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Thought For the Day: It Is Our Nature To Conform Which Is Born From Our Requirement of Self-Approval
“It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many people can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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Tagged Conform, Force, Inborn, Mark Twain, Nature, People, Requirement, Resist, Seat, Self-Approval, Success, Thought For the Day
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End of the Frontier
Between the 1870s to the early 1900s, American society became a vast sea of sea change in matters of all forms of transformation going on at once. End of the Frontier by Michael Doyle The travesty of the Civil War … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Assimilation, Big, Big Business, Blessing, Bold, City, Civilization, Cohesion, Columbus, Commerce, Commodity, Corporation, Curse, Development, End, Exploration, Face, Family Business, Federal, Finance, Foreign Born, Frederick Turner, Frontier, Gains, Grand Review, Hero, History, Immigration, Industrialization, Industry, Infrastructure, JP Morgan, Labor, Losses, Melting Pot, Moderinization, Modern, Money, Moot, Nation, National Power, Nature, Oil, Peril, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Population, Power, Profession, Providence, Railroad, Republican Values, Revitalization, Rockefeller, Salad, Sea Change, Society, Spirit of the West, Town, Transformation, Transportation, Unification, Urban, Virtue, Washington D.C., World Columbian Exposition
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Antebellum Blues
It’s true that there’s a lot more to the Southern side of the story than I’ll cover in this poem. But, with respect to American history, I would be amiss if I failed to cover this. Antebellum Blues by Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830s, African, Agrarian, America, American History, Antebellum, Beauty, Bi-Racial, Bitter, Black, Blessed, Blues, Brutality, Canadaa, Cash, Character, Climate, Collision Course, Contrast, Control, Cotton Gin, Cruel, Cry, Dark Clouds, Dash, Disdain, Divide, Division, Domination, Eli Whitney, Enthusiasm, Error, Exodus, Export, Fall, Fear, Fertility, Field Hand, Fundamental, Gather, Ground, Haiti, Hired Hand, History, Horror, Idealism, Industry, Ineqquality, Integrity, Kick of the Can, King Cotton, Lash, Lower South, Master, McHugh, Misery, Moral, Motherless child, Nat Turner, Nation, Nature, Noble, Pecking Order, Peculiar Institution, Perpetuation, Perpetuity, Photograph, Piety, Plantation, Poem, Poetry, Polarization, Poverty, Pride, Promised Land, Punditry, Puritan, Puzzle, Racism, Rebellion, Recall, Road, Role, Ruin, Sad, Seal, Sensibility, Slave, Slave Religion, Sobriety, Socialism, Society, Solace, South, Split, System, Terror, Textile, Truth, Ugly, Understand, Upper South, Virginia, Wage Slavery, War, White
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First Principles: All of Mankind Are Equally Bound By the Laws of the Creator To Do No Injury To Our Neighbors
“In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator. They are imprinted by the finger of God on the heart of man. Thou … Continue reading
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Tagged Bound, Equal, Finger, First Principles, God, God's Law, Heart, Imprint, Injury, Mankind, Natural Law, Nature, Neighbor, Reason, Samuel Adams, Voice, Written Revelation
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First Principles: The Battle Is Not To the Strong Alone; It Is To the Vigilant, the Active, the Brave
“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Active, Alone, Battle, Brave, First Principles, God, Nature, Patrick Henry, Power, Proper Use, Strong, Vigilant, Weak
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Thought For the Day: In Every Walk With Nature One Receives Far More Than He Seeks
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
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Tagged Every, John Muir, More, Nature, Receive, Seek, Thought For the Day, Walk
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Seeing To See
What if God walked among us today? What if wasn’t if? He does… Seeing To See by Michael Doyle So that seeing They may not see In the being Of supreme divinity A look into His eyes May bring grace … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Around, Being, Beyond, Blindness, Desire, Divinity, Embrace, Eyes, Found, God, Grace, Harshness, Kindness, Known, Look, Matter, Nature, Photograph, Plenty, Poem, Poetry, Prayers, Reason, Recognize, Season, See, Seeing, Shown, Supreme, Times, Trouble
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First Principles: There Exists In the Economy and Course of Nature, An Indissoluble Union Between Virtue and Happiness
“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantage, Duty, Economy, Exist, Felicity, First Principles, Genuine, George Washington, Happiness, Honest, Indissoluble, Magnanimous, Maxim, Nature, Policy, Prosperity, Public, Reward, Union, Virtue
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Somewhere In A Hobbit’s Town
The whole creative process behind the making of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies and the original tales has and have always fascinated me. How about you? Somewhere In A Hobbit’s Town by Michael Romani Somewhere in Switzerland … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Alchemy, Artist, Beautiful, Believe, Bits, Blend, Blessing, Call, Close, Cold, Conceal, Concept, Created, Daydreams, Deep, Detail, Discover, Drawing, Dream, End, Endless, Exist, Fantasy, Fascinate, Feeling, Fragment, Freed, Fusion, Generation, God, Grip, Head, Heart, Hobbit, Hobbiton, Hom, Immersion, Inspire, Journey, Keep, Kept, Layers, Life, Little Garden, Look, Lord of the Rings, Magic, Memory, Mid-Earth, Mirth, Movie, Mystery, Nature, New Zealand, North, Pantheon, Pencil, Penetrate, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Protect, Read, Real, Regale, Reveal, Road, Ruins, Saga, Sketch, Smile, Soul, Steep, Switzerland, Tale, Tea, Tolkien, Trace, Veil, Veneration, Walk, Weep, Wilds, Wise, Wordless, Words, Worth, Woven
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Ode To A Mermaid Friend
A new friend who helped me in getting my bearings in the new place I have in SL and encourages me to form a poetry group there is a mermaid. We were talking about the funny quips she has on … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Celestial, Chian, Comb, Control, Dejavu, Depth, Destiny, Dream, Drown, Emotion, Eternity, Fade, First Light, Food, Friend, Gold, Jester, Kingdom, Legend, Long Hair, Lose, Magic, Mahogany, Mer Men, Mermaid, Mood, Mortal, Music, Mystery, Mystical, Nature, Night, Ocean, Ode, Opinion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rattle, Shrimp, Sin, Siren, Soul, Spare, Tale, Tempt, Tragic, Wept, Word, Wreck
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