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For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)
For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)by Michael DoyleUsing song as a tool for transformationHis soundtrack helped to change the nationNow Belafonte has died at the age of ninety-sixHis life having affirmed the need of too much to fixSo many, … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirm, Affirmation, Ballad, Banality, Banana Boat, Better World, Birth, Black Man, Brutality, Bucket, Carribean, Change, Claypso Beat, Colors, Confirmation, Fix, Freedom, Front, Harry Belafonte, Hesitation, Hint, How Low, Inclusive, Injustice, Island, Joy, Joyful Mix, Jump In the Line, Liberty Bell, Life, Limbo, Linger, Melody, Mississippi Goddamn, Musical Life, Nation, Ninety-Six, Paradise, Poetry and Poems, Popstarr, Price, Question, Ransom, Recalled, Representation, Revolutionary, Rhymes, Ride, Risk, Song, Sountrack, Stride, Tangle, Tool, Transformation, Vision, Whole, Window, Winds, Work Songs, Wrongs
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Thought For the Day: Conscience Asks the Question, “Is It Right?”
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?” But, conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position … Continue reading
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Tagged Conscience, Cowardice, Expediency, Martin Luther King Jr., Popular, Postion, Question, Right, Safe, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The Question Is Whether Or Not You Choose To Disturb the World Around You, Or If you Choose To Let It Go On As If You Had Never Arrived
“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.” – Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)
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Tagged Ann Patchett, Choose, Disturb, Let It Go On, Never Arrived, Question, Thought For the Day, Whether, World
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Seasons Shift In Meaning
Seasons Shift In Meaningby Michael DoyleIn times filled with doubt and questionOne certainty stands without hesitationThat as the seasons shift in meaningThese changes influence every human beingHearts break on the shores of coincidenceIn this time seemingly devoid of justiceAs phases … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, Callous Truth, Calmness, Carefully Made Plans, Certainty, Changes, Coincidence, Cultivaation, Detangled Values, Dystopian Pandemic, Fliimsy, Hope, Humanity's Back, Justice, Liberation, Meaning, Morning Sun, Neolithic Observation, New Norm, Optimsim, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Pointlessness, Question, Romance, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Times, Trepidation, Undone, Weather This Storm, Whimsy, Winter
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Oblique Stare
Oblique Stareby Michael DoyleI looked up in an oblique stareUpward into that cold ceilingFighting with God in my prayerHoping that my wish would be prevailingTwo daughters stood near by my sideI was not ready to leave behindAnd to my Lord, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Another Day, Behind, Brave, Cold Ceiling, Confide, Cry, Daily Meditation, Deserve, Die, Fight, Forgiven, Given, God, Hear Me, Love, Medication, Mercy, My God, My Life, My Lord, Oblique Stare, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prevail, Question, Respect, Take My Life, Thankful, Time, Two Daughters, Understood, Wish, Year Later, Yours
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Thought For the Day: We Can Survive Lapses Into Hypocrisy, But We Cannot Survive Making Hypocrisy A Ruling Principle
“If we ever allow morality or law to become just a question of whose ox is gored, then we will have taken a fatal step toward national suicide. We can survive lapses into hypocrisy, but we cannot survive making hypocrisy … Continue reading
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Tagged Fatal Step, Hypocrisy, Lapses, Law, Morality, National Suicide, Ox, Question, Ruling Principle, Survive, Thomas Sowell, Thought For the Day
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In the I-IV-VII
In the II IV VIIby Michael Doyle In the I IV VIII just might playMy way to blues heavenBut I wouldn’t want to really say. It’s just another moment in this dayTroubles found and troubles goneNo real matter to how … Continue reading
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Tagged Belongs, Blues, Blues Heaven, Chill, Circles, Crossroads, Crowd, Cry and Play, Curved, Day, Dig In Deep, Drawn, Etch, Every Day, Fall, Feeling, Find, Fogot, Found, Gone, Groove, Guitar, I-IV-VII, Incendiary, Living Life, Lost Mind, Loud, Memory, Mind, Moment, Night, Note, One Too Many, Play, Poetry and Poems, Question, Real Matter, Right, Room, Say, Sing, Sliding Tones, Slow Roll, Song, Soul, Sting, Strings, Tomorrow, Troubles, Tumbling Dice
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Thought For the Day: The Question About Progress Has Become the Question Whether We Can Discovery Any Way of Submitting To the Worldwide Paternalism of A Technocracy Without Losing All Personal Privacy and Independence
“The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State’s … Continue reading
Standing Against Gender Identity Ideology
Standing Against Gender Identity Ideologyby Michael DoyleI.Warnings from the churchRight the bell of genderAn articulated realityOr a decision capriciously madeAre women to have rightsOr does post-modernist MarxismErase these differences based on secrecyPropelled into an intercultural revolutionFracture of family and identityQuestions … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Alienate, Anti-Realist, Art, Articulated Reality, Articulation, Basis, Bell, Best of Minds, Blurring of Lines, Bodies, Body, Capricious, Chameleon, Christmas Address, Church, Compass, Concepts, Concerns, Conditions, Confuse, Confused, Construct, Contentions, Creation, Culture, Decision, Deep Thinking, Define, Defined Within Reality, Defining Line, Dehumanizing, Destroy, Development, Differences, Digital Age, Disassociation, Discursive, Disembodied World, Distinct Differences, Distinguish, Diversion, Each Sex, Entrenchment, Exception, Expressed, Facades, Fall Back, Family, Fiction, First Called, Flesh, Fracture, Fracturing the Law, Freedom, Fullness of Functionality, Fundamental Source, Gameable, Gender Dysphoria, Gender Identity, Gender Identity Ideology, Genesis, Gift From God, Gifts, Gingerbread, Gnostic Essentialism, Gnostic Temptation, God and Nature, Harm, Heart, Heresy, Historical Moments, Holiness, Holy Sacrament, Humanity, Hydra, Identity, Illusion, Immersed, Impulse, In God's Image, Individuals, Insist, Intention, Inter-Sex, Intercultural Revolution, Isolation, Journey, Language, Legal Protections, Life, Long Way, Male and Female, Malleable Identity, Man, Marxism, Meaningless, Mind, Modern Myths, Natural Form, Open Con, Performance, Physical World, Poetry and Poems, Political Football, Post-Modernist, Post-Structualism, Potential, Pragmaticism, Problematic, Projection, Purpose, Question, Rampant, Reborn, Rights, Screen, Secrecy, Self-Definition, Separate, Sex Theology, Shift, Society of Contradictions, Source, Spiritual, Standing, Subversion, Suspiciion, Systems, Tear, Technology, Temporal Utility, Texture, Trans-Humanism, True Categories, True Story, Truth, Unicorns, Unity, Uprooting, Vulnerable, War, Warnings, Within A Sex, Woman's Space, Women, Worlds Apart, Wrong Paths
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