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War Changes A Man
While paying attention to something else, I started to think on PTSD. War Changes A Man by Michael Doyle It came on without any warning Half past two in the morning And suddenly, it was show time Landing hard like … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Backfire, Best, Booby Traps, Boys, Came On, Can, Change, Crawling, Door, Emotional Crime, Face Down, Facedown, Ghosts, Ground, Hip Deep, Home, Hug, Landing Hard, Left Behind, Loud Noise, Loud Sound, Made It Out, Man, Mind, Morning, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Show Time, Struggle, Times, Trip Wires, Visit, War, War Changes A Man, Warning
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Given the Dickens I’ve Known
Show of hands, who has read Charles Dickens in their lives? Who in the last 30 years? Yet, he stands as perhaps the greatest novelist in the English language. It almost scares me to know that I had read five … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Alley Ways, Breach, Century, Charles Dickens, Childhood, Clarity, Classes, Common Cause, Days, Debt, Decade, Endure, English, Hope, Imprisonment, Industrial, Lawyer, Life, Masses, Misery, Morality, Novelist, Photograph, Poem, Poet's Corner, Poetry, Reaches, Sentimentality, Severity, Society, Society's Contract, Squalor, Strife, Struck, Struggle, Tales, Westminster Abby
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Thought For the Day: Nonviolence Is the Most Potent Weapon Available To Oppressed People In Their Struggle For Freedom and Justice
“(R)iots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I’m still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will … Continue reading
Woven Into A Delicate Tapestry
Faith and reason must work in combination with one another to approach the balance necessary to navigate the life of individuals and of nations around the world. Woven Into A Delicate Tapestery by Michael Doyle Woven into a most delicate … Continue reading
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Tagged Balance, Blind, Bloody, Capricious, Church, Civilization, Combination, Creativity, Deity, Delicate, Deny, Diversity, Era, Evidence, Exceed, Faith, Freedom, God, Holy Kingdom, Incomplete, Inculcate, Known, Liberty, Life, Limits, Mankind, Mastery, Modernism, Monotheism, Navigate, Need, Pantheism, Path, Pathology, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psychology, Rational, Realization, Reason, Record, Reverent, Roots, Seeds, Self-Evident, Struggle, Tapestry, Theology, Truth, Twentieth Century, University, Wisdom, Woven, Youth
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Thought For the Day: He Who Has Struggled Constantly With His Ills Becomes Hardened Through Suffering and Yields To No Misfortune
“Bodies grown fat through sloth are weak, and not only labour, but even movement and their very weight cause them to break down. Unimpaired prosperity cannot withstand a single blow; but he who has struggled constantly with his ills becomes … Continue reading
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Tagged Blow, Bodies, Breakdown, Constant, Falls, Fat, Fights, Harden, Ills, Knees, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Misfortune, Prosperity, Sloth, Struggle, Suffering, Thought For the Day, Unimpaired, Weak, Withstand, Yields
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Texas 1836
I have always found American history fascinating in all of our legends and tales, tall or not. Texas 1836 by Michael Doyle Texas, Eighteen Hundred Thirty Six Thousands of Americans invited in Finding their place in desert sand and sticks … Continue reading
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Tagged 1836, Alamo, American, American History, Americans, Ashes, Austin, Band, Blame, Bloody, Comanche, Death, Desert Sand, Die, Fight, Flame, Folly, Forgot, Free, Freedom, General Santa Anna, Hardcore, Houston, Intention, Intervention, Jackson, Karankawa, Land, Learn, Legend, Lesson, Lose, Manifest Destiny, Mexican, Nation, Outlaws, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Question, Reason, Right, Rise, Settlers, Slavery, Sticks, Stood, Struggle, Swept, Tale, Tejano, Tension, Tequila Sunrise, Texas, Tribal, Tribe, Why, Win, Wrong
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On the 1619 Project
An ahistorical work that seeks to repudiate the founding principles of America won the Pulitzer Prize today. In my eyes, all luster is now gone to both the Nobel prizes and the Pulitzer with this move. It’s not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahistorical, Alienation, All Against All, Allege, America, American History, Arbitrary, Assert, Attempt, Balkanization, Bill of Goods, Capricious, Compromise, Conceived, Consideration, Constitutional Convention, Content, Core, Curriculum, Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Discern, Division, Do Away, Enough, Equal Under Law, Fabric, Fairy Tales, False, Fiction, Founding Principles, Good, Grapple, Group Rights, Groups, History, Hit Piece, Identity Politics, Ill-Liberal, Ill-Liberalism, Illiteracy, Individuals, Integrity, Intent, Invention, Issue, Journalists, Lack, Legitimacy, Liar's Club, Liberty, Loud, Love, Meander, Mentality, Miscreants, Mob Rule, Nation, Nonsense, Notes, Oversold, Overtern, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Privilege, Promise, Propaganda, Proposition, Public Good, Pulitzer Prize, Purpose, Real, Repubican Values, Repudiation, Repudicate, Reveal, Right Path, Said, Sake, Self Loathing, Self-Serving, Sincere, Social Justice, Socialists, Struggle, The 1619 Project, Told, Tool, Toxic, Trotskyite, True, Truth, Tryanny, Unalienable Rights, Unity, Untrue, Value, Victimhood, Virtue Signaling, Want, Won't Do, Wrong Minded
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How To Live the Bible
Based in part on Deuteronomy 11:18-21: How To Live the Bible by Michael Doyle Thank you Father for our salvation Certain of our coming final destination Please hear our prayers on Palm Sunday As we worship and praise all of … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Bible, Carve, Comfort, Console, Destination, Deuteronomy, Devotional, Distraction, Emotion, Encourage, Faith, Flock, Focus, Follow, Foundation, Fuel, Guidance, Habit, Health, Holy, Home, How-To, Lesson, Life, Live, Look, Lost Sheep, Me, Palm Sunday, Paryers, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Praise, Prayer, Principles, Proverbs, Psalms, Restoration, Rock, Rules, Salvation, School, Scripture, Sky, Soul, Spiritual, Stillness, Stone, Struggle, Thank you, The Book, Troubled, Verse, Walk, Wealth, Widom, Wilderness, Word, Words, Worship
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