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Thought For the Day: We Have the Right To Give Away As Much of Our Own Money As We Please In Charity; But As Members of Congress We Have No Right To Appropriate A Dollar of the Public Money
“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power … Continue reading
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Tagged Act of Charity, Act of Injustice, Appropriate, Attempt, Balance of the Living, Charity, Congress, Davey Crockett, Dead, Dollar, Floor, Give Away, Individuals, Living, Member, Money, Own Money, Permit, Public Money, Respect, Sympathy, Thought For the Day
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In the Precedent of 2020
In the Precedent of 2020by Michael DoyleThere is something setQuietly there in the precedentAn unlikely principle we forgetThat we’d not be without accidentWho it is that we are todayI hope that’s not too flippant to sayThat despite our efforts to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Acceptance, Accident, Afraid, Answers, Beautiful, Beyond Cure, Border, Cherry Pick, Come and Go, Conceal, Contagion, Contemporary, Contrary, Converse, Crumble, Dare Not, Deinfe, Detail, Doctors, Efforts, End, Enforced Isolation, Familiar, Family Tree, Fantastic, Fealty, Find Our Way To Right, Flippant, Forget, Heads In Books, Heal, Impure, Ingredients, Intimacy, Itch, Light, Madness, Minds, Necessary, Noise, Notes In Bottle, Obsessive Order, One Another, Out of Order, Pan Flute, Patience of A Saint, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Popping Pills, Precedent, Quiet, Reality, Reverse, Sanity, Scratch, Send, Set, Sheer Edge, Still, Storms, Straighten, Sympathy, Tea, Teach, Today, Tragedy, Tremble, True, Unlikely Principle, Unpredictability, Whisper, Wind, Window Shopping, Wish, World, Wrong
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Tribalisms of Empathy
Society’s kindness has gone markedly down as we tend to polarize and communicate online via social media more. It’s sort of sparking a lot of interest, particularly in these times of social isolation, in getting folks to begin dialoging … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Acts, All In This Together, Amibition, Angry, Anonymity, Best, Better, Biology, Blindness, Bold, Break Down, Brutal, Burn, Challenge, Clues, Cold, Communicate, Communication, Community, Concern, Connection, Contagion, Control, Decline, Dehumanization, Dialog, Difference, Diminish, Direction, Disconnect, Edge, Empathy, Face to Face, Fear, Feelings, Fluid, Forget, Forward, Genes, Gradient, Hard, Harsh, Heart, Heredity, Human, Impersonal, Inference, Inhibition, Isolation, Kindness, Know, Life, Loss, Marsh, Meanness, Mirror, Morass, Nation, Need, Nuance, Pain, Photograph, Physiology, Poem, Poetry, Points of View, Polarize, Prevalence, Reality, Realm, Refine, Remove, Rise, Sad, Selfishness, Social Isolation, Social Media, Society, Spark, Startle, Sympathy, Text, Together, Tribal, Trust, Umbrella, Voice, Voices, Walk, Wobble, World
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In the Tall Grass
Halloween Poem #28 In the Tall Grass by Michael Romani It’s there in the tall grass Out in the muck and mire That tall, tall grass That feeds on your desire Never letting you pass Out there in the tall, … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Alright, Bluff, Comfort, Crown, Cycle, Desire, Discern, Doubt, Down, Fact, Fear, Feed, Forget, Forgiveness, Found, Give, Giving, Grass, Grief, Ground, Halloween, Hold On, Jester, Keep, Lay, Learn, Lesson, Letting Go, Live, Love, Mire, Muck, Natural, Nothing, Our, Out, Outlive, Pass, Past, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Puzzle, Real Man, Redemption, Regret, Sacred Heart, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Search, Secret, Self, Selfless, Simple, Suffice, Sympathy, Tall, Tight, Token, True, Truth, Unnatural, Want, Youth
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Your Knight and Vagabond
Conversation starter kept on a echo of same things said. Mostly, I suppose cause it’s what’s stuck in my head lately. How does one move beyond square one when to move requires another to have the confidence needed to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Belong, Connection, Dance, Drama, Faith, Fear, Find, Future, Good Enough, Hand, Hard, Home, Hope, Knight, Know, Light On, Love, New World, North Star, Pain, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Shadow, Side By Side, Sorrow, Sorry, Special, Step, Story Book, Strength, Strong, Sympathy, Together, Tomorrow, Truth, Vagabond, Wish
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Death Plays For Sympathy
Half time score: Benign! There’s a biopsy I can live with…. Death Plays For Sympathy by Michael Romani In the feigned victory Of death played for sympathy The gods whisper at the score Fatalistically wishing, wanting more To feel right … Continue reading
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