Tag Archives: Observation

Thought For the Day: A Writer Needs Three Things, Experience, Observation, and Imagination, Any Two of Which, At Times Any One of Which, Can Supply the Lack of Others

Posted on September 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” -William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Experrience, Imagination, Lack, Observation, One, Supply, Thought For the Day, Three Things, Two, William Faulkner, Writer | Leave a comment

Open Declaration

Posted on April 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Open Declarationby Michael DoyleThe cross is not a decorationIt is an open declarationOf how much love the Father bringsThese are the lessons of the hymns we singLooking carefully at all that we seeWhat brings happiness, what brings misery?Staring out bored … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Carefully, Contrary, Conversation, Cross, Cultivate, Decoration, Experiences, Finest Hours, God's Command, Happiness, Hit and Miss, Hymns, Learn, Lessons, Live Through, Living Life, Love, Misery, Nowhere to Live, Observation, Open Declaration, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Sanctuary, See, Shine, Sing, Stare, Strong, The Father, Timberline, Words of Power | Leave a comment

From Hosanna to Crucifixion

Posted on April 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

From Hosanna to Crucifixion (Palm Sunday 2022)by Michael DoyleIPassages in sermons find seed in our lifeSpeaking to us to create peace and take our strifeStilled hearts help us reach the truth to seePraying that we might commit to this way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accord, Accountability, Afraid, Alienation, Anticipation, Beliefs, Bethlehem's Star, Betrayal, Blindman, Blood of Jesus, Book of Mark, Branches of Palm, Clemency, Collide, Come As You Are, Command, Commit, Conviction, Create Peace, Creation, Crucifixion, Death, Depiction, Destiny, Discipleship, Dying on the Cross, Easter, Expectation, Faith of a Believer, Family, Favor, Followers of Christ, Forgiven, Found, Friday, Full Blessings, Giving One's All, Glory, God's Love, Grace, Greet, Ground, Healing, Holy Week, Homily, Hosanna, Humble Dignity, Imputation, Incident of Circumstance, Indwell, Infliction, Jersusalem, Jesus's Suffering, Jewish Nation, Justice, Left to Chance, Lens of Heaven, Lesson, Lessons, Life, Light, Lord, Lordship, Love, Mansion, Merssiah, Messes Made of Life, Meticulous Witness, Motivaated, Observation, Paid for In Full, Pain, Palm Sunday 2022, Pass Us By, Passages, Passover, Path, Patient Smile, Pharisees, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Prasie, Pray, Preach, Prediction, Professions, Profound, Puzzled, Ransom, Recall, Reception, Redemption, Repentance, Respect, Resurrection, Reveal, Revelation, Right, Royalty, Rules, Sacrifice, Sanctified, Sermons, Shake, Sins, Sovereignty, Stilled Hearts, Story, Sunday, Take Our Strife, The Bible, Theology, Told, Triumphant Entry, Truth, Undersood, Undeserved Mercy, Unfold, Unknowing, Way of Mercy, Whole | Leave a comment

Cicero Speaks On Becoming Older

Posted on February 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Cicero Speaks On Becoming Olderby Michael DoyleLife passes through many a stageUntil calumniating in old ageIt’s a folly to hold this in despiseWe’d be better off to open our eyesCicero offers us his philosopher’s lookIn his writing of many a … Continue reading →

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Na/GloPoWriMo #24: Perishable

Posted on April 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #24: Perishableby Michael DoylePerishable as a live plantShe insists but just can’tThere a perfect consolation in leafIts in its hiding manifestations of griefIn the soft shame of being seenEach of us fails our push at being human beingsPotted plants … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Call To me, Conservation, Cross, Dishonestly, Domination, Each of Us, Earth's Future, End of Nature, Fails, Fear, Fickleness, Form, Frail Ecology, Grief, Helpless Loss, Here, Hiding Manifestations, Human Beings, Humbled Isloation, Leaf, Little Wonder, Live Plant, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Observation, Perfect Consolation, Perishable, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Potted Plants, Push, Rooted, Sake of Man, Seen, She Insists, Soft Shame, Tending, Watering of Our Plants, We Can | Leave a comment

Christ Meets the Grecian World

Posted on September 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Christ Meets the Grecian Worldby Michael DoyleThere are things that we’ve learned along the waySuch as that, evil will never truly win the dayAnd that while the devil deals in duplicity A truly good person will always withstand adversityIn the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversity, Christ, Christianity, Death, Defeated, Devil, Divine, Duplicity, Evil, Foray, Good Person, Gospel of John, Gravity, Grecian World, Intellectual Investigation, Key, Kingdom, Learn, Mystery, Observation, Paradigm, Patterns, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rebbe, Salvation, Testimony, Third Century, Tradition, Wisdom, Wisemen, Withstand | Leave a comment

Meditative Movement

Posted on May 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In these last months, as if we haven’t been too sedentary in the first place, we have been almost nothing but stuck in and out of sorts with finding ways to keep moving. This is counter to what is best … Continue reading →

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Finding the Good

Posted on May 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I had a discussion with someone many years ago about why I wanted two princesses to be familiar with the literary classics from which there were derived the 5′ Shelf of Books aka Harvard Classics. After all, the contention was, … Continue reading →

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Rise of the Common Man

Posted on March 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

This next in the series on American history expounds on the events of the rise of Jacksonian Democracy which is seen a pivotal as the era of the common man and precipitating the American Civil War. Rise of the Common … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abolition, Age, Alexis Tocqueville, America, American Civil War, American History, Andrew Jackson, Appeal, Ascend, Attention, Bible, Bindness, Brawl, Breath, Celibacy, Christianity, Clay, Common Man, Common Touch, Community, Comparison, Compulsive, Constitution, Cultural, Culture, Death, Declaration of Independence, Deism, Depravity, Devil, Dignity, Divine Soul, Elitsm, Emerson, Esteem, Europe, Evangelism, Family, Finney, Flame, Forge, Franchise, Frederick Douglas, Freedom, Frontiersman, Grace, Hawthorne, Human Pride, Impulsive, Inaguration, Ink, Intellectual, Jacksonian Democracy, John Quincy Adams, Literary, Mankind, Mass Democracy, Message, Moment, Mormonism, Muse, Nation, North, Nurture, Observation, Open Road, Original Sin, Pace, Paper, Perfection, Photograph, Pivot, Poem, Poetry, Politics of Deference, Populism, Preference, Presidency, Pronounce, Radical Humanism, Reality, Rise, Self Determinism, Self Made, Seminal, Slavery, Social Equality, Social Reform, Soul, Spiritual, Supernatural, Symptom, System, Tales, The American Scholar, The People, Top, Torment, Tragedy, Travel, Trinity, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Unitarianism, Unkindness, Untamed, Utopia, Vanguard, Walt Whitman, Wayside, William Lloyd Garrison, Wirtten, Write | Leave a comment

On the Importance of True History

Posted on March 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

How did an intellectual fraud like Howard Zinn become the go to guy for American history in our public schools? It’s sort of outrageous. I remember when I was of a different mindset and more open to his … Continue reading →

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