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Tag Archives: Spirit
A Mustang’s Spirit
A Mustang’s Spiritby Michael DoyleA mustang’s spirit can never be brokenThe wild wind said in words unspokenInto the sky, the story of wild turned to loveBorn in a meadow with only the stars aboveSkies as endless as these were beautifulShy … Continue reading
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Tagged Ache, Actuality, Bad Days, Beautiful, Born, Broken, Call of Freedom, Coming, Composed, Destiny, Endless, Final Truth, Full S;pirit, Gentle, Give and Take, Keeps, Kind, Learning, Longest Journey, Love, Love Is Never Far, Love Without Measure, Meadow, Mustang, Never Forsake, Noble, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Range, Ride, Rising, Shaken, Shortest Night, Shy But Strong, Sight, Skies, Sky, Spirit, Stars, Stars Above, Surprising, Symphony, Taken, Talk, The Fire, Time Tells, Truth of Personality, Turned, Turned Around, Wild, Wild Spirit, Wild Wind, Without Sympathy, Wonderful, Words Unspoken, World
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First Principles: The Common and Continual Mischiefs of the Spirit of Party Are Sufficient To Make It the Interest and Duty of A Wise People To Discourage and Restrain It
“The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.” – George Washington
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Tagged Common, Continual, Discourage, Duty, First Principles, George Washington, Interest, Mischief, Party, Restrain, Spirit, Sufficient, Wise People
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In Gratitude For Santa’s Spirit
In Gratitude For Santa’s Spiritby Michael Doyle”Dear Santa”, that’s how it all beganSealed with love as only a child canWhat he wanted most of all was familyThat and a meaningful Christmas treeHe grew up endlessly chasing a little cheerIn the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Badgered, Beaten Down, Began, Blues, Busy, Cheer, Child, Christmas, Christmas Cheer, Christmas Tree, Commericialization, Crown, Days, Dear Santa, Disappear, Dizzy, Dreams, Elves, Endlessly Chasing, Expectations, Family, Fascination, Frenzied, Give Me Give Me, Gladness, Gloves On, Going Through the Motions, Gratification, Gratitude, Greed, Happy News, Here and Now, Hustle and Bustle, Important Thing, Jaded World, Jingle, Joy, Joyfully, Magic, Meaning Got Lost, Meaningful, Never Allow, Never Be Allowed, New York City, North Pole, Not Just Once Upon, Notions, Our Children, Overworked, Photographs, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Press On, Real Meaning, Reflection, Remember, Remember What Matters, Santa, Sealed With Love, Season's Greetings, Shatter, Snow, Spirit, Spirit of Christmas, Stress, Suit Up, Tale, Tinsel, To Be Gone, Top of the World, Unsatisfied, Whole, World Apart, Year After Year, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: Culture Is the Widening of the Mind and of the Spirit. It Is Never A Narrowing of the Mind Or A Restriction of the Human Spirit Or the Country’s Spirit
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.” – Jawaharlal Nehru, freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister … Continue reading
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Tagged Country, Culture, Human Spirit, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mind, Narrow, Restriction, Spirit, Thought of the Day, Widen
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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Canker, Constitution, Degenarcy, Eat, First Prinicples, Heart, Laws, manners, People, Preserve, Republic, Spirit, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Whatever Anguish of Spirit It Might Cost, I Am Willing To Know the Whole Truth; To Know the Worst and To Provide For It
“Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Anguish, Cost, First Prinicples, Know, My Part, Patrick Henry, Provide, Spirit, Truth, Whole, Will, Worse
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Sounds For Troubled Times
One thing I’ve had some time to do lately is to explore what tuneage tends to lift my spirits in these sunken times. Sounds For Troubled Times by Michael Doyle Susceptible to a classic boogie fever As though there be … Continue reading
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Tagged 250th Birthday, Anything, Aspiration, Beethoven, Bent Pitches, Black Jazz, Blue, Boogie Fever, Brilliance, Call, Catharsis, Celebrate, Charm, Classic, Composition, Cool, Dance, Dark, Deaf Man, Define, Dim, Divide, Ear, Energy, Everything, Forget, Gershwin, Get Up, Greater Than, Hang In There, Happiness, Harmony, Heart Strings, Hearts, Hope, Humor, Imposition, Improvisation, Inspiration, Instrumental, Interlude, Joy, Kick, Lever, Loss, Love, Masterpiece, Missed, Mood, Moonbeam, Morals, Music, Musical, Need, Pandemic, Parts, Persevere, Photograph, Place, Playlist, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Resilience, Rhapsody, Romance, Sign, Songs, Sonic, Soul, Sounds, Spirit, Star, Stick, Sweep, Teach, Tone, Troubled Times, Tunes, Universe, Verse, Voice, Wall, Way, We, Where, Who, Whole, Write
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