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Treasure From A Book
Last of the poems inspired by watching that wonderful tale, Paddington 2. Maybe, in some ways, I am still a child at heart. But, I think everyone should watch this movie! Treasure From A Book by Michael Romani Every train comes … Continue reading
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Tagged Child At Heart, Death, Discern, Double, Family, Follow, Friend, Friends, Gate, Last Breath, Learn, Legacy, Legs, Lesson, Long Walk, Love, Nothing, Open Mind, Paddington 2, Paddington Bear, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Risk, Smile, Tears, Train, Trouble, True Heart, Worthwhile, Write
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Through A Window
Lessons we learn in life, sometimes they cut us like a knife… Through A Window by Michael Romani Broken shadows seen through a window Hopeful promises shine like a rainbow Taken further than dreams often carry A true born love … Continue reading
Love Triology: 1 – Love Is A Dangerous Game
Three part triology as a look at love. Part 1 – Love Is A Dangerous Game Love Is A Dangerous Game by Michael Romani Love is a dangerous game It’s risky at best But, we play it just the same … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Another, Capable, Consequence, Damage, Danger, Embers, Game, Gave, Hide, Love, Mercy, Need, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Providence, React, Recompense, Risk, Sad, Save, Sea, Travesty, Triology, Try, Vulnerable, Work It Out
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Thought For the Day: Don’t Overthink; Take Risks
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey
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Tagged Mistakes, Opportunity, Overthinking, Risk, Thought For the Day, Tina Fey, Worry
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Daily Prompt – Hero
When I was much, much younger I felt a certain kind of empty hunger Wishing that I would not become a zero Instead I strove to become a hero Picking out who I wanted very much to be I modeled … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The World Is Changed By Dreamers Willing To Look Foolish If Need Be
“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.” – P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)
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Tagged Change, Dreamers, Foolish, P.D. James, Prepared, Risk, Self Regarding, Thought For the Day, World
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Once In A Life
The luck of the draw I suppose? ….. Once In A Life by Michael Romani Here on the banks of once upon I gazed on you and you were gone My lifesong Savage rumors shared together Truest meaning; worse or … Continue reading
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Tagged Better or Worse, Crushing, Fairytale, Gamble, Illusions, Lifeline, Lifelong, Lifesong, Lifetime, Once, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Risk
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Thought For the Day: Risk Going Too Far
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Elliot, in the Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
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Tagged Attain, Dare, Dream, Reach, Risk, Strive, T.S. Eliot, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Experts On the Public Good Are Often Wrong and Sometimes Dangerous
“The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.” —Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) … Continue reading
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Tagged Administrators, Bureaucrats, Danger, Experience, Friedrich Hayek, Liberty, Modern Government, Public Good, Risk, Understanding
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