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This Thanksgiving 2021

Posted on November 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

This Thanksgiving 2021by Michael DoyleLate last night I was thinking on..The furthest star’s even furthest moonUntil I was dreaming of a once uponFairytale feeling that was needed soonFor two years, the world has sufferedThrough the scourge of viral pestilenceWith reasons … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: There Is A Fountain of Youth: It Is Your Mind, Your Talents, the Creativity You Bring To Your Life and the Lives of the People You Love

Posted on September 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age” … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Slavery Is Such An Atrocious Debasement of Human Nature, That Its Very Extirpation, If Not Performed With Solicitous Care, May Sometimes Open A Source of Serious Evils

Posted on March 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.” -Benjamin Franklin (1789)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Atrocious, Benjamin Franklin, Debasement, Extirpation, First Principles, Human Nature, Open, Perform, Serious Evils, Slavery, Solicitous Care, Source | Leave a comment

For Bill of Rights Day

Posted on December 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

For Bill of Rights Dayby Michael DoyleTo embark on teaching history of the pastEngages us with the things that lastThe best way of doing this of courseIs to teach things right from the sourceBefore going further, let me just sayHappy … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Assert, Assertion, Beacon, Bill of Rights Day, Candid, Civic, Civic Virtue, Civil, Dark Night, Debate, Design, Education, Engage, Enlighten, Faith and Family, Fundamental, Great Nation, History, Ignorance, Join Together, Last, Lessons, Liberty, Light, Limited Government, Marvel, Mystery, Participation, Photograph, Pillars, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Polite, Public Square, Reason, Rule of Law, Say and Do, Source, Stand, Teach, Treason, Truth and Light, Tyranny, Viewpoints, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Families – Far More Than Schools – Create Or Inhibit Life Opportunities

Posted on August 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The main barriers to developing effective policies for income and social mobility is fear of honest engagement in the changes in the American family and the consequences it has wrought. … The family is the source of life and growth. … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged American Family, Build Values, Changes, Consequences, Create, Discourage, Effective Policy, Encourage, Fear, Honest Engagement, Income and Social Mobility, Inhibit, James Heckman, Life and Growth, Life Opportunity, Main Barrier, Shool, Source, The Family, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Hearing That Still Small Voice

Posted on June 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Samuel 7:18-19: Hearing That Still Small Voice by Michael Doyle First and foremost in questions of worship Is the supreme importance of your relationship To God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit It … Continue reading →

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The Good Fairy Tale

Posted on June 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What then is a fairy tale? What elements are necessary? And what are the purposes served in these? The Good Fairy Tale by Michael Doyle From deep within the wishing well Comes the invention of the fairy tale It’s hard … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Prosperity of Commerce Is Now Perceived and Acknowledged By All Enlightened Statemen As the Most Productive Source of National Wealth

Posted on May 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of its political cares.” – … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Acknowledge, Alexander Hamilton, Care, Commerce, Federalist Papers No. 12, First Principles, National Wealth, Perceive, Political, Primary Object, Productive, Prosperity, Source, Statesmen, Useful | Leave a comment

Like Mercury Colliding

Posted on April 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It’s day 16 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, 2020! What’s the challenge you ask? “…to write a poem of over-the-top compliments. Pick a person, place, or thing you love, and praise it in the most effusive way you can. Go for broke … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Let Us Recommit Ourselves To That Devotion To God and Family

Posted on November 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“As we celebrate Thanksgiving … we should ask what we can do as individuals to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all He has done. Such reflection can only add to the significance of this precious day of remembrance. Let … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Celebrate, Day of Remembrance, Devotion, Done, Family, God, Gratitude, Individuals, Nation, Recommit, Reflection, Role, Ronald Reagan, Source, Strength, Thanksgiving, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment