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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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A Vacation In the Reflective
A Vacation In the Reflectiveby Michael DoyleIt seems to me that there’s one thingCovid has brought and its the thrivingThat comes in knowing it’s not really destinationGiving us the best of our family vacationIt does not hurt in thinking locationBut, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ambience, Architecture, Beauty, Billion, Blown Ego, Candid, Catch the Light, Collect, Contrast, Covid, Creative, Curves, Dawn, Day, Death's Embrace, Destination, Difference, Differently, Dignity, Dingy, Draw, Early To rise, Edges, Eloquent, Exact, Familiar, Family, Family Vacation, Feel, Floor, Focus, Found, Grey, Handholding, Highest Degree, Hurt, Images, Inside, Intimacy, Intricate, Just Right, Know, Lattice, Life, Linger, Location, Lunacy, Making the Best, Marble, Measuring Ages, Moments, Mt. Rushmore, New Angle, Opportunity, Perspective, Photo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Real, Reflect, Remind, Restrict, Reverence, Said, Seems, Share, Situation, Sky, Snapshot, Spin, Standard Image, Statue of Liberty, Stiff As A Board, Surprise, Texture, Thoughtful Expression, Thrive, Too Big, Top Down View, Trip of the Shutter, Twilight, Vacation, Visual, Whole Other World, World, Wounded Pride
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The Good of the Middle
Complex isn’t it? Good in the bad; bad in the good. And we swear our allegiance to one or the other while seemingly never getting it completely right. The Good of the Middle by Michael Doyle Is man good Or, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bad, Become, Before, Born, Born Good, Breath, Burn, Candle, Change, Collective, Do Evil, Do Good, Evil, Good, Grave, Humanity, Know, Learn, Lesson, Little, Long Way, Mankind, Middle, Morality, Most Days, One Size Fits All, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Slip, Taken, This Way, Time, Try, Twist, Walk, Want To Be
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Thought For the Day: A Change In Perspective Is Worth 80 IQ Points
“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” – Alan Kay, computer scientist (b. 17 May 1940)
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Tagged Alan Kay, Change, IQ, Perspective, Points, Thought For the Day, Worth
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On Perspective and Horizon
A second look at photographic composition: On Perspective and Horizon by Michael Doyle A good clean background Focuses the attention When aptly found These photos are worthy of retention Layered photographs have their place But cleaner is best to embrace … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Add, Angles, Attention, Background, Beginner, Big Deal, Block, Build, Camera, Capture, Change, Clean, Complete, Composition, Cooking, Detail, Distraction, Drama, Embrace, Focus, Fog, Forward, Found, Glory, High, Horizon, Horizon Line, Human Being, Kick, Know, Layered Phototgraphs, Looking, Low, Matter, Mountain, Overdone, Perspective, Photographs, Photos, Picture, Place, Poem, Poetry, Popping Out, Read, Retention, Satisfaction, Seen, Shatter, Sing, Smoke, Story, Subject, Sun, Toward, Trick
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Thoughts On the Hubble Space Telescope
I find it fascinating that my lady love and I are both interested in things like the exploration of universe and soul. I actually wrote this poem yesterday but didn’t post it. Sort of ran out of time talking… … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow, Alone, Assauge, Assure, Beauty, Blot, Blue, Born, Cloudy, Collective, Cross, Dark Places, Deep Space, Diffuse, Discover, Eyes, Face, Familiar, Forgiver, Forlorn, Form, Galactic, Galaxies, Glow, Home, Hubble Space Telescope, Intensity, Interstellar, Light, Light Pollution, Light Years, Marvel, Might, Milky Way, Night Skies, Overlap, Passing Days, Path, Perspective, Photograph, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Program, Puzzle, Question, Sea, Search, See, Shine, Silver River, Skies, Space, Spiral, Spy, Stars, Straw Path, Study, Tapestry, Tears, Thoughts, Three Billion, Tonight, Trace, Universe, Urban, Wander, Wish, Wonder, You and I
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De Bussy Opening
In a review of what brought about the changes of 20th Century art music, leads to at least one conclusion. It was Beethoven and then De Bussy to blame…. 😉 De Bussy Opening by Michael Doyle Music like all of … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Action, Art, Art & Music, Articulation, Aural, Balance, Beethoven, Catalyst, Claude De Bussey, Compose, Composition, Concession, Culture, Cyclical, De Bussey, Delicacy, Depth, Development, Different, Ebb, Enlightenment, Explosive, Familiar, Flow, Fluidity, Form, Forward, Frame, Frames, French, Generation, Gentle, Ground Zero, Heed, Hero, Imagination, Implosive, Importance, Infuence, Instrumentality, Intimate, Kept, Life, Linear, Lush, Melodic, Modernism, Motif, Music, Musical, Needed, New Game, Nurture, Open, Perspective, Photograph, Phrase, Pierre Boulez, Poem, Poetry, Prelude To A Fawn, Profound, Progression, Romance, Rules, Sake, Sake of Sound, Self Confession, Self-Satisfaction, Simple, Sound, Strife, Strings, Symbolism, Syntax, Tickle, Tonal Color, Tonality, Touch, Transparency, Understood, Winds
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