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Making Moments Memories
Making Moments Memoriesby Michael DoyleIt’s the momentsNot selfies that we needIn these times that aren’t contentBut from these, we can be freedLike mental orgasmsCrept up on with enthusiasmNot the dull day of egoThat add up to practically zeroOne photo after … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Amuck, Banality, Beauty and Kindness, Center, Complete, Connection, Content, Criminalize, Days, Dies, Direction, Disorder, Dull Day, Ego, Endless, Endure, Enthusiasm, Equal, Ever After, Every Breath and Sigh, Every Life, Exterminate, Eyes, Family, Finality, Freed, Friends, Grab Us A Memory, Grasp, Holy, Humanity, Ignore, Intimacy, Joy Thieves, Laugh, Laughter, Less Is More, Life More Livable, Life Reveals, Lifeless, Living In Memory, Memories, Mental Orgasms, Moments, Music, Need, Onslaught, Opened, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Sacred, Scenes of Beauty, Self, Selfies, Smile, Steal, Tears, Timeless, Times, Times of Humor, Tiny Moments, True, Unforgettable, Vital, Wonder, Words, Zero
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Inconvenience Into Resemblance
Inconvenience Into Resemblanceby Michael DoyleCasting aside the inconvenienceLooking instead for the resemblanceIs he your bother or a brother?What happened to loving one another?Red letter moments meant to teach usEach word said in try to reach usPassages that speak to heartachesMeant … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Belong, Bother, Brother, Done, Dwell, Embrace, Embraces, Encourage, Factual, Faith, Gentle Correction, God, God's Loving Arms, Goodness, Grace, Healing Hand, Healthy, Heartaches, His Love, Hurt, Importance, Incovenience, Jesus, Leaning In, Loving One Another, Me, Messy Spaces, Missing, Mistakes, Passages, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Purity, Pursuit, Reach, Red Letter, Reflection, Resemblance, Sacred, Seasons, Sick, Sobering, Speak, Spiritual Perfection, Stepping Into, Teach, Teaches, Thee, Toward, True, Wrong
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First Principles: America’s Founding Principles Are True Not Because Any Generation – Including Our Own – Has Lived Them Perfectly, But Because They Are Based Upon the Eternal Truths of the Human Condition
“America’s founding principles are true not because any generation — including our own — has lived them perfectly, but because they are based upon the eternal truths of the human condition. They are rooted in our capacity for evil and … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Capacity, Created In the Image of God, Dignity, Equality, Eternal Truths, Every Man Woman and Child, Evil, First Principles, Founding Principles, Generation, Glory, Human Condition, Longing For Truth, Love of Freedom, Need For Order, Potential, Power For Good, Rooted, Striving For Justice, The 1776 Project, The Worth, True
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Thought For the Day: When It Comes To Developing Character Strength, Inner Security and Unique Personal and Interpersonal Talents and Skills In A Child, No Institution Can Or Ever Will Compare With…the Home’s Potential For Positive Influence
“When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence.” – Stephen … Continue reading
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
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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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Knowing Who We Are
Based in part on Pentecostal Sunday and Ephesians 10: Knowing Who We Are by Michael Doyle For we are the handiwork of God for His good Created in His image, let this be understood With all thanks to God we … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Benefit, Best, Blood of Jesus, Candle, Capacity, Charged, Christ, Command, Creation, Darkeness, Dedicate, Duties, Ephesians, Fulfill, God, God's Good Plan, Good, Gratitude, Handiwork, His Image, His Will, Hope, Hour, Humble, Illustrate, Immensity, Implication, Intend, Intensity, Jesus, Kingdom, Know, Legacy, Light, Live Up, Lives, Masterpiece, Night, Pentecostal Sunday, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Power, Promise, Purpose, Repudiation, Responsibility, Salvation, Servants, Service, Shape of God, Sins, State of Grace, Test, Thanks, Time, Truth, Understand, Understood, Victory, We Are, Who
