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Thought For the Day: Give Thanks In the Morning For All You Have and If You Find No Reason, the Fault Lies In Yourself
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in … Continue reading
Destructive Good Fortune
Our planet began from the cosmic storm that stirred the soup that makes up the fundamental building materials that became all we know. Of course it was all by accident… Destructive Good Fortune by Michael Romani To watch through the … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Building Black, Bullseye, Chart, Circumstance, Coincidence, Contortion, Cosmic Storm, Debris, Deset, Destruct, Dinosaur, Early Man, Earth, Electric Force, Extinction Event, Falling Star, Free Dive, Good Fortune, Gravity, Happenstance, History, Humanity, Improbable, Intensity, Meteor, Origin, Particles, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Poison, Relic, Rise, Sledge Hammer, Star Dust, Storm, Think, Trajectory, Yucatan
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First Principles: Liberty’s Enthusiasm Makes Humanity Rise In Acts of Bravery and Heroism
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”– Alexander Hamilton
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Tagged Acts, Alexander Hamilton, Brave, Enthusiasm, First Principles, Hero, Human Nature, Liberty, Rise
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Falling Up
They say that opposites, often attract. Maybe that’s so? Falling Up by Michael Romani Two souls separated at birth Filled with hope well worth Falling up to rise down Love leaves both feet on the ground Secrets passed down in … Continue reading
Here Am I
The Church is the people. There is nothing Biblical in the belief that approaching God requires the intercession of any other than Jesus and certainly not priests. If the Catholic church is going to rise from its present decline, it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Church, Corruption, Decline, Dignity, Faith, Hierachy, Jesus, Luther, Moral Laxity, Pews, Photograph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Power, Predator Priest, Priests, Rebel, Reform, Restoration, Rise, Sacred Heart, Simple, Sin, The People, True
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Meanders At the Oxbow
Na/GloPoWriMo 2019, Day 29 and the challenge is to write on the after thoughts about a strong emotion and its results. This is my attempt to clarify thoughts I had just yesterday about the days prior and the future that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Ahead, Always, Banks, Behind, Bends, Best Friend, Better or Worse, Bridge, Cautious, Cherish, Churn, Commonality, Cool Creek, Creek, Crime, Demand, Deserve, Different, Duck, Eyes, Feel, Flow, Forget, Fresh, Frown, Hike, Kiss, Laugh, Living, Love, Meander, Memory, Mud, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, New, Obnoxious, Oxbow, Photograph, Photographs, Poem, Poetry, Remind, Reverence, Rise, Safe, Secure, Similar, Simple Man, Slosh, Smile, Speak, Stand, Startle, Surprise, Sweetest Love, Swerve, Talk, Think, Thoughts, Times, Today, Tomorrow, Touch, Turn, Turns, Twist, Walk, Water, Wish, Words, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: Stoop Low To Rise High
“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.” – Lady Marguerite Blessington, writer (4 Apr 1789-1849)
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Tagged Capable, Desire, Lady Marguerite Blessington, Low, Person, Rise, Stoop, Thought For the Day, World
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Skeletons In Our Closet
In biology, we are taught that there is an almost linear path of the forms of mankind. Reality is it was a bit messier. Six species of man existed probably concurrently or at least overlapping. One still stands…. Is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Anthropology, Back, Biology, Book, City, Clean Line, Closet, Cousins, Descent, Die Out, Explanation, Eyes, Fallacy, Family, Fossil, Fratricide, Homo Sapiens, Humanity, Incrimination, Invent, Linear Path, Memory, Neanderthal Man, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretentious, Pride, Rise, Sibliings, Singular, Skeleton, Species, Supress, Test, Tests, Think, Tree, Vanity, Whisper, Wish
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First Principles: Love of Liberty Leads To Acts of Bravery and Heroism
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” – Alexander Hamilton (1775)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Bravery, Courage, Enthusiasm, First Principles, Heroism, Human Nature, Liberty, Rise
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Crashed
Crashed by Michael Romani If the world crashed to its end I’d still be beside you my friend If life was worse than death And I was certain there was nothing left Like Prometheus stealing God’s fire I would fight … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Chains, Connection, Crashed, Death, Fire, Friend, Heart, Life, Love, Prometheus, Rise
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