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Implausibly Transformative
In dreaming the impossible Dream, the man from La Mancha sallied forth to defeat his quests and earn the love of his lady fair. Or umm something like that…. Part II of Part I of the book summed up … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiquity, Beating, Belong, Castle, Certainty, Clear, Confidence, Crumble, Dedicate, Desire, Determined, Don Quixote, Doubting Thomas, Eye, False Promise, Grandness, Heart, Hero, Home, Implausible, Impossible Dream, Inn, Journey, Knight, Left, Light, Love, Madness, Man From La Mancha, Marvel, Mind, Mystical, Need, Nobility, Noble, Passion, Photograph, Play Along, Poem, Poetry, Poor Pounded Knight, Practical, Pure, Quest, Read, Real, Real World, Right, Safe, Sancho Pancho, Sight, Spiritual, Squire, Stumble, Test, Tranformative, Truth, Twinkle, Urgent, Vigil, Western History, World
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Reading of Minds
The best and truest magic in the world remains love. Still all the same, there is even among even those wishing to become astute wizards, a strong desire to be able to read minds… Reading of Minds by Michael Doyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Are, Attention, Behind, Best, Book of Knowledge, Care, Chaos, Confidence, Control, Create, Depart, Desire, Diffidence, Earn, Everything, First, Flow, Fulfill, Grace, Heart, Hidden, Human Beings, Hyperborean Age, Illuminate, Information, Know, Known, Learn, Light, Little Things, Love, Magic, Mean, Mind, Minds, Mystery, Night, Notion, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proposition, Quench, Read, Reading, Regard, Right Intention, Role, Secret, Show, Shown, Signs, Simple, Spells, Stars, Subtle, Sure, Tangle, Thirst, Thoughts, Trickery, True, We, Weary, Will, Wizard
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Birth of Merlin
Which was your favorite? King Arthur? Or, Merlin? Birth of Merlin by Michael Doyle In 480 AD, in Britain’s Dark Ages Arthur, Camelot and Merlin rode into its pages Shrouded in the fog of great mystery It’s half lost from … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Days, Anger, Birth, Brawn, Breath, Britain, Camelot, Castle, Child, Chivalry, Command, Counsel, Country, Dark Ages, Death, Druids, Famine, Favorite, Fog, Gods, History, King, King Arthur, Land, Legend, Lore, Magic, Merlin, Mystery, Myth, Night, Pages, Photograph, Plague, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Purity, Question, Risk, Second Sight, Sincerity, Storm, Time, Violence, Wise Man, Wizard
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A Cowboy Slips Into Easy
Some of my heroes have been cowboys. At least one of them was a cowgirl. My sister. She’s likely riding the North Back 40 in heaven now looking down on us all and encouraging us to ride through this storm … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Brave, Cast, Changes, Coffee, Cowboy, Cowboy Ways, Cowgirl, Cup, Dakota, Easy, Enough, Face, Going On, Half Remembered, Hero, Home, Human Beings, Intangibles, Jukebox, Known, Life, Light, Luck, Made, Name, One Day, Own, People, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Promises, Proof, Quarter, Ranges, Same, Seen, Sister, Slips, Smile, Splinter, Stand By, Stone, Storm, Taste, Thrown, Truth, Unafraid, When, While, Winter, Yester
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Guarding Against Faction
Today’s poem about American history speaks on some basic principles as set out in largely in Federalist Paper Number 10 in which we choose to become a republic and not a democracy to protection of nation from the encroachment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Air, American History, Ancient, Answer, Argue, Become, Capacity, Citizens, Community, Constitution, Contest, Control, Convene, Cost, Counter Direct, Country, Democracy, Deprive, Differences, Direct Democracy, Duly Elected, Effect, Elective Despotism, Eliminate, Enfranchise, Faction, Federalist Paper No. 10, Fire, Form, Good, Government, Guard, Guide, Harm, Heed, Injury, Institutions, Insult, Justice, Latent Cause, Learn, Lesson, Liberty, Lost, Love, Majority, Man, Medium, Minority, Mystery, Nation, Nature, Outcome, Outvote, Path, Patriotism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political Control, Primary Role, Principles, Protect, Purpose, Representation, Republic, Rest, Rights, Rights and Interests, Rule of Law, Sacrifce, Satisfaction, Scheme, Seek Advantage, Settle, Society, Sown, Stop, Survive, Temporary, The People, Tryanny of the Majority, Tyranny, Understood, Unjust Result, Utility, Wisdom
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Don Quixote Reexamined
A hidalgo or minor nobleman gets so lost in his reading that he mistakes folklore regarding chivalry as the path of history that will lead him and through him the world to greater nobility. The intention being good. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Admonishment, Beautiful, Borrowed Time, Cervantes, Chivalry, Comic, Complexity, Correct, Don Quixote, Embrace, Examine, Excess, Fantasies, Fiction, Folklore, Folly, Good Magic, Hidalgo, History, Human Mind, Intention, Journey, Knight Errant, Lady, Laughter, Lent, Life, Literary, Mad, Man, Moments, Musical, Name, Nobility, Nobleman, Pages, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practicalities, Practice, Preach, Railing, Reach, Read, Reading, Real, Reveal, Sad, Sally, Sights, Simplicity, Spent, Substance, Tales, Tear, Tragic, Understand, Unique, Utterances, Wrong Conclusions
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A Godly Mother
Based in part on 2 Timothy 1:1-7 and, of course, thoughts on Mother’s Day: A Godly Mother by Michael Doyle Without any sense of shy timidity God speaks through Second Timothy That which we’d do well to recognize Every mother … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Best Intention, Blessed, Brothers, Build Up, Capable, Care, Center, Children, Companions, Compassion, Conduct, Conflict, Consequence, Conversation, Coordination, Darkness, Deceive, Dependency, Destruction, Devil, Discipline, Discouragement, Doing, Doing Well, Done, Encouragement, Eyes, Faith, Family, Fashion, Fill, Focus, Footsteps of Christ, Forgive, Freedom, Generosity, Generous, Gift, Give, God, Godly, Good, Hands, Harmony, Hesitation, His Word, Hour, Humanity, Imperfect, Inevitable, Instruction, Joy, Key, Live, Love, Man, Matters, Mother, Mother's Day, Needs, Obedience, Order, Organization, Outpouring, Outward, Path, Peace, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Precious, Profitable, Providence, Quality, Receive, Recognize, Remind, Resiliency, Resistance, Rest, Right Intention, Righteous Path, Schedule, Second Timothy, Self, Sense, Serve, Show, Sisters, Son, Stress, Study, Teach, Tension, Test, Timidity, Timothy, Town Down, True, Trust, Unconditional, Understand, Undone, Words, Worry
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