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Tending the Mind Body Connection
Increasingly, we are finding that the body and mind have tremendous capacity to heal and otherwise exceed expectations. Tending the Mind Body Connection by Michael Romani The twenty first century Turns its new direction In terms of modern biology Finding … Continue reading
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Tagged Acorn, Address, Architect, Body, Compare, Connection, Contemplate, Destiny, Detect, Direction, Disease, Egress, Find, Forgive, Foundation, Heal, Hit, Immune System, Injury, Intentional Living, Jouney, Loop, Love, Mind, Moden World, Modern Biology, Natural Intelligence, Oak Tree, Pathway, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Probable, Repair, Resistance, Root Cause, Step Back, Stress, Tend, Twenty First Century, Twenty-Four Seven
First Principles: Our Liberties Are A Gift From God
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Country, Firm Basis, First Principles, Gift of God, God, Just, Justice, Liberties, Liberty, Mind, Nation, Secure, Sleep, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violate, Wrath
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Things I’m Learning From You
Dedicated to all those I like and love however imperfectly… Things I’m Learning From You by Michael Romani I’ve long sought my authenticity Pursuing it with great integrity Only to find that in the much I believed I was too … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Authenticity, Begun, Beileve, Calvary, Checkered Past, Cherish, Clarity, Close, Deceived, Fell, Forgive, Gaffe, Gain, Grew, History, Hurt, Ignorance, Imperfect, Indecision, Integrity, Intimacy, Knew, Laugh, Learn, Love, Memory, Mind, Monkey, Morning, Night, One, Pain, Pajama Party, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Sincere, Sleepless, Smile, Soul, Sun, Surprise, Twenty Questions, Two, Words, You
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Thought For the Day: It Is Good To Polish Your Mind Against the Minds of Others
“It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others.” – Michel de Montaigne, essayist (28 Feb 1533-1592)
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Tagged Good, Michel de Montaigne, Mind, Others, Polish, Rub, Thought For the Day
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Home On Phone, the Homophones Echo
The Poem A Day for Day #13 is to be prepared in the Echo Poem form. The word prompt if needed is ‘dense’. From https://www.britannica.com/art/echo-verse: “Echo verse, a type of verse in which repetition of the end of a line … Continue reading
Who Do You Say That I am?
Based in part on Matthew 15:16: Who Do You Say That I Am? by Michael Romani Sometimes stigmatized by the visual Here in this age of consuming digital I see what my eyes choose to see Wondering if it’s with … Continue reading
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Tagged Acuity, Alone, Apart, Approval, Blind, Book of Matthew, Broken, Certainty, Clear, Confidence, Crack, Creativity, Deflection, Digital, Disguise, Distraction, Eye, Eyes, Fall, False Assumption, Foolishness, God, Gravity, Heart, Hide, Imperfection, Impression, Jacked Up, Jesus, Kindness, Knee Jerk Reaction, Levitate, Lost, Love, Measure, Mind, Mirror, Negativity, One Half, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presumption, Promise, Recall, Renew, Rust, Soul, Stigma, Stone, Strong, Toss, Treasure, Trouble, Trust, Visual, Warrior, Weak, Wisdom
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Letter To A Friend
I was thinking on something earlier. Sadly, I often do that. Think. Doesn’t always pay off well. This time maybe it did. Letter To A Friend by Michael Romani The world can be a cruel place He says with … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Choice, Compliance, Cruel, Decide, Defend, Friend, Game, Innocent, Letter, Madness, Mind, One Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Self Respect, Self-Reliance, Star, Swallow, Well Meaning, Wish, World, You
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First Principles: Every Effort Should Be Made To Encourage and Exalt the Children To Become Their Best Potential
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Activity, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, First Principles, Grovel, Industry, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Mind
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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion Formed In the Mind of Distrust
“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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Tagged Born, Contagious, Distrust, First Principles, Gloss, James Madison, Mind, Nothing, Opinion, Question
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The Dreams We Need
As a society, we spend too much time trying to stifle the dreams of both children and the inner most child in all of us. We misplace our values, thinking that dreams are merely wants. We dream to dream. … Continue reading
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Tagged Agreed, Awake, Ballet Slippers, Bliss, Care, Child, Child's Heart, Children, Dance, Dreams, Edge, Fabric, Find, Give, Glow, Happy, Kiss, Laugh, Light, Light Show, Love, Memory, Mind, Money, Moonbeam, Music, Need, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Razzle Dazzle, Safe, Serenade, Share, Sleep, Smile, Society, Style, Surprise, Take, Universe, Verse, Vision, Waking Moment, Wish
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