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Due North
Due Northby Michael DoyleIn these daysWhen everything has gone frothyIn a million waysWe need those around to be worthyThat’s who my friend had always beenThe one I knew was good for the winEver since back in high schoolI knew her … Continue reading
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Tagged Alright, Always Been, Answer, Beat It, Brave, Calm, Cancer, Challenge, Come Hell or High Water, Concentration, Connected, Crisis, Days, Degree of Fascination, Demeanor, Due North, Facebook, Feel, Focus, Friend, Frothy, Glide, Good For the Win, Hallway, High School, Is, Joyous Laughter, Keep Things Real, Kept Cool, Lie On My Lips, Lifetime Past, Look, Lord, Lost Track, Million Ways, Mindfulness, More Than Fair, My Friend, Nobody's Fool, Paddleboarder, Peace, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Progress, Reconnected, Reflective, Same As the Last, Same Smile, Searching For An Answer, Sigh, Simple, Smile, Soul, Stalled, Stay Still, Stride, Style, Surreal, Tear, Test, Time, Traded Quips, True North Star, Water, Wherever, Words, Worthy, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: Nearly All Men Can Stand Adversity, But If You Want To Test A Man’s Character, Give Him Power
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (12 Feb 1809-1865) (In Remembrance of Lincoln’s Birthday!)
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Adversity, Character, Lincoln's Birthday, Mankind, Nearly All, Power, Test, Thought For the Day
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So Begins Hope
So Begins Hopeby Michael DoyleSo begins hope for a golden ageWe stand as we turn our pageVowing in integrity to quench our thirstStep by step, we’ll make America firstAs exceptional as America’s past successTruth in challenges is sought in testsAs … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, America, Assassin's Bullet, Bad Policies, Begin, Borders, Candid, Challenges, Compete, Compromise, Country, Dreams, Economy, Excepational, Fight, Free Speech and Thought, Furture, God's Glory, Golden Age, Greatest Danger, Honor, Honor and Promise, Hope, Inflation, Inihbiition, Integrity, Join Hands, Light, Make America First, Merit, Mortal Sin, Nurture, One Nation, Ongoing Tragedy, Pillar, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Quench Our Thrrst, Reach, Reclaim, Red White and Blue, Repair, Restoration, Safety and Freedom, Sense, Step By Step, Success, Test, Thoughts, Time, Trust, Truth, Truth and Justice, Wanton Crime
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Love Is A Choice
Love Is A Choiceby Michael DoyleSometimes I silently look at youIn awe and wonder at all you doAnd I know, it’s true what some sayI fall deeper for you with each dayFor the good and bad of this voiceI know … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thousand Times Over, Atttention, Awe and Wonder, Best, Boundary, Choice, Close, Closer Still, Comfort, Cosmos, Depth, Face, Fall Deeper, Forget, Forgiveness, Gauge, God, Good and Bad Days, Grow, Healing, Hold Your Hand, I, Intention, Keep You, Kind, Know, Life, Limits, Live, Look, Love, Love Is A Choice, Loving Embrace, Mind, Moment's Breath, More Than A Feeling, My Love, Needs, Poetic Pretense, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Process, Quandary, Quanitfy, Relationships, Remember, Sanctuary, Say, Selfish, Selfless, Sentence, Share, Singulre, Spirituality, Step Forward, Survive, Test, Thrive, True Love, Understand, Upset, Voice, Ways, Whisper, Withstand, World's Strife, Worth, You
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Out of A Writer’s Head
Out of A Writer’s Headby Michael DoyleSome who writeHave fumbled for wordsAs though words aren’t rightEven as they’ve occurredWhether poetry or proseIt’s the words that passIt’s less what one knowsBut what has amassedWords flow best in experienceThen become arranged by … Continue reading
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Tagged Amassed, Arrange, Collage, Collates, Enough, Experience, Fits, Flow, Fumble, Head, Knows, Left Behind, Little Bits, Mind, Occurred, Pass, Poetry, Poetry and Prose, Preference, Prose, Right, Right Stuff, Said, Spill Out, Test, Words, Writer, Writer's Head, Wwrite
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Through the Years
Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleAlive somewhere in all my ADHDI sometimes walk right into meWhen I do, in times like thisI find there isn’t much to missI have always tried to be my bestStretching myself to meet my testsHead-on collisions … Continue reading
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Tagged Adapt, ADHD, Alive, Assurance, Beauty, Belong, Best, Blessing, Box of Cookies, Degrees, Drum, Gloom, God We Know, Godly, Gratitude, Guessing, Head On Collision, Hotel Room, Imagination, Indignation, Known, Learning, Lessons, Life Passes On, Love, Miss, Moonage Daydream, Movie Screen, Myself and Daughters, Overcome, Path of Life, Patience, Patient, Pensive, Please, Poetry and Poems, Princsses, Sensitive, Sharing Moments, Small Town, Smile, Sorrow and Silence, Stretch, Strive, Strong, Struggle, Suffering, Survive, Test, Think, Through the Years, Trapped, Turn Out Right, Walk, World, Wrong
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About Trees
About Treesby Michael DoyleDriving through the forestIt can be a bit like a testTo know that they pleaseAs you examine all the treesFrom saplings up to the heightsA million reasons offer delightSome live through the centuriesAll offer their sweet legaciesBranched … Continue reading
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Tagged About Trees, All of Life, Biology, Branched Out, Breath, Call Us Out, Centuries, Define, Delight, Drive, Dvinity, Ecology, Embrace, Examine, Forest, Generations, God's Creations, Grace, Hearts, Heights, Illusion, Indiana, Infinity, Kentucky, Legacies, Life, Live, Living Memory, Living Spaces, Love, Lucky, Mankind, Million Reasons, Niche, Numberless, Offer, Old Growth Patches, Please, Poetry and Poems, Realign, Relationship, Restorative, Root Systems, Saplings, Space, Spirituality, Stars, Start, Test, Timeless Regeneration, Travelers, Trees, Woodlands, Worship
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Thought For the Day: Speculation Is Perfectly All Right, But If You Stay There You’ve Only Founded A Superstition. If You Test It, You’ve Started A Science
“Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you’ve only founded a superstition. If you test it, you’ve started a science.” – Hal Clement, science fiction author (30 May 1922-2003)
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Tagged Found, Hal Clement, Science, Sepeculation, Stay, Superstition, Test, Thought For the Day
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To Raise Godly Children
To Raise Godly Childrenby Michael DoyleTime travels as shadows grow longerAnd the need to be wiser is strongerI look on my children and hope the bestI look for answers that might pass the testAs we raise our children for successIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Above All the Religons, Actions, Affection, Answers, Attention, Authority, Believe, Best, Build, Children, Clear Expectations, Clear Rules, Comparison, Consistency, Control, Correction, Cue, Did, Direct, Do, Dream, Dress, Echoes, Encouragement, Example, Fair Consequences, Faith, Family, Fools, God's Way, Grace, Grown, Happiness, Hold, Holy Worship, Hope, Imprint, Instill, Instruction, Integrity, Intention, Keep, Known, Leave, Lessons, Live Righteously, Long Game, Long Ride, Longer, Look, Lord's Grace, Love, Maturity, Meant, Name, Parenting, Pass, Path, Place, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Presents, Promise, Quality, Quantity, Raise, Relationship, Rely, Rescue, Responsibility, Right, Right Direction, Rules, Said, Say, Shadows, Soul, Speaking Life and Love, Strong Balance, Stronger, Struggle, Success, Tears, Test, Tight, Time, Trace, Traces, Travel, Walk, Weep, Wise
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