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Thought For the Day: Everything You’ve Learned In School As “Obvious” Becomes Less and Less Obvious As You Begin To Study the Universe
“Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute … Continue reading
A Montage of Selective Outrage
A Selective Montage of Selective Outrageby Michael DoyleHave we finally got to the turn of the pageLiving life cut by cut of selective outrageIt seems so, or at least I have this hunchThat a few bad apples have spoiled the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Victim", Addiction, Affordable, Attention, Bad Apples, Bunch, Businesses, Class, Comedians, Corporate Social Screed, Crass, Cross-Cultural, Cut By Cut, Deception, Distracting, Doom, Drama, Emergency Room, Excellence, Face, False, Fatal, Feeling, Feigned Attention, Glory, Hate, Hate-Filled, Hit Parade, Hunch, Infamous, Ism, King, Lazy Thighs, Lies, Likes, Love, Lowest Common Denominator, Meant, Misappropiation, Modern World, Montage, Need, Offend, Overflow, Paper Cuts, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Pretend, Proficiency, Profit, Rap, Reaction, Roost, Rule, Safe Space, Satisfaction, Scare, School, Selective Outrage, Show, Slave, Social Media Trolls, Speak Truth, Spell Out, Stance, Story, Thinking, Thoughts, Too Late, Trauma, Triggered, Truant, Turn of the Page, Tweet, Vapid Clones, Victim, Woke Wash, Wolf Traps, Yoga Pants
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Thought For the Day: When We Took Prayers Out of Schools, Guns Came Into Schools…Don’t Tell Me About No Separation of Church and State. State Is the Body. Church Is the Heart.
“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools. … Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body … Continue reading
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Tagged Body, Church and State, Guns, Heart, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Prayers, School, Seperation, Thought For the Day
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A Cry for Uvalde
A Cry for Uvaldeby Michael DoyleSomewhere beyond a world of feelingIs the way of knowing healingThese are the times for being an exampleThe differences made will be ampleFighting not with fists but with prayerPeeling back the onion of life, layer … Continue reading
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Tagged Actions, Alone, Ample, Beautiful Souls, Behind, Belief, Best Fights, Blame, Bullied, Burnt to the Ground, Candlelight, Community, Cornerstone, Cruelly Dealt, Cry, Cuentas, Dead, Differences Made, Dificil, Disease, Dreams, Every Day, Every Single Day, Example, Faces, Faith, Families, Fault Is His, Favorite Songs, Feeling, Felt, Fight the Good Fight, Fighting, Grief, Gut Wrenching Torments, Hand of Lucifer, Healing, Humbled Cry, Hundreds, It Didn't Have To Be His Choice, Knees, Know, La Muerte de Los Ninos, Layer, Lifted A Hand, Lifting Our Voices, Lives, Loss, Love, Loved Ones, Matters, Memories, Mi Apoyo, Momento, Moments, Morning, Mourning, Nation, Night, Not With Fists, Noticia, Onion of Life, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prayers, Question Why, Rebuild, Sabes, Safe, Salvador Ramos, School, Sense, Shakes and Shatters, Shamed, Silently Erected, Sin, So Be It, So It Will Be Done, Sorrow, Survive, Survivor's Guilt, Tears, Thursday, Times, Torture, Traces, Tragedy, Transcend, Trust Falling, Twenty-One Crosses, Used Their Voice, Uvalde, Vigils, Viviendo, Walk, Warnings, Wicked Ways, Wounds, Years
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Thought For the Day: Governments Have Ever Been Known To Hold A High Hand Over the Education of the People
“Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Based, Education, Francisco Ferrer, Governments, High Hand, Know, Known, Monopolize, Power, School, The People, Thought For the Day
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Lessons of Sadie Hawkins
Life in its myriad of dances has it’s meaning sometimes coming in multiples of delusion… Lessons of Sadie Hawkins by Michael Doyle Sock hop memories wake the school Where twists in plot are the rule All of life is filtered … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All of Life, Astray, Attraction, Awake, Bread, Changing Seasons, Common Man, Connection, Costs, Dances, Days, Daze, Derision, Desperation, Directions, Distraction, Dread, Dream, Ease, Effort, Empty Rage, Eyes, Fadeaway, Feel, Filter, Growth, Ideas, Implausible, Impossible, Last, Laughter, Lessons, Life, Life Lived, Life Unfolds, Long Division, Lost Love, Memories, Morbid, Myriad, One By One, Pain, Pass Out, Passing Through, Persevere, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Reason, Roman Circuses, Rule, Sadie Hawkins, Sarcastic, School, Screens, Shake, Sides, Sock Hop, Song Titles, Spent, Spin, Split, Stuff Away, Subject, Symptom, Television, Themes, Time, To Live By, Try, Turn of Page, Turns, Twists In Plot, Wonder
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Streets Ahead
Life is a confined period of time. Who knows truly what’s next. Even if you believe in the God of the Bible, you find that there is disagreement as to how after life happens. With this in mind, I thought … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahead, Cool, Doorway, Humor, Learn, Life, Me, Moment, Next, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Precisely, Reach, Say, School, Sense, She, Smile, Something Said, Stood, Streets, Supply and Demand, Teach, Think, Time, Truth, Understand, Universal, Waste, Wise, Wisely
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Finding the Good
I had a discussion with someone many years ago about why I wanted two princesses to be familiar with the literary classics from which there were derived the 5′ Shelf of Books aka Harvard Classics. After all, the contention was, … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Applcable, Artistically, Assertation, Being, Best, Book, Can, Capable, Certainty, Choice, Choose, Churchill, Commotion, Confusion, Consistentcy, Contention, Creation, Culture, Daily Smoke, Depiction, Discern, Discussion, Do, Education Draw, Emotion, Experience, Exposure, Extent, Fiction, Find, Five Foot Shelf of Books, Forgot, Friction, Future, Glory, Good, Harvard Classics, Heard, Hesitation, Historicity, Human Beings, Human Soul, Humans, Illusion, Imagination, Imminent, Implicit, Investigation, Learn, Lfie, Literary, Literary Classics, Man, Meaning, Much, Mystery, Need, Neglect, Nuance, Obscure, Observation, Out, Perception, Photograph, Plays, Poem, Poetry, Pretenses, Principles, Question, Reading, Reason, Remember, Resolution, Right and Wrong, Rise, Role, School, Secure, Seen, Senses, Shakespeare, Sincere, Songs, Sonnet, Story Teller, Taint, Teach, The Tempest, Truth, Understood, Veil, Verbal, Visible, Ways, Wisdom, Words
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