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Thought For the Day: Find the Ones Worth Suffering For
“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. … Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazing, Bob Marley, Easy, Find, Give Up, Hurt, She, Suffer, Thought For the Day, Truth, Worth
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Ozone Care
Another of the Earth’s little protective systems is that fragile shield call the ozone layer. Ozone Care by Michael Romani Gliding through the ozone with good care Minding the healing of this protective layer The Earth, she is a living, … Continue reading
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Tagged Better, Care, Chain Reaction, Dry Land, Earth, Embrace, Glide, God, Heal, Human Race, Invisible Hand, Land Life, Layer, Mankind, Offer, Oxygen, Ozone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Protect, Truth
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First Principles: We Are Apt To Close Our Eyes Against Painful Truth That Is Capable of Transforming Us Into Beasts
“We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts.” – Patrick Henry (1775)
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Tagged Apt, Beast, Eyes, First Principles, Hope, Illusion, Indulge, Man, Natural, Pain, Patrick Henry, Shut, Siren, Song, Transform, Truth
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Thought For the Day: The Best People Feel Beauty, Take Risks, Tell Truth, Sacrifice and Are Often Vulnerable
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway, author and … Continue reading
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Tagged Best People, Capacity, Courage, Destroyed, Discipline, Ernest Hemingway, Feel Beauty, Irony, Risk, Sacrifice, Thought For the Day, Truth, Virtue, Vulnerable, Wounded
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Nestled
History is to learn from. Not to be dwelt on. But to take the lessons learned into today so that we might build a better tomorrow. Nestled by Michael Romani Nestled behind an old chapel Rests with the bite of … Continue reading
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Tagged Antebellum, Apple, Benighted, Blind, Brutality, Build, Chapel, Compromise, Contrary, False, Family, Freedom, Gentry, History, Learn, Legacy, Lessons, Moonlight and Magnolias, Paradox, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Slavery, Southern Heritage, Tidewater, Tomorrow, Truth
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Retribution For Frailty
Sadists like to kick people when they’re down. Turn to multiple forums from Facebook to otherwise and you see people constantly tearing at each other and doing this for the good of the other. Interesting how we convince ourselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Broken, Brutality, Cave, Comfort, Community, Corrupt, Cruelty, Damage Done, Dare, Desire, Desparation, Down, Eyes, Fester, Frailty, Good, Humilation, Kick, Know, Lie, Menace, Pain, Photograph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pride, Punish, Refuse, Repressed, Retribution, Sadist, Savage, Save, Sting, Suffer, Torture, Truth, Vain, Vengeance, Vulnerable
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Uncured Affliction
Mona Lisa smiled, but, why? Uncured Affliction by Michael Romani One voice whispers in the darkness Different than others given to harshness Times remembered; meeting eye to eye With the kind of truth, you cannot deny Doctor won’t you cure … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Change, Cliche, Courage, Create, Cure, Dissonance, Dream, Drunken Sailor, Equal, Eye to Eye, False, Feather Touch, God, Good Fortune, Grace Note, Harsh, Hidden, Illosry, Keys, Legal, Madness, Malady, Mankind, Mask, Melody, Mona Lisa, Objective, Pattern, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Pursue, Question, Secret, Shame, Singular, Smile, Third, Trap, Truth, Voice, Whisper
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Story Teller
It’s a great gift to tell tales that are seem so true that they almost walk right of the pages we read. Isn’t it? Story Teller by Michael Romani Story tellers bring the tale Where once upon will prevail In … Continue reading
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Tagged Align, Books, Collide, Deep Woods, Discard, Dream, Eyes, Family, Find, Gift, Hard, Heard, Hope, Human, Illustration, Leataher Bindings, Life, Magic, Memory, Old Book Stores, Pages, Pessimism, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Read, Red Riding Hood, Rift, Silver Tongue, Soul, Stars, Story, Teller, Told, Treasure, True, Truth, Vivid, Wither, Words
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Thought For the Day: Whether Prince or Pauper, All Are Prone To Abuse Power If Not Guided By Love of Truth and Virtue
“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.” – Jean de la Fontaine, poet and fabulist (8 Jul … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Animated, Anyone, Jean de la Fontaine, Love, Matter, Power, Prince, The People, Thought For the Day, Trust, Truth, Virtue
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