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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: A Blot in the ’Scutcheon – Robert Browning
Robert Browning’s story is one of a journey from success to near obscurity to success again. From this a lesson may be drawn. Never give up, never surrender. There is another lesson to which so many successful persons teach us. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Blot In the 'Scutcheon, Character, Drama, Harvard Classics, Irony, Monologue, Playwright, Poet, Robert Browning
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Lensed Path of Clarity
Lensed Path of Clarity by Michael Romani There is a path from the beginning A wonderment that is never ending From the pain of scale to fenestration Laying bare our deepest penetration It’s a creation of fine majesty Dressed up … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Poetry and Poems, Second Life
Tagged Clarity, Imagery, Lense, Path, Photographer, Photos, Poet, Second Life, Simplicity
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Thought For the Day: It Is Okay To Contradict Oneself
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman Whitman’s ‘Song of Oneself’ can be found here to read in its entirety: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/whitman/song.htm Human beings are complex. Even the … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Complexity, Contradictions, Multitudes, Oneself, Poet, Poetry, Song of Oneself, Walt Whitman
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Memories Along One Year’s Journey
Memories Along One Year’s Journey by Michael Romani Before there was a known you I spent my time floating about Never knowing quite what to do A lot I did caused a lot of doubt Mostly, I wanted to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Ally Romani, Beautiful, Captivated, Dance, Eternity, Journey, Lace & Fineness, Love, Love of My Life, Marriage, North Star, Paper Anniversary, Photography, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Second Life, Timeless, Wife
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Thought For the Day: Don’t Wait For the Approval of All
“Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till al commend.” – Alexander Pope
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Approval, Don't Wait, Poet, Thought For the Day, True Merit
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Thought for the Day: Feeling Safe
Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaff, Comfort, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Faithful, Feeling Safe, Grain, Kindness, Novelist, Poet
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Thought of the Day: History & Geography
History is all explained by geography. -Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (24 Apr 1905-1989) In coming to a more full understanding of what a particular person thought, it is useful to know a little about them. It sets the … Continue reading
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Tagged All the King's Men, Geography, Heritage, History, Poet, Robert Penn Warren
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