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Tag Archives: Thought
Harbor Minds
Harbor Mindsby Michael DoyleLike dolphins on an Aegean journeyBegan the seeds of ancient Greek philosophySome germinating into full-bloomed thoughtOthers leave more room, yet to be soughtOne notion after another brought sight to the blindOne motion after another for the good … Continue reading
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Tagged Aegean Journey, Aegean Sea, Answer, Believe, Best, Blind, Complexity, Curious Monkeys, Dancers, Dolphins, Express, Foundation, Germinate, Greek Philosophy, Harbor Minds, Hearth, Ideas, Initiation, Interaction, Joined Together, Knowledge, Luagh, Mankind, Mirth, Motion, Notion, Optimism, Pessimism, Phoenicians, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Question, Reliability, Room, Seeds, Sight, Simplicity, Sought, Spirit of Transaction, Systematic Thought, Thirst, Thought, Travel, Unafraid, Waves, Whisper, Words, World of Thoughts, Worms With Wings
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Thought For the Day: The Hardest Single Part of Building A Software System Is Deciding Precisely What To Build
“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Build, Decide, Detail, Fred Brooks, Hard, Know, Part, Precise, Problem, Question, Software, Specified, System, Thought, Thought For the Day, Truth
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Happy Resurrection Sunday!!
I prayerfully keep all the followers of Aloha Promises Forever in thought and consideration today and hope that each of you has a wonderful, and beautiful Easter today. Thank you for following my work throughout the years. May today and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloha Promises Forever, Atonement, Beautiful, Blessings, Changed, Consideration, Deep, Happy Easter, Happy Resurrection Sunday, Hope, Jethro Tull, Plethora, Pray, Salvation, Sanctus Real, Surface, Thank you, Thought, Thought For Today, Today and Everyday, When Jesus Came To Play, Wonderful
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Thought For the Day: No Man Means All He Says, and Yet Very Few Say All They Mean, For Words Are Slippery and Thought is Viscous
“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.” – Henry Adams
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Tagged Thought, Words, Thought For the Day, Say, Henry Adams, Mean, No Man, Very Few, Slippery, Viscous
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Thought For the Day: Unlike Any Other Form of Thought, Daydreaming Is Its Own Reward
“Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.” – Michael Pollan
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Tagged Daydream, Form, Michael Pollan, Reward, Thought, Thought For the Day, Unlike
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Loving Enough For Two
Loving Enough For Twoby Michael DoyleIt was easy enough to feel slightedAs off in the distance, he sightedEnough to evidence his dreams shatteringAs her coldness set his teeth chatteringHe hadn’t wanted to open up and hear itThat there was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledgment, Admiration, Adoration, Basket, Beyond Good and Evil, Birth of Love, Blessed, Blind, Character, Coldness, Contest, Count the Ways, Critical Eyes, Crystalize, Delight, Disparageer, Doubt, Easy Enough, Evidence, Fear, Give, Hear, Hope, Impluasibility, Impossibility, Lines, Love, Loving Enough, Merit, Mind, Mirror, Misstep, Monogamy, Obvious, Optimist, Permanent, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Reasons, Restlessness, Shine, Sighted, Sights, Signs, Simple Plot, Slighted, Solitude, The Happy Few, Theory, Thought, Trapped, Twilight, Two, Well Spring, Whim, Wrong or Right
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The Original Wild Child
The Original Wild Childby Michael DoyleOver pizza. we swung from vine to vineThese laughing daughters making the timeTo watch a remake of Tarzan this Saturday nightEach smile a moonbeam of their father’s delightWe talk as we watch Africa’s original feral … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Africa, Argumentation, Behind, Best, Brave, Burroughs, Change, Cheer, Circle, Complicated, Contemplation, Contemptuous, Creativity, Details, Director, Drama, Endless, Expression, Father's Deligh, Father's Delight, Fear, Feral Child, Fierce, Filed, Friendless, Glory, Guard, Heard, Lack of Dignity, Laughing Daughters, Leave, Liberty, Memories, Moonbeam, Nickname, No Matter How Right, Notes, Original, Peace of Mind, Pizza, Poetry and Poems, Reasoning, Regard, Remake, Rules of Civilization, Saturday Night, Slight, Smile, Society, Society's Lions, Story, Tale, Tarzan, The Wild, Thought, Time, Vine To Vine, Waste, Well, Wild Child, Youngest
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Let’s Live A Conspiracy of Love
Let’s Live A Conspiracy of Loveby Michael DoyleStaring at my blank screen thoughtfully,On this day, when it occurs to me softlyThat these moments of joy and Christmas cheerAren’t meant for one day but every day of the yearLetting God’s love … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloud, Christmas Cheer, Commands, Connection, Conspiracy, Conspiracy of Love, Contagious, Correspond, Courage, Darkness, Every Day, Every Day of the Year, Every Step, Fear, Follow, Heart and Soul, Heavenly Host, Intended Road, Joy, Justice, Live, Love, Loving Light, Minions, Occur, One Day, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Reason, Satan, Screen, Season, Shine, Shrae, This Way, Thought, Walk
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(Questions of Life) However Inspired
(Questions of Life) However Inspiredby Michael DoyleHowever it was inspiredLife came to be firedSparked a billion years agoAnd continued on in its flowThough no man was there Science believes it clearNeurons appeared 400,000 year agoBut who can truly know?From the … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Days, Better Ways, Billion Years, Billion Years Ago, Brink, Brought Together, Courage, Darkness, Debate, Disbelief, Drink, Feeling the Fools, Fired, First Cause, Flashpoints, Flow, Formation, Full-Tilt, Gift, God, Handcuffed, Hands, Information, Inspired, Least Hesitation, Life, Losing Position, Lucy, Major Fail, Mature, Mother Nature, Near Miss, Necessary, Neurons, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Predators, Primordial, Question, Questions, Sad, Science, Smackdown, Splash, Stare, Think, Thought, Through, Time, Traction, Transition, Turned Out Better, Two Neurons, Warning, Wonder
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Waking To the Smell of Coffee
Waking To the Smell of Coffeeby Michael DoyleWhat if life could be seenBy every single human beingPut out as if a streaming movie?Would we still want to be you and me?Or is this an awful possibilityAnd we’d want to buy … Continue reading
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