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First Principles: Let Us Tenderly and Kindly Cherish, Therefore, the Means of Knowledge. Let Us Dare To Read, Think, Speak, and Write.
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”– John Adams
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Tagged Cherish, Dare, First Principles, John Adams, Means of Knowledge, Read, Speak, Tenderly, Think, Us, Write
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Kept In A Hillside Perspective
Kept In A Hillside Perspectiveby Michael DoyleI’ve heard a lot of jokesAbout being close to inbredIt’s the kind of a thingThat rolls around in my headOver and over againPlaying a memory’s allusionAgainst something, I can’t defendAs I have been searching … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowed, Allusion, Awkward, Believe, Born, Burn, City Folk, Come True, Comfortably Grown, Confusion, Cool, Country Folks, Defend, Discerned, Dreams, Driven, Every Inch, Forgotten, Go Through, Grief Lived, Head, Helps Keep Things In Perspective, Her time, Hillbillies, Hills, Hillside, Hope Given, Hurts, Incendiary, Inisde, Joke, Kept, Learn, Legendary, Lessons Learned, Life, Little Battles of Life, Lived, Lord Wills, Loud and Proud, Make It, Me, Memory, Momma, Mother's Knee, My Momma, Never Lived, Nobody, Only Listen, Other Names, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Powerfully, Pre-School, Presence of the Lord, Proud But Few, Quietly Fought In, Read, Reflective, Reminded, Rocky Road, Search, Shames, Sound, Stupid, There, Things Said, This Moment, Told, Unfortunate, Want To, West Virginia
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Thought For the Day: If We Encounter A Man of Rare Intellect, We Should Ask Him What Books He Reads
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Ask, Encounter, Man, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rare Intellect, Read, Thought For the Day, We, What Books
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First Principles: Where the Press Is Free and Every Man Able To Read, All Is Safe
“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” – Thomas Jefferson, to Charles Yancey (1816)
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Tagged Able, All, Every Man, First Principles, Free, Press, Read, Safe, Thomas Jefferson
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An Educated Mind Cannot Be Enslaved
“What is the one thing [slaves] were not allowed to do?” Learn to read. Learn to write. The punishment would have been severe for that. And the reason for that is simple: It’s because an educated mind cannot be enslaved.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowed, Candace Owens, Cannot Be Ensaved, Educated Mind, Learn, Martin Luther King Jr., Punishment, Read, Reason, Severe, Simple, Slaves, Thought For the Day, Write
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For God So Loved the World
For God So Loved the Worldby Michael DoyleSpeaking across the latitude of agesComes the noble language of sagesTouching each soul as each an individualComprehended as fully as we are capableEternal questions fill up our needAs we learn and grow as … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: It Was Books That Taught Me That the Things That Tormented Me Were the Very Things That Connected Me
“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, All People, Books, Connected Me, Heartbreaks, History of the World, James Baldwin, Or Ever Alive, Pains, Read, Taught, Things, Think, Thought For the Day, Tormented Me, Unprecendented
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Prayer For Courage
Poem Number Six in a series on a retelling of a classic werewolf tale: Prayer For Courage by Michael Doyle Look deep – is it a surprise? Do you see the beast in my eyes God knows that I wish … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Beast, Bold, Cards, Courage, Desire, Divine, Eyes, Flaws, Forgiveness, Fortunes, God, God Knows, God's Law, Good, Greater Good, Home, Hope, I, Inside, Look Deep, Looking Hard, Mortal Heart, Moves, Pensive, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prayer, Prove, Read, Real, Sadness, Savage Beast, Series, Signs, Stand, Start, Stumble, Surge, Surprise, Tale, Times, Told, Understood, Urge, Werewolf, Whisper, With, World
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Indiana Back Hills
I am not sure really how Google’s mapping GPS works. It usually gives me the most direct and quickest route to my destination. On my way home last night, I received directions that could not have possibly have been the … Continue reading
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Tagged All Too Near, Angel, Ask, Back Hills, Back Road, Being Alone, Belong, Blind, Bones, Burning Down, Capture, Catch, Close, Cool Breeze, Cross, Direct Route, Endless, Except, Explore, Fall, Feel, Fill, Find, Four Wheels, Good Kind of Tired, Google, GPS, Gratitude, Grow, Growth, Headlights, Here, Hold Me, Indiana, Last Light, Lonesome, Long, Loose, Map, Mask, Me, Meander, Memory, Mile, Moment, Moon, Need, Night, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Probably, Raccoon, Rain, Read, Rearview, Rise, Road, Roll, Secrets, Seem, Shadows, Signs, Slow Down, Smile, Somewhere, Sun's Eyes, Sunrise, Surround, Takes Me There, Tears, Thought, To Do, Today, Tomorrow, Too Busy Looking, Track, Trees, Twilight, Two Angels, Unexpected, Unfold, Unseen, View, Whisper, Wish, Without You
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Brand Me
Watched a Ted Talk with my princesses on branding. Brand Me by Michael Doyle Thinking back on life Through all of the joy and strife There has been one question Held back with some hesitation What then is my story? … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, All I'll Ever Be, All-American, All-Star, American, Any, Bed, Believe, Best of Life, Body, Books, Brand, Branding, Care, Choir Boy, Conversation, Crazy, Destiny, Devote, Dream, Dreams, Echo, Eighteen, Family, Fine Enough, First Chorus, Glory, Gratefully, Grave, Grindstone, Head, Hell, Hesitation, Humble, Joy, Just As Well, Laughter, Life, Love, Many, Me, Military Man, Moment, Nose Held Down, One Question, Open Door, Passion, Photograph, Place, Placed, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, President, Pride, Pride and Joy, Princesses, Privilege, Put Away, Read, Song, Story, Stride, Strife, Study, Sunbeam, Team, TED Talk, Thank God, Thinking Back, Time, Tombstone, Trust, Two, Wounded, Years
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