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Thought For the Day: You Can’t Overthink the Music. Mood and Intensity Can’t Be Manufactured. The Blues Isn’t About Structure; It’s What You Bring To It
“You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.” – Jimmy Page
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Tagged Blues, Drive, Jimmy Page, Manufactured, Mood and Intensity, Music, Overthink, Spontaniety, Structure, Thought For the Day
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Hoosier Rains
Hoosier Rainsby Michael DoyleIt has been over twenty years nowAnd it’s on my mind still somehow.I was driving, approaching the state lineOf Indiana, determined to make it mine.Shortly before the sight of the dunes, I had plannedTo visit like some … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Central, Crags, Destination, Dunes, Flatness, Glacier, Grace, Heart, Hills, Himility, Hoosier, Hoosier Hopsitality, hoosiers, Indiana, Kindness, Lake Michigan, Location, Mind, Naive Skies, Nature, Planted Ground, Poetry and Poems, Procrastination, Rain, Rainbow, Reality, Reputation, Sand, Silence, Soul, State Line, Structure, SUV, Time's Passages, Tranquility, Travel, Twenty Years
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Lost Plot
Lost Plotby Michael DoyleEverywhere I look, it seems forgotIs it just me, or have we lost the plotI feel it in the murderous laughterThe distant thunder is lost but chases afterSociety’s fracturing psyche is in traumaAs wordlessly we watch all … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Architecture, Around, Atonal, Audience, Bursting Seams, Children, Cohesive Whole, Consideration, Cry, Debussy, Declarative, Drama, Dreams, Dreamscape Logic, Embrace, Ethereal, Everywhere, Fail, Fantasy, Forgot, Found, Freud, Future, Hallucination, Harmony, Hold Onto, Hope, Horror, Humanity, Impression, Laughter, Look, Look Around, Lost, Melody, Murderous, Narrative, Neglect, Nose Dive, Passing Days, Play, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Psyche, Quietly Spoken, Retrospect, Rhapsody, Share, Society, Soul, Structure, Summation, Surface, Surrealism, Swim, The Present, Thunder, Trauma, True, Vision, Watch, Weird, Wordless
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First Principles: In Proportion As the Structure of A Government Gives Force To Public Opinion, It Is Essential That Public Opinion Should Be Enlightened
“In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged Enlightened, Eseential, First Principles, Force, George Washington, Government, Proportion, Public Opinioin, Structure
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First Principles: In Proportion As the Structure of A Government Gives Force To Public Opinion, It Is Essential That Public Opinion Should Be Enlightened
“In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged Enlighten, Essential, First Principles, Force, George Washington, Government, Proportion, Public Opinion, Structure
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Thought For the Day: Words, When Written, Crystallize History; Their Very Structure Gives Permanence To the Unchangeable Past
“Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past.” – Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
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Tagged Francis Bacon, History, Permanence, Structure, Thought For the Day, Unchangeable Past, Words, Written
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First Principles: In Proportion As the Structure of A Government Gives Force In Public Opinion, It Is Essential That Public Opinion Should Be Enlightened
“In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged Enlightened, Essential, First Principles, Force, George Washington, Government, Proportion, Public Opinion, Structure
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Thought For the Day: Words, When Written, Crystallize History, Their Very Structure Gives Permanence To the Unchangeable Past
“Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past.” – Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
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Tagged Crytalize, Francis Bacon, History, Past, Permanence, Structure, Thought For the Day, Unchangeable, Words, Written
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Owed To A Non-Living Killer
An attempt at both blank verse which I never quite understand and a virus that apparently isn’t going away so it might be wise to understand, right? Owed To A Non-Living Killer by Michael Doyle A world cast into lockdown … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Alsohol, Ambition, Antibodies, Blank Verse, Block, Coronavirus Disease 2019, COVID-19, Deadly, December, Distress, DNA, Enemies, Family, Flu, Frown, Frustration, Function, Genetic, Growth, Hand Sanitizer, Infection, Inhibition, Insertion, Killer, Life, Living, Living Cells, Lockdown, Lungs, Madness, Math, Mean, Medicine, MERS, Messenger RNA, Method, Morphogenesis, Mutation, Parasite, Particles, Photograph, Plasma, Poem, Poetry, Protease, Reproduction, Right Path, RNA Vaccination, SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Soap and Water, Spike Crowns, Steal, Structure, Treatment, Viral, Wuhan
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