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The Moral Imagination
It is not enough to give to our children and our society definitions of right and wrong or normless stories and books leading to an inability to make the profound decisions needed for the better world we so desperately need. … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Accountability, Act, Action, Address, Bad, Banality, Best Selves, Better Path, Better World, Blame, Blur, Books, Build, Capable, Capacity, Character, Childhood, Children, Churn, Clean Cut, Commanding, Could Be, Cultivation, Deeper Truth, Defeat, Depart, Desire To Do, Difference, Earn, Education, Embrace, Emulation, Encourage, Experience, Explanation, Fascination, Form Habits, Game, Go, Good Morals, Grown, Hate, Head, Heart, Heavy Hand, Heroes, High Ideals, Home, Humanity, Ideal, Illustration, Imagination, Important, Ingrain, Innate, Just Quality, Know, Laws, Learn, Learning, Light, Love, Manner, Me and You, Mind, Moral, Moral Components, Morality, Nation, Need, Nice, Nobility, Not Enough, Obligation, Older, Onward, Open Eyes, Parents, Passing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Poverty, Reach, Read, Reliable, Require, Richness, Right, Rules, Shelves, Should Be, Shown, Social Good, Society, Soul, Stir, Surface, Systematically, Tales, Taught, Teach, Teachers, Tending the Heart, The Rub, Train Up, Turn, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfed, Upright, Vice, View, Virtue, Virtuous Character, Vision, Wardrobe of Images, Ways, Worth Holding On To
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First Principles: Born In Other Countries, Our Law Acknowledge the Right To Join In Our Society Conforming To Our Established Rules
“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Believe, Born, Conform, Countries, Established, First Principles, Join, Law, Right, Rules, Society, Thomas Jefferson
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De Bussy Opening
In a review of what brought about the changes of 20th Century art music, leads to at least one conclusion. It was Beethoven and then De Bussy to blame…. 😉 De Bussy Opening by Michael Doyle Music like all of … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Action, Art, Art & Music, Articulation, Aural, Balance, Beethoven, Catalyst, Claude De Bussey, Compose, Composition, Concession, Culture, Cyclical, De Bussey, Delicacy, Depth, Development, Different, Ebb, Enlightenment, Explosive, Familiar, Flow, Fluidity, Form, Forward, Frame, Frames, French, Generation, Gentle, Ground Zero, Heed, Hero, Imagination, Implosive, Importance, Infuence, Instrumentality, Intimate, Kept, Life, Linear, Lush, Melodic, Modernism, Motif, Music, Musical, Needed, New Game, Nurture, Open, Perspective, Photograph, Phrase, Pierre Boulez, Poem, Poetry, Prelude To A Fawn, Profound, Progression, Romance, Rules, Sake, Sake of Sound, Self Confession, Self-Satisfaction, Simple, Sound, Strife, Strings, Symbolism, Syntax, Tickle, Tonal Color, Tonality, Touch, Transparency, Understood, Winds
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Stay On the Path
Due to time constraints and a day much better spent with my two princesses, I will be going off prompt from Day 25 of Na/GloPoWriMo gazillion requirements for a form of poetry that I would never want to write in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anew, Animals, Around, Awake, Breath, Brighter, Bud, Citizens, Clearing, Come, Come and Go, Constraint, Daddy, Days, Deer, Earth Day, Endear, Every Day, Explore, Fall, Father, Flowers, Flutter, Forest Floor, Green, Ground, Harm, Her, Hours, Ignore, Joy, Lessons, Life, Lighter, Living Creatures, Load, Lock, Mark, Memories, Na/GloPoWriMo, Near, New, Newborn, Notice, Off Prompt, Old, Pass, Path, Photograph, Plot, Poem, Poetry, Poppa, Protective Canopy, Rays, Recall, Rules, School, Scurry, Seasons, Shape, Spring, Stay, Taught, Valleys, Value, Wake, Warm Days, World, Worry
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Dr. Seuss With No Excuse
Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Alone, Amaze, Appreciate, Band, Be You, Beautiful, Beauty, Best, Best Part, Birds, Books, Breeze, Brim, Care, Certainty, Child, Childhood, Classical Guitar, Cleanliness, Complexity, Confess, Conformity, Creation, Crime, Daughters, Decades, Dignity, Diligence, Discern, Dr. Seuss, Drift, Drum, Dust, Enormity, Excuse, Explore, Eyes, Faces, Fear, Fired, Fit In, Flexibility, Forgot, Future, Girls, Godliness, Grammar, Gratitude, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hell, Ill, Imagination, Indulgence, Influence, Inspiration, Inspire, Joy, Keys, Large Town, Laugh, Learn, Lessons, Life, Little Bears, Loose, Lorax, Love, Lyrics, Man, Messed Up, Messy, Military Man, Moon, More We Know, Musical, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Neil Pert, Noose, Numb, Open, Pages, Perplexity, Photograph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Read, Reading, Rhymes, Right Attitude, Right Life, Right Size, Rules, School, Second Guess, Self Pity, Sell, Shakespeare, Shut, Small Town, Soul, Speak, Speck, Stand Out, Stumble, Teachers, Throw Out, Tired, Toys, Trees, True, Two, Two Angels, Ukulele, Vibration, View, William Blake, Wise, Wonderful, Woods, Word Play, Words, World, You
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How To Live the Bible
Based in part on Deuteronomy 11:18-21: How To Live the Bible by Michael Doyle Thank you Father for our salvation Certain of our coming final destination Please hear our prayers on Palm Sunday As we worship and praise all of … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Bible, Carve, Comfort, Console, Destination, Deuteronomy, Devotional, Distraction, Emotion, Encourage, Faith, Flock, Focus, Follow, Foundation, Fuel, Guidance, Habit, Health, Holy, Home, How-To, Lesson, Life, Live, Look, Lost Sheep, Me, Palm Sunday, Paryers, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Praise, Prayer, Principles, Proverbs, Psalms, Restoration, Rock, Rules, Salvation, School, Scripture, Sky, Soul, Spiritual, Stillness, Stone, Struggle, Thank you, The Book, Troubled, Verse, Walk, Wealth, Widom, Wilderness, Word, Words, Worship
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Rules of the Beast I
A sort of start at a poetic retelling of the classic Dracula tale: Rules of the Beast I by Michael Romani As the approach is made to castle There is fear amongst its vassals A crucifix is given in protection … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Bats, Beast, Blood, Castle, Chill, Choice, Circumspect, Compare, Contradiction, Count, Creaks, Crucifix, Death, Destination, Dracula, Drop, Embrace, Fear, Groans, heartbeat, Heaven, Home, Humanity, Jonathan Harker, Knock, Known, Labyrinth, Learn, Life, Lives, Lock, Love, Maze, Mirror, Mistake, Numb, Oblige, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Prison, Protect, Pulse, Question, Rules, Shadow, Shown, Snare, Solace, Soul, Startle, Step, Stumble, Turn, Vanity, Vassal, Veins, Voice, Window
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Commit Freedom To Memory
Yesterday, December 15, 2019, was Bill of Rights Day! I was semi-astonished when I didn’t find anyone making reference to this. I was busily recovering from a long walk without a coat taken on Saturday. By the way, … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Bill of Rights Day, Birth Right, Breath, Confluence, December 15 1791, Die, Distinction, Extinction, Flag, Flickr, Freedom, Fundamental, God, Government, Guarantee, History, Hour, Influence, Light, Limit, Lord, Memory, Natural Law, Overseer, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Principles, Rule of Law, Rules, Sentiment, Steeple, The People, Truth, World, Worth
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 