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Happy Halloween 2025!
Happiest of Halloweens to everyone from Aloha Promises Forever!! I hope your tricks are all happy and filled with joy, and that your treats are pleasing yet somehow healthy(..ier??)!! Turns out that added sugar can do a number on your … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, A1C, Aloha Promises Forever, Happy Halloween, IIntentionality, Key, Life, Love, Love Life, Moderation, Sugar, Thought For the Day, Treat, Trick
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Thought For the Day: The Best Index To A Person’s Character Is (A) How He Treats People Who Can’t Do Him Any Good, and (B) How He Treats People Who Can’t Fight Back
“The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.” —Abigail Van Buren
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Tagged Abigail Van Buren, Any Good, Best Index, Can't Fight Back, Character, People, Thought For the Day, Treat
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A Call For the Nation’s Unity
A Call For the Nation’s Unityby Michael DoyleFor God’s good satisfactionPrayers must be followed by the right actionsThis is true in our way of governmentEspecially if we are seeking after our improvementWe know we care for our familyWe must, therefore, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, America, Call, Center, Common Ground, Cost, Debate, Dignity, Divinity, Family, Foundation, God, God's Help, Government, Heart, History, Honesty, Humility, Improvement, Lasting Peace, Mandate, Mercy, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prayer, Right Action, Satisfaction, Shining Light, Speak, Stand, Start, Steady, Storm, Treat, Truth, Understand, Uniffier, Unity
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Thought For the Day: The Best Index To A Person’s Character Is (a) How He Treats People Who Can’t Do Him Any Good, and (b) How He Treats People Who Can’t Fight Back
“The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.” – Abigail Van Buren (August 1980)
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Tagged Abigail Van Buren, Best Index, Character, Fight Back, Good, People, Thought For the Day, Treat
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Grief and Memory
Grief and Memoryby Michael DoyleAdmittedly, I have never really been oneTo follow the lives of those holding celebrityFor the most part, when it’s all said and doneI’ve had even less time for British royaltyBut the turn of news imparted quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach, Bleed, British Royalty, Canncer, Casual Jeans, Celebrity, Civility, Colbert, Compassion, Crass, Cruel, Decency, Dignity, Example, False Headlines, Family, Follow, Grief and Memory, Hope and Dignity, Kate Middleton, Late Night, Malady, Media Strategy, Mercy, Mindset, Modest Truth, Mongrels, Mother With Young Children, News, No Stranger, Paparazzi, Poetry and Poems, Posture, Pray, Preach, Regret, Reject, Respect and Dignity, Said and Don, Strong, Strong As We Must Be, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Treat, TV Comedy, Underpass, Unfeeling, Whispered Wounds
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Rewarming Miracles On the Street
Rewarming Miracles On the Streetby Michael DoyleI don’t want to seem to be too contraryOr an old-fashioned grump who is orneryBut does it seem creativity is stuck on repeatIs anyone questioning the miracle of any streetHollywood’s latest contributions seem derivative … Continue reading
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Tagged Abusive, Acceptance, Angst, Believe, Blessings, Burst, Capable, Care, Charm, Christmas, Conceive, Conservaive, Contest, Contrary, Creativity, Crumbs, Deceive, Derivative, Destroy, Discern, Dissastisfaction, Dream, Embrace, Epidemic, Face, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Festival, Forget, Formula, Good, Grump, Hallmark, Harm, Heart, Heartbreak, Hollywood, Immense, Joy, Jurassic, Kindness, Kris Kringle, Layers of Complexity, Learn, Lessons, Life, Lost, Love, Loyalty, Magic, Masks, Miracles, Money, Music, Ornery, Parade, People, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Question, Regret, Repeat, Repentance, Rewarm, Season, Secret, Share, Story, Streets, Stuffed Away, Teach, Toys, Trace, Trade, Tragic, Treasure, Treat, Truth, Understood, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: The True Measure of A Man Is How He Treats Someone Who Can Do Him Absolutely No Good
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Samuel Johnson
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Tagged Absolute, Good, Man, Measure, Samuel Johnson, Someone, Thought For the Day, Treat, True
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Thoughts On A September Morn
Thoughts On A September Mornby Michael DoyleYou can feel it in the airA discernable sense of changeAs you take in the world with careAnd watch the leaves rearrangeSummer comes to its endAs Autumn starts to beginEven before leaves start to … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Apple Orchard, Autumn, Begin, Bicycle Rider, Blend, Blur, Call, Care, Change, Chili, Cider, Descend, End, Fall, Feel, Football Season, Fuzzy Memories, Glass, Halloween, Handy, Heaven, Hill, Kids, Leaves, Long Lost Friend, Ninth, Pick, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkin's Cand, Rearrange, Reason, Scarecrows, School Year, Seasons, Sense, September Morn, Seven, Sky, Snuggles, Spices, Stove, Summer, Sun Sets, Sunflower, Thought, Thoughts, Trail, Treasure Trove, Treat, Tricks, World
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Thought For the Day: Where Exactly Does It Come From, I’d Like To Know, This Ineradicable Attitude of Superiority Toward the Past?
“Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the past. Is it from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Categorical, Clothes, Conviction, Critical, Exact, Feelings, Future, Hairstyles, Know Bettr, Known, Naive, Oksana Zabuzko, Past, Pedantic, People, Permissive, Same Time, Small Children, Superiority, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets, Thought For the Day, Thoughts, Treat
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Screaming the Dream
Screaming the Dreamby Michael DoyleWho would have believed Were my eyes deceivedCould this really beWithin any possibilityScreaming the dreamWho would have believedThe nutritional value of ice creamFactually known, not deceivedNow isn’t this something niceA glycemic index less than brown riceMaybe … Continue reading
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Tagged Accommodation, Ask, Believed, Brown Ric, Bulge, Child, Chill, Churning, Cultural Bias, Deceived, Dream, Energy, Factually Known, Findings, Glycemic Index, God's Grace, Good, Good Conscience, Goodness, Half A Cup, Healthy, Hunger, Ice Cream, Indulge, Insult, Know, Less, Messy Process, Minerals, Moderation, Modest, Nice, Nutritional Value, Obsess, Poetry and Poems, Possibile, Result, Scientists, Scream, Show, Skip Past, Stigma, Treat, Tummy, Understood, Urge, Wealthy, Willing
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