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Thought For the Day: A Guitar Is A Very Personal Extension of the Person Playing It. You Have To Be Emotionally and Spiritually Connected To Your Instrument
“A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.” – Eddie Van Halen
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Tagged Connect, Eddie Van Halen, Emotionl, Extension, Guitar, Instrument, Person, Personal, Play, Spiritual, Thought For the Day
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Past Blinking Twice
Past Blinking Twiceby Michael DoyleSome say forgetting is a giftIt’s a way past the riftBetween personal rationalizationAnd what allows you past sensationsThe ones that we cannot forgiveAnd yet it is that we must liveHowever, far past the thresholdThat our senses … Continue reading
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Tagged Blink, Crawl, Done, Evolve, Fear, Forgetting, Forgive, Gift, Human Beings, Life, Live, Longer, Mud, Nice, Personal, Poetry and Poems, Puddle of Blood, Rationalization, Rift, Sensation, Senses, Sorrow, Stronger, Survive, Threshold, Told, Tomorrow, Twice, Unthinkable
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Thought For the Day: All I Ask of Myself Is To Live A Good Christian Life, and Toward that Objective, I Bend Every Effort
“All I ask of myself is to live a good Christian life, and toward that objective I bend every effort in shaping my personal, domestic and professional activities and growth. I have watched constantly that in my work the highest … Continue reading
A Perspective of Identity
A Perspective of Identityby Michael DoyleIdentityMulti-facetedYet abstractIntegral Stated with trustCrucial To communicationEssentialTo humanity’s explanationPervasive In every social interactionAn accelerated Mix of culture in transitionDiscussed amongst us allLike Babel’s great fallA conception in definitionDeveloped in competencyOr lost in the incendiarySocial categoryPersonal … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract, Accelerate, Allegory, Babel, Communication, Competency, Comprise, Conception, Crucial, Definition, Destruction, Discuss, Elusive, Eseential, Heritage, Humanity, Identity, Incendiary, Inclusive, Integral, Lost, Mix of Culture, Multi-Faceted, Personal, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Reflective, Self-Deception, Shy, Social Category, Social Construction, Social Interaction, Social Norm, Speak, Time, Transition, Trust, Unique, View, Warm, Who Am I?
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Happiness Is A Warm Cookie
December 4 is National Cookie Day!! It doesn’t get better than this does it? I’ll try to do the day a little bite sized bit of heartwarming justice. Happiness Is A Warm Cookie by Michael Romani As the holidays come … Continue reading
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Tagged Bake, Balanced Diet, Bite Size, Blend, Bliss, Bowl, Business, Child, Christmas, Cookie, Cookie Dough, Cooking, Crave, Day, Delight, Fade, Fill, Gentle, Happiness, Heart, Holiday, Homemade, Ingredients, Inner Child, Kiss, Kitchen, Lifetime, Memory, Miss, Mistletoe, Mix, Mother's Love, National Cookie Day, Nibble, Personal, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pure, Raw, Shape, Slip, Smile, Snitch, Soul, Store-bought, Sweet, True Love, Unconditional, Walnut Chocolate Chip, Warm, Way, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: Giving Books For Christmas Is A Healthy Alternative
“Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.” – Lenore Hershey
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Tagged Books, Christmas, Give, Healthy, Lenore Hershey, Other, Personal, Religious, Thought For the Day
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Rite of Your Own Story
Each tale told has its own writer. This is especially true of our own tales. Rite of Your Own Story by Michael Romani In the rite of our own personal story There can be no big truth or glory Until … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Truth, Bury, Circle, Courage, Exchange, First Line, Glory, Noise, Patterns, Personal, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reader, Right Stuff, Rite, Signal, Story, Tales, Write
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Thought For the Day: There Is Always Something To Do To Make This World A Better Place
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world, I do think it’s not asking too … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Clothe, Comfort, Feed, Heal, Hunger, Nikki Giovanni, Personal, Save the World, Something, Thought For the Day
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City of Noise
City of Noise by Michael Romani For our ears there is no escape Not from the bustling sounds Of our shared landscape The omnipresent din that surrounds This may seem benign and endearing But is noise pollution that we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Antagonism, Autonomy, City of Noise, Gentrified, Landscape, Moralism, Noise Pollution, Personal, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Silence, Sound, Soundscape, Urban Blight
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