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Thought For the Day: Love Is Friendship That Has Caught Fire
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
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Tagged Allowance, Ann Landers, Fire, Forgive, Friendship, Human, Love, Loyalty, Mutual Confidence, Perfection, Quiet, Share, Thought For the Day, Understanding, Weakness
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Between A Cookie and A Cake
December 8th is set aside by some and somewhat unofficially as National Brownie Day! That’s alright by me. When I was a kid I always thought brownies and chocolate chip cookies should be their own separate food group with still … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacon, Bake, Bite, Cake, Calories, Chocolate, Chocolate Chip, Confection, Cookie, Count, Day, December 8th, Dream, End, Favorite, Head, Homage, Hot Fudge Sundae, Milk, National Brownie Day, Perfection, Photograph, Pillow, Poem, Poetry, Sleep, Smooth, Work Out
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Given To the Fire
Halloween Poem #24: Given To the Fire by Michael Romani Gazing on the precious cross Given to the fire with a toss One soul stood itself alone But, oh so, very lost and alone As if her heart were suddenly … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Alone, Atone, Aware, Battle, Begun, Best, Breath, Brutal, Candle, Close, Cross, Curse, Damned, Death, Destination, Dies, Embrace, End, End of Days, Eyes, Face, Fatal, Fire, Friend, Friends, Give, God, Goodbye, Halloween, Heart, Humanity, Immortality, Incarnate, Invoke, Kiss, Know, Life, Light, Love, Night, Offering, Pain, Pale, Peace On Earth, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Protection, Remorse, Run, Salvation, Sin, Soul, Squander, Stone, Suffering, Tear, Today, Vain, Wander, Whisper, Wisdom, Wolf, Wolf of God, Won
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Thought For the Day: Love Is Friendship That Has Caught Fire
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
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Tagged Allows, Ann Landers, Fire, Forgive, Friendship, Good and Bad Times, Human Weakness, Less, Love, Loyal, Mutual Confidence, Perfection, Quiet Understanding, Settles, Share, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: A Clock’s Perfection Is In Its Accuracy, Not Its Speed
“The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.” – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, moralist and essayist (6 Aug 1715-1747)
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Tagged Accurate, Clock, Fast, Luc de Clapiers, Perfection, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Despite Humanity’s Imperfections, We Must Take Human Nature As We Find It
“We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.” – -George Washington, Aug. 15, 1786 (letter to John Jay)
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Tagged Find, First Principles, George Washington, Human Nature, Mortals, Perfection, Share, We
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Things I’m Learning From You
Dedicated to all those I like and love however imperfectly… Things I’m Learning From You by Michael Romani I’ve long sought my authenticity Pursuing it with great integrity Only to find that in the much I believed I was too … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Authenticity, Begun, Beileve, Calvary, Checkered Past, Cherish, Clarity, Close, Deceived, Fell, Forgive, Gaffe, Gain, Grew, History, Hurt, Ignorance, Imperfect, Indecision, Integrity, Intimacy, Knew, Laugh, Learn, Love, Memory, Mind, Monkey, Morning, Night, One, Pain, Pajama Party, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Sincere, Sleepless, Smile, Soul, Sun, Surprise, Twenty Questions, Two, Words, You
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First Principles: We Must Accept Human Beings As We Find Them Without Expecting Perfection
“We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.” – George Washington (1786)
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Tagged Find, First Principles, George Washington, Human Nature, Mortal, Perfection, We
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Your Knight and Vagabond
Conversation starter kept on a echo of same things said. Mostly, I suppose cause it’s what’s stuck in my head lately. How does one move beyond square one when to move requires another to have the confidence needed to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Belong, Connection, Dance, Drama, Faith, Fear, Find, Future, Good Enough, Hand, Hard, Home, Hope, Knight, Know, Light On, Love, New World, North Star, Pain, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Shadow, Side By Side, Sorrow, Sorry, Special, Step, Story Book, Strength, Strong, Sympathy, Together, Tomorrow, Truth, Vagabond, Wish
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