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Thought For Today: Most of All, Perhaps, We Need Intimate Knowledge of the Past. Not That the Past Has Any Magic About It, But Because We Cannot Study the Future
“Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that … Continue reading
Reality Vs. Constructs
Reality Vs. Constructsby Michael DoyleAn understanding states and instructsThat the “real world” consists of constructsWe all oblige each other to reach an understandingBut to apply this loosely rather than too demandingThis is to say we lie so often to our … Continue reading
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Tagged Apply, Breed, Constructs, Danger, Fantasies, Free, Ghosts, Imagination, Inter-Crossing Boundaries, Intrude, Lie, Loose, Normalacy, Oblige, Past, Poetry and Poems, Real, Real World, Reality, Shackles, Shadows, Stranger, Struggle, Tradition, Understanding, Unreal Things
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Thought For the Day: When You’re Traveling, You Are What You Are Right There and Then. People Don’t Have Your Past To Hold Against You. No Yesterdays On the Road
“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)
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Tagged Hold, Past, People, Right There, Road, Thought For the Day, Travel, William Least Heat-Moon, Yesterdays
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Thought For the Day: Historians Tell the Story of the Past, Novelists the Story of the Present
“Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.” – Edmond de Goncourt, writer, critic, and publisher (26 May 1822-1896)
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Tagged Edmond de Goncourt, Historian, Novelists, Past, Present, Story, Thought For the Day
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A Living Web
A Living Webby Michael DoyleOur minds have a superpowerIt’s the ability to project beyond the hourWe can be in the future or the pastTemporarily, though, it will not lastLanguage is the mystic secretIt can be soft or hard as concreteOur … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Beyond, Change, Choices, Concrete, Conform, Continuum, Echo, Every Word, Experience, Eyes, Flow, Future, Hour, Inside, Know, Knows, Language, Last, Learn, Living Web, Magic, Minds, Moment, More, Muse, Mystic Secret, Our Words, Past, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Project, Reach, Rearrange, Revelation, See, Serve, Soft, Spectrum, Super Power, Teach, Temporarily, Time, Tradition, Transform, Truth, Understand, Voices, World
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Thought For the Day: You Can’t Change the Past, But You Can Ruin the Present By Worrying About the Future “You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.”– Isak Dinesen (pen name … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Future, Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, Past, Present, Ruin, Thought For the Day, Worry, You
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Mean Streaks and Misgivings
Mean Streaks and Misgivingsby Michael DoyleWhen the Colt has turned to rustAnd all that’s left is to swallow the dustThe desert plays tricks on a man’s mindAs he looks over his shoulder at what’s left behindWar is war and won’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Amend, At Last, Blind, Blindness, Body, Bury, Carry, Catch Up, Cost, Cure, Desert, Dust, Ease, Eke Away, Endure, Eye For An Eye, Find, Forget, Gun Hand, Heart, Labyrinth, Left Behind, Living Days, Mean Streak, Memories, Mental Maze, Mind, Misgiving, More, Our Ways, Past, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Price, Regret, Resistance, Revenge, Ripped Free, Rust, Settle, Shaken, Shoulder, Soul, Soul's Rot, Start, Sun, Taken, The Days, Things Done, Tricks, Tricks of Mind, Truce, Truth, Turns Out, War, Whiskey, Wounded, Wounds
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Like Saul To Paul
Like Saul To Paulby Michael DoyleTogether, we learn to live outWhat our sermons are aboutDay by day, we learn the talkAnd put it into practice in our walkSpiritual growth brings our skillsLike Saul to Paul, we serve God’s willAll the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christian, Church, Conversion, Day by Day, Destroy, Divine Light, Divinity, Future, God, God's Will, Heal, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Learn, Legalism, Nurture, Past, Persecute, Poetry and Poems, Practice, Pure, Reveal, Road to Damascus, Salvation, saul, Saul To Paul, Sermon, Skills, Spiritual Growth, Talk, Together, Walk, Zeal
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