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Thought For the Day: Taught From Their Infancy That Beauty Is Woman’s Sceptre, the Mind Shapes Itself To the Body, and Roaming Round Its Gilt Cage, Only Seeks To Adorn Its Prison

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797)

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Nothing But Net

Nothing But Netby Michael DoyleLiving through drift with deferenceWe each live Beethoven’s experienceComing out from every defeatWe stretch our defenses as we greetAll that life gives to usFacing each day and just becauseA preacher’s kid knows the shift of anxietyEveryone’s … Continue reading

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Wonderland Needed

Wonderland Needed (the Mad Hatter)by Michael DoyleWhen you clear your mindOf all the clatter and voicesWhat’s left behind, are the choicesIn our unwilling to be left behindAs we find in this hide and seekMuch of the world is mass confusionUntil, … Continue reading

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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion, Especially On Questions Which, Susceptible of Very Different Glosses, Begat In the Mind A Distrust of Itself

“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)

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A Ghost Ship Seen

A Ghost Ship Seenby Michael DoyleIThe mind can be deeper than an oceanWhen it comes to being lost inside emotionIn these fears of being left behindSome place deep within a wounded mindMorphic in its senseless sensationsWhere security clings for its … Continue reading

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Jack’s Winter Glory

Jack’s Winter Gloryby Michael DoyleOnce upon a winter’s snowflakeThere was a Christmas wish to makeThere in that distant time and placeThere was magic for all to embraceAs tyranny suppressed simple peasantsUntil they could not afford Christmas presentsThe czar took every … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: A Body of Clay, A Mind Full of Play, A Moment’s Life – That’s Me

“A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment’s life — that’s me.” -Harivansh Rai Bachchan, poet (27 Nov 1907-2003)

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Thought For the Day: Be Water, My Friend

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” “Empty your … Continue reading

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First Principles: It Should Be the Highest Ambition of Every American To Extend His Views Beyond Himself

“It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be … Continue reading

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A Quiet Reflection On This November Day

A Quiet Reflection On This November Day by Michael Doyle    What is a poem really but to say That love, joy and sorrow come to play In the heart and then inside the mind Until the words burst out … Continue reading

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