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Thought For the Day: A Single Rose Can Be My Garden…A Single Friend, My World

Posted on April 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” -Leo Buscaglia, author, speaker, and professor (31 Mar 1924-1998)

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Thought of the Day: Every Man Feels Instinctively That All the Beautiful Sentiments In the World Weigh Less Than A Single Lovely Action

Posted on July 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action” – James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (22 Feb 1819-1891)

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First Principles: One Single Object Will Merit the Endless Gratitude of the Society: That of Restraining the Judges From Usurping Legislation

Posted on March 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“One single object … [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” – Thomas Jefferson (1825)

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First Principles: There Is Not A Single Instance In History In Which Civil Liberty Was Lost, and Religious Liberty Preserved Entire

Posted on September 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage.” – John Witherspoon, … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Rain Begins With A Single Drop

Posted on April 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The rain begins with a single drop.” – Manal al-Sharif, human rights activist (b. 25 Apr 1979)

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The Floriography of Our Easter Love Renewed

Posted on April 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11, 2020… and hoping each of you is having a blessed Easter eve!! Today’s poem prompt is to write a poem featuring the secret language of flowers, floriography. Given that I have been with my two little girls … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Endless Gratitude of Society Would Be Merited By Restraining Judges From Usurping Legislation

Posted on November 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: Whoever Seeks To Set One Group of Americans Against Another, Seeks To Degrade All

Posted on October 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt … Continue reading →

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Taken Path

Posted on October 22, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #22: Taken Path by Michael Romani Even we who make our own heaven and hell Cannot evade that most singular of details That the chosen Wolf of God is our prophecy A singular enemy that is our owned … Continue reading →

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