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Tag Archives: Words
Venice – Piazza San Marco
Venice, Italy is one of the beautiful and historical places in the world that we could all use some familiarity. This is a look at Piazza San Marco. Venice – Piazza San Marco by Michael Doyle Through the Bacino … Continue reading
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A Godly Mother
Based in part on 2 Timothy 1:1-7 and, of course, thoughts on Mother’s Day: A Godly Mother by Michael Doyle Without any sense of shy timidity God speaks through Second Timothy That which we’d do well to recognize Every mother … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Best Intention, Blessed, Brothers, Build Up, Capable, Care, Center, Children, Companions, Compassion, Conduct, Conflict, Consequence, Conversation, Coordination, Darkness, Deceive, Dependency, Destruction, Devil, Discipline, Discouragement, Doing, Doing Well, Done, Encouragement, Eyes, Faith, Family, Fashion, Fill, Focus, Footsteps of Christ, Forgive, Freedom, Generosity, Generous, Gift, Give, God, Godly, Good, Hands, Harmony, Hesitation, His Word, Hour, Humanity, Imperfect, Inevitable, Instruction, Joy, Key, Live, Love, Man, Matters, Mother, Mother's Day, Needs, Obedience, Order, Organization, Outpouring, Outward, Path, Peace, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Precious, Profitable, Providence, Quality, Receive, Recognize, Remind, Resiliency, Resistance, Rest, Right Intention, Righteous Path, Schedule, Second Timothy, Self, Sense, Serve, Show, Sisters, Son, Stress, Study, Teach, Tension, Test, Timidity, Timothy, Town Down, True, Trust, Unconditional, Understand, Undone, Words, Worry
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Finding the Good
I had a discussion with someone many years ago about why I wanted two princesses to be familiar with the literary classics from which there were derived the 5′ Shelf of Books aka Harvard Classics. After all, the contention was, … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Applcable, Artistically, Assertation, Being, Best, Book, Can, Capable, Certainty, Choice, Choose, Churchill, Commotion, Confusion, Consistentcy, Contention, Creation, Culture, Daily Smoke, Depiction, Discern, Discussion, Do, Education Draw, Emotion, Experience, Exposure, Extent, Fiction, Find, Five Foot Shelf of Books, Forgot, Friction, Future, Glory, Good, Harvard Classics, Heard, Hesitation, Historicity, Human Beings, Human Soul, Humans, Illusion, Imagination, Imminent, Implicit, Investigation, Learn, Lfie, Literary, Literary Classics, Man, Meaning, Much, Mystery, Need, Neglect, Nuance, Obscure, Observation, Out, Perception, Photograph, Plays, Poem, Poetry, Pretenses, Principles, Question, Reading, Reason, Remember, Resolution, Right and Wrong, Rise, Role, School, Secure, Seen, Senses, Shakespeare, Sincere, Songs, Sonnet, Story Teller, Taint, Teach, The Tempest, Truth, Understood, Veil, Verbal, Visible, Ways, Wisdom, Words
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Fool’s Errand
Arguing with those we love is maybe sometimes natural. But, it’s a fool’s errand. There can be very little good in having to be right just to make the person you love somehow wrong. Especially in the modern age, … Continue reading
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Tagged Argue, Bring, Complete, Days, Dreams, Elf, Errand, Fight, Fool, Foolish, Forever, Fuss, Harmony, Heart, Hurt, Kiss, Life, Love, Magic, Make, Miss, Never Right, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Queen, Read, Sit, Stay, Table, Take, Tear, Think, Tranquility, Walk, Words
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The Wolf Knows Its Howl
Enforced surveillance and censorship of the creative mind, particularly by oppressive government is nothing short of a crime against humanity. The Wolf Knows Its Howl by Michael Doyle When a writer must be brave To memorize just to save The … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Authority, Bitterness, Brave, Call, Censorship, Choke, Civilization, Conscience, Control, Creative Mind, Crevice, Crime Against Humanity, Cry, Culture, Dark, Days, Die, Education, Eradication, Falls, Fight, Free, God, Heart, Howl, Ink, Know, Labor, Light, Live, Mankind, Memorize, Night, Opportunism, Oppression, Paper, Pessimism, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Poisoned Tongue, Power, Right, Save, Scrap, Shadow, Sheep, Sleep, Start, Stifle, Surveillance, Truth, Undertaking, Unmask, Watch, Winter, Wolf, Words, World, Writer
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Dr. Seuss With No Excuse
Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading
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