Tag Archives: Remember

Thought For the Day: Live and Let Live and Remember This Line: Your Bus’ness Is Your Bus’ness and My Bus’ness Is Mine

“Live and let live, be and let be, / Hear and let hear, see and let see, / Sing and let sing, dance and let dance. … Live and let live and remember this line: / ‘Your bus’ness is your … Continue reading

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Newport Aquarium

Newport Aquariumby Michael DoyleAs though a knight eager on his questI, as a father, find little need to restInstead, I eagerly undertake a two-hour driveGlad to teach my daughters and feel aliveThough I wish I could take them to the … Continue reading

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The Secret Woes of Regret

The Secret Woes of Regretby Michael DoyleKept silence about better daysAre still remembered for the better waysWe once so happily lived inBefore the days of blood and drunken sinsWe clean the ship’s hull on the beachTo gain that extra knot … Continue reading

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In Prayers for My Mother

In Prayers For My Motherby Michael DoyleMy ex-wife recovers from surgery on this Mother’s DayI gave up the weekend she owed to show in some sort of wayThat I wish her to recover and want my daughters to tendTo her … Continue reading

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First Principles: Let Each Citizen Remember At the Moment He Is Offering His Vote…That He Is Executing One of the Most Solemn Trusts In Human Society For Which He Is Accountable To God and His Country “Let each citizen remember … Continue reading

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First Principles: Remember, Democracy Never Lasts Long, It Soon Wastes, Exhausts, and Murders Itself. There Never Was A Democracy Yet That Did Not Commit Suicide

“I might have exhibited as many millions of plebeians sacrificed by the pride, folly, and ambition of their fellow-plebeians and their own, in proportion to the extent and duration of their power. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, … Continue reading

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A Huntington Beach Memory

A Huntington Beach Memoryby Michael DoyleThe sand in my shoesHolds a Midas shadowOver time passages and windowsOf all these memories and bluesMy eyes rise to the timeless skiesWhen certain songs on the radio playThis, then, is no real disguiseFor the … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: If You Tell the Truth, You Don’t Have To Remember Anything

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

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Free From the Inside

Free From the Insideby Michael DoyleRemembering when I was lostThankful for how you paid the costGetting me across the great divideSetting me free from the insideYou took away my wretched prideSetting me free from the insideThree days blind until that … Continue reading

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I’ll Meet You There

I’ll Meet You Thereby Michael DoyleSomewhere in hereIn the deep felt insideThere is cold fearThat has nowhere to hidePushed past mountains and woodsThe darkness comes as it shouldFighting against this is no goodThis is the truth that’s understoodWounded hearts always … Continue reading

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