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How, Then, Should I Live?

How Then Should I Live?by Michael DoyleI look around this world with troubles to seeAnd I wonder to myself how then should I be?There are troubles all around – enough to seeThe need is here everywhere for another way to … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: I Do Not Believe There Is A Problem In This Country Or the World Today Which Could Not Be Settled If Approached Through the Teaching of the Sermon On the Mount

“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.” – Harry S. Truman

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First Principles: You Will Never Do Anything In This World Without Courage. It Is the Greatest Quality of the Mind Next To Honor

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle

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Into A Pirate’s Tomorrow

Into A Pirate’s Tomorrowby Michael DoyleIt’s a rough pirate’s world out thereWhen words spoken spill into loose fearMobs, it seems, are as easily turnedAs pirate shanty towns are easily burnedJust as melancholy on the azure wavesAre the boarding plans that … Continue reading

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Through the Years

Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleAlive somewhere in all my ADHDI sometimes walk right into meWhen I do, in times like thisI find there isn’t much to missI have always tried to be my bestStretching myself to meet my testsHead-on collisions … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Well Taught Philosophic Mind To All Compassion Gives; Casts Round the World An Equal Eye, and Feels For All That Lives

“The well taught philosophic mind / To all compassion gives; / Casts round the world an equal eye, / And feels for all that lives.” – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet, essayist, and editor (20 Jun 1743-1825)

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Happy Father’s Day 2024!!

To all the fathers out there who realize being a daddy isn’t just to bring a child into the world. It is to raise them. It is to love them. It is to teach, clothe, and help them blossom into … Continue reading

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Life Under the Black Sail

Life Under the Black Sailby Michael DoyleUnder the black sailIt’s hard to trustBut if you’re to surviveYou find you really mustIn this world There is always doubtBut it’s never acknowledgedOr often talked aboutThis is a placeWhere among the plans conceivedAnd … Continue reading

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Deceptive Truths From the Sanctuary

Deceptive Truth From the Sanctuaryby Michael DoyleMost see the warrior life as fighting and drinkingBut the truth of the odyssey is one of thinkingUlysses was protean and was not easily swayedInstead, his thinking was fluid and many-wayedThis is the way … Continue reading

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A Sultry Obsession

A Sultry Obsessionby Michael DoyleSince an early age, I have had a sultry obsessionWith a kind of magic that cannot be held in possessionCleaning up after others was maybe not so wonderfulBut it was doing my bit to keep our … Continue reading

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