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Thought For the Day: If You Don’t Turn Your Life Into A Story, You Just Become A Part of Someone Else’s Story
“If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.” -Terry Pratchett, novelist (28 Apr 1948-2015)
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Tagged Become, Part, Someone Else's, Story, Terry Pratchett, Thought For the Day, Turn, You, Your Life
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Blind Eye Curiosity Collection
Blind Eye Curiosity Collectionby Michael DoyleEvery traveler is a hero in their own storyImperialists and kleptomaniacs after a slice of gloryCulturally misappropriating cultures for the takingCollecting treasures boxed away to the point of breakingContesting the pragmatic bounds of lopsided sentimentsAs … Continue reading
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Tagged All Roads, Atrocity, Blind Eye, Bloodline, Break, Collect, Collection, Consistency, Contest, Cousin, Culture, Curiosity, Deserved, Destruction, Edges, excerpt, Familiarity, Fiction, Fuzzy Math, Hero, Humanity's Throne, Imperialists, Kleptomaniacs, Misapprorpiate, News, Obvious Question, Poem, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pragmatic Bounds, Pth, Purposes, Relvant, Self Correction, Sentiment, Slice of Glory, Steal, Story, Storyline, Theft, Traveler, Underserved, Us Versus Them, Western Tradition, Woven
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Thought For the Day: A Story Has No Beginning Or End: Arbitrarily One Chooses That Moment of Experience From Which To Look Back Or From Which To Look Ahead
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” – Graham Greene
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Tagged Arbitrary, Beginning, Choose, End, Graham Greene, Look Ahead, Look Back, Moment of Experience, Story, Thought For the Day
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The Original Wild Child
The Original Wild Childby Michael DoyleOver pizza. we swung from vine to vineThese laughing daughters making the timeTo watch a remake of Tarzan this Saturday nightEach smile a moonbeam of their father’s delightWe talk as we watch Africa’s original feral … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Africa, Argumentation, Behind, Best, Brave, Burroughs, Change, Cheer, Circle, Complicated, Contemplation, Contemptuous, Creativity, Details, Director, Drama, Endless, Expression, Father's Deligh, Father's Delight, Fear, Feral Child, Fierce, Filed, Friendless, Glory, Guard, Heard, Lack of Dignity, Laughing Daughters, Leave, Liberty, Memories, Moonbeam, Nickname, No Matter How Right, Notes, Original, Peace of Mind, Pizza, Poetry and Poems, Reasoning, Regard, Remake, Rules of Civilization, Saturday Night, Slight, Smile, Society, Society's Lions, Story, Tale, Tarzan, The Wild, Thought, Time, Vine To Vine, Waste, Well, Wild Child, Youngest
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Exiting To A New Beginning
Exiting To A New Beginningby Michael DoyleThe alpha and the omegaThe beginning and the endLife’s alpha and its omegaLaid bare at the year’s beginning and endGod breathes our lives into motionWhatever the season’s emotionsWe aim to begin and finish strongAs … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, Aim, Anchored, Biblical, Blind, Breathe, Church, Community, Complaints, Courage, Desire, Emotion, Empty, Exit, Faith, Family, Glasses, Habakkuk, Half Full, Happy, Heal, Hesitation, Motion, New Beginning, One, Poetry and Poems, Political, Presses On, Principles, Question, Relatinship, Right, Right Choice, Sacred Family, Season, Sight, Spiritual Blindness, Story, Strong, Struggle, The Alpha and the Omega, Voice, Walk, Worship, Wounds of Division, Year
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The Greatest Masterpiece
The Greatest Masterpieceby Michael DoyleThe Nativity reminds us of the storyPresent in our lives in all its gloryIn our hearts and in all of our daysWith not a moment spent in going astrayIn their play of love for the artsWe … Continue reading
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Tagged Artt, Astray, Bridge, Children of God, Eyes, Father, Gap, Glory, Great, Heaert, Heart, Light, Masterpiece, Miracles, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Sanctity, Speed of Light, Story, The Nativity, the Word, Travel, Water
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Rewarming Miracles On the Street
Rewarming Miracles On the Streetby Michael DoyleI don’t want to seem to be too contraryOr an old-fashioned grump who is orneryBut does it seem creativity is stuck on repeatIs anyone questioning the miracle of any streetHollywood’s latest contributions seem derivative … Continue reading
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Tagged Abusive, Acceptance, Angst, Believe, Blessings, Burst, Capable, Care, Charm, Christmas, Conceive, Conservaive, Contest, Contrary, Creativity, Crumbs, Deceive, Derivative, Destroy, Discern, Dissastisfaction, Dream, Embrace, Epidemic, Face, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Festival, Forget, Formula, Good, Grump, Hallmark, Harm, Heart, Heartbreak, Hollywood, Immense, Joy, Jurassic, Kindness, Kris Kringle, Layers of Complexity, Learn, Lessons, Life, Lost, Love, Loyalty, Magic, Masks, Miracles, Money, Music, Ornery, Parade, People, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Question, Regret, Repeat, Repentance, Rewarm, Season, Secret, Share, Story, Streets, Stuffed Away, Teach, Toys, Trace, Trade, Tragic, Treasure, Treat, Truth, Understood, Yesterday
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Poinsettia Day 2023
Poinsettia Day 2023by Michael DoyleUsually quiet and sometimes reservedSometimes death seems so undeservedIt’s hard to find the words to sayLike on this present Poinsettia DayLife is sad, yet interesting, in processionMoments like these reveal this is not a possessionBut a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2023, Abovee, Accept, Afrar, Angels, Aware, Borrow, Breakdown, Breathe, Bring, Christmas Tale, David, Death, December, Do My Best, Eyes, Family, Filled, First Noel, Flower, Forgiving, Fullness, Gift, Giving, Guitar, Hard, Healing Light, Heart, Heavens, Him, Important, Know, Laughter, Life, Lived, Love, Midnight, Moments, My Life, News, Openly Weep, Plucking Notes, Poetry and Poems, Poinsettia Day, Possession, Procession, Quiet, Remember, Resentment, Reserved, Reveal, Sad, Sad Day, Shepherd, Shining Bright, Sing, Smile, Sorrow, Star, Story, Turn Out Right, Undesvered, Up Close, Wise, Wish, Words
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A Story’s End
A Story’s Endby Michael DoyleA story must be told through its endHowever little we think that we can defendAs the hero struggles to free himself from chainsWhile holding onto the dreams of the morning rainsIt’s hard to cut through the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger and Fear, Attendant Lies, Blur, Chains, Charade, Cut, Defend, Dreams, End, Grow, Hero, Hidden Road, Humanity, Ignorance, Maturity, Morning Rains, Offense, Paid In Full, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Security, Story, Struggle, Think, Tired Eyes, Travel, Truth
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