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Troubled Thoughts In the Night
Troubled Thoughts In the Nightby Michael DoyleLife knows its bestSpoken like a new languageIt’s written in secret alphabetYou can feel its rising heatSomewhere in that middle passageWithout words it reveals its secretA divine messenger singsOn the wind like a ghost … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Best, Borrowing Troubles, Breath, Burn, Death, Death Stings, Discern, Divine Messenger, Doctors, Emotions, Feast, Ghost Song, Hope, Hopeless, Icy Claws, Immaculate Notions, Language, Life, Lonely Night, Middle Passage, Night, Notes, Passing, Patience, Poetry and Poems, Reveal, Rising Heat, Secret Alphabet, Sequence, Sky, Solomon, Stainless, Starless, Thoughts, Trouble, Troubled, Two, Whisper, Wind, Wisdom
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Another New Song Sung
Another New Song Sungby Michael Doyle The troubled midnight and the moon’s repose (La figlia Che Piange – T. S. Elliot)Made me think of song I’ve yet to composeToo many … Continue reading
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Tagged Chords, Collective Memory, Compose, Every Day, Feel, Jumble, La Figlia Che Piange, Melody, Moon, Mumble, Notes, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Progression, Reveal, Reverie, Same Old Feeling, Something New, Song, Sung, T.S. Elliot, Tossing, Troubled Moonlight, Whistle, Words
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Righting My Wrong Direction
A little something from my notes taken during yesterday’s sermon: Righting My Wrong Direction by Michael Doyle No longer living in the wrong direction I’m seeking God’s love and true connection Returning the fullness of love that God has given … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Fruit, Blessed, Bound, Call, Careful, Composite, Contemplation, Deep, Deep Sense, Deeper, Direction, Discipleship, Dwells, Errors, Fall, Family, Follow, Forgiven, Formality, Fullness, Given, God, God Is Good, God's Family, God's Light, God's Love, Good and Pure, Heed, Honor, Humanity, Know, Law, Live, Living, Lord, Marriage, Mindful, Mover, Notes, Opposite, Ourselves, Passionate, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Relationship, Release, Return, Right, Right and Good, Seek, Sermon, Short, Sin, Sinfulness, Straight and True, Temptation, To Do Good, True, True Connection, Understood, Walk, Want, We, Worship, Wrong, Wrong Direction
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A Haiku of Math and Music
Precisely that times three in a tiny peek into the curious relationship between music and math. Yes, don’t remind me. I have often tried to deny this as not so very much so…. A Haiku of Math and Music by … Continue reading
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Tagged Bootstapping, Choice, Form, Fundamental, Haiku, Key, Math, More, Music, Notes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Relationship, Scale, Song, Soul, String, Tone, Voice
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On the 1619 Project
An ahistorical work that seeks to repudiate the founding principles of America won the Pulitzer Prize today. In my eyes, all luster is now gone to both the Nobel prizes and the Pulitzer with this move. It’s not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahistorical, Alienation, All Against All, Allege, America, American History, Arbitrary, Assert, Attempt, Balkanization, Bill of Goods, Capricious, Compromise, Conceived, Consideration, Constitutional Convention, Content, Core, Curriculum, Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Discern, Division, Do Away, Enough, Equal Under Law, Fabric, Fairy Tales, False, Fiction, Founding Principles, Good, Grapple, Group Rights, Groups, History, Hit Piece, Identity Politics, Ill-Liberal, Ill-Liberalism, Illiteracy, Individuals, Integrity, Intent, Invention, Issue, Journalists, Lack, Legitimacy, Liar's Club, Liberty, Loud, Love, Meander, Mentality, Miscreants, Mob Rule, Nation, Nonsense, Notes, Oversold, Overtern, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Privilege, Promise, Propaganda, Proposition, Public Good, Pulitzer Prize, Purpose, Real, Repubican Values, Repudiation, Repudicate, Reveal, Right Path, Said, Sake, Self Loathing, Self-Serving, Sincere, Social Justice, Socialists, Struggle, The 1619 Project, Told, Tool, Toxic, Trotskyite, True, Truth, Tryanny, Unalienable Rights, Unity, Untrue, Value, Victimhood, Virtue Signaling, Want, Won't Do, Wrong Minded
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Depth of Field
A photographer’s mind doodle: Depth of Field by Michael Doyle F-stops along the way Effect the sharpness of the day Owed all to the depth of field Is the clarity with which you yield Layers of composition Provide the focused … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambient Light, Bemuse, Big, Chaos, Clarity, Clutter, Composition, Depth of Field, Edge, Exclusion, Eyes, F-Stop, Focus, Frame, Hole, Image, Intrusion, Layers, Lens, Lyrical, Mutter, Mystical, Notes, Photo, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pop, Shallow Depth, Sharpness, Shutter Speed, Soft Focus, Story, Tantalize, Tell, Tool, Touch, Wax
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Laurel Canyon Vibe
The 60s Los Angeles music scene was a very special time. I would love to have been there to seen all that talent in one place. https://flic.kr/p/vD253D Laurel Canyon Vibe by Michael Doyle There was an avalanche of sound That … Continue reading
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Tagged 60s, Ask, Association, Avalanche, Blur, Canyon, Cascade, Clear, Collaboration, Dream, Echo, Fantasy, Feeling, Find, Flow, Garden, Geometry, Good Day, Guitar Licks, Happening, Harmony, Heart, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, Love, Melody, Music Scene, Notes, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Question, Rain, Reeling, Reiteration, Reverberation, Rock N Roll, Sense, Soul, Sound, Street Corner, Street Light, Talent, Task, Urge, Urgency, Vibe, Vibration, What, When
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Recalled In Prayer
Having finally spent some very wonderful time with my beautiful daughters and being surprised to the point of happy tears of gratitude in finding out just how much my genetics have flowed into a lot of their perspectives on the … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Belong, Blame, Cost, Counselor, Crown, Daughters, Earth, Father, Fit, Glory, Gratitude, Hands, Heal, Hope, Lord of Lords, Lost, Name, Notes, Peace, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Recall, Rejoice, Shown, Song, Soul, Story, Tell, Throne, Worship
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