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Thought For the Day: When the Eyes Say One Thing, and the Tongue Another, A Practiced Man Relies On the Language of the First
“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Another, Eyes, First, Language, One Thing, Practiced Man, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rely, Say, Thought For the Day, Tongue
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To Raise Godly Children
To Raise Godly Childrenby Michael DoyleTime travels as shadows grow longerAnd the need to be wiser is strongerI look on my children and hope the bestI look for answers that might pass the testAs we raise our children for successIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Above All the Religons, Actions, Affection, Answers, Attention, Authority, Believe, Best, Build, Children, Clear Expectations, Clear Rules, Comparison, Consistency, Control, Correction, Cue, Did, Direct, Do, Dream, Dress, Echoes, Encouragement, Example, Fair Consequences, Faith, Family, Fools, God's Way, Grace, Grown, Happiness, Hold, Holy Worship, Hope, Imprint, Instill, Instruction, Integrity, Intention, Keep, Known, Leave, Lessons, Live Righteously, Long Game, Long Ride, Longer, Look, Lord's Grace, Love, Maturity, Meant, Name, Parenting, Pass, Path, Place, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Presents, Promise, Quality, Quantity, Raise, Relationship, Rely, Rescue, Responsibility, Right, Right Direction, Rules, Said, Say, Shadows, Soul, Speaking Life and Love, Strong Balance, Stronger, Struggle, Success, Tears, Test, Tight, Time, Trace, Traces, Travel, Walk, Weep, Wise
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Tandy 100
Tandy 100by Michael DoyleI watched a show the other dayThat reminded me of life lived another wayI smiled on this journey bringing me backTo the late 80s, and Radio ShackThe Tandy 1000 was the trend of the hourIt had an … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordabiity, Allure, Apologize, Argument, Attention, Back, Bicker, Biggest Catch, Bright Light, Budget, budgeting, Calculate, Capability, Computers, Confusion, Consumerism, Day, Devour, Dimes, Discover, Dollars, Drift, Earnest, Fall Apart, Family, Finance, First, Floor, Forced Ability, Fright, Future, Hand-In-Hand, Harmonious Relationships, Hearts, Helpful, Hope, Hour, Inanimate Objects, Intrusion, Journey, Just Enough, Know, Late 80s, Lawn, Life, Living Paycheck to Paycheck, Love, Modern World, Money, Nurture, Obsession, Path of Technology, People, personal-finance, Poetry and Poems, Possession, Radio Shack, Reconcile, Rejects, Rely, Remind, Salesmen, Saving, Sentiment, Show, Slumber Land, Smile, Society, Start, Startling, Street, Strife, Tandy 1000, Technological, Teenaged Boy, Time, Toy, Trend, Understand, Utility, Value, Watch, Way, Will, Wise, Worth, Wrong Questions, You and Me, Young Einsteins, Young Girls
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Thought For the Day: I Rely On the Promise, God Is Kind To Women, Fools, and Drunk People
“I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.” – Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Tagged Drunk People, Fools, God, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kind, Promise, Rely, Thought For the Day, Women
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Path of Humility
Path of Humilityby Michael DoyleLike a vagabond in the nightI was just hoping to find the lightGrowing tired of relying on my own sightI was determined to get it rightTurning my habits to be set freeAs God came to save … Continue reading
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Tagged Bed, Deteermine, Deteremine, Eyes, Faith, Gideon's Bible, God, God's Side, Habits, Hide, Hiding Places, Hope, Humility, Jesus, Joy, Light, Name, New Man, Openly, Path, Path of Humility, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Read, Rely, Righ, Satan, Save, Set Free, Shame, Sight, Thank God, The Son, True, True Courage, Vagabond
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New Paths Shown
