Tag Archives: Personal

Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Remembering When Kindness Was in Fashionby Michael DoyleWe live in a time of self-limited imaginationWhere people cannot dream of outside creationBut mysteriously believe in writing only experienceSuch as found in personal and depraved dalliancesRather than dreaming of the bigger conceptionsToo … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on April 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“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 →

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A Perspective of Identity

Posted on November 13, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

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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Happiness Is A Warm Cookie

Posted on December 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

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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Thought For the Day: Giving Books For Christmas Is A Healthy Alternative

Posted on December 12, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.” – Lenore Hershey

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Rite of Your Own Story

Posted on October 13, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Truth, Bury, Circle, Courage, Exchange, First Line, Glory, Noise, Patterns, Personal, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reader, Right Stuff, Rite, Signal, Story, Tales, Write | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: There Is Always Something To Do To Make This World A Better Place

Posted on June 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“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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City of Noise

Posted on February 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Antagonism, Autonomy, City of Noise, Gentrified, Landscape, Moralism, Noise Pollution, Personal, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Silence, Sound, Soundscape, Urban Blight | Leave a comment

First Principles: A Nation Should Use the Same Prudence In Finances As An Individual Would Use

Posted on January 12, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)

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Thought For the Day: Discerning Truth Requires Experience

Posted on July 25, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” – John Stuart Mill Without experience it is difficult to discern full truth. If you sit a moment and think on … Continue reading →

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