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Ring, Ring Rings the Phone
Today is both National Call A Friend Day and National Chocolate Candy Day! In honor of this, to paraphrase a military tradition, ‘eat them if you got ’em’ and call a friend if only to tell that person or persons … Continue reading
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Tagged Bliss, Box of Chocolate, Care, Choice, Christmas, Coco, Coconut Curry, Confectionery, Dares, Days, Dictionary, Dreams, Good, Happiness, Hours, Hurry, Imagination, Lose, Minutes, National Call A Friend Day, National Chocolate Candy Day, Nights, Phone, Photograph, Pleasant, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Realize, Ring, Seconds, Seem, Share, Sit, Spent, Squares, Sudden, Text, Three, Tonight, Voice
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Thought For the Day: True Wisdom Comes At Realizing How Little We Understand About Life, Ourselves and the World Around Us
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” – Socrates
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Tagged Life, Ourselves, Realize, Socrates, Thought For the Day, True Wisdom, Understand, Us, We, World
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It’s A Harsh Thing To Be Labelled
December 3rd is both National and International Disability Day. In honor of this: It’s A Harsh Thing To Be Labelled by Michael Romani As I pull in to park at the facility I feel a dreaded sense of vulnerability It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Calm, Clue, Cognition, Composure, Conception, Confide, Confuion, Daunting, Day, Deception, Depth, Disability, Disabled, Disappear, Dismiss, Doubt, Exposure, Eyes, Facility, Fadeaway, Fake, Handicap, Harsh, Heart, Inflammation, Injury, Inside, Internal Bleeding, International, Invisible, Label, Limb, Limits, Miserable, National, Nights, Outside, Pain, Park, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Realize, Toxic, Visible, Vulnerability, Walk
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Memories In An Elephant’s Trunk
A poem of gratitude #11: Memories In An Elephant’s Trunk by Michael Romani With gratitude I share my words While overhead there are flying birds Puzzling along these thoughts contemporary Wondering how much is too temporary Unlike elephants who read … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Being, Better, Birds, Butterfly, Change, Contemporary, Day To Day, Deep, Define, Elephant, Falling Star, Find, Forward, Friend, Gone, Good, Gratititude, Heart, Hold On, Honest, Learn, Light, Lost, Love, Memory, Miracle, Morning, Nature, Night, Pass, Path, Photograph, Picnic, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Puzzle, Read, Realize, Rearrange, Refine, See, Share, Shine, Soul, Star, Sunrise, Surprise, Temporary, Trunk, Truth, Ways, Whole, Wild, Wonder, Words, World
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Thought For the Day: There Is Only One Race, The Human Race – And We Are All Members of It
“I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.” – Margaret Atwood
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Tagged Hope, Human Race, Margaret Atwood, Members, One Race, People, Realize, Thought For the Day, We
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First Principles: The Fundamental Trouble With the People of the United States Is That We Have Gotten Too Far Away From God
“I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest upon me. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Conviction, Duty, First Principles, God, Humanity, Imperative, Realize, Responsibility, The People, Think, Troulbe, United States, Warren G Harding
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Ways of Survival
In the long and short of it, life is really about survival. Ways of Survival by Michael Romani And so at once, we reach our arrival That everything that happens is about survival Each Fall we are reminded of this … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Angry, Arrive, Blessing, Blue, Chill, Cry, Do, Dream, Earth, Empathy, End, Extinction, Fall, Fear, Fire, Forget, Fragile, Frame, Guesstimate, Happen, History, Immortal, Leaves, Life, Love, Mad Tea Party, Mass, Mercy, Moments, Mother Nature, Name, Passing Year, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Push, Rake, Realize, Regret, Resources, Revolve, Ripple, Serial Killer, Skipped Stone, Strife, Struggle, Suicide, Survival, Survive, Think, Way
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Thought For the Day: Realize That True Happiness Lies Within You
“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. … Continue reading
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Tagged Contentment, Effort, Give, Happiness, Happy, Have, Hug, Joy, Og Mandino, Other, Outside, Peace, Perfume, Reach Out, Realize, Share, Smile, Thought For the Day, Time, True, Waste, Within, Yourself
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Pouring It Out
I am not certain. But, I think that maybe self inflicted is sometimes the worse loss? Pouring It Out by Michael Romani Tossing and turning I just couldn’t sleep This kind of hurt Is soul deep Self inflicted tears Welling … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Friend, Blam, Breathe, Deep, Doubt, Eyes, Hurt, Lost, Love, Out, Penance, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pour, Realize, Self Inflict, Sleep, Soul, Tears, Toss, Turn
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Fades Away
Life leaves us all, eventually… or, do we really transform into something else? Time will tell. Fades Away by Michael Romani Being somewhat civilized I kept my discontents to myself More probably cause I realized I’d find my better answers … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna, Answer, Away, Chattering Classes, Civil, Cruel, Discontent, Exasperation, Fade, Forget, Friend, Gasp, Grasp, Intention, Kingdom, Last Breath, Matter, Moment, Passing, Penitence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Regret, Shatter, Shelf, Silent, Strong, Struggle, Torment, Weak, Wisdom, Wise Words, Wrong
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