New Paths Shownby Michael DoyleWorking hard for changes that we needThe kernels of thought plant the seedArtificial interface brings us to zeroEngineers solving for real play the heroesBe it carbon free concrete or green steelThe same names bring a renewed … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Artificial Interface, Better Place, Better Tomorrows, Bravely Go, Carbon Free, Changes, Changes Needed, Concrete, Concrete Sturdy, Dreams, Economies of Scale, Engineers, Green Steel, Grow, Heroes, Human Race, Humanity's New Tale, Kernels of Thought, Know, Known, Laboratory, Learn, Mapping Out, Need, Needs, New Paths, Only Real Way, Poetry and Poems, Population, Rely, Renewed Feel, Seed, Shown, Solve, Some Regret, Steel Beams, Streets, Turn This Around, Understood, Workable, Working Hard, Yesterdays, Yet, Zero
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First Principles: We Have Therefore To Resolve To Conquer or Die… Let Us Therefore Rely Upon the Goodness of the Cause, and the Aid of the Supreme Being, In Whose Hands Victory Is
“We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die. … Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and … Continue reading
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Tagged Actions, Aid, Conquer, Die, Encourage, First Principles, George Washington, Goodness, Great and Noble, Hands, Rely, Resolve, Supreme Being, The Cause, Victory, We
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I Need You To Fight
I Need You To Fightby Michael DoyleI’ve never had great answersTo life’s deeper questionsLike what is the meaning or how to cure cancersBut, I can say without hesitationThat I have meant to do goodTo do the best that I have … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, All I know, Brave, Clue, Corner, Cure Cancer, Dancer, Deep Within You, Deeper Questions, Degree, Do Good, Do the Best, Fight, God, Hear, Here I Am Again, Hesitation, I Need You To Fight, Just For You, Know, Life, Like You've Never Fought, Meaning, Meant, More Than Fable, Never, Out of Answers, Paper, Persevere, Please, Poetic, Poetry and Poems, Probably, Rely, Say, Search, Spirit, The Last, Turn This Thing Around, Understood, Where I'll Be Too, Words, Written, You
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A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts
A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts (Republished for 2020)by Michael Doyle aka Michael Romani I. I have heard it saidThat you can eat ’til you’re fullAnd it’s still not enoughThe excuse to be given“But, it’s Christmas…”And one really shouldn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All Life Must Give Me, Application, Believe, Bells and Whistles, Best In Marriage, Best Path, Better To Give Than Receive, Bringing Such Peace As I can, Brothers, Cake, Cardinal Rule, Chastity, Christmas, Contentment, Control, Desire, Devoted, Diligence, Dire, Discipline, Each Day A Treasure, Each Other, Earned This Anger, Easier, Endurance, Enough, Entitled, Envy, Essence of Love, Everything, Excess, Excuse, Experienced, Filling Needs, Fire, Forgiven, Fruit, Full, Gather These Around, Give It Toward Others, Given, Giving Toward All Others, Gizmos and Gears, Gluttony, Greed, Harm Done, Heard, Heaven's Sake, Held Without Measure, Holy Living, Holy Spirit, It's Christmas, Keep It All To Myself, Keep Me Angry, Keep My Faith, Keep These Things, Keeping Each of These, Kept, Kindness, Like A Prayer, Live Each Day, Love, Lovers, Lust, Material Things, Milk of Kindness, Mine, Miss, Need, Needed, Never Enough, Noble and Good, Not Do Without, Not Followed, Nourish, Offer Up, Part of Me, Patience, Penitent, Perfect My Soul, Persistence, Phase of Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Purity, Qualities, Reliance, Rely, Remain So, Said, Sexual Union, Share, Should Find Me, Sisters, Sloth, Some More, Spirit of, Spirit of Christmas, Srive, Steadfast, Still Not Enough, Strength, Study of Kindness, Suffice, Sure, Sustain, Temperance, Time and Place, Time Enough, To Do Nothing At All, To Find God, To Keep, Too Hard To Do It Right, True Love, Uncontrolled, Undone, Unearned Grace, Unforgiving, Virtue, Wait A Minute, Walking Life, Wants, Welcome Stranger, Where I Dare, Worth Every Minute, Wrath
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First Principles: Whenever the People Are Well-Informed, They Can Be Trusted With Their Own Government; That, Whenever Things Get So Far Wrong As To Attract Their Notice, They May Be Relied On To Set Them Right
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Attract, First Principles, Notice, Own Government, Rely, Set Right, So Far Wrong, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Trust, Well-Informed
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 