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First Principles: God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty
“God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Country, First Principles, Gift of God, God, Just, Justice, Liberties of A Nation, Liberty, Life, Reflect, Secure, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble
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Perspective Revisited
Perspective Revisited by Michael Doyle Float to the top Or sink to the bottom The rest is just churn This is a lesson in life One that is usually earned It’s our decision in how we learn Everyone dreams, big … Continue reading
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Tagged Bottom, Change, Churn, Cloud, Concern, Decision, Done, Dream, Earned, Float, Focus, Foot, Hide, Learn, Lesson, Life, Other's Hero, Poetry and Poems, Prespective, Pretend, Reflect, Rest, Revisited, Save, Secrets, Sink, Top of the Mountain, Top of the World, Zero
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A Birthday Week
A Birthday Weekby Michael DoyleSolid as it is with just a look2020 was a hard one for the history booksBut, as those pages have turnedThere was one thing that I have learnedMy love was born a Libra on her scaleAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Agreeable Enough, Birthday, Birthday Week, Celebrate, Celebration, Clarity, Complexity, Connection, Contemplation, Dare, Deny, Easy, Fun, Golden Heart, Great Gift, Hard One, History Books, Insistence, Justice, Learned, Libra, Look, Love, Love of Fashion, Mumble, Need, One, Pages, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Reflect, Relaxation, Request, Scale, Sense, Simplicity, Sincerity, Solid, Speak, Strong Desire, Thing, Turn, Unity, Week, Words
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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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First Principles: I Tremble For My Country When I Reflect That God Is Just (and) That His Justice Cannot Sleep Forever
“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever…. The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.” – Thomas Jefferson, in Notes … Continue reading
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Tagged Cannot Sleep, Contest, Country, First Principles, Forever, God, His Justice, Just, No Attribute, Notes On the State of Virginia, Reflect, Takes Side, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble
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First Principles: God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty
“God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that … Continue reading
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Tagged Cannot Sleep Forever, Conviction, Country, First Principles, Gave, Gift of God, God, His Justice, Just, Liberties, Liberties of A Nation, Liberty, Life, Reflect, Remove, Secure, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble
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An Introduction of Light
Photography is a trick of light crafted to create the illusion desired. It depends on ambient or found light and that introduced light that we use to reflect how we choose to see what we are viewing. Or, ummm… something … Continue reading
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Tagged Add, Attempt, Beauty, Bring, Capture, Control, Craft, Create, Day and Night, Days, Definition, Depend, Depth, Desire, Detail, Diffusion, Experiment, Exposure, Eye, Fill Flash, Flash, Gift, Harshness, Illumination, Illusion, Immensity, Intensity, Introduction, Light, Overhead Light, Party, Photograph, Photography, Photos, Play, Poem, Poetry, Reflect, Reveal, See, Shadow, Show, Shutter Speed, Side, Sight, Softness, Sought, Starkness, Strobe, Thought, Trick of Light, Unusual, World
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Second Sight of the Garden of Earthly Delight
Day 6 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The prompt is to write an ekphrastic poem based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delight. I elected to take the point of view of the artist or perhaps someone who is familiar with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Allegory, Blame, Center Frame, Civility, Civilization, Command, Consideraton, Contempation, Corruption, Cost, Damnation, Depravity, Desire, Disruption, Earth, Ekphrastic, Fate, Finger, Flee, Flesh, Free Will, God, Heaven, Holy Trinity, Humanity, Judge, Know, Left, Life, Light, Linger, Lost, Lust, Moral Warning, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Noble Savage, Panorama, Paradise Lost, Peril, Photograph, Piety, Playground, Plreasure, Poem, Poety, Reap, Reflect, Remorse, Revel, Revelation, Right, Salvation, Second Sight, Secret, Sensual, Serenity, Shun, Sin, Succumb, Temptation, The Garden of Earthly Delight, Tiara, Trap, Treasure, Trinity, Triptych, Turn, Vanity, Word
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In The Fullness of Time
A poem for this, the day celebrated as symbolizing Christ’s birth. Merry Christmas! Christmas… Christ Mass… A mass for Christ. Then then does that or might it actually mean? Is it really only about the birth of Christ? Or, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract, Belief, Birth, Bless, Christ, Contemplation, Essence, Exact, Full, God, God In Christ, Grasp, Greeting Card, Heir, Holy, Hymn, Man, Mass, Meaning, Merry Christmas, Moments, Mystery, Nativity Play, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reconcile, Redemption, Reflect, Sin, Sublime, Time, Toast, Told, Transcend, Truth, Woman
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