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Thought For the Day: The World Is Filled With Acts of Bravery and Stupidity, They Are Often One and the Same

“The world is filled with acts of bravery and stupidity, they are often one and the same.” – James Jones

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Enough Pain To Go Around

Enough Pain To Go Aroundby Michael DoyleIf there’s one thingThat I’ve foundIt’s there’s enough painTo go aroundPages of sorrowTears of rageHolding on for tomorrowOn this world’s stageIt’s the state of artOf my darkened heartCalling out across the multiverseI’ve engineered it … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: I Shut My Eyes and All the World Drops Dead; I Lift My Lids and All Is Born Again

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.” – Sylvia Plath, poet (27 Oct 1932-1963)

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The Artful Conflict

The Artful Conflictby Michael DoyleHumanity is invariably drawn to the good fightAnd it is unorthodox when it is brought to lightThat a southpaw stance taken can bring true valueTo all of us sinners, even me and youBlessed are the peacemakers … Continue reading

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Waking To the Smell of Coffee

Waking To the Smell of Coffeeby Michael DoyleWhat if life could be seenBy every single human beingPut out as if a streaming movie?Would we still want to be you and me?Or is this an awful possibilityAnd we’d want to buy … Continue reading

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Like Wanderers Seeking

Like Wanderers Seekingby Michael DoyleLike wanderers wandering a lovelier wayWe plant the seeds that bring the new daysWith a fullness of dreams filling our heartsWe loosely planned how the days would startBut kept the freedom breathing in and outNever steadfastly … Continue reading

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A Gathering of Understanding

In honor of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous PeoplesA Gathering of Understandingby Michael DoyleThe time has come for the Red Nations to riseAgain, and bring healing before the world’s eyesWith promised blessings that will cure the separationsBy and … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: There Is Always More Goodness In the World Than There Appears To Be, Because Goodness Is of Its Very Nature Modest and Retiring

“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.” -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (28 Sep 1868-1956)

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Thought For the Day: Men Are Often Capable of Greater Things Than They Perform. They Are Sent Into the World With Bills of Credit and Seldom Draw Their Full Extent

“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit and seldom draw to their full extent.” – Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (24 Sep 1717-1797)

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What Used To Be

What Used To Beby Michael DoyleI remember when I showed my daughterWhat it was that used to once beShared like a loving fatherIn the twenty-second centuryWe dominated with technologyForgetting the natural carrying capacityAnd reframed the world in uglinessTo which her … Continue reading

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