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Mathing the COVID-19 Curve
Day 7 of Na/GloPoWriMo! The target objective? “…a poem based on a news article.” My subject today can be drawn on any number of articles plastered throughout our daily news periodicals to the point it cannot be escaped really. But, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918 Influenza, Absence, Application, Base Reproduction Number, Basic, Breath, Business As Usual, Change, Common Sense, Consistent, Contact, Contact Rate, COVID-19, Crucial, Current Data, Curve, Daily, Death, Decrease, Degrees, Depend, Direction, Doubt, Early Action, Epidemic, Escape, Exponential, Fact, Fate, Feedback Loop, Fire, Flatten, Gasoline, Good Habits, Grave, Heal, Heed, Horror, Hospital Beds, Hour, Humans, Illness, Impact, Increase, Infected, Infection, Keep Calm, Land, Linear, Little, Lives, Logarithmic Scale, Map, Math, Medical Care, Mid-April, Mind, Mitigate, Model, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nations, Nerves, News Article, Non-Linear, Numb, Numbers, Outbreak, Overblown, Overflow, Pandemic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Population, Potential, Power, Practice, Project, Proportion, Reduce, Remove, Resiliency, Sad, Safe, Same, Sanitation, Save, Seal, See, Seen, Shown, SIR Curve, Social Distancing, Society, Staggering, Steady, Straight Line, Supplication, Susceptible, Tale, Time, Trajectory Rates, Trouble, Understand, Vaccine, Virus
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An Expectancy of Government
A continuing look at American history: An Expectancy of Government by Michael Doyle Approaches as it had been in hesitancy No gave the Constitution great expectancy As a blue print for what had been built To house a people in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1800, Agrarian, Alien and Sedition Act, American History, Americas, Andrew Jackson, Battle of New Orleans, Blue Print, British, Clause, Commerical Power, Common Man, Consolidation, Constitution, Country, Debt, Destruction, Dire, Division, Double, Ear, Economy, Election, Enumerated Powers, Era, Expectancy, Fair Trade, Farewell Address, Farm, Federalist, Federalist Party, Foreign Entanglement, Foreign Policy, French Revolution, Global, Golden Goose, Government, Great Plan, Hamilton, Harbinger, Ideology, Indispensable Man, James Madison, Jefferson, John Adams, Judiciary, Knell, Libel, Liberty, Light, Loose, Louisiana Purchase, Madison v. Marbury, Marshall, Maturation, Misery, Missouri, Missouri Compromise, Monarch, Monroe Doctrine, Mount Vernon, Nation, National Bank, Necessary, Neutrality, New Jersey, Nullifcation, Photograph, Pirate, Plow, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Potential, Power, Preservation, Primacy, Proper, Prosperity, Railroad, Republic, Resolution, Responsibility, Review, Right, Risk, Safety, Shoulder, Slander, Slavery, Strict Construction, Tariff, Teach, Territory, The Star Spangled Banner, Virginia, War of 1812, Washington, Washington D.C., Wolf
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Thought For the Day: There Is No Material With Which Human Beings Work Which Has So Much Potential Energy As Words
“There is no material with which human beings work which has so much potential energy as words.” – Earnest Calkins
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Tagged Earnest Calkins, Energy, Human Being, Material, Potential, Thought For the Day, Words
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Pandemic 2020
The days are dark but we will get through this. Pandemic 2020 by Michael Doyle Mass graves mark the passing through Of the last major outbreak of flu There are not moments relegated to history But a devastating part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Answer, Arc, Atheist, Breath, Bring, Clock, Computation, Contamination, Covoid 19, Cure, David, Day, Defy, Desperate, Devestate, Endure, Fail, Fataility, Fatal, Flaw, Flu, Global, Goliath, Hard, History, Hope, Human, Human Welfare, If, Immunity, Immunization, Incubation, Infinite, Knees, Life, Light, Mass Graves, Mistake, Moments, Monster, Mortality, Mutation, Mystery, Novel, One, Outbreak, Pandemic, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Pray, Rapid, Real, Research, Reveal, Rise, Risk, Say, Sling, Tick, Truth, Universal, Variation, Virus, Warfare, When, Worse
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 