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Thought For the Day: It Was Books That Taught Me That the Things That Tormented Me Were the Very Things That Connected Me
“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, All People, Books, Connected Me, Heartbreaks, History of the World, James Baldwin, Or Ever Alive, Pains, Read, Taught, Things, Think, Thought For the Day, Tormented Me, Unprecendented
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The God Smiles
A bit of a story about Celtic magic derived from a much larger story: The God Smiles by Michael Doyle The God smiles in sanctification Blessing His love in its purification Lessons taught in the Garden’s tending Such is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Burn, Burning Embers, Celtic, Dawn, Death, Demons, Face, Garden, Go On, Greater, Inside, Learn, Lessons, Life, Love, Magic, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretending, Pretense, Pride, Purification, Rage, Santification, Sleepy Village, Smiles, Taught, Tending, The God, Timbers, Wakes, Wish, Wolf
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To Escape the Warren
More or less dedicated to A Watership Down: To Escape the Warren by Michael Doyle In the beginning Rabbit gained his tricks There on the path of winning Played out like a guitarist’s licks Each to have their meaning Captive … Continue reading
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Tagged A Watership Down, Beginning, Blood, Borne, Brother, Burning Hot, Caged Existence, Captive, Card, Change, Come, Cross the Road, Danger, Dare, Ear, Escape, Feaer, Fear, Few, Fire, Flee, Freedom, Gain, Gamble, Gather, Good, Haste, Head, Hear, Live Life, Meaning, Moment, Moment to Waste, Mud, Needed, Neglect, Nightmares, Path, Pesevere, Photograph, Played Out, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rabbit, Rules, Safety Net, Schools, Something Coming, Storm, Story Tellers, Taught, Think, Told, Tricks, Warren, Ways, Willingness, Win, Wire, Woods
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The Moral Imagination
It is not enough to give to our children and our society definitions of right and wrong or normless stories and books leading to an inability to make the profound decisions needed for the better world we so desperately need. … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Accountability, Act, Action, Address, Bad, Banality, Best Selves, Better Path, Better World, Blame, Blur, Books, Build, Capable, Capacity, Character, Childhood, Children, Churn, Clean Cut, Commanding, Could Be, Cultivation, Deeper Truth, Defeat, Depart, Desire To Do, Difference, Earn, Education, Embrace, Emulation, Encourage, Experience, Explanation, Fascination, Form Habits, Game, Go, Good Morals, Grown, Hate, Head, Heart, Heavy Hand, Heroes, High Ideals, Home, Humanity, Ideal, Illustration, Imagination, Important, Ingrain, Innate, Just Quality, Know, Laws, Learn, Learning, Light, Love, Manner, Me and You, Mind, Moral, Moral Components, Morality, Nation, Need, Nice, Nobility, Not Enough, Obligation, Older, Onward, Open Eyes, Parents, Passing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Poverty, Reach, Read, Reliable, Require, Richness, Right, Rules, Shelves, Should Be, Shown, Social Good, Society, Soul, Stir, Surface, Systematically, Tales, Taught, Teach, Teachers, Tending the Heart, The Rub, Train Up, Turn, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfed, Upright, Vice, View, Virtue, Virtuous Character, Vision, Wardrobe of Images, Ways, Worth Holding On To
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A Lone Bagpiper
All of us are coming out of the isolation spawned by Covid-19 into a world changed by virus and by riotous disruption. In some ways, this is good. In some ways this is bad. In all ways, this is a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918, Alleged, Authorities, Bagpiper, Change, Cheap Rumors, Clairty, Confuse, COVID-19, Destiny, Doubt, Edge, Effective Testing, Enhance, Eradication, Explanation, French Square, Game of Chance, Genetic, Head, Herd Immunity, Human Beings, Immunization, Impact, Isolation, Lack of Transparency, Leaders, Legacy, Lethal, Lie, Lone, More, Nation, Notion, Odds, Ought, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rapid Mutation, Response, Riots, Segment, Sensible, Simulation, Society, Taught, Tell the Truth, The People, Virus, Walk, World
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Thought For the Day: It Has Been the Great Tragedy of Our Time That People Were Taught To Read and Not Taught To Reason
“It has been the great tragedy of our time that people were taught to read and not taught to reason.” – G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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Tagged G.K. Chesterton, Great, Our Time, People, Read, Reason, Taught, Thought For the Day, Tragedy
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Dragged Into the Streets
Thinking a lot on education and civilization and why and how there seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to how each is allegedly to work out. Fairly serious stuff and yet how can a person not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Alienation, Ancient, Avoid, Backside, Bad Advice, Belong, Bowl, Capable, Chase, Civility, Civilization, Confusion, Convenience, Convenient, Cruelty, Curious, Darkness, Days, Deal, Desire, Different, Done, Doubt, Drag, Drink, Education, Fish, Flag, Gin, God, Good, Happy, Head, Humor, Interest, Lazy, Life, Luck, Manage, Mentally, Miserable, Monkeys, Moral Courage, Mortals, New Life, None, Now, Ought, Photograph, Pit, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Problems, Puzzles, Raps, Reverent, Run Away, Sail, Set Out, Sink, Sit, Solemn, Somehow, Sought, Street, Struck, Sun, Taught, Tell Me, Then, Think, Thought, Time, Trappings, Tree, Turn, Tutor, Unteachable, Want, Wince, Wish, Wonder, Workings, Wrong, You
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Stay On the Path
Due to time constraints and a day much better spent with my two princesses, I will be going off prompt from Day 25 of Na/GloPoWriMo gazillion requirements for a form of poetry that I would never want to write in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anew, Animals, Around, Awake, Breath, Brighter, Bud, Citizens, Clearing, Come, Come and Go, Constraint, Daddy, Days, Deer, Earth Day, Endear, Every Day, Explore, Fall, Father, Flowers, Flutter, Forest Floor, Green, Ground, Harm, Her, Hours, Ignore, Joy, Lessons, Life, Lighter, Living Creatures, Load, Lock, Mark, Memories, Na/GloPoWriMo, Near, New, Newborn, Notice, Off Prompt, Old, Pass, Path, Photograph, Plot, Poem, Poetry, Poppa, Protective Canopy, Rays, Recall, Rules, School, Scurry, Seasons, Shape, Spring, Stay, Taught, Valleys, Value, Wake, Warm Days, World, Worry
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Gifts From the Heart
Day 20 of Na/GloPoWriMo, 2020! 2/3rds of the way through this year’s event. The optional prompt is to “write a poem about a handmade or homemade gift that you have received“. Gifts From the Heart by Michael Doyle Since divorce … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Always, Angst, Arms, Aware, Bits, Capable, Card, Compel, Complete, Cruel, Curl, Dad, Day, Decision, Division, Divorce, Ear To Ear, Essence, Ex, Family, Father, Father's Daughter, Father's Day, Fear, Friend, Friendship Braclets, Gift, Girls, Golden Rule, Grow, Hand, Happiness, Hear, Heart, Hidden, Hold, Homemade, Hug and Kiss, Hugs, Hunt, Inseparable, Know, Lady Bugs, Love, Mindful, Moment, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, Offer, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Remind, School, Show, Side, Smile, Something, Start, Sweet, Taught, Tear, Three Musketeers, Trust, Understand, Watch, Way, While, Wish, World, Youngest
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