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Tag Archives: Truth
Nostalgia For Guantanamo
Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Beach, Best, Blue Beach, Bond, Brothers, Cable Beach, Cacti, Cactus Curtain, California, Children, Columbus, Company, Conserve, Courage, Cry, Cuba, Cuzco Beach, Deep, Desalination, Dust, Embrace, Endemic, Experience, Extended Family, Family, Family Beach, Fauna, Ferry Landing Beach, Fisherman's Point, Flavor, Flora, Fondness, Freedom, Friendship, Glass Beach, Grow Up, GTMO, Guantanamera, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, Hawai'i, Heart, Hidden Beach, Horse, Island Hop, John Paul Jones Hill, Join, Landmine, Laugh, Leeward, Lesson, Lifetime, Live, Looking Back, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Natural History, Naval Base, Niknik Beach, No Man's Land, Nostaglia, Opuntia, Party, Photograph, Pirate, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Rain, Rainforest, Revolution, River, Rules, School, Semi Arid, Shape, Sisters, Small Town Living, Splash, Tales, Trails, Truest, Truth, Unique, Upper Hand, Water, William T. Sampson, Windmill Beach, Windward, Youth
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Catch & Release
Am I alone in seeing that the world has its moments of understated brilliance? Catch and Release by Michael Romani Writing to write, so it seems Is often the child of unknown dreams Miscast, recanted or fully embraced The soul … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Annoucement, Ashes, Blink, Blossom, Brilliance, Catch, Child, Contrast, Crowd, Days, Deadpan, Deoor, Desire, Discipline, Disgrace, Dwell, Element, Embrace, Fire, Fisherman, Freeze Frame, Glory, Human Being, Impossible, Inhumanity, Lessons, Light, Limbo, Loop, Loud, Many, Miscast, Nights, One, Phase, Photograph, Phrase, Physics, Pieces, Poem, Poetry, Pronounce, Reality, Recant, Reflect, Release, Resemble, Resiliance, Scripture, Shaolin Fighter, Shatter, Silence, Singular, Skies, Soul, Stoop, Story, Super Power, Survivor, Teach, Truth, Typewriter, Unknown Dreams, War, Whisper, Write, Writer
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Breathe the Legacy
The Na/GloPoWriMo Day Four challenge is to write a sad poem. That’s easy enough to do this time around. Someone who is increasingly important to me beyond nearly all measure of my meager words recently lost someone. I can … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocate, Born, Brave, Breathe, Dare, Deep, Defense, Family, Footstep, Force, Fragrant, Heart, History, Hurt, Legacy, Liberty, Life, Live, Lost, Lost Child, Love, Modern World, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Right, Sad, Show, Soul, Speak Well, Steep, Step, Tender, Tough, Truth, Vancouver, Win, Woman
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The Beauty of Healing
Learning more about how belief shifts biology in connection between mind and body led to this spilling out on my notepad… The Beauty of Healing by Michael Romani The mind body connection Stimulates the immunity It’s a matter of chemistry … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Answer, Apply, Aspire, Authority, Average, Balance, Beauty, Belief, Believe, Biology, Body, Capable, Chemistry, Consequence, Cure, Dark Seed, Desire, Diagnosis, Die, Diffidence, Direction, Discard, Fortify, Harm, Heal, Healing, Immunity, Impersonal, Increase, Know, Light of Day, Living, Magic, Mind Body Connection, Modality, Negative Thinking, Photograph, Plant, Poem, Poety, Possibility, Power, Present, Proactive, Probability, Prognosis, Ratify, Reactive, Recovery, Regard, Say, Shadow, Shift, Soul, Statistics, Stimulate, Trust, Truth, Us, Within, Yield
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A Prairie Sky’s Truth
Sometimes seeing things differently is mental illness; sometimes it’s seeing things differently. A show I was watching at the suggestion of a person who is increasingly important to me portrayed that in an interesting bit that I have attempted to … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Anticipation, Behind, Blind, Blue, Cancer, Candle, Delusion, Different, Disappear, Disturb, Dream, Drown, Expectation, Eyes, Find, Free, Grow, Help, Home, Hope, Illusion, Kid, Learn, Lesson, Life, Light, Long, Lost, Love, Mediate, Medicate, Melody, Mental Illness, Mind, Night, Numb, Pain, Passing Year, Person, Perspective, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Prairie Sky, Pray, Question, Return, Reverent, Say, Science, Sense, Signs, Silent Scream, Sleep, Society, Strong, Think, Treat, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Words, You and I
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The Whiskey Priest
Based on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory.. seemed suitable for Lent on the dark side.. Read the novel to see why more accurately…. The Whiskey Priest by Michael Romani Anger has replaced ambition With the drive to drink Even … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Anger, Awe Inspired, Brink, Burn, Caught, Cleansing Moment, Contemplation, Contrition, Daily Devotion, Drink, Edge, Gluttony, Graham Greene, Greed, Jungle, Ledge, Lent, Light, Morality, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Priest, Redemption, Repent, Struggle, The Power and the Glory, Tired, Transcend, Truth, Unlearned, Vestige
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First Principles: The Evidence for Christianity Is In Favor of Its Authenticity
“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor.” – Alexander Hamilton
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Authenticity, Careful, Christianity, Examination, Favor, First Principles, Juror, Man, Mind, Proposition, Submit, Truth, Verdict
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First Principles: Falseness of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Book of Wisdom, Contempt, Deprave, Disposition, Falsehood, First Chapter, First Principles, Habit, Heart, Honesty, Important, Lies, Resolution, Thomas Jefferson, Tongue, Truth, Unshaken, Untruth, Vice
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