’s exactly about that isn’t it? When It’s Gone by Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged Birthday, Busy Days, Childish, Chin Up, Concentrate, Conform, Costs, Cut, Daughter, Details, Dream, Drive, Fact, Fitting In, God, Gone, Kill, Leave, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Nothing, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rail, Recall, Reunite, Rites, Rules, School, Shine, Snowfall, Teach, Thrill, Time, Understood, Uniform, War, Wood
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