Tag Archives: Question

First Principles: Americans Would Rather Die Than Live As Slaves

Posted on April 23, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The ever memorable 19th of April gave a conclusive answer to the questions of American freedom. What think ye of Congress now? That day. . . evidenced that Americans would rather die than live slaves!” – Mary Katherine Goddard If … Continue reading →

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To Be Crucified

Posted on April 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Mark 14:43-15:20: To Be Crucified by Michael Romani Testimony no matter how persistent Becomes question when it’s inconsistent Because of this we should speak plainly When telling of the fulfillment of prophecy So it was in … Continue reading →

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A Vancouverite Current

Posted on April 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Is the Responsibility of Every Citizen To Question Authority

Posted on April 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” – Benjamin Franklin

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In A Question of Liberty

Posted on April 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

On this second day of Na/GloPoWriMo, we are invited to explore writing a poem that avoids closure by providing the open end of the question. I believe that as an invitation to explore a significant question raised by a far … Continue reading →

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A Prairie Sky’s Truth

Posted on April 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Sometimes seeing things differently is mental illness; sometimes it’s seeing things differently. A show I was watching at the suggestion of a person who is increasingly important to me portrayed that in an interesting bit that I have attempted to … Continue reading →

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Questioning Prayers

Posted on January 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

From time to time, a soul is shaken into questioning things even convictions firmly held. Questioning Prayers by Michael Romani Questioning prayers Questioning the Divine Caught in emotional snares Laid like cerebral landmines Poems to all its owed To dreams … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion Formed In the Mind of Distrust

Posted on January 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)

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Thought For the Day: Leave Your Mark and Risk Disturbing the World

Posted on December 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“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) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Possibilities of Mischief In the Governance of Man Should Remain Bound By the Constitution

Posted on November 27, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1798)

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