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In the Favor of the Gods
In the Favor of the Godsby Michael DoyleThe gods favor thoseWho do not waitFor the favor of the godsAnd for those who have choseTo create their own fateRegardless of the oddsI laid thinking so loudlyThat I could not sleepWaiting for … Continue reading
Recovering the Way To Self
Recovering the Way To Selfby Michael DoyleComing back from catastropheTakes the best of you and meStill you must move towardThis attitude to move forwardIn overcoming adversityThis is the challenge for you and meDramatic changes come and goThis is the path … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambitions, Best Information, Best of You and Me, Best Self, Bring, Catastrophe, Challenge, Changing Moments, Character, Dramatic Changes, Dreams, Ebbs and Flows, Extended Family, Favor, Focus, Forward, Full Transformation, Give, Goals, Going On, Going Through Something, Grateful, Journey, Latitude, Length, Life's Flow, Love, Mere Mortals, Moments of Weakness, Nobody Else, Odds, One Hundred, Overcoming Adversity, Path Back, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Recover, Self, Shaken, Share, Soul, Spaces, Steps, Strength, Strong, Superman, Talk, Tenacity, Toward, True Success, Trust, Walk the Walk
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To Simply Believe
To Simply Believeby Michael DoyleThe Square root of the possibleOf all that we can achieveIs to have some gumption And to simply believeThrowing caution to the windTaking chances we defendMore on odds approximatedAnd guaranteed seldom as estimatedThe magic isn’t just … Continue reading
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Tagged Achieve, Afraid, Again, Approximate, Believe, Believing, Best Capability, Calculation, Capable, Choose, Closed Eyes, Dedication, Destination, Dreams, Estimate, Fear, Formulate, Gumption, Hard, Heart, Hearts, Heaven Sends, Imagination, Journey, Know, Magic, Mend, Mind, Mistletoe, No Telling, Odds, Persevere, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Possible, Quite the Cost, Reality, See, Seeing the Way, Shared Smile, Simple, Square Root, Story Ends, Taking Chances, Things In Life, Throw Caution To the Wind, Together, Truth, Unafraid, What's Lost, Worth While
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A Lone Bagpiper
All of us are coming out of the isolation spawned by Covid-19 into a world changed by virus and by riotous disruption. In some ways, this is good. In some ways this is bad. In all ways, this is a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918, Alleged, Authorities, Bagpiper, Change, Cheap Rumors, Clairty, Confuse, COVID-19, Destiny, Doubt, Edge, Effective Testing, Enhance, Eradication, Explanation, French Square, Game of Chance, Genetic, Head, Herd Immunity, Human Beings, Immunization, Impact, Isolation, Lack of Transparency, Leaders, Legacy, Lethal, Lie, Lone, More, Nation, Notion, Odds, Ought, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rapid Mutation, Response, Riots, Segment, Sensible, Simulation, Society, Taught, Tell the Truth, The People, Virus, Walk, World
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A New Nation Born Pt I
In a continuing cycle on America, we look at the Revolutionary War through England’s defeat at Yorktown: A New Nation Born Pt I by Michael Doyle Let’s have no sense of delusion The united states were but illusion Or, perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged Allusion, America, American Crisis, Army, Bolder, Brith, British Crown, Certainty, Change, Character, Christmas Eve, Colonial, Common Sense, Confusion, Continental Congress, Contribution, Credible, Cross, Dawn, Defense, Delaware, Delusion, Discontent, Dues, Encourage, England, Even, Exhaustion, Fabric, Family, Fragility, Fragmentation, French, General, George Washington, Glory, Hard Times, Hessians, Hope, Landing, Lead, Legacy, Length, Level, Lost, Loyalty, Nation, Navy, New, Odds, Offensive, Pay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Position, Rag Tag, Revolutionary War, Saratoga, Society, Staten Island, Story, Strength, Summer Soldier, The World Turned Upside Down, Thirds, Thomas Paine, Thrust, Tilt, Triumph, Truth, United States, Valley Forge, Van Steuben, Victory, War, Weak, Will, Winter, Words, Yorktown
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Like Brothers
The things done in the military grows most men’s units in whatever force into something like family. Most of us ended fighting for our brothers and sisters more than ideals or nations. Some of us carry the memories of our … Continue reading
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Tagged Back, Battles, Beer, Brothers, Caution, Count On, Crime, Danger, Day, Distance, Do It, Done, Doubt, Fallen, Family, Fight, Forever Faithful, Friend, Giving up, God, Head, Joke, Laugh, Live, Longer, Memory, Miles, Military, Mother, Movie, My Time, Need, Nothing to Say, Odds, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Push Past, Race, Remember, Resistance, Ring, Semper Fi, Sigh, Sisters, Smile, Sonds, Stronger, Tears, Toss, Twin, Weight, Years
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No Coincidence
An ardent atheist Issac Asimov was so startled by the number of improbables that allow live on the earth to thrive that he wrote a piece on that and the odds he tabulated were astronomical. He couldn’t bring himself to … Continue reading
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Tagged Carbon Dioxide, Chance, Coincidence, Earth, Earth Science, Edge, Extraordinary, Floor, Forgive, Gratitude, Hubble, Improbable, Issac Asimov, Miracle, Moment, Ocean, Odds, Organism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Resilient, River, Sediment, Sun, Survive, Thankful, Thrive, Together
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