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Thought For the Day: Change Your Opinions, Keep To Your Principles; Change Your Leaves, Keep Intact Your Roots
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” – Victor Hugo
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Tagged Change, Intact, Keep, Leaves, Opinion, Principle, Roots, Thought For the Day, Victor Hugo
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Thought For the Day: A Single Act of Kindness Throws Out Roots In All Directions, and the Roots Spring Up and Make New Trees
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” – Amelia Earhart
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Tagged Amielia Earhart, Direction, Kindness, Roots, Single Act, Spring, Thought For the Day, Tree
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We Will Do the Rest
We Will Do the Restby Michael DoyleWith a little rain and the truest grit Following admonitions to never forget,We’ll know liberty’s tree from its roots grownTo the top of freedom’s leaves, deeply flowing.We’ve driven the distance to see the sightsAcross … Continue reading
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Tagged Adoninitions, Belong, Constitution, Constitutional Republic, Dare, Daughters, Democracy, Dictum, Distance, Eyes, Failures, Family, Fight, Flowing, Forget, Freedom, Government, Grit, Hearts, Hereditary, Honor, Hope, Improvement, Independence Day, Just Causes, Legendary, Liberty, Mankind, Misunderstanding, My Fault, Necessicty, Nobility, Obama, Poetry and Poems, Posterity, Rain, Republian, Righteous, Roots, Self-Evidenct, Sights, Sing, Song, Start, Stop, Struggle, Talk, Test, The Rest, Think, Thought, Tree, Trust, Truth, Tyranny, Unalienable Rights, Walk, We
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Dark Sources
Dark Sourcesby Michael DoyleThe optics make me cringe.Almost every newscast is on the fringeIt seems that we’re invited into the conspiracyWhile they really don’t care about historyEveryone vents and is set on blamingIt’s that PR game known as framingTruth, it … Continue reading
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Tagged :Profound, Blame, Captains of America, Care, Complexity, Connective Tissue, Conspiracy, Constitution, Cringe, Dark Sources, Downed, Endangered, Every Night, Explanation, Fleshed Out, Foundation, Framing, Fringe, Gangrene, Groove, Hide, History, Honest Brokers, Huddle, Invitation, Life, Looking In, Media, My Side, Neighbors, Newscast, Nowhere, Objective, Optics, Optimism, Original Sin, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Polluted Air, Power, Public Relations, Quizzically Smile, Roots, Rumors, Runaway, Shots, Society, Souls, Stay, Strategic, Subjective, Systemic Racism, Team, Television, Texts, Truth, Vent, Walls, Your Side
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A Little Bit Country
A Little Bit Countryby Michael DoyleRolling down the back roadGoing places, I’ve been toldHold to the roots of this nationBeyond the small towns lay my destinationMom-and-pop stores dotting the placesFinding myself in these pleasant tracesI found myself looking easy halfway … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Road, Destination, Dot, Empathy, Even Flow, Every Note, Every Note and Word, Expressed Plainly, Heart, Little Bit Country, Look, Lot of Life, Melody, Mom-and-Pop Stores, Nation, Noon, Places, Pleasant Traces, Poetry and Poems, Radio, Rolling Down, Roots, Sentimental, Singing Along, Small Town, Small Towns, Smooth Truth, Songs, Spotify, Told, Tune, Turn, Turning, Words
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At the End of Life
At the End of Lifeby Michael DoyleAt the end of life’s pathAs a matter of the simplest mathA good man wishes he has ledHis children to right thoughts in their headsAt the end of life’s dreamsFilled with love bursting at … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Best, Chilcren, Contributes, Detail, Dreams, End of Life, Fairy Tale, Fractured, God, God Above, Good Man, Heads, Heartbreaks, Knows, Last Breath, Led, Lessons, Life's Path, Love, Memories, Mistakes, Only A Man, Poetry and Poems, Prayerss, Recall, Right Thoughts, Righteousness, Roots, Seams, Serve, Simplest Math, Sought, Talk, Taught, Thoughts, Truth, Walk, Watch, Whisper, Wind, Wish, Words
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Finding A Seat At the Table
Finding A Seat At the Tableby Michael DoyleFinding a seat at the tableSuch as it is and the best we’re ableBegins with a story of circumstanceIn which every effort acts to enhanceThe dreams that come in planting treesThe roots of … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Achieve, Better Life, Butterfly Wings, Circumstance, Coin, Courage, Dreams, Enhance, Entire World, Every Woman, Find, Forget, Fully Satisfied, Inspire, Jouney, Joy, Lessons, Life, Man, Nature, Never Let It Be Said, Never Sit, Overcome, Passing On, Path, Plant, Please, Poetry and Poems, Power of Change, Rearange, Roots, Seat, Set the World On Fire, Shaken, Step, Stop, Table, Taken, Talk, Two Sides, Walk, Water Drop, We Never Tried, Words
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Active Intellect
Active Intellectby Michael DoyleWoke is an attack on accountabilityIt has nothing to do with predictabilityBut instead, an attack on the human soulThe methodology of this is wicked controlLife is meant to be a partnershipAnd not a thing of one-sided worshipThe … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidental Factors, Accountability, Active Intellect, Actively Thinking, Attack, Best Discussion, Born, Character, Correctional, Courage, De Anime, Display, Encourage, Experience, Fail, Fatality, Forgiven, Free Rein, Freely, Given, Greater Things, Grow, Head, Heart, Human Beings, Human Soul, Intentional, Invite To Know, Learning, Liberty, Life, Meant, Methodology, Mind, Morality, No Final Answers, Objectivity, One-Sided Worship, Partnership, Poetry and Poems, Predictability, Repercussion, Roots, Said, Search, Soar, Speaking, Stifle, Stretch, Teach, Think and Understand, Tyrannical, Wicked Control, Woke
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