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Thought For the Day: Though We Have Nothing Left To Give Away, Let’s Not Forget It’s St. Nicholas Day!
“Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won’t be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Frank, Fear, Find, Free, Fun, Give Away, Happy Day, Hideaway, Optimism, Safe, Shoe, Something, Sound, St Nicholas Day, Thought For the Day, Win, Year
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First Principles: An Independent Judiciary Protects the Interests of the People
“So long as we may have an independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.” – John Rutledge When the Democrats attempt to pack the USSC as with FDR and the current move in Congress, we need to … Continue reading
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Tagged First Principles, Independent, Interests, Judiciary, Justice John Rutledge, Long, Safe, The People
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First Principles: The First Maxim of Those Who Love Liberty Is To Never Grant Rulers An Atom of Power That Is Not Indispensably Necessary
“The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.” – Richard Henry Lee … Continue reading
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Tagged Atom, Clear, First Maxim, First Principles, Grant, Liberty, Love, Mankind, Necessary, Power, Richard Henry Lee, Rulers, Safe, Society, Well Being
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Darkness Quenches Light
Halloween Poem #18 Darkness Quenches Light by Michael Romani Among the demons there is history Some might strangely call it legacy Where troubled hearts are in need of friends And if you’re safe, it just depends Quintessential in the rarified … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitter, Bleed, Burn, Conquer, Cracked, Darkness, Demon, Depend, Eden, Electric, End, Fall, Final, Friend, Halloween, Heal, Heart, Hide, History, Intention, Invention, Irony, Legacy, Light, Lost Soul, Love, Mad, Mankind, Melody, Monster, Need, Opposite, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Quench, Rare, Reveal, Sacred, Safe, Sane, Savage, Scar, Science, Soothe, Strange, Summation, Tears, Thunder, Transform, Trouble, Twist, Vain, Vital, Vital Spark, Whiskey, Wind, World, Wound
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First Principles: It Is the Small Business Owners Who Have the Most Stake In Our Country and Community and Are Its Best Citizens
“The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizen, City, Community, Country, First Principles, John Hancock, Safe, Small Business, Stake, Town
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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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An Obsession of Shadow
The challenge for the 13th day of Na/GloPoWriMo is to write something spooky or somewhat creepy. To me, there is maybe nothing more creepy than the shadowed, dark side of human nature. An Obsession of Shadow by Michael Romani Hiding … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Anger, Avarice, Beast, Better Living, Blame, Blood, Bury, Compassion, Creepy, Crime, Dark Side, Darkness, Demand, Desire, Detail, Eccentricity, Electricity, Embrace, Endure, Fulcrum, Ghost, Gloom, Hell's Fire, Human Nature, Land, Lick, Life, Lifetime, Lost, Luifer, Lust, Madness, Memory, Men, Mire, Mortals, Na/GloPoWriMo, Name, Nightmare, Obsession, Palm Read, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Recall, Reveal, Room, Safe, Sail, Scorpion, Secret, Shadow, Ship, Slave, Sleep, Soul, Spook, Suffrage, Tears, Trail, Trouble, Unforgiving, Villain, Walk, Weep, Wolf, World
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Chinook of the North
My apologies for falling asleep before writing the poem for yesterday’s challenge. The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 10 is to write a poem that references a local weather term. After some thought and discussion, I have chose a type … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Arms, Beach, Canada, Canadian Rockies, Canuck, Chinook, City, Cloud, Coastie, Cold, Cold Spell, Color, Companion, Company, Conversation, Dawn, Devotion, Fraser Canyon, Friend, Funny, Gray, Her, Human, Indulgence, Lady, Laughs, Love, Lovely, Lover, Magic, Midnight, Monkey, Moon, Mountain, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, North, Ocean Child, Orographic, Pacific Ocean, Peace, Photograph, Pineapple Breeze, Playful, Poem, Poetry, Rain Shadow, Rainbow, Ramparts, Safe, Shine, Smile, Snow Eater, Snowbird, Snowfall, Spawn, Star, Story, Sweet, Teasure, Term, Tim Horton, Two Nations, United States, Weather, Whisper, Wind, Witness, Worry
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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, No Person Is Safe As To Opinion, Person, Faculties or Possessions
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)
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Tagged Excess, Faculties, First Principles, James Madison, Opinion, Person, Possession, Power, Prevail, Property, Respect, Safe